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Nathan Barnatt

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Jonathan Lyons

Twit­ter led me to this video by Nathan Bar­natt. He falls down funny. Bar­natt has quite a few videos on youtube. I applaud him for how hard he works. This next one is also funny. He attends an open audi­tion for … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Joe Frisco — Vaudeville dancer

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Jonathan Lyons

This dancer smokes, lit­er­ally. I can’t imag­ine we’ll ever see cig­a­rettes in Amer­i­can ani­mated films again, but they are great props. Cruella DeV­ille wouldn’t have been the same with­out her quellazaire.

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The body out of control

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Jonathan Lyons

I really like this video. It was cre­ated by the Swedish firm Trak­tor. It’s slap­stick, while being really cool. Obvi­ously it’s been done with sim­ple wire removal. But the effect is wild. There is a cer­tain fas­ci­na­tion with uncon­trolled motion. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Ray Bolger dances

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Jonathan Lyons

Prac­ti­cally every­one has seen “The Wiz­ard of Oz”. The Scare­crow was played by Ray Bol­ger, and here is a video of him danc­ing on stage. You can prob­a­bly rec­og­nized some of the moves.

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Demobbed

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Jonathan Lyons

From the youtube descrip­tion: Nat Jack­ley, Dan Young and Nor­man Evans fool­ing about in Man­cun­ian Films’ Demobbed (1944) in which Jack­ley, Evans and Young fresh out of the Army get jobs in a firm, an occu­pa­tion that leads them to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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