Word: cartoonable
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...doesn't have a single redeeming feature. Poorly constructed and weakly east, it started out with two strikes and the direction added a third. Mischa Auer tries so hard to be funny that he isn't. Proper timing will permit you to escape this and still catch an excellent cartoon and Endicott Peabody II on the Movietone News All-American...
Dumbo (Disney; RKO Radio) takes Walt Disney back to the animals. His fifth full-length cartoon movie, profiting from the shortcomings of its predecessors, is notable for its freedom from the puppeteering of Snow White, the savage satire of Pinocchio, the artiness of Fantasia, and the woolgathering of The Reluctant Dragon. Like Three Little Pigs, Dumbo is a catchy fable with a moral...
...morale are based on the "gripes" of a minority of those now in the service who, on the whole, are rather indifferent soldiers in any case. The best illustration of the reasons for the lack of morale of the Army which I have yet seen is the enclosed cartoon (see cut) from . . . the Columbia, S.C. newspaper the State...
...shaves and drives himself to Manhattan where he dutifully makes the rounds of 57th Street's art galleries. A great admirer of highbrow art, he speaks with reverence of Picasso, Pascin and the abstractionists, curiously dislikes surrealism. Wherever he goes he makes sketches, works them up later into cartoon ideas...
...soldering, did odd layout jobs in printing offices, finally landed with a poster and theatrical scenery outfit where he painted backdrops for vaudeville houses. In 1927, he went to Paris, spent four months drawing. After he got back to the U.S. he crashed The New Yorker with a $30 cartoon, has been cartooning ever since...