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Cars: the prequel

July 19th, 2006

I love Pixar, but their latest feature is nowhere as radical as this little gem from 1952. It never ceizes to amaze me how far Tex Avery pushed his animation. And what a wonderful ending!

UPDATE:
Well, this post seems to have kickstarted a spontaneous Tex Avery blog-a-thon! For more Tex, visit these links:

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  1. tlrhb
    July 22nd, 2006 at 4:03 am

    Wow. That was wonderful, and so sweet. I still love CARS, but it reminds me that I need to see a lot more Tex Avery.

  2. Peet
    July 23rd, 2006 at 10:01 am

    Welcome, Little Round-Headed Boy! Glad to see you here. For more Tex Avery, go to YouTube.com and type in “Tex Avery”. A lot of cartoons have been erased there recently because of copyright enfringement (even if some of the deleted shorts fell under the public domain!). Too bad, because YouTube is actually great low-res advertisement, if you think about it. Apart from that, it offers people like us the chance to view unreleased material–among them being Avery’s shorts for MGM and Walter Lantz.

  3. Dennis Cozzalio
    July 24th, 2006 at 8:51 pm

    Peet: Here’s my favorite Avery– “Rock-a-Bye bear” One of the questions on my quiz is “Which film have you pushed on more people than any other?” I think one of mine has to be this little gem. Enjoy!

  4. Dennis Cozzalio
    July 25th, 2006 at 12:20 am

    By the way, Avery’s cars are one of my earliest memories of cartoons that weren’t specifcally Saturday-morning-related. Thanks for reminding me just how great this short really is!

  5. Ian W. Hill
    July 25th, 2006 at 12:48 am

    Okay, all three of you guys posting the Avery cartoons, I was gonna let this lie after seeing the first two posts, but now I have to add in with my favorite over at my blog.

    If you haven’t yet sampled the wonder of Avery’s Magical Maestro, though I assume you have, check it out at You Tube or over at my place.

    Thanks for bringing this up.

  6. Peet
    July 25th, 2006 at 9:21 pm

    Wow, I seem to have kickstarted an unofficial Tex Avery blog-a-thon! And this wasn’t even my favorite Avery. Thanks guys!

  7. bob
    July 30th, 2006 at 9:43 am

    Hey, I have a contribution to your Tex Avery blog-a-thon here:
    http://girsroomwithamoose.blogspot.com/2006/07/half-pint-pygmy-take-look-at-this.html

    It’s about ‘Half-Pint Pygmy’.

  8. Peet
    July 30th, 2006 at 9:55 pm

    Thanks, Bob! I added you to the list.

  9. bob
    July 31st, 2006 at 8:02 am

    Thanks, but there’s no link. There’s just Gir:Half-Pint Pygmy written there,.

  10. Peet
    July 31st, 2006 at 8:08 am

    Oops, sorry for that, Bob. Fixed it!

  11. Florian
    January 29th, 2007 at 12:27 am

    Hi,
    I found your blog via google by accident and have to admit that youve a really interesting blog :-)
    Just saved your feed in my reader, have a nice day :)

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