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Freeze-Frame Friday: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

15 Jan

Still frame of Beetle Bailey cartoon "The Jinx"

by Rachel Newstead

Yes, I know. This might seem like a rather bland choice for our inaugural “Freeze Frame Friday”, but I have a certain sentimental attachment to the animated cartoon from which this frame is taken, and to the strip that inspired it. Well, that and I couldn’t let the glaring animation error in said frame go unnoticed.

Now, my fellow toon maniacs, just what is the error, and for bonus points, what is the title of the cartoon, and the studio that produced it?

For most of you who come here, this should pose no challenge at all, but those of you who are stumped will learn the answer on Monday, when I post a review of the above cartoon. As Daffy Duck would say, “What they hey? I gotta have some fun!”

Goodbye, Orphan Toons–Hello Test Pattern

15 Jan

Bosko and Bruno, going down path while Bosko carries bundle

by Rachel Newstead

If ever a question consumed Kevin and me for every waking moment in the last several years, it’s “What to do with the blogs?”

We had begun our first blog, The Home For Orphan Toons, in 2006 as a noble experiment of sorts.  We wanted to talk about animation which, it appeared to us, was not being talked about–cartoons rotting away in vaults or condemned to the $1.99 discount bin.

Neither of us, however, were prepared for the explosive growth of sites such as YouTube and Facebook, sites which render the very term “orphan toon” meaningless. A cartoon can hardly be “forgotten,” after all, if everybody and his brother can upload a copy to YouTube.  Now, rather than the cartoons, it seemed as though we had been left behind by time.

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