Comments on: 1001 Arabian Nights http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/1001-arabian-nights/ The official blog of the new Chronicle book CARTOON MODERN: STYLE AND DESIGN IN FIFTIES ANIMATION. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:10:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Amid http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/1001-arabian-nights/#comment-382 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:17:55 +0000 http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/1001-arabian-nights/#comment-382 Jenny - I met Jules a few time but never interviewed him, though he invited me to. My reluctance is because the better known figures like Engel (or Chuck Jones, Frank and Ollie, etc.) never are very honest in their late interviews. They've given interviews so many times that their answers are well rehearsed and their prejudices are hardened by the time they're in their 70s, not to mention later. Fortunately, I also had access to a lengthy Engel interview from the 1970s which had far more info than I needed. I haven't seen BELL BOOK AND CANDLE in a while, but it's good kitschy fun as I recall. It's one of those supersaturated Technicolor films where the colors have this great unreal quality, kind of like in Vertigo or some of the Powell-Pressburger films. Wish we could get colors in film like that today. Jenny - I met Jules a few time but never interviewed him, though he invited me to. My reluctance is because the better known figures like Engel (or Chuck Jones, Frank and Ollie, etc.) never are very honest in their late interviews. They’ve given interviews so many times that their answers are well rehearsed and their prejudices are hardened by the time they’re in their 70s, not to mention later. Fortunately, I also had access to a lengthy Engel interview from the 1970s which had far more info than I needed.

I haven’t seen BELL BOOK AND CANDLE in a while, but it’s good kitschy fun as I recall. It’s one of those supersaturated Technicolor films where the colors have this great unreal quality, kind of like in Vertigo or some of the Powell-Pressburger films. Wish we could get colors in film like that today.

]]> by: Jenny http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/1001-arabian-nights/#comment-378 Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:05:47 +0000 http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/1001-arabian-nights/#comment-378 I loved that Magoo film. Amid, did you get a chance to talk to Jules before he died? He was a wealth of information and all too often all anyone knew about him were the "greatest hits", so to speak. Great stuff here-thanks to that dog Wilbert[jk], I've gone and bought that CD; btw--"Candle" has some incredibly cool art direction imho, esp. the title sequence is terrific. And the music is augmented by the Pete Candoli jazz trio(coincidentally, Candoli was Edie Adams' last husband--Kovacs being her first--stranger than fiction). I ramble--but thanks! I loved that Magoo film.
Amid, did you get a chance to talk to Jules before he died? He was a wealth of information and all too often all anyone knew about him were the “greatest hits”, so to speak.
Great stuff here-thanks to that dog Wilbert[jk], I’ve gone and bought that CD; btw–”Candle” has some incredibly cool art direction imho, esp. the title sequence is terrific. And the music is augmented by the Pete Candoli jazz trio(coincidentally, Candoli was Edie Adams’ last husband–Kovacs being her first–stranger than fiction). I ramble–but thanks!

]]> by: Michael Sporn http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/1001-arabian-nights/#comment-373 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:26:07 +0000 http://cartoonmodern.blogsome.com/2006/01/30/1001-arabian-nights/#comment-373 Thanks for the article. I'm a fan of this film, and anything about it is hard to find. Thanks for the article. I’m a fan of this film, and anything about it is hard to find.

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