tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post5690919937132459392..comments2024-03-06T00:01:06.897-08:00Comments on Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 382. Fox Pop (1942)Steven Hartleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13825398324719609394noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-67702052662754653822016-12-19T23:08:42.772-08:002016-12-19T23:08:42.772-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-39330293927708458852016-12-06T19:31:15.041-08:002016-12-06T19:31:15.041-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-63964914158769092932015-08-10T02:37:17.824-07:002015-08-10T02:37:17.824-07:00Variety of Sept. 30, 1942 reveals the writer:
'...<i>Variety</i> of Sept. 30, 1942 reveals the writer:<br />'Fox Pop' (Color cartoon comedy, WB, 7 mins.)—Trim scripting by Ted Pierce makes routine animal yarn worthwhile. Silly, but funny, smartly gagged and animated. Strong subject.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-85395463773017732422015-08-03T09:16:13.054-07:002015-08-03T09:16:13.054-07:00(1) "Sterling Silver Fox" is a simple pl...(1) "Sterling Silver Fox" is a simple play on words involving sterling silver, silver of a level of a certain purity.<br /><br />(2) Incidentally, true silver foxes have black fur with white guard-hairs.<br /><br />(3) The name of the cartoon is a play on "Vox Pop" (short for vox populi, the voice of the people), which had interviews, quizzes and human interest stories, and was broadcast for a number of years on various networks in the 1930s and 1940s; as of 1942, it was on CBS.<br /><br />(4) Note that in the fox's fantasy sequence, some of the caricatures (e.g. Edward G. Robinson) are close to the ones seen the prior year in Tex Avery's "Hollywood Steps Out."<br /><br />(5) In general, the prison-break sequence is a parody of many "big house" films, where the tough guy indicates that there's going to be a breakout. (Compare with the same treatment in Hardaway-Dalton's "Bars and Stripes Forever.")<br /><br />(6) "Silver Schmilver" is a type of New York City colloquialism, based on inflections from Yiddish speaking areas such as the Lower East Side of New York (near where Mike Maltese grew up). See Leo Rosten's books on Yiddish for a discussion of this sort of alliteration.EOCostellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08068413130915640819noreply@blogger.com