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Happy Holidays! DUCK-WALK cardtoon

Posted in crude, comedy, cartoon, audio, cartoon traditions, dance, straight-ahead, DUCK WALK, cartoon logic, Deckter drawings, 1920's cartoons on Dec 22nd, 2008

Happy Holidays DUCK-WALK cardtoon
Please click the image (or text link) above for a special holiday cardtoon…
[the file is a 9.1mb mp4 (mpeg-4) file]
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
and all the best in 2009! 

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Happy Holidays! DUCK-WALK cardtoon - YouTube version
Happy Holidays! DUCK-WALK cardtoon - iPod version (4.9mb, m4v file)
Happy Holidays! DUCK-WALK cardtoon - quicktime […]

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Lively and Grim at the same time

Posted in Grim Natwick, Fleischer Studios, straight-ahead on Nov 10th, 2007

… Hearst, Fleischer, Iwwerks, Disney, Lantz, UPA…

Bop!
THE GREATEST ANIMATOR THAT EVER LIVED

CHECK OUT GRIM NATWICK’S SCRAPBOOK!!!
brought to you by your friends at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

…and that’s not all…

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CARTOON LOGIC: roast duck = dancing banjo

Posted in cartoon logic, Grim Natwick, Fleischer Studios, straight-ahead on Sep 21st, 2007

Dizzy Dishes (1930), Talkartoons, Fleischer Studios
Max and Dave Fleischer taught me that in a cartoon, a roast duck can be a banjo.

And it can dance too.

LOOKIT THAT HAT GO!

Here’s more straight-ahead Grim Natwick animation from the Fleischers’ “Dizzy Dishes” - don’t you love the hat balancing?
CLICK HERE TO SEE A DANCING ROASTDUCKBANJO

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