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Literary cartoons (more UPA studios)

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Literary cartoons (more UPA studios)

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We're all familiar with the animated shorts originally produced to run before feature length films, but most of us probably aren't aware that not all such shorts were cartoon comedies. Witness this UPA adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", certainly one of the most evocative studio uses of limited animation, and featuring great narration by James Mason:



On the other end of the literary spectrum, here's an adaptation of one of James Thurber's most beloved short stories:

If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquility of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed. -- Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus"
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