![]() ![]() Parodies of TV commercials and early TV shows were ripe fodder for the cartoon studios at this late date. ![]() With these posts we ask that you put yourself in the Shorts committee’s place – which films would you have nominated? Which cartoon should have won? For your edification and viewing pleasure, here once again are the cartoons that didn’t make the cut. A sign of things to come? The Academy’s shorts branch had no choice but to take the high road, lest the committee itself becomes a joke. Magoo and Loopy DeLoop – released theatrically but are essentially “TV” cartoons. Way below their usual standards now the new normal. Two things to note: The UPA and Hanna Barbera entries. But compared to previous years, it’s easy to see the Hollywood standards have dropped the budgets tightening the creativity lessening. No artsy foreign films, no other independents. No real surprises, nothing particularly innovative. HASHIMOTO-SAN (Terrytoons) Bob Kuwahara, Dave TendlarĭOWN TO MIRTH (Paramount) Seymour KnietelĪnd so we continue our research into what other cartoons were submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration but failed to make the cut.Įvery other cartoon submitted this year was a standard “Hollywood” studio theatrical short subject. LITTLE BO BOPPED (Columbia) William Hanna, Joseph Barbera THE MINUTE AND A 1/2 MAN (Terrytoons) Dave Tendlar PICNICS ARE FUN & DINO’S SERENADE (UPA) Lew Keller, Fred Crippen MAGOO MEETS BOING BOING (UPA) Abe LevitowįELINEOUS ASSAULT (Paramount) Seymour Knietel TV FUDDLEHEAD (Paramount) Seymour Knietel However – submitted, screened, but NOT nominated were: ![]() Also note John Hubley thanking Faith, Bobe Cannon, Ed Smith and all his kids: Note that Reiner was the sole voice in Pintoff’s The Violinist – always the professional, he shows no emotion in reading the nominees and announcing the (for him, disappointing) winner. The award itself rightfully recognized one of the medium’s true innovators.īELOW: In the video embed, Carl Reiner and Hope Lange present the awards for Short Subject. It was entertaining and visually different. As different as the Disney short was, and as funny as Pintoff film is, Hubley’s Moonbird was the proper winner. cartoon (another Speedy – gosh, those were popular), a unique Disney stop-motion two-reeler, and a clever Ernest Pintoff cartoon (also an “indie”). This was the first year that an independent film won the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Cartoon. This was a turning point for animation in Oscar history. MOONBIRD (Storyboard Productions) John Hubley & Faith Elliot, directors. THE VIOLINIST (Pintoff Productions) Ernest Pintoff MEXICALI SCHMOES (Warner Bros.) Friz Freleng ![]()
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