ACADEMY AWARD REVIEW OF WALT DISNEY CARTOONS

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

. The Film: On a live sound stage, the Tex Avery-style human director Raoul Raoul (Joel Silver) yells "Cut" to stop the action, complaining that Roger, the successful star of Maroon Cartoons, "keeps blowin' his lines." The director scolds a sheepish Roger who has a ring of cartoon birds flying around his head: Director: Look what it [the script] says

. Valiant: What are you doin' here? Betty Boop: Well, it's been kinda slow since cartoons went to color

The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion: Robert Clampett

. Calloway was no stranger to cartoons, for he had sung in three Max Fleischer cartoons in the 1930s, Snow White (1933, signing St

. Calloway also danced for the cartoons, his movements being rotoscoped

. Leslie Baraga, in The Fleischer Story, notes that Calloway believed that the showing of these cartoons a week or two before he made a personal appearance enhanced his box office receipts

. In addition, he also had a very active and successful career at UPA in the 1950s, directing such cartoons as Madeline (1952), Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951) (the latter being adapted from the Dr

. Seuss story by Bill Scott), both cartoons being nominated for Academy Awards, with Gerald winning

. Cantor is seen in numerous WB cartoons, which include: a brief caricature in I Like Mountain Music (Harman/Ising, 1933) with Rubinoff; an appearance by popular demand in Shuffle Off to Buffalo (Harman/Ising, 1933) doing a number from the movie Palmy Days ; Billboard Frolics (Freleng, 1935), doing the song Merrily We Roll Along (which he co-wrote) with Rubinoff; and Farm Frolics (Clampett, 1941), in which a horse, asked by the narrator to do a canter, promptly imitates Cantor

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