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2 months ago
John Carter of Mars Animation (Rare) Bob Clampett
Back in the 1940's, animation director Bob Clampett (director of Bugs Bunny and creator of Beany and Cecil) proposed a series of animated theatrica...
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4 months ago
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@Xeivous Bruce Dickinson is not a "made up character", he's an real record producer. The one from Iron Maiden is a different guy, though.
Gene Frenkel, however, is entirely fictional.
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11 months ago
Doug Jones' Root Beer Rag Piano Workout
Doug Jones exercising his fingers and forearms with the Root Beer Rag. Doug doesn't read music, play by ear, or take lessons... so be nice. :-) H...
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His technical skill and dexterity are impressive. Musically... meh. It may be a good practice exercise, but as a performance it's not so hot. Billy Joel does the same song nearly this fast, and makes it actually sound good in the process.
I'm willing to concede that it's possible that the recor...
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1 year ago
Pvt SNAFU - No Buddy Atoll (1945)
Private Snafu and a Japanese sailor simultaneously land on a deserted island, discover each other and fight it out until the private kills the sail...
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Re: the picture at 2:22: It was produced for the armed forces, and the animators could get away with a bit more than they could have in a general release cartoon.
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1 year ago
Private SNAFU - Booby Traps (1944)
Private Snafu learns about the hazards of enemy booby traps the hard way.
This is one of 26 Private SNAFU (Situation Normal, All F***ed Up) cartoo...
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Yes, that's Mel Blanc. And the exploding piano appears in a Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam cartoon also, with the exact same music.
And yes, the main character swears; even his name is military slang that stands for Situation Normal - All F***ed Up.. It's ludicrous to point to this as an example of a "...
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@LiimLsan The Black Pirates of Mars are NOT the stereotypical minstrel-show blacks of Clampett's work, and based on the accuracy of the name-dropping at the end, I don't think he would have tried to make them so.