Comments on: Monday Morning Blow-Up

By: Joel Schlosberg

Joel Schlosberg — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

This was shown as part of the Ub Iwerks program (including his work at Disney at Columbia as well as his own studio) in the fantastic Cartoon Musicals series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center last year.

Some of the music (when the balloon soldiers are attacking, and again at the end) is the same theme as a Betty Boop cartoon, “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers”:
http://www.archive.org/details/bb_parade_of_the_wooden_soldiers

By: 2oon-hed

2oon-hed — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I have heard tell of barking spiders…seen a barking frog with mine own eyes…..but now we got a barking Duck here…..and I am just barking beside myself.

By: pj

pj — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Nice place to visit if you’re not an INFLATABLE BALLOON PERSON, I’m guessing. Sheesh! I seem to remember this one from childhood, too. Gotta go back and check it out.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Delightfully surreal. It almost plays like a horror movie, in that he actually manages to kill several of the balloons off before they finally band together and defeat him.

I also like cartoons to occasionally be devoid of well-known characters; I think they stimulate the imagination in a way that the “staples” can’t.

By: 2oon-hed

2oon-hed — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

hey! you haven’t really stapled until you’ve stapled a ballon.
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and then they take the stapler away from you.