Norm Blackburn
出生 : 1903-04-28, England, UK
死亡 : 1990-02-21
略歴
Blackburn began his career as an animator for Walt Disney before moving to NBC in New York. While at NBC, he was responsible for redesigning the Howdy Doody puppet.
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Christmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. They arrive, and the toys go wild (in the full version, they sing the title song, but this has been censored in some versions due to outdated stereotypes). He plays with a few toys. A candle falls off the tree and starts a fire. The toys try in vain to fight the fire; the boy hooks up a hose to a set of bagpipes and takes care of it.
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Ride Him, Bosko! is a western-flavored cartoon with lots of shooting gags involving body reduction, and card characters singing! There's also an alcohol gag that has a really strong one turning a male piano player into a woman instantly!
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Bosko enters his dog, Bruno, in a dog race.
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On a tropical island, a native boy sings "Pagan Moon" to his sweetheart. Later, he plays music underwater with an octopus-pianist and other jazz-loving sea life.
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Bosko joins a wacky fox hunt. But if the hunt worries anyone, it isn't the fox.
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Piggy picks up his girlfriend and takes her to a theater where a hot jazz orchestra is playing.
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In this first Merrie Melodie short, things are hopping at a certain Mexican café. And then Foxy walks in and the customers go really wild.
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Bosko and Honey yodel happily in the Alps until a series of disasters end with Honey rushing downriver on an ice floe.
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Bosko fishes, and sings and dances with frogs. But two ladybugs use a wasp as an airplane, and a beehive and tree branch as a machine gun to drive him away.
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Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.
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The film opens with Bosko taking a bath while whistling "Singin' in the Bathtub". A series of gags allows him to play the shower spray like a harp, pull up his pants by tugging his hair, and give the limelight to the bathtub itself which stands on its hind feet to perform a dance.
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Oswald gets a visit from the stork ... again and again and again. He has to resort to a variety of strategies to stop the continual flow of babies.
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Oswald takes a job as a lifeguard to keep an eye on Miss Rabbit, who in turn stages a boating accident hoping Oswald will come to save her.
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Oswald's country is at war, like many other volunters he joins the army and finds himself soon in the trenches. A short battle leaves him wounded, but at least in the field hospital where his girlfriend is working.
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Oswald wakes up grumpy and takes it out on his alarm clock, afterward trying his best to wake up the mechanical cow sleeping in the bed beside him, with limited success. They finally do get going, sailing around the barnyard offering milk to denizens of the farm. When kidnappers arrive and takes Oswald's girlfriend away, he and the cow set off to rescue her.
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Oswald's sweetheart is stolen by a schoolyard bully, so he has to fight him during recess to win her back.
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit runs a trolley but finds the job is more trouble than its worth in his debut short.
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Alice attempts to umpire a big league baseball game where the animals begin to take exception to her bad calls.
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Alice visits the beach where Julius is working as a lifeguard. Suddenly an emergency arises and Julius must rescue a drowning swimmer.
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Alice and Julius are in a traveling medicine show, and part of their job is to sell patent medicine to audiences.
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Julius and Alice go prospecting for gold in the Klondike and strike it rich. However, they have to protect their claim against Pete, who wants to take it for himself.
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Julius and Pete have a contest to swim across the English Channel, with Alice as the referee.
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Alice and her friends decide to go to the park and have a picnic. Everything is going well until a gang of rats steals their food. Alice and her friends decide to go after the rats and get their food back.
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Alice and Julius have to hold their western fort against The Three Bad Eggs and a band of marauding Indians.