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Uncle Tom’s Bungalow (1937, Tex Avery)
The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 10, 2014
Uncle Tom's Bungalow manages to be both appallingly racist and a little progressive. Director Avery turning the slave trader into the devil, poking a little fun at the angelic white girl, general mocking of Southern cultural all around…. But Bungalow just isn't a good cartoon. Ben H read more
The Screwy Genius of Tex Avery: King-Size Canary (1947)
True Classics Posted by on Sep 30, 2013
Today we present to you a brief look at the 1947 one-off cartoon short King-Size Canary, an unrelenting bit of frenzied absurdity that may very well be Tex Avery’s masterpiece. King-Size Canary takes all of the typical Avery hallmarks and elevates them to the next insane level. Everything in read more
The Screwy Genius of Tex Avery: A Double Dose of Droopy
True Classics Posted by on Sep 29, 2013
“Hello, all you happy people. You know what? I’m the hero.” In the 1943 animated short Dumb-Hounded, Tex Avery debuted a new character, a laconic, quick-witted, slow-talking hound dog. Originally dubbed “Happy Hound” (though this is never explicitly mentioned onscreen), read more
The Screwy Genius of Tex Avery: Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
True Classics Posted by on Sep 28, 2013
Photo credit: http://www.toonaday.co.uk The 1943 animated short Red Hot Riding Hood begins innocently enough: the insipid narration of an unseen storyteller introduces us to little Red, her sweet grandma, and the big, bad wolf who’s stalking her through the forest. But before the tale can get read more
The Screwy Genius of Tex Avery: Blitz Wolf (1942)
True Classics Posted by on Sep 26, 2013
When Tex Avery moved from Warner Bros. to MGM in 1941, he announced his arrival with a timely parody that not only took on current world events, but also outright challenged the predominant Walt Disney model of animation. Blitz Wolf, released on August 22, 1942, was not the first cartoon that Avery read more
The Screwy Genius of Tex Avery: A Wild Hare (1940)
True Classics Posted by on Sep 25, 2013
On July 27, 1940, an unassuming gray rabbit was born in Brooklyn. And from those humble beginnings, he would go on to become one of the most famous anthropomorphic animals to ever grace the silver screen, a legend on par with longtime rodent rival Mickey Mouse. Bane to clumsy hunters, diminutive mus read more
The Screwy Genius of Tex Avery: I Love to Singa (1936)
True Classics Posted by on Sep 24, 2013
When Tex Avery began directing animated shorts at Warner Bros. in 1935, he jumped headlong into a demanding production schedule. Though Avery’s was not the only unit producing cartoons for the Warner studio–two other units were headed by Jack King and Ben “Bugs” Hardaway (at read more
The Screwy Genius of Tex Avery
True Classics Posted by on Sep 23, 2013
“Animation is the art of timing, a truth applicable as well to all motion pictures. And the most brilliant masters of timing were usually comedians: Keaton, Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Langdon–and Fred ‘Tex’ Avery.” –Chuck Jones, in the introduction to John Canemak read more
The Truly Classic Cartooning of Tex Avery (Plus: Win an Awesome Prize Pack!)
True Classics Posted by on Sep 22, 2013
This week, True Classics will be dedicated to one Frederick Bean Avery, better known to the world at large as seminal cartoonist “Tex” Avery. Much like our week-long tribute for Chuck Jones’ centennial last year, once again we will turn our site over to one of the most talented and read more
The House of Tomorrow (1949, Tex Avery)
The Stop Button Posted by on May 26, 2012
The House of Tomorrow is such a well-made cartoon, the technical aspects more than make up for some of the weak writing. However, that weak writing does make the cartoon an interesting historical artifact. First the technical stuff. Tomorrow is a tour through a house of 2050. The year’s made read more
Magical Maestro (1952, Tex Avery)
The Stop Button Posted by on Dec 1, 2011
I had read Magical Maestro was controversial and it took me quite a while, watching it, to release why it had that reputation. There’s a montage of an irate magician turning an opera singing bulldog into various singing stereotypes. There’s a cowboy, there’s a redneck, there’ read more
Screwball Squirrel (1944, Tex Avery)
The Stop Button Posted by on Sep 6, 2011
Screwball Squirrel opens with the protagonist mocking a Disney-like cartoon squirrel and sending him packing. The Disney-like squirrel sounds and looks enough like Thumper from Bambi I forgot Thumper was a rabbit. This moment establishes the cartoon—because the protagonist, the never named Screwy read more