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- nticompassI can't hear "Ride of the Valkyries" without hearing "Kill the Wabbit" in my head. Also "Spear and magic helmet" :-)
- throw0101cWhat's always been a bit surprising to me is that the conductor Leopold Stokowski had enough 'cultural cachet' that there was some expectation that people watching the cartoon would recognize the reference to him ("Leopold!"):* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Stokowski#Hollywood_Bo...Not sure that the general public would have any kind of awareness for conductors or anyone in the classical music world today: perhaps Yo-Yo Ma, and some years ago 'The Three Tenors' were a thing.
- WalterBrightOh, what a great cartoon that is!In my college daze, Chuck Jones dropped by to give a talk to a packed auditorium. Of course, what he showed was What's Opera Doc. We all loved it, and Chuck enjoyed our enthusiasm.
- Frieren> To get the extra work done, Jones and his crew secretly shaved a couple weeks off other, easier films and faked their time cards. It was something they did on occasion. (The mysterious price increases angered the managers, Jones said, but they were “not very bright” and didn’t figure out the trick.)How many companies work just because the average worker is the one making it work? In my experience a lot of them.It is sad that the money always accumulates at the top even when so often that same people at the top are an impediment for doing better work.
- loopmonster> It’s one of the really famous cartoons. If you’re reading this newsletter, you’ve probably watched it yourself.I've never heard of it and would have appreciated at least a cursory definition. I thought I was going to see an article about an ad for Opera the browser.