110 The Cocky Bantam (Black and Blue Market)

Title: The Cocky Bantam
Studio: Columbia
Date: 11/12/43
Credits:
Produced by
Dave Fleischer
Direction
Paul Sommer
Story
Sam Cobean
Animation
Volus Jones
Basil Davidovich
Music
Eddie Kilfeather
Series: Phantasy
Running time (of viewed version): 6:39
Commercial DVD Availability: -

Synopsis: Falcon wants meat, but is out of ration coupons, and bites off more than he can chew in the form of a tough little rooster.


























Comments: Trash pile is reminiscent of the last WB black and white cartoon. Ration card fraud. Freddy Falcon looks like a vulture. While there is a black market named Hirohito's, there's also an Adolf's, and a Benny's (presumably being Hitler's and Benito Mussoini's). Acme is generic; so who is "Jone's" (sic) Market referring to? Maybe it's just meant to be generic as well. Did people get tattoos of girls' phone numbers? Seems like a really bad idea. I'll assume it's a gag based on how bad an idea that is. Fred Astaire, Chaplin and Tyrone Power impressions. I like how the cartoon transitions from a fairly standard natural fight to a big human-y set up. Is "Dick Rooster" a play on a specific detective, or is it just a three way penis joke (detectives being known as dicks, Richard Rooster here being called dick, and roosters also being cocks)? I think it's unrealistic to portray the blackmarket as being run by foreign agents; the black market was domestic entrepreneurs. The pressure cooker look on Falcon reminds me of a Spumco look.

BoxOffice Magazine, November 6, 1943

BoxOffice November 6, 1943

ad for Terrytoons p44ish.





p74: Briefies
Universal
GRIM NATWICK and DON WILLIAMS have joined the Walter Lantz Cartoon organization as animators.

p76
"Type of Animation
A new type of animation, which uses transparent plastics instead of drawings,

has been developed by Walter Lantz, Universal's "Cartune producer. Lantz currently is using the new technique on a series of eight cartoons he is making for the navy. According to Lantz. the new process is 100 times quicker than the drawing method and requires only about 10 per cent of the personnel necessary for making conventional cartoon films."

Dr Seuss cartoon p73ish (70-C?)



Hiss and Make Up
(Memo Melodies) [ed: I like that OCR error]
7 Mins.
"Comical situations abound in this cartoon in which the dog and the cat In spite carry on their continual bickering of the warnings from the spinster owner that she will toss them out in the cold if they continue, they disregard her advice. The pet canary contributes to their downfall, however, and in the final scene is seen being swaIlowed by the cat."

The Phantom Chapter 10

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePhantom1943Serial-15Chapters

Go to chapter 10.

The Chamber of Death.

That one native instrument is like a mix between a bubble pipe and a sax. Wow, they're reallllly reusing footage this time.

Everyone has a funny accent. They're not acting; I think it's just all their own bad accents.
There's a sniper in the branches of the trees.

There's a tiger; so we're on the subcontinent?

The Winged Scourge

Title: The Winged Scourge
Studio: Disney
Date: 11/05/43
Credits: -
Series: -
Running time (of viewed version): 10:45
Commercial DVD Availability: OTFL

Synopsis: Everything will be better if you wipe out the mosquitoes, like the seven dwarfs do!


















Comments: I wonder if it's pronounced "wingd" or "wing-ed". A painting based educational film (ala Grain that Built a Hemisphere), from the office of interAmerican affairs, until it breaks into a dwarfs cartoon. If you get malaria, you will not truly be alive according to this. Seven dwarfs. Dump oil on the water to kill them. Is paris green a really dangerous poison? Drain the wetlands. Really cover your house in poison. Bury your cans. "That a boy Dopey, kill her good and dead." Opens on text.

109 The Old Army Game

1943 Number: 109
Title: The Old Army Game
Studio: Disney
Date: 11/05/43
Credits:
Series: Donald Duck
Running time (of viewed version): 6:59
Commercial DVD Availability: OTFL, Donald v2

Synopsis: Donald spends some time away from the army, which he's not supposed to do.























Comments: The title card has the shell game on it. Which doesn't seem like it's being all that supportive of the old army game. Pegleg Pete's a sergeant. The men are Ferris Buellering it. Donald is first back. As the sergeant is waiting for him in his bed; guess they didn't have don't ask don't tell then. The shell game is run by the men. Pete ends up stooging it. Donald's lower half has its own angel form; an ass soul, if you will. I wonder how the soldiers with actual amputations felt. Donald fights with suicide. Pete wants him to blow his brains out in private. Having "In the Army Now"; is it the closest Disney gets to swearing with the known "you son of a bitch" line? Donald demonstrates US Army camouflage skills as a bunny. Disney didn't do multiples of a character to show fastness as well as some others.