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Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:41 pm Post subject: Not to mention...
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Note that the rhyme schemes are gone.
....the King also kept the money he got for hocking his crown - even though he actually hocked his lunch.
Thanks for the cartoons MA.
I love Marvin Miller's voice (I have a "thing" for voices), and the music of these old cartoons is always fantastic! I don't like the hyjacking of Seuss' original for the inferior sequels, but they do take full advantage of the message that McBoing Boing is popular/acceptable when his "language" is commercially exploitable. Cha-Ching.
Ditto on the music. Cartoon producers in those days were much more enthusiastic about drawing in some fairly avant garde jazz influences. Maurice Sendak (of "Where the Wild Things Are") once wrote an essay on the need for musicality in cartooning, illustrating his thesis with examples from Caldecott, but I would say that nothing demonstrates his point quite so well as, say, the best stuff from UPA, or some of Jim Henson's more music influenced work. And there is, if not a musicality, at least a poetic flair to the best of Dr. Suess, no?
Here's an UPA cartoon that omitted to include last night. In light of this topic, I think it's worth pointing out:
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