Yesterday I provided the mood-enhancing mirror scene from ‘Duck Soup’, explaining that when I’m depressed there are three things that can provide a way out of it; The Marx Brothers, Bugs Bunny and Laurel & Hardy. Today I’m not depressed but why should that stop us from watching a Bugs
There are many words that come to mind when watching the above Betty Boop cartoon from 1934, ‘Betty In Blunderland’. They include surreal, nightmarish, demented, outlandish and, most importantly, fascinating. The Fleischer brothers approach to animation was madly untethered to anything resembling reality. Plot doesn’t exist, though ‘Alice In Wonderland’
This short doc from 1938 shows us the unbelievably intricate, detailed and tedious process used in crafting an animated picture in the era before Hanna-Barbara ruined animation with their cheap, non-moving backrounds and unrealistic body motions. ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ is the subject at hand and I can’t