Psst...hey buddy, wanna see an animated cartoon? Thanks to the boys at Cartoon Brew, I discovered this blog that posts actual, entire cartoons (or sometimes just clips) from the 1940's.
I recommend the Fox & Grapes cartoon posted yesterday, directed by Frank Tashlin. Tashlin's career in animation also included a couple of my favorite wartime Porky and/or Daffy cartoons, like Plane Daffy ("Well, whadaya know-the little light-it stays on!"). He then became a live-action director of some of Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, and Martin & Lewis' most acclaimed films (Artists and Models). He's also someone I wish there were a major biography of-in books by Peter Bogdanovich and Shawn Levy's bio of Lewis he comes off as an interesting and sympathetic character, but he's yet to have a bio to call his own.
But if you watch this one, remember one thing: Don't worry...he can't jump that high!
Draftee Daffy was also posted recently. It's not as good as Plane Daffy (IMO) but it's pretty durn good. Directed by Bob Clampett, who went on to create Beany & Cecil.
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