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Scott Thomas Anderson December 31, 2020Updated: January 3, 2021, 5:25 pm Leon Schlesinger, the producer who created Warner Brothers’ “Looney Tunes,” meets Porky Pig in the 1940 short film “You Ought to Be in Pictures.” Photo: Cartoon Research , Cartoon Research In 1932, cinema screens were glowing with a Betty Boop cartoon called “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You.” This animated dream of cannibalism debuted some of the first live-action footage ever of Louis Armstrong playing his trumpet, his crisp, quick solo rising to a clarion growl, his band bri...

Santa’s Workshop: Disney does Christmas Not yet in the holiday spirit? Here’s a trio of yuletide-themed cartoons from the 1930s certain to provide a much-needed Christmas goose. Santa’s Workshop (1932) In my teens, my friend Timothy Murphy asked me, “You know what my Uncle Roy says Jews do on Christmas Day?” There’s nothing like hate for the holidays. No, my ruddy-faced, only goyish kid on an all-Jewish block, I thought. What does your sozzled Uncle Roy say the Jews do on Christmas Day? Timmy smiled, threw out his chest, and snarled, “They stay home and count their money.”