Trailer of Tears (YouTube, Me, and Everyone Else We Know)

Hurray! It’s another one of my brief announcement posts that have nothing to do with going over cartoon cuts.

This one is a blog trailer I made for YouTube (hey, if they can make book trailers, then blog ones can be made too) about “Drawn and Quartered,” set to The Bugs Bunny Show’s famous “This Is It” theme song. I’m sticking it on here because I can’t trust YouTube not to take it down for copyright, whether or not it deserves it (if it does get taken down, then I have a safe second home for it here). Plus, I think I can trust the few readers I have here to find a way to download the video (or share the blog page) and pass it along to others so they can see the blog too (make it “go viral”).

Here’s the video. Enjoy and tell everyone you know about it. 

More entries will come soon. I’m currently working on the special episode about the Porky/Sylvester horror vacation cartoons that Chuck Jones directed in 1948, 1954, and 1955.

EDIT: I had to replace the video with one that wasn't obviously made for YouTube. Instead of the "Click on the link in the description" ending, it just says to visit the website. That's the only change made to it.

Yet Another Brief Announcement

As you’re waiting for the next installment, I’d like to interject with some news about the blog. Don’t worry; it’s all good:

1) Looking over at the older videos and how I did them, I’m going to redo them, since I now have more of a handle on linear video editing. “I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song” (which, according to my stats, is the most popular blog post here, next to the one about the 12 banned Bugs Bunny shorts and the one about The Censored Eleven) definitely needs a redo, as I really screwed up in editing it, as does “Buddy’s Showboat.”

2) I am considering adding a page where it’s just all of the compare-contrast/editing approximation videos (there is a difference between those: the compare-contrast videos usually have actual footage of how the cartoon was edited on the network or in syndication. Editing approximation videos are just me trying to figure out how the edited version looked), so if you don’t feel like reading my ramblings (or you need evidence for an online discussion or a video channel about censorship in cartoons. If you do the latter, please credit my blog and myself. Nobody likes a plagiarist), you can just go to the clips and see for yourself. They’ll all be attached to my Google Drive, so you can download them with ease.

The next installment is scheduled for next week (hopefully) because I’ll be on vacation from work, which leaves me time to write and do housework.

‘Til next time…