Pinocchio, The Comic Strip

The year began with Disney still milking Snow White's teats for all they were worth, and comes to an end with Disney starting to tap into Pinocchio's mapley goodness, from print to airwaves. The Pinocchio comic strip premiered on Christmas Eve, as seen above. The strip below is from New Year's Eve.



You can find the full series at:
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio_7510.html
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio_7069.html
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio_14.html
http://mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com/2009/11/porters-pinocchio.html
It's the full movie serialized. Disney didn't seem to be so worried about giving away the store...

156 The First Robin

Title: The First Robin
Studio: Terry
Date: 12/29/39
Credits:
Story by
John Foster
Directed by
Connie Rasinski
Music by
Philip A. Scheib
Series: Terrytoons
Running time (of viewed version): 6:47

Synopsis: Robins move in, have kids, do not get eaten by cat.




















Comments: Open with text, but not a character free monumental establishing shot, rather on a prop held by a character. I wouldn't call it a gag; it's just "From the South". Birds have unsettled domestic lives in cartoons. Horrific featherless chicks, like in real life. The title is confusing; there being two robins to start with, and they have three chicks. It's like they just picked a name that had robin in it. Way to make the effort, Terry. Self flagellating cat; now with sticking out tongue! Interesting moving backgrounds in the cat on balloon scene. Vocally wordless cartoon. Should it be considered funny that birds would take an elevator to their nests? This isn't really any funnier than Gulliver's Travels, but at least it's compact. There was a fairly large amount of golfing in the '39 cartoons; I would not have expected that.

Fred Allen's Hour Of Smiles, December 27, 1939

With guest Robert Benchley, of the non animated comedy short Benchleys. There is discussion of Gone WIth the Wind, which naturally had just recently been released. Talk of how long it is.

http://www.archive.org/download/FredAllen-theFredAllenShowhourOfSmiles1939-40/Fredallen-391227TheFredAllenShowhourOfSmiles-dr.AllensClinicguestRobertBenchley.mp3

Gulliver's Travels original art

There is a very large amount of art from Gulliver's Travels out there. Much of it is model art, but there is quite a lot of production art as well. Of course, there's much Snow White production art out there too; perhaps the studios made more of a point of pimping their features as art.

With Gulliver, this really makes the colors of the art look great, compared to the faded mess the public domain prints we normally see are. I'm sure I have a bit more images than what I've put up, as the pathetic drawing I own isn't currently represented.

You can presently find some of this art for sale at
http://shop.ebay.com/celgirl29/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340
and
http://vegalleries.com/fleish.html
and much of it that isn't for sale (and more) can be seen at
http://www.neverlandanimationgallery.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=4404217