All,
What are you favorite alltime comics and cartoons? Mine would include Family Circle and presently Cathy. And to this day The Flintstones is the only cartoon I can sit down and watch as an adult.
What childhood films were your favorites? Disney? National Velvet? Black Beauty? etc.
Pam
I am addicted to three daily comic strips; Mutts, For Better For Worse, and Pickles.
I don't watch any of the current tv cartoons. Anime, to me, is over rated.
My favorite all time cartoon feature is Walt disney's Pinnochio. The cartoon that I want very much to see again is Charles Mintz's The Little Match Girl (1937).
National Velvet. I can't believe that I waited over fifty years before I watched this film on tv a few years ago. It is now one of my all time favorite movies.
Willard
Willard,
Thanks for your reply [:)] I especially like For Better for Worse--it's ALWAYS funny!
"Anime, to me, is over rated."
Anime is so dark and Gothic, but I find the technology itself fascinating--if they could just lighten up the mood a bit...
"My favorite all time cartoon feature is Walt disney's Pinnochio. The cartoon that I want very much to see again is Charles Mintz's The Little Match Girl (1937)."
Yes, my mother always enjoyed Snow White. I haven't yet seen The Little Match Girl--is it available on video or DVD. (Uhmmm, I haven't bought a DVD player yet [:)] .
"National Velvet. I can't believe that I waited over fifty years before I watched this film on tv a few years ago. It is now one of my all time favorite movies."
Yes, I hadn't watched National Velvet until 20 or so years ago. And those animal movies always tear my heart out. If an animal even gets HURT I reach for the Kleenex box [:\] . I can't really even bring myself to read Black Beauty, Old Yeller, etc. too much. Even some of the Chicken Soup stories affect me that way. But Elizabeth Taylor was a beautiful, talented actress even as a youngster, wasn't she? I can see why she was said to have been considered the most beautiful woman in the world of her time.
Pam
"Mutts" is a favorite because of the artist's influence from the great comic strips of the past; "Krazy Kat", "Polly & Her Pals", "Nancy & Sluggo", "Pogo", and current favorite, "Peanuts". The above list isn't inconclusive. But all are favorites of mine.
"Pickles" is something all of us "older" guys can relate to. Especially when Grandpa dispenses his 'old age' wisdom to his grandson, Nelson. All tinged with cynicism and faded memories.
Correction to my spelling of "Pinocchio".... As for "The Little Match Girl," it isn't available on video. It came out in Super 8MM many years ago but is nowhere to be found. This cartoon was slipped in between a Buster Keaton silent film program in 1992 at The UC Theatre in Berkeley Ca. The best way to describe this cartoon is that it is Mid-Victorian in it's concept. Whatever one wants to call it, it blew me away, and I have never forgotten this film. Sure wish I had a copy of the 8MM to transfer to VHS or DVD.