Just got news from Tommy Stathes, curator/presenter of Cartoon Carnival programs in New York City.
"Dear Cartoon Carnies,
As a result of unforeseen circumstances, the upcoming Carnival program has been cancelled."
We at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog are very sorry to hear this and hope Tommy is okay.
That said, we'll shall re-present last Sunday's Cartoon Carnival here on the blog, starting not with Ozzie Nelson or Ozzy Osbourne, but with Universal's Ozzy the Lucky Rabbit!
Here's the surviving footage from the 1929 Walter Lantz opus COLD TURKEY.
One of Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog's rubber hose cartoon go-tos remains the following Oswald the Lucky Rabbit playlist - and an all-time favorite cartoon is the hilarious THE HASH SHOP (1930).
Now it's time for Max Fleischer Talkartoons.
Next up: two cartoons, produced for release by RKO Radio Pictures in 1930-1932 and created by 1920's Fleischer Studio animators Dick Huemer, Sid Marcus and Art Davis, who were given the opportunity to "go west young man" and work for the Charles Mintz Studio: Toby The Pup.
How do we follow Toby? With more cartoons made by New York animators who didn't go to California, at least until Walt Disney hired Bill Tytla and other talented honchos from Terrytoons (as was also the case with Dick Huemer, Fleischer animator hired by Mintz in 1930 and signed by Disney in 1933).
Pondering the issue of what silver screen character the guy who writes this blog would most like to be. One answer arose from the Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies Archive: the one, the only Goopy Geer, a pre-Code cartoon luminary who, along with Felix the Cat and Droopy Dog, ranks on the short list of "coolest guy ever." Note that much of this fabulous cartoon cleverly re-uses footage from the very first Merrie Melodie, LADY PLAY YOUR MANDOLIN (1931). It's among those highly imaginative "cheaters."
Another answer would be the Otto Messmer version of Felix the Cat.
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