Merry Melodies today is probably more well know then Disney’s old Silly Symphonies, especially among younger peoples of the day. Both of these types of cartoons use older forms of Classical and Jazz music in order to help tell the story. Merry Melodies has done well with promoting many classical works of music with their [...]
Archive for March 2010
Blog 8 for 3/23/2010 John Lyver, Scrappy
March 23, 2010For Blog 8 I decided to see why Scrappy was not ultimately successful. I watched Scrappy’s Band Concert This cartoon though still in the times of black and white was very dry and not terribly humorous. There seemed to be no real main character of the cartoon and little to no plot line. Scrappy was [...]
John Lyver, Blog Specimen for Midterm
March 18, 2010Blog 1 http://lyverfive.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/blog-1-for-hist-389-bugs-gets-the-boid-john-lyver/ I added a visual link and updated and proofread the text. Blog 4 http://lyverfive.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/blog-4-felix-the-cat-old-and-new-by-john-lyver/ I updated and proofread some of the text in this blog.
Blog 7(due 3/16) John Lyver, Bugsy gets Mugsy
March 15, 2010In the cartoon Bugsy and Mugsy, Bugs bunny gets to try his hand at enforcing the law by teaching two mobsters a lesson. Bugs uses multiple ways to trick Rocky and Mugsy into not trusting one another all the while he aparently is building a large lit up sign revealing to the police that it [...]
Extra Blog, Up, By John Lyver
March 10, 2010‘Up’ the new computer animated feature from Pixar, is a humorous and touching story about an Old man(Mr. Fredrickson) dealing with the lose of his wife and the lose of his and his wifes dream of reaching paradise falls. As he tries to live out his life in peace and quiet he is confronted by [...]
Blog 6, John Lyver, Flip the Frog
March 1, 2010With most cartoons there is always a hero or character that the audience can relate with, along with a villain like character. In the case of the Flip the Frog episode The Music Lesson, the teacher and the police officer were made to be the villains. It is not hard to figure why the animators chose [...]
