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Friday Morning Cartoon

Here’s a unique cartoon: Mickey Mouse and Greta Garbo. Who exits, on the left, as Garbo pursues Mickey? Groucho Marx. Mickey, Grabo, and Groucho — that’s great casting. Enjoy.

Friday Morning Cartoon

This morning’s cartoon is a link, to lots of interesting information and cartoons, about Krazy Kat and Ignatz mouse, great characters both. The link’s at Wikipedia, with fun facts about the characters. Back in September, I linked to a cartoon where Krazy and Ignatz visited a circus. Enjoy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat

Friday Cartoon Feature

Here’s the Friday-morning cartoon feature from FREE WHITEWATER. This week’s clip is a Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse cartoon. Both characters use a rough-and-tumble street slang. In this cartoon from 1916, At the Circus, Krazy and Ignatz visit — predictably — a circus, and Krazy learns that women should not be underestimated. Enjoy.

Friday Cartoon Feature

Here’s this Friday-morning’s cartoon feature from FREE WHITEWATER. This week’s clip is a Wood Woodpecker cartoon. In the early Woody Woodpecker cartoons, Woody was frenetic, and just plain nuts; only later did he become a tamer, more conventional character. Quick Trivia: Although Woody had a distinctive laugh from his earliest cartoons, that laugh probably originated…

Friday Cartoon Feature

Here’s this Friday-morning’s cartoon feature from FREE WHITEWATER. This week’s clip is a Felix the Cat cartoon, originally shown in movie theaters, when Felix was especially popular. Quick Trivia: He was also a comic strip character, but later had only mixed success as a talking character in theatrical cartoons. Felix had something in common with…

Friday Cartoon Feature

Here’s a new, Friday-morning feature from FREE WHITEWATER. It’s not specific to Whitewater, but I think that it will be enjoyable nonetheless. There are many funny, captivating public domain cartoons from America’s early animators. I thought that I might include a weekly clip to a cartoon or comic strip from one of them, to end…