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Anthony's Animation Talk
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Home of the Looney Tunes Review Project reviewing ALL the Looney Tunes shorts - good, meh and downright bad!
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The Fascinating Propaganda Origins of 'By Word of Mouse (1954)'
In this video, I review 'By Word of Mouse,' a classic Looney Tunes short released on October 2, 1954, directed by Friz Freleng. Joining me are Manny Cruz @thetooneytenor and SC MacPeter. We delve into its background, noting that it's the 722nd in the series and highlighting the involvement of animator Ben Washam. We discuss the short's context as one of three underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to promote capitalism during the Cold War. Alongside trivia, we analyse the animation techniques, character appearances like Sylvester, and the short's musical direction by Milt Franklin. This review also touches on broader historical perspectives, linking it with other wartime and post-war propaganda animation.
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:49 Cartoon Background and Release Information
01:18 Plot Summary and Character Introduction
01:50 Trivia and Behind the Scenes
03:29 Historical Context and Propaganda Analysis
07:35 Personal Reactions and Memories
09:11 Detailed Scene Breakdown
11:31 Voice Work and Animation Highlights
24:37 Music and Soundtrack Insights
28:10 Final Thoughts and Ratings
30:05 Conclusion
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00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:49 Cartoon Background and Release Information
01:18 Plot Summary and Character Introduction
01:50 Trivia and Behind the Scenes
03:29 Historical Context and Propaganda Analysis
07:35 Personal Reactions and Memories
09:11 Detailed Scene Breakdown
11:31 Voice Work and Animation Highlights
24:37 Music and Soundtrack Insights
28:10 Final Thoughts and Ratings
30:05 Conclusion
You can find this on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol 6 found here: amzn.to/4i049QQ
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Originally I've got to sing a torch song was Originally gonna air on cartoon network's late night black and white but it never aired.
6:45 I wonder if any of the Schnooks are a caricature of McKimson or if I'm racist against people with Mustaches.
Between this, Quack Shot, Devil May Hare, Design for Leaving; I think 1954 was Peak McKimson
You could even throw in Bell Hoppy for being unique as a Hippety Hopper and giving Sylvester a bit of a rare win
The new restoration looks amazing!
I do remember watching the satirical Live-action comedy from 1957 called "A King in The New York", (Directed by Charlie Chaplin)the movie itself pokes fun at American economy system at the time and it revovles around a king, who goes under the name "Szhadow"(played by Chaplin himself), who flees his country after a revolution and flees to Amrice only to find out that his "loot" has already gone!
Its an alright cartoon and i get that some people might not like this short but I think its fine, they arent a lot of great gags, but the gags kick in once sylvester is introduced, I kinda dig the limited backgrounds the friz unit do for this short along with good animation, 7.9/10.
I think that the line “You know, I bet that I miss a lot of things not being able to read,” is hilarious.
They aired this in the syndication aap package on XETV San Diego along with the other 2. Later the one with elmer and Sylvester aired on CBS around 79, when the bugs bunny road runner hour went to 90mins. XETV aired em as early as 1975.
At least that mouse got his in the end!
I think Germany was picked because Germany was just coming right out of the Nazi and fascist period which was technically hostile to the capitalist systems, and just coming right into the period where capitalism was starting to rise. They were also starting to recover economically. The Nazis were not friendly towards businesses, they wanted to control them. Case in point was the VW beetle cars, they were designed and made in Nazi Germany, but no one got them due to the war. After the war the company was free to produce them and they became a best seller without the government interfering.
I wonder why Friz got to make all Three Sloan shorts. Would've been interesting to see each director then make a short.
You sure? Because I can picture Chuck Jones turning it down for some reason. Doesn't seem to be his kind of thing, though he did do a couple of propaganda cartoons in the 1950s, like Drafty, Isn't It? and So Much for So Little (which I think was nominated for an Oscar on the same year as "For Scent-imental Reasons"). So Much for So Little feels like it's in the same vein as the Sloan Foundation Trio. As for Robert McKimson? Maybe if he did it with his old crew, it would have been interesting to see.
Love your videos :) The voice of the Professor mouse is Walker Edmiston but he's uncredited tnough if you ask me, I think he might be voiced by Stan Freeberg too, if you listen to certain phrases he sound quite like Chester the dog not exact but there are inflections, so it's either Walker Edmiston OR Stan Freeberg ,,,,,,also anyone requesting particular shorts, the guys are reviewing them in chronological order so they WILL eventually get to the 3 little Bops 1957 for example.
I found that Walker Edmiston is the voice of the Mouse Professor here.
For the period in which it was made this short is also surprisingly long, even if that is justified by the message it tries to convey. Honestly, I can't be too hard on this and the other two pro-capitalist shorts because even with their one-sided natures I learned a few things about this economic process through them, although in my opinion the balance between humor and education is uneven (Yankee Dood It is probably the most blatant example). I felt the same way about Sylvester's sudden appearance here and I'm kind of torn on whether that worked against or in favor of this short, even if the humor coming from he is the best part of it all. I agree with 7, even with examples that are outdated by today's standards it's still possible to learn something from watching this.
Televisions were still rather expensive in the early 50s, but prices continued to drop, and TV quality improved throughout the 60s and 70s. Of course, this is just a cartoon, and there's a limit to how much information they could put in a short like this. I think they missed out on a lot of basic information that would have made some things more clear, but would have made the cartoon unbearably longer. Also, "late-stage capitalism" is a bit of a tip of the hat to the Marxist idea that capitalism is a dialectical phase that will disappear over time, which I certainly don't agree with at all. But I guess that's an entirely different discussion unrelated to the cartoon.
I grew up watching this and the two other propaganda shorts constantly on TV since the seventies. This was NEVER an obscurity for me.
Me neither, though "Yankee Dood It" didn't air much. The other two, yeah, especially the second one where Sylvester inherits money and Elmer wants Sylvester to invest it.
@ I can tell you that even Cartoon Network aired these shorts.
I remember that too.@jorgefinkielman4657
One thing I immediately notice about the Sloan Foundation trio is that the production numbers for all of them indicate that they were supposed to be released later. This one’s production number is 1336, and had it been released around the same time as the cartoons it was produced in between, it would have very likely used Milt Franklyn’s rendition of the Merry Go Round Broke Down. Another indication that this was supposed to be released later is that Ted Bonnicksen (who I assume replaced Manuel Perez) is credited on this one and he animated on several Freleng cartoons from 1955.
I would put it a 8/10
This is an odd short,and I mean that in a good way I give it a 7 out of 10,and Antony I am loving the new intros,very creative keep up the hood work
16:42 to qoute the Dover Boy's cartoon Good old P.U.
Weirdly enough, Boomerang aired this short I when was a kid. Anyway, this short is just "Capitalism is cool" kind of short, so I'll give it a 6.5/10
Yeah. It's one of those "product of its time" cartoons that's not entirely offensive (unless you have issues with capitalism, but when I say "offensive," I usually mean, "There's no obviously outdated racial stereotypes or backwards views on women.")
6:30- That could also be a reference to Don Foster, the studio's graphic artist and creator of the title cards (he later worked for Chuck Jones at MGM).
can you do three little bops
Three Little Bops is the first cartoon of 1957. Anthony is currently wrapping up 1954 and will be on 1955 soon. He goes in chronological order. The only time he skips around is when he does the older cartoons from the 1930s and 40s, and that's because he's trying to rebuild his series after getting copyright struck.
Would you guys do a review for Hare Conditioned (1945)?
Funny how three Looney Tunes shorts and a scrooge mcduck cartoon from the 1960s taught me more about economics 101 than actual economists
Wow
As a college student in Drawing Classes, I really enjoyed the backgrounds when a defeated Daffy was walking in court! Very reminiscent of Charcoal Drawings and Conte Crayon Drawings!
Buddy was a shameless Mickey Mouse rip off!
Hidden Gem. The hen hammering the dog & rooster and the brothers singing is pretty funny
the "Captain and the Kids" shorts weren't all bad, but they didn't really work as the big "series" MGM had hoped for. I think they were looking at the success of Popeye , and trying to duplicate that. The problem was, the Captain wasn't very likeable... just a bumbling, cranky, fat oaf. The kids were just little hellions, and "Mama" was kind of nondescript in terms of character. There was also a growing anti-German sentiment in the couple years leading up to WWII, and Freleng, being Jewish, probably shared in that. Thank goodness he went back to Warner and made classics like this one!
You can't blame MGM for trying with the Captain and the Kids but yeah in hindsight it was a bad idea to try and adapt them since the characters in the grand scheme of things weren't that likeable. Friz Freleng Robert Allen and William Hanna did at least try and make them work but ultimately failed.
I saw this short on tooncast but it's the a.a.p print.
I saw this short on tooncast but it's the old a.a.p print.
Maybe it’s the wife from The Henpecked Duck.
A shotgun wedding would imply that he knocked her up first.
Exactly.
This is a great Seuss adaption and has a wonderfully different sensibility from almost every other Looney Tunes cartoon. It looks fantastic AND IT’S NOT TOO LONG! This is one of my favorite WB shorts!
I love how much of a buffoon Hitler was made into in this cartoon.
"I don't like you." is my favorite part of this cartoon. That kind of underplayed bit would feel perfect in a 1950s+ Jones or Freleng cartoon, and I believe has been. The animation of the announcer is directly from "Baseball Bugs", all or in part.
I wish the original ending was found
That’s one… interesting shot to use for a thumbnail
BASED SHORT The day before the 80th too
Daffy's "family photos" in his wallet crack me up every time I see this one.
and freeze-framing to see them all is extra cool!
i really liked this cartoon 8.2/10 :]
Well as of yesterday it's on the Warner Classics You Tube channel for how long however remains to be seen.
Everything I learned about love, sex and adult relations as a kid I learned from this cartoon. I carry it to this day, and may I say it has not gone well... 🤣🤣🤣
I still remember first seeing this one and being completely confused about the abrupt ending (I was like “That’s it?”).
I still feel that way about the ending. And no amount of explaining what was cut and why is going to fix it. Speaking of cut-off endings that may or may not be because of censorship, it's time for an impromptu Censorship Report. Besides the ending being cut and that version being the only available version in circulation, the versions shown on TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang cut the part where a cat and his nine lives repeatedly shoot themselves in the head after the dog goes Charles Boyer on the cat, declaring his love for him. The version I saw when Cartoon Network became a basic cable channel on Comcast in the late 1990s was the Turner dubbed version where it shows the cat and dog fighting, Cupid Elmer's arrow hitting the dog, the dog declaring his love for the cat, the cat shrugging, then an abrupt and obvious cut to Daffy bathing in a trough. There was another version before that (the a.a.p version) that aired between 1992 and 1995 that cut the scene completely, going from the scene where Cupid Elmer's arrow hits a horse and the horse gleefully bounces around the farmyard after kissing a mare to Daffy bathing in a trough. I think I prefer the a.a.p version, because if you're going to cut a scene, you might as well cut the whole thing rather than show the set-up and cut the punchline. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule, but, in this case, that practice is encouraged.
Yessss! What is the best cartoon of all time my favorite Tashlin.😅😅😅. Call me not a Tashlin fan for 30s porky short, not being my favorite but This is it! And I’m really happy Austin likes it because based on his track records, it would not be as high rated for him he likes Tashlin for cinematics and only that. (just kidding, but it’s still good for him to appreciate something that’s more gag oriented)
“Enter O seeker of knowledge. THAT’S YOU, FATHEAD!”
There's no way possible for that match to stay lit once Bugs throws it in the hold.
May I ask besides the commentary, have you done a review of Stage Door Cartoon (1944)?
Not yet! Getting there eventually
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