tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31079796.post4974424758158488251..comments2022-04-11T04:43:21.252-04:00Comments on Love and Hate Cartoons: Tall Timber (1928)Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14783618617749580841noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31079796.post-4896277704093938732008-12-18T17:41:00.000-05:002008-12-18T17:41:00.000-05:00Thanks for the links. Screencapping .flv files is ...Thanks for the links. Screencapping .flv files is problematic for blog posting, but I can at least see some of the cartoons for context. <BR/><BR/>I should have come across that link on Cartoon Research, but apparently I've missed it repeatedly. I do tend to get to specific pages via Google and have only considered addressing the complete absence of Winkler viewing recently.<BR/><BR/>Ten cartoons; seems like a good fit for a garage sale sized disc...<BR/><BR/>(Next up, finding Columbia Krazy Kats other than Rodeo Dough and the unnamed Pro Tools demo over a (presumably) 8mm home version of a cartoon, the one I have on 8mm, and Bars and Stripes which should be coming on that "Cartoon Rarities of the '30s" disc... Again, there's always the garage sale, but I have many discs of Lantz Oswalds to buy there first...)Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14783618617749580841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31079796.post-46913851363225448682008-12-17T21:41:00.000-05:002008-12-17T21:41:00.000-05:00Oops, and after typing that "I posted..." the onli...Oops, and after typing that "I posted..." the online shorts, I went back and added a link to one that wasn't mine (YANKY CLIPPERS), forgetting to update my introductory statement.<BR/>Sorry. It's late.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31079796.post-88593613159973718962008-12-17T21:40:00.000-05:002008-12-17T21:40:00.000-05:00I've posted a few post-Disney, pre-Lantz Oswalds:•...I've posted a few post-Disney, pre-Lantz Oswalds:<BR/><BR/>• FIERY FIREMEN, 1928: <BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBuQU5iYnpM<BR/><BR/>• YANKY CLIPPERS, 1928:<BR/>http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5i5sw<BR/>Online version is misidentified as a Disney cartoon, but I can't help that.<BR/><BR/>• WEARY WILLIES, 1929: <BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFutTv1AF5I <BR/>See my comments on the YouTube page to get around possible playback problems on this one.<BR/><BR/>The post-Disney, pre-Lantz season has the dubious distinction of fewer releases surviving (about ten of 26) than any other period in the character's history.<BR/>With Pietro Shakarian, I put together a page in which you can at least read about the shorts that don't exist:<BR/><BR/>http://www.cartoonresearch.com/winklerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31079796.post-84756911053405071562008-12-15T23:24:00.000-05:002008-12-15T23:24:00.000-05:00I won't kill you for liking the soundtracks; they ...I won't kill you for liking the soundtracks; they at least make more historic sense than the theremin in the silent The Cat and the Canary that was on TCM recently. And, as I mentioned, they are easily solved with a finger on the volume down button. Now, if you made me listen to them...<BR/><BR/>As I'm about to move on to the Lantz era (can anyone point me to some post-Disney pre-Lantz (as head) Winkler Oswalds?), so I'll make some observations here about the set in general (not that I might not come back to some more Disney era Oswalds eventually). I was surprised by the small number of films on the set; while it's all the available Disney Oswalds, it's only 13 shorts. Plus a good documentary on Iwerks (tho it lacks a real knife to the gut; you need Bill Curtis saying something cold blooded as you fade to black at natural commercial break spots for a proper documentary...) and 6 other cartoons (including three Alice Comedies that should have been on the Disney Rarities collection, but it's good they showed up here at least). I just have the sense that the set feels really light for the Treasures series (especially when there are still several other Alice Comedies without a Disney release, tho some (all the other extant examples?) are available from Ray Pointer: <BR/>http://www.inkwellimagesink.com/pages/cartoons/WaltDisney-AliceInCartoonland.shtml<BR/>Intentionally leaving a reason to buy Ray's compilation other than the documentary aspects?).<BR/><BR/>I'm surprised there wasn't more Oswald reaction; the animation world seemed poised to have an Oswald renaissance leading up to the release of the Treasures set and the Oswald stuff on the Lantz sets. I clearly take my own sweet time to comment on things, but other people seem on the trigger about stuff. <BR/><BR/>As for people not commenting here, well, the nearly two years without a post may have stunted any minimal momentum the blog might have had. Sorry about that...Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14783618617749580841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31079796.post-92123153256949256182008-12-13T02:06:00.000-05:002008-12-13T02:06:00.000-05:00What, nobody commenting on your Oswald reviews and...What, nobody commenting on your Oswald reviews and analysis? I'm biased, as I worked on the set... but I'm starved for reactions and very interested in yours, even when I don't agree (you'll kill me for this, but I like the orchestral soundtracks more than the organ-only ones).<BR/>TALL TIMBER does have floatier action than many. I hadn't thought about the rock being anchored at the point where it spins, but that's obviously the case. Oswald being squashed into smaller oswalds was apparently a running gag, though it's only in one other surviving short that I remember (BRIGHT LIGHTS).<BR/>The rejected POOR PAPA was rejected because Oswald looked like he does on the title cards: big and fat. Universal wanted him slimmer and slicker. They did belatedly accept and release PAPA much later (1928), and a print still survived in the 1980s; sadly, it was the only short screened in relatively recent times that we weren't able to track down.<BR/>More later... DavidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com