Gerald McBoingBoing (UPA studios)

MadArchitect · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:03 am Post subject: Gerald McBoingBoing (UPA studios)

For your viewing enjoyment, one of the rarely remembered classics of American animation:

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This one I find a good deal more sinister:

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And with this one the series just starts to get odd:

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Note that the rhyme schemes are gone.

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MadArchitect · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject:

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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MadArchitect · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject:

And let us not forget the indominatible Chuck Jones...

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