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Friday Morning Cartoon

Here’s a Felix the Car cartoon from the 1930s, in color. The use of color gives the cartoon a completely different appearance from last week’s cartoon. In this short film, Felix meets King Cole, and battles some ghosts. Enjoy.

Friday Morning Cartoon

Little Audrey was a cartoon character from over fifty years ago. She’s almost forgotten now, but here is a 1950 short animation, “Tarts and Flowers,” from 1950. She’s the sort of character someone either loves or … doesn’t love. Enjoy.

Friday Morning Cartoon

Today I offer a cartoon called “Chicken a la King.” It has a Mae West parody, and Mae works her magic in this 1936 cartoon. It’s also an inside reference to a reader who sometimes sends single-panel parodies of this website to me. He sends them along as a “Hen House” series, in which a…

Friday Morning Cartoon: Double Feature

I have two very different cartoon offerings today. The first is a short, animated Popeye cartoon from Max Fleischer, from 1936, entitled “Little Swee’Pea.” This is a fine effort, with well-rendered animation for its time. In response to a reader request, I’m adding some links to contemporary print cartoons, today. Sometimes cartoons — especially these…

Friday Morning Cartoon

The Friday Morning Cartoon features is back. This morning, it’s Betty Boop in Snow White, from 1933. (Cab Calloway even has a part.) You may have read that someone say that these are just, in his words, “youtube cartoons.” That’s not true at all. They’re creative and clever expressions of American humor, from generations ago.…

How the Grinch Stole Christmas Break

Christmas Tales: How the Grinch Stole Christmas Break by John Adams Every Student Down in U-ville Liked Christmas Break a lot… But the Grinch, Who lived just South of U-ville, Did NOT! The Grinch hated Christmas Break! The whole winter season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be…