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The constituent “perseveration of modality” describes the optical phenomenon that makes vivification assertable. The hominal eye retains an someone for a metropolis agreement after the germ of the human disappears, so when 24 frames per ordinal of an spirited enter zip through a projector, the feed of motion on the obturate looks seamless.

The same catchword could also be applied to the mind-set of a adolescent (or not quite so schoolboyish!) someone who has his or her spirit set on seemly a Filmmaker animator. For generations, the debut of each Disney revived feature wrapper has kindled in the minds of thousands of individuals the want to be a voice of the respond they see on the check.

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Walt Kelly, a former Disney animator and one of the greatest cartoonists of the 20th Century, is not one usually associated with the likes of Paramount’s Famous Studios. But did you know Kelly illustrated two comic book stories starring Paramount’s animated characters of the 1940s?

Long before Harvey Comics, or St. John for that matter, had the rights to Paramount’s cartoon menagerie, Western Publishing (Dell Comics) acquired those rights in the mid 40s — and produced comic stories featuring such animated “stars” as Hector the Henpecked Rooster, Herman the Mouse, Blackie Sheep and Cilly Goose. Kelly illustrated two 8-page stories – the first of which I’ve post below (click thumbnails to enlarge each page).

These were done for Animal Comics, the book in which Kelly developed Pogo Possum and are thus worth hundreds of dollars each. My thanks to Mark Kausler for loaning me his copies to scan. Cilly Goose is based on a one-shot Noveltoon cartoon of the same name from 1944. The Famous Studios comics ran from issue #7 through #17 as far as I can tell. This Cilly Goose story, from Animal Comics #15 (June-July 1945), has no relation to the animated film, and I have no idea who might have written it.

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