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Mel Blanc
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Review 1DiscussionA review by CinemaSerf
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Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Mar 17 2024
A rather annoying cuckoo clock summons us all to the town crier who rather monotonically introduces us to figures from fictional history. Amongst them are "Fu Manchu", "Frankenstein" and "Dr. Jekyll" - but they are not so menacing after all as they indulge in something akin to the dance of the "Sugar Plum Fairy". That's the start of our ensuing jolly and quite innovative trawl through a library of books that gives the animators an excuse to use the titles as some creative inspiration for the drawings and for the musicians to imaginatively score along to, too. I especially liked "Whistler's Moth...
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Original Language
English
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Keywords
- cartoon
- snake charmer
- musical
- prison escape
- musketeer
- book comes to life
- short film