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Red Hot Music
''Red Hot Music'' is a 1937 animated short produced by Terrytoons, starring Kiko the Kangaroo. It is the fifth cartoon in the character's series. In the Castle Films reissue, the cartoon was retitled ''Red Hot Rhythm!'' Plot The film starts in a radio station building which is, for some reason, named after Kiko. Inside, an orchestra is performing upbeat jazz music. Their melody is well received by everybody just outside. As the musicians work hard on their performance, fires mysteriously break out in the building. At a nearby fire department, the alarm rings. The lead fireman, who is none other than Kiko the Kangaroo, leaps out of bed, and slides down the pole. He then heads his fellow firefighters toward the blazing building. Kiko and the firemen arrive at the radio station on time, and begin to spray their water cannons at it. While he struggles to enter the building, Kiko retrieves the victims collected by his colleagues. When he finally gets inside, he finds the rooms floode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gordon (animator)
George Gordon (September 2, 1906 – May 24, 1986) was an American film and TV animator and director of animated productions. Starting in film in 1930, he moved to TV in its early days. Gordon is credited with hundreds of cartoons from 1937 through 1983. Biography Gordon began working with animation in 1930 at the Terrytoons Studio as an animator on the ''Jesse and James'' and ''Farmer Al Falfa'' Cartoons. In 1937, Gordon left Terrytoons for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio to work as an animator. During his career at MGM, he directed ''Barney Bear'' shorts and animated for ''Tom and Jerry''. Gordon was later promoted to the director position on animations such as: *A Bully Frog (1936) *The Busy Bee (1936) *Robin Hood in an Arrow Escape (1936) *Farmer Al Falfa * Kiko the Kangaroo * Puddy the Pup After departing MGM, Gordon found employment at John Sutherland Productions. While there, he directed the animated short ''The Trainer Within''. The film was preserved at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Animated Short Films
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Films Directed By George Gordon
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
