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1949 In Animation
Events in 1949 in animation. Events January * January 22: Tex Avery's cartoon ''Bad Luck Blackie'' premieres, produced by MGM. It marks the debut of a prototypical version of Spike the Bulldog. * January 30: The first episode of ''Adventures of Pow Wow'' is broadcast. February * February 26: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's ''Tom & Jerry'' cartoon ''Polka-Dot Puss'', produced by MGM, premieres. It is the first cartoon to use the classic ''Tom & Jerry'' theme music as its intro, composed by Scott Bradley. March * March 24: 21st Academy Awards: The ''Tom & Jerry'' cartoon ''The Little Orphan'' wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. April * April 9: Bob McKimson's Bugs Bunny cartoon '' Rebel Rabbit'' premieres, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. May * May 13: Dallas Bower's ''Alice in Wonderland'' premieres which has stop-motion sequences by Lou Bunin. June * June 4: Arthur Davis' Bugs Bunny cartoon ''Bowery Bugs'' is released by Warner Bros. Cartoons. * Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Bower
Dallas Bower (25 July 1907 – 18 October 1999) was a British director and producer active during the early development of mass media communication. Throughout his career Bower’s work spanned radio plays, television shows, propaganda shorts, animations and feature films, with his most notable projects consisting of Alfred Hitchcock’s first film in sound ''Blackmail'' (1929), the British Broadcasting Company’s radio play ''Julius Caesar'' (1938), the Dunkirk evacuation propaganda short ''Channel Incident'' (1940), the feature film ''Henry V'' (1944), and an Anglo-French adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's novel ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' entitled ''Alice au pays des merveilles'' (1949). He later produced some of the earliest British television commercials. The majority of Bower’s work has been lost over time, due to both degradation and the purposeful melting down of the cellulose nitrate prints to extract small amounts of silver during the Second World war, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doggone Tired
''Doggone Tired'' is a 1949 cartoon short directed by Tex Avery. ''Doggone Tired'' is one of three MGM cartoons currently in the public domain in the United States. Plot Speedy the dog is brought to a cabin in the woods by his owner to Rabbiting, hunt rabbits. Despite his eagerness, Speedy is told to go to sleep by his owner. Overhearing the owner state that Speedy needs sleep, the rabbit harasses Speedy throughout the night to keep him awake. Despite Speedy stopping each plot by the rabbit, he continues to not get sleep. After keeping Speedy up all night, the rabbit also is tired in the morning. Speedy's owner attempts to get him to hunt the rabbit, but Speedy is unable to due to his tiredness. In the end, Speedy and the rabbit both end up sleeping in the rabbit's nest. Voice cast *Tex Avery, William Hanna and Billy Bletcher as Speedy Dog *Tex Avery as Rabbit *Patrick McGeehan as Hunter *Sara Berner as Operator Release The short was played in front of various different films dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom And Jerry In Infurnal Escape
''Tom and Jerry in Infurnal Escape '' is a 2003 video game for the Game Boy Advance. The game was the first of three video game titles developed by Canadian animation studio CinéGroupe, with the title published by NewKidCo. The game is a platformer using characters licensed from the Tom and Jerry animated series, with players guiding Tom through fifteen levels to escape the underworld. Upon release, ''Infurnal Escape'' received a mixed reception, with reviewers praising the game's visual presentation but critiquing the game's control scheme and use of traps. Gameplay ''Infurnal Escape'' is a platformer in which players play as Tom and aim to escape from the underworld by completing stages and collecting golden bones and power-ups. Levels feature straightforward puzzles in which players press switches or use items such as TNT to open new paths in the level. Players start with three lives. If all lives are lost, players return to the underworld and can complete a minigame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cult Film
A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated, passionate fanbase which forms an elaborate subculture, members of which engage in repeated viewings, dialogue-quoting, and audience participation. Inclusive definitions allow for major studio productions, especially box-office bombs, while exclusive definitions focus more on obscure, transgressive films shunned by the mainstream. The difficulty in defining the term and subjectivity of what qualifies as a cult film mirror classificatory disputes about art. The term ''cult film'' itself was first used in the 1970s to describe the culture that surrounded underground films and midnight movies, though ''cult'' was in common use in film analysis for decades prior to that. Cult films trace their origin back to controversial and suppressed films kept alive by dedicated fans. In some cases, reclaimed or rediscovered films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hell
In religion and folklore, hell is a location in the afterlife in which evil souls are subjected to punitive suffering, most often through torture, as eternal punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations, the biggest examples of which are Christianity and Islam, whereas religions with reincarnation usually depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations, as is the case in the dharmic religions. Religions typically locate hell in another dimension or under Earth's surface. Other afterlife destinations include heaven, paradise, purgatory, limbo, and the underworld. Other religions, which do not conceive of the afterlife as a place of punishment or reward, merely describe an abode of the dead, the grave, a neutral place that is located under the surface of Earth (for example, see Kur, Hades, and Sheol). Such places are sometimes equated with the English word ''hell'', though a more correct translatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
