Archive for the 'Cartoon' Category
Itsy Bitsy Spider
This was a short on the beginning of the Bebe’s Kids VHS released in 1992. The exterminator is voiced by Jim Carey.
I Love to Singa
“ENOUGH IZ TU MUCH! go awn an singa. about ya moona and ya joona batta swinga…” And also, how good is the gag about the girl reading the telegraph saying “stop” to the dudes advances? golden…
I Love to Singa is both the title of a song written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg and a later Merrie Melodies animated short subject based on that song. Arlen and Harburg originally wrote the tune for the 1936 Warner Bros. feature-length film The Singing Kid. It is performed three times in the film: first by Al Jolson and Cab Calloway, then by the Yacht Club Boys and Jolson, and finally again by Calloway and Jolson.
During this period, it was customary for Warners to have their animation production partner, Leon Schlesinger Productions, make Merrie Melodies cartoons based upon songs from their features. One of the resulting short subjects, I Love to Singa, was directed by Tex Avery and released by Warners on July 18, 1936. The cartoon, one of the earliest Merrie Melodies produced in Technicolor’s 3-strip process, is recognized as one of Avery’s early masterpieces.
Plot
I Love to Singa depicts the story of a young owlet who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German parents wish him to perform. The plot is a light-hearted tribute to that of Al Jolson’s film The Jazz Singer.
The young owl, voiced by Tommy Bond, best known as “Butch” of the Our Gang (Little Rascals) films, is unjustly kicked out of his family’s house by his disciplinarian violinist father (voiced by Billy Bletcher) after he is caught singing jazz instead of Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes to his mother (voiced by Martha Wentworth)’s reed (pump) organ accompaniment. While wandering, he comes across a radio amateur contest, hosted by “Jack Bunny” (a pun on Jack Benny), and billing himself as “Owl Jolson”, wins the contest, but not before his father has finally seen his son’s potential and allowed him to freely sing jazz.
Cultural influence
The I Love to Singa cartoon has taken on something of a cult following in recent years. In the “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe” episode of the adult cartoon South Park, characters Eric Cartman and Officer Barbrady lapse into Owl Jolson’s odd song-and-dance routine whenever they get hit with an alien beam. In Warners’ 2003 film Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Owl Jolson’s dance sequence from I Love to Singa repeatedly appears on the video screen of the ACME Corp. Chairman (Steve Martin), since he cannot properly operate his remote control. He also shows up in the Looney Tunes: Back in Action game, in the France, Las Vegas, and Africa levels. He can be turned on and shut off by being hit by either character. When approached, Bugs and Daffy will make comments.
Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City
part 2:
Part 3:
Reboot. the first episode
part 2:
Part 3:
The first season of ReBoot was highly episodic, with each installment being a self-contained episode. Most of the episodes established characters, locations, and story elements, such as the gigantic “Game Cubes”. When “The User” loads a game, a Game Cube drops on a random location in Mainframe, sealing it off from the rest of the system and turning it into a “gamescape”. Bob frequently enters the games, “Reboots” to become a game character, and fights the User’s character to save the sector. If the User wins a game, the sector the Cube fell in is destroyed, and the Sprites and binomes who were caught within are turned into energy-draining, worm-like parasites called Nulls.
Animaniacs: I’m Mad
Dr. Scratchansniff takes the Warners on a car trip and they can’t stop arguing and fighting in the backseat.
This short was originally released theatrically on March 30, 1994. It was was paired with the feature film Thumbelina which ALMOST got me and Johnny to go see it just for the pre-roll toon.
Disneys Adventures In Music (1953)
Toot, Whistle, Plunk And Boom
Professor Owl takes class through a basic history of music, from cavemen times to present day, explaining the four archetypes and how they work together to create pleasant sounds. This Academy Award winner is presented unedited and in its original Cinemascope aspect ratio.
Melody (also from 1953)
This Classic Short Shows The New Experimental Animation Of “The Nine Old Men”.This Was Also The Studio’s First Foray Into The Field Of 3-D Animation.
Little Black Sambo – Banned Cartoons
1932 Castle Films – Banned in the USA because apparently there is something racist about a kid and his dog defeating a tiger. Tigers everywhere were offended and now the video is extremely taboo.
Animalympics
The music at 2:15 used to get me super pumped up and excited. still does.
The Torch
Opening Credits
Opening Ceremonies
Marathon (Part I)
Gymnastics
- Floor Exercises
Gymnastics (continued)
- Vault
- Uneven Parallel Bars
Animalympic Island Tour
Marathon (Part II)
Figure Skating (Part I)
Note: There is a little flare-up in distortion during the Figure Skating segment
Figure Skating (Part II)
Track and Field
- “Born To Lose” segment/Bolt Jenkins background
- High Jump
- Pole Vault (with Gecko flakes! the breakfast of Chimps)
- “We’ve Made It To The Top” segment
Track and Field (continued)
- 100-Meter Dash
Marathon (Part III)
“Go For It” segment (Noah’s Ark Disco)
Soccer
Marathon (Part IV)
“Love’s Not For Me” segment
Slalom Skiing
Squawk Valley Tour
Bobsledding
“Away From It All” segment
Ice Hockey
Marathon Update
Dean Wilson: ZOO On You
Swimming – 100-meter freestyle
Platform Diving
“Underwater Fantasy” segment
Animal Archives
Downhill Skiing (featuring “Bionic Boar” segment and my favorite music again)
Marathon (Part V)
Boxing (Part I)
Basketball
Marathon Update
Boxing (Part II)
Marathon Update
Volleyball
Marathon Update
Weightlifting
Fencing
Marathon (Part VI)
“With You I Can Run Forever” segment
Wrap Up
Behind the Scenes
Credits
Animalympics is a 1980 animated film produced by Lisberger Studios, that spoofs the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, featuring the voices of Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer and Michael Fremer, who also co-wrote the script with director Steven Lisberger as well as editing the dialogue and music tracks and supervising the sound mix.
Originally commissioned by the NBC Television Network in 1978, it was produced as two separate shows intended to air along with the network’s 1980 winter and summer Olympics coverage. However, only the half-hour winter show made it to the small screen, as the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan caused President Jimmy Carter to boycott the Moscow Summer Olympics. America stayed away, NBC canceled its Olympic coverage and with it, the hour-long Animalympics.
Unlike the real Olympics, continents are represented rather than countries. The continents featured are North America, South America, Eurasia, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Eurasia represented Eastern Europe, reflecting the Summer Olympics scheduled to be held in Moscow, whereas Europe represented Western Europe. South America is only briefly represented in soccer. The only reference to Australia is the use of a kangaroo as a North American boxer and a koala as a commentator.
The movie is a series of vignettes presented as the broadcast of the first animal Olympic Games through the fictional ZOO television network. Because of the combination of the two short cartoons, the Games combine both summer and winter Olympic events. Many of the characters presented, both ZOO crewmembers and Olympic participants, are celebrity caricatures.
Although many of the segments could easily stand alone, there are a number of recurring events and important characters. The largest such story is the coverage of the marathon, where competitors René Fromage (a French goat) and Kit Mambo (an African lioness) are the favorites to win. Both determined to win — Fromage having devoted his entire life to the marathon, Mambo determined to make a name for herself — they find themselves surprised when their minds wander to thoughts of mutual admiration and then to love. Another important story is that of Kurt Wüffner, German dachshund skier, and his disappearance to Dogra-la (see Shangri-la) during a mountain climbing expedition shortly after the slalom event.
-
Categories
-
Tags
80s 90s 1990 1992 1993 ABC Aladdin Animaniacs Animated Series Batman candy Cartoon Cereal Charlie Chaplin Christmas Claymation Commercial Dance Dark Knight Trailer Dinosaurs Disney Disney Afternoon Fox Gay History Joker Kids Love Marx Brothers Muppets Musical Music Video Nickelodeon Nightmare Before Christmas Nintendo Parody Recut Sesame Street Song Special Star Wars The Muppet Show The Nightmare Before Christmas Tiny Toons TrailerArchives
- February 2011
- April 2010
- March 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- October 2006
- July 2006