http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/10/10/toys-with-poise/ Sat, 26 May 2012 03:16:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/10/10/toys-with-poise/#comment-427 Dave Kirwan Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/10/10/toys-with-poise/#comment-427 Iwerks does seem to have been the studio where old comic strip cliches went to die. I like the bit they used when charcters sleeping have logs being sawed appear over their heads — but no snoring is heard on the soundtrack! Iwerks does seem to have been the studio where old comic strip cliches went to die. I like the bit they used when charcters sleeping have logs being sawed appear over their heads — but no snoring is heard on the soundtrack!

]]> http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/10/10/toys-with-poise/#comment-426 2oonhed Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/10/10/toys-with-poise/#comment-426 That's the way sound really looks when it leaves an instrument....squiggly lines....didn't you know that?<br />Yer probably surrounded with squiggly lines right now, and don't even know it.<br />The squiggly line are everywhere, man. That’s the way sound really looks when it leaves an instrument….squiggly lines….didn’t you know that?
Yer probably surrounded with squiggly lines right now, and don’t even know it.
The squiggly line are everywhere, man.

]]> http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/10/10/toys-with-poise/#comment-425 tom_w Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://archives.frederatorblogs.com/refrederator/2006/10/10/toys-with-poise/#comment-425 There's this holdover from the silent cartoons of having radial lines emerge from a character's head to indicate a reaction. And when the king left the palace gates, there was a fanfare from two trumpeters with squiggly lines coming from the trumpets. Would the viewer not associate the fanfare with the trumpets without the squiggly lines? There’s this holdover from the silent cartoons of having radial lines emerge from a character’s head to indicate a reaction. And when the king left the palace gates, there was a fanfare from two trumpeters with squiggly lines coming from the trumpets. Would the viewer not associate the fanfare with the trumpets without the squiggly lines?

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