Hitler's Children

Lux radio production, based on the film, thematically similar to Education for Death, originally broadcast May 24, 1943.

http://www.archive.org/download/Lux08/Lux_1943-05-24_HitlersChildren.mp3

More Lux radio for the year:
http://www.archive.org/details/Lux08

BoxOffice May 22, 1943

BoxOffice May 22, 1943

Extremely few instances of "cartoon"; lots of instances of Disney.

Salute by Disney
Walt Disney's third salute to Latin-American republics. He has been

promised

official

cooperation by a group of

visited the studio."


"H. C. Potter will direct the live action sequences, with Major Alexander P. De Seversky, in Walt Disney's version of his best seller, "Victory Through Air Power"

"Reginald Armour, European director for Walt Disney has ar. . .rived here for a short visit in connection with Disney's instructional and entertain-

ment

films."

"War Bonds Are Prizes To Disney GoU Victors

'Walt Disney Studio's first annual golf tournament was held at the Brentwood Country Club with 48 artist-golfers teeing off. Ralph Reed and Paul Scanlon. cochairmen of the event, presented the winners with war bonds donated by Disney."

"N. Y. Pvt. Carl D. Jensen, formerly with Walt Disney studios. Hollywood, more recently with the Courant, is now at "Weatherford,"



very late
"Walt Disney traces the history corn with the color cartoon technique. It has been widely circulated in Latin-American countries. The subject should make a valuable filler for theatre programs, because it is presented with the flair for entertainment which characterizes all Disney productions. Most theatre patrons will learn a lot about corn they never knew before"

Walt Disney Sees South America

34 Mins. present 1 6mm form this subject is intended for non-theatrical distribution. It records Walt Disney's trip through a number of South American countries ac-technicians. It is auite but, if cut, might prove a good theatre short on 35mm stock. It introduces Disney and his associates as human and likable people under a variety of conditions, contains many interesting scenes, and shows how some of his

artists, new

characters have originated sketches made on the trip.

companied by

cameramen and long—34 minutes


new

characters have originated sketches made on the trip.

054 The Lonesome Mouse

1943 Number: 054
Title: The Lonesome Mouse
Studio: MGM
Date: 05/22/43
Credits:
Directed by
William Hanna
and
Joseph Barbera
Produced by
Fred Quimby
Series: Tom and Jerry
Running time (of viewed version): 8:06
Commercial DVD Availability: TJSCv2

Synopsis: Jerry needs Tom to have fun, Tom needs Jerry to have a job.





















Comments: Unnatural opening sleeping position. Jerry is a dick from the get go. Mammy Two Shoes (Lillian Randolph) is here, making for two mammy cartoons in a row. She mentions sabotage, making for a war reference. Tom as the Sphinx (timely as I write this, as Egypt is in turmoil). Tom has his image on his bed; Jerry makes it into Hitler and spits in its eye. Is this a commentary on runaway mindless patriots taking control? (Probably not). Shadows. Tom and Jerry both speak in this cartoon, which people who lose their minds every time a modern Tom and Jerry speak would do well to remember (Jerry sounds kinda like Cagney and Tom sounds like a big dummy then kind of like Jackie Gleason saying "that's a lulu" (I assume it's a reference to a specific catch phrase); the narrator kinda sounds like Albert Brooks as Harvey Fierstein). Jerry pulling faces. Jerry shakes some dice out of mammy, and hair pins, and buttons, a diamond ring, two tiny piccolos(?), dentures, and a straight razor. And finally her skirt. Maybe it has the secret message of "we need Germany to fight or we'll have no fun". Awareness of the camera. Multiple butt stabbings of mammy. "How About You?" is sung by Mammy.

053 Jasper's Music Lesson

Title: Jasper's Music Lesson
Studio: George Pal
Date: 05/21/43
Credits: Originated and Produced by George Pal
Series: Madcaps Models/Puppetoon
Running time (of viewed version): 7:49
Commercial DVD Availability: -

Synopsis: Jasper and the scarecrow play some piano.


















Comments: Interesting camera pull out. Jasper has a bust of Chopin on his piano. The scarecrow comes very near to a screw in the rear. There's a bit about Joe Louis; however, I have trouble hearing the audible jokes due to the dodgy sound quality, the accents, and as I have a misting humidifier going as I write this. "These white keys is alright for dem scales, but you got to get up on de black ones for the hot stuff". The scarecrow is an accomplished pianist. An audience full of tuxedoed Jaspers, and a tuxedoed scarecrow playing the piano. Whenever Pal uses monolithic backgrounds, the shots are impressive. The cluttered sets aren't as satisfying; the big screen may have made the cluttered shots better. The scarecrow seems much less menacing in this entry. Talk of rationing Jasper's bad playing. Pal liked reflections. There is a set of shots pulling out in progression; that is, a shot does not pull out, but there is a shot, then a shot from further away, then another shot from even further away. It feels unusual for the time (I think of it as a late '60s/early '70s technique). I wonder why the mammies in animation are so often headless. White mothers often are as well, but not to the same extent. (Maybe they were to the same extent in kid centered cartoons from the same time period; might be worth looking into).

052 Tokio Jokio

Title: Tokio Jokio
Studio: Warner Bros.
Date: 05/15/43
Credits:
Supervision
Cpl. Norman McCabe
Animation
I. Ellis
Story
Don Christensen
Musical Direction
Carl W. Stalling
Series: Looney Tunes
Running time (of viewed version): 7:05
Commercial DVD Availability: -

Synopsis: Blackout gag cartoon in the format of a captured Japanese newsreel.

































Comments: Opens with scratchy film leader effects with a narrator saying it is captured from the enemy. This is followed by a text sign joke in the form of a newsreel title. Land of the rising sun has a rooster in front of it, which turns out to be a polite but menacing glasses needing bucktoothed buzzard. I'm not quite sure why the characteristics of big teeth became forbidden for Japanese characters in the US when big bad teeth independently acceptable as stereotypical characteristics of the British. Of course, the Japanese visual caricature was more universally used in American cartoons than teeth are for the British (which tends to be more for punctuation), and I can see why US cartoonists would need to break themselves of the habit. Similarly, it's still acceptable to have the British have certain stereotypical vocal patterns and accents, but it is less acceptable to have Japanese characters display similar traits (although perhaps that particular prohibition is not as predominant anymore; but then the speech patterns in English of people who did not grow up knowing English a) tend to have a level of uniformity for people from particular backgrounds that on reflection makes the caricature an extension of observable phenomenon and b) is dependent on ultimately non-racial characteristics, namely foreign-ness, which does not reflect on the physical characteristics of our own nationals of the same race. This is not meant to judge the forbidding of certain observable caricatures as acceptable, simply as an observation of a distinction between a largely forbidden caricature and a less forbidden caricature). Other stereotyped things: kimonos, sandals, glasses, hats, politeness, eye shape, weak mustaches. (Are the hats actually caricatures? They're the same as egghead hats; maybe it's just a WB in house thing.) Perhaps outfits are not entirely stereotyped, as there is at least one man in a three piece suit and tophat, and a guy in a button down shirt with no tie doing the sports, and a guy in a baseball uniform, soldier uniforms (tho the guy in the diaper should count as a different stereotype, namely sumo). Of course a main difference with the Japanese caricatures was that the cartoonists had difficulty caricaturing Germans and Italians generally. They could caricature the shit out of Hitler (and his staff) and Mussolini, but generally failed to caricature Germans as Germans. A visual caricature of Aryans certainly could have been developed, but wasn't really. They had to caricature actions, like goose stepping. For the Japanese caricature this might be analogous to the bowing traits of the Japanese caricatures. But the cartoonists did not limit themselves to appearance caricatures of the Japanese leadership (and when Japanese leader caricatures did appear, they tended to not be nearly as distinct as the Mussolini or Hitler caricatures). Tojo wore black round glasses and a mustache; I wonder to what extent that aspect of the general stereotype of those glasses was based on him? Lots of fairly pleasant backgrounds, but nothing really great. The cartoon just ends after a more or less random gag. Lots of literal Tex Avery type sign gags. The body type is the same basic bodytype WB used for anthropomorphic mice, and some other human characters. The art shows a move towards simplification.

This was Norman McCabe's last directing gig for WB. He got drafted (thus the rank in the credits). He would eventually work for Depatie Freleng on the Pink Panther, and would outlive the other WB directors, not dying until 2006.