Hello, I am looking for full episodes of The Bob Clampett Show from Adult Swim. I don't know how many tape collectors are on here but I am giving it a shot you can upload the episodes to a file hosting website Google Drive preferred.
For me it has to be Porky In Wackyland. I just love the surreal Fleischer-esque style in it. I really hope one of the new creators will make something inspired by it in Looney Tunes Cartoons considering that that series has a lot of Clampett influence
I know Book Revue and The Great Piggy Bank Robbery.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
When the sky was the limit for Disney Studios and animation
After the huge success of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, released in December of 1937, Disney had reached the absolute peak of animation. I won't dwell on detail about the film's merits, I'll focus on the aftermath of its success.
It put the confidence of Walt Disney and his animators at an absolute high. They felt they could do anything. And after accomplishing something as great as Snow White, the motivation for the studio was to do even better. There would be no compromises, no spared expense in their next features. They would take all the lessons they learned from Snow White, and strive for perfection.
There was always a perfectionist approach in the studio, instilled by Walt. One of the reasons why Walt wanted to make a feature-length animated film was because the cartoon shorts had become so expensive, due to Walt's insane perfectionism in wanting to make the absolute best cartoons, that they barely brought any profit to the studio. Disney's big rival in the 1930s, the Fleischer Studios, had Max Fleischer (I think) saying that Disney would not be able to last long in the industry, he said "you don't eat medals".
But the gigantic success of Snow White, both in the box-office (becoming the highest grossing film ever, though soon beaten by Gone With The Wind) and critical acclaim, seemed to have vindicated all those methods. And they got pushed even further.
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Pinocchio is an amazing example of this. The level of gorgeous detail in the backgrounds, effects and stunning animation in general, every frame is a painting. Often hailed as the most technically perfect of all films that Walt Disney produced, a gold standard for the medium, a masterpiece in all aspects for me too!
Released in February in 1940, there was also at the same time heavy work on Fantasia. Disney was planning to release two new movies every year, there would epics such as Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi, and smaller films such as Dumbo. There were seemingly no limits, Walt wanted to make his studio's animation better and b
... keep reading on reddit ➡Honestly, I'm a person who really believes that art can be anything, and I'll use animation as an example. I love animation, and I think it's the ultimate art in being able to do anything. I've seen way too many arguments among hardcore animation buffs about what is the "correct" way to animate. One of them is about character animation. Classic western animation developed, specially since Disney in the 30s, with ultimate focus on bringing characters to life through their animation. In Disney, and in the work of US west coast animation in general (like the Warner Bros. studios, responsible for the Looney Tunes), characters not only move a lot, but their body and facial expressions are extremely detailed and dynamic to deeply convey even the tiniest thought that goes through the characters' minds. The core principle of classic western animation is that its characters should do what a live-action actor can't, in the sense that no emotion and thought is hidden within the character, in the sense that a cartoon character can bridge their inner life and external life together, to a point that such division doesn't exist.
Classic western animation was concerned with the characters being strong and expressive actors to an extent that no live-action actor can match (maybe also due to how actors were the main stars in Hollywood cinema back then). This is seen among many historians and fans of Golden Age Hollywood animation as the reason to why even bother to make animation, what truly separates the art from live-action. One of the most revered animators from that era is Bill Tytla, specially due to his talent for pathos. One of his most acclaimed works, if not the most, is the animation of the title character in Disney's Dumbo, like the Baby Mine scene. Or the animation of the dwarves in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, specially Grumpy. That's all in the highest tier of cartoon character acting, and primarily accomplished by the extremely expressive, deep, precise and dynamic animation and movement of the characters' body language and so on. Daffy Duck in Bob Clampett's cartoons, specially when animated by Rod Scribner, is also another amazing example, though obviously far more histrionic, exaggerated and "cartoony" for obvious comedic reasons, and that is a huge part of the fun and appeal of the Looney Tunes. Also recommend taking a look at the frog in Chuck Jones' One Froggy Evening, or at his cartoon The Dover Boys. Very different styl
... keep reading on reddit ➡Let's get one thing out of the way: I'm not gonna discuss HFR (High Frame Rate) Cinema in general here. I don't want to attract anyone's wrath. What I'm gonna "rant" about is taking perfectly fine 24FPS animation footage, throwing it into an interpolating software and then saying "This how it would look 60FPS", or worse "ENHANCED in 60FPS!"
I'm far from an expert in technique of animation. But I know that it is an extremely intricate and laborious art. It's not about replicating reality, it's about caricaturing it, exaggerating it, artificiality for effects of all kinds on the viewer.
Inbetweening key poses, drawing the frames in between two strong poses of a movement, are far more than just that. It's a painstaking work in which every small detail matters to what kind of movement you want to make, the effect you want, the poses you want to reinforce, the timing, and so on. If you look at books such as "The Illusion Of Life" by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, and "The Animator's Toolkit" by Richard Williams, showcase how intricate all of that is even in the most basic and simplest animation, and how every detail of the key poses, the in-betweens, and so on, makes a huge difference.
Also, remember what I said about animation being the art of artifice for greater impact, and how less can be more in such. Perhaps the easiest example to understand for a person like me, with zero technical knowledge, is the timing of cartoon comedy. It has been well developed and perfected in the Golden Age Of American Animation how you can really sell a gag's surprise and impact more strongly if you do as few frames as possible. In some cases, even no frames of animation between the two extreme poses. Tex Avery (all-time great of the medium, who was perhaps the most key figure in codifying and perfecting so much of extremely fast-paced, creative, meta and silly cartoon comedy as we know it, and he also shaped the Looney Tunes style more than anyone, and he also invented many now classic cartoon jokes, such as the painted tunnel that behaves as if it was real, or a character walking off a cliff and not falling until looking down) was known to edit and trim the timing of his films (cartoon shorts) down to the frame. He reached the conclusion, based on his own tests, that the human eye can
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Rotten Tomatoes: 100% (13 reviews) with 8.40 in average rating
Metacritic: 87/100 (11 critics)
As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie.
> While The French Dispatch might seem like an anthology of vignettes without a strong overarching theme, every moment is graced by Anderson’s love for the written word and the oddball characters who dedicate their professional lives to it. There’s a wistful sense of time passing and a lovely ode to the pleasures of travel embedded in the material, along with an appreciation for the history of American foreign correspondents who bring their perceptive outsider gaze to other cultures.
-David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
> Mostly, though, “The French Dispatch” is a fun watch because it keeps reinventing itself. Each chapter gives another journalist the chance to take charge.
-Eric Kohn, IndieWire: B+
> The result is hugely impressive and awfully scattershot, a wry piece of art that is always entertaining but also so excruciatingly detailed that you wonder if it will connect the way the more emotional, more fully drawn stories of “Grand Budapest,” “Moonrise Kingdom” or “The Royal Tenenbaums” did.
> Frivolous as this all may sound, Anderson is right to celebrate a generation who broadened our idea of what storytelling could be, shaping more than just journalism: They found poetry in the streets and heroes on the margins; they challenged the establishment and represented a nouvelle vague every bit as influential as the one sweeping cinema around the same time.
> His new film, The French Dispatch, long delayed by Covid, has on the strength of the extensively picked-apart trailer, been condemned as more of the same. To which I can only say … sure, yes, more fun, more buoyancy, more elegance, more marvellously eccentric invention, more originality. It might not be at the very zenith of what he
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I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
