The March of Time

Someone over at YouTube has posted "The March of Time", the 1939 holiday gag reel made by the WB animation department staff (watch for all your favorite personalities show up in this one!). Check it out before it's too late - you won't be disappointed you did!



"Gweat stuff, gweat stuff!"

(Thanks to Jerry Beck for pointing this out on Cartoon Brew)

Cartoon of the Month: "The Snowman"

This month's featured cartoon is "The Snowman", produced by Ted Eshbaugh's studio (probably originally in Technicolor) and released in 1932. Enjoy!



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Gumbleton rides off in the sunset

Well, not really. He's been relieved of his duties at his parish, but there's no doubt he'll be out there preaching his message of limp-wristed pacifism sprinkled with generous portions of dissent for a long time to come. Link to article & commentary: http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2006/12/removed.html

Fr. Richard McBrien looks for new ideas

This character couldn't hide his contempt for traditional Catholicism if he tried. His are the childish rantings of a 1960's flunky who can't stand the fact that the tide is turning against him and his crowd's "ecclesiology". Read the article, then - somebody - mail him a binky: http://www.the-tidings.com/2006/1215/essays.htm

PC Annunciation

The Annunciation, PC-style

First Cartoon

After all these years, the effort has been made, thanks to Pope Benedict XVI, to make this correction. For years, traditionalists have railed against the mis-translation, all the while being denigrated by other "conservative" Catholics, and certainly all of Liberal Catholic-dom, for being such "sticklers". Well, it turns out that the Pope himself recognizes that this seemingly "unimportant" issue needed to be corrected. Of course, it doesn't fix everything, but it is a step in the right direction in correcting some of the post-1960's idiocy that's given us the Church Milquetoast instead of the Church Militant. Related Article : http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=47719

The Haunted Ship (1930)

Well, it's time for another weird Van Beuren cartoon from 1930. "The Haunted Ship", released on 27th April (my birthday ;-) is a real classic of the spooky and surreal early '30s style. I'd even compare it with the best Fleischer cartoons of the similar kind. Animation is certainly above the average Van Beuren standard of that time. This is also the first cartoon that featured two obscure characters named Waffles the Cat and Don Dog. Only three more cartoons were made, before Waffles and Don morphed into the well known human duo called Tom & Jerry.

Note: as you probably know, Van Beuren "Tom & Jerry" were a pair of humans, and they are in no way related to the famous Hanna-Barbera cat & mouse. You can find a complete filmography and lot of info about VB Tom & Jerry and their precursors HERE.