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In Reply to: Re:Who is Tex Avery? posted by patrickU on July 22, 2005 at 09:53:17:
Well, the 7-minute-long animated short may not be the apex of film art, but who cares when they are so funny and encapsulate so much of one's culture?You brought up Disney. It is interesting to see how innovative Disney was in the Twenties and Thirties, and how, the minute he could make features, his shorts department began to suffer, with the innovation passing to Warner Bros, M-G-M, and, gosh, what was the name of the company that made the original "Popeye" cartoons? Oh, yeah, Max Fleischer! Just in time for Avery and the other directors I named to make their marks, because Disney never would have allowed some of the things they did in their cartoons after, say, 1933. The more successful he got, the less subversive he got.
John Canemaker and Joe Adamson have written two very good books on Avery, and Leonard Maltin wrote an excellent overall view of the history of the American animated cartoon, if you ever have the time and inclination to pursue Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, and the Wolf, etc., in more depth.
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