Two different animated cartoon series also starred ' Charlie ' a tramp character, the first a series of nine shorts from 1916 by Movca Film Service.

Jones ' shorts from this period starring these characters represent some of his earliest classics that were strictly intended to be funny.

In addition to the new episodes, the classic 1950s and 1960s shorts were re-run as part of the series, but with newly recorded soundtracks, with the voices re-recorded and the original music replaced by Jerry Gerber's score from the 1988 series.

In the original theatrical shorts, they were originally sent to visit Donald for only one day ; in the comics, the three were sent to stay with Donald on a temporary basis, until their father came back from the hospital ( the boys ended up sending him there after a practical joke of putting firecrackers under his chair ).

In both the comics and animated shorts, the boys ' parents were never heard from or referred to again after these instances, with the boys ending up permanently living with Donald.

The team changed from red shirts and white shorts to an all-red home strip in 1964.

By acquiring the successful Balaban & Katz chain in 1926, he gained the services of Barney Balaban ( who would eventually become Paramount's president in 1936 ), his brother A. J. Balaban ( who would eventually supervise all stage production nationwide and produce talkie shorts ), and their partner Sam Katz ( who would run the Paramount-Publix theatre chain from New York City ).

A Wallace and Gromit interactive CD-ROM game from circa 1995, named W & G: Cracking Contraptions, has been released for the PC, containing mini games based on the three original animated shorts as well as brief video clips, wallpapers, screen savers, and sounds that could be assigned as system sounds.

The shorts themselves were built around recycled film footage of production numbers cut from MGM musicals, such as Children of Pleasure, Lord Byron of Broadway, and the unfinished March of Time ( all 1930 ), which had been filmed in early Technicolor.

In his last dozen shorts ( ranging from 1945's If a Body Meets a Body through 1947's Half-Wits Holiday ), he was seriously ill, struggling to get through even the most basic scenes.

Several days later, the Stooges were unceremoniously fired from Columbia Pictures after 24 years of making low-budget shorts.

In January 1958, Columbia's television subsidiary Screen Gems offered a package consisting of 78 Stooge shorts ( mainly from the Curly era ), which were well received.

Historically, the girdle extended from the waist to the upper thigh, though modern styles more closely resemble a tight pair of athletic shorts.

Military-style uniforms are most common, but there are bands that use everything from matching T-shirts and shorts to formal wear.

The cabling used in the outside plant must also be protected from electrical disturbances caused by lightning or voltage surges due to electrical shorts or induction.

These include suggesting that female football players should wear tighter shorts to appear more attractive to men, that Latin American countries would ' applaud ' John Terry for having an extramarital affair, that homosexuals should ' refrain from any sexual activity ' while attending the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and that on-field racism could be corrected with a ' handshake '.

Blatter incurred criticism from female footballers in 2004 when he suggested that women should " wear tighter shorts and low cut shirts ... to create a more female aesthetic " and attract more male fans, remarks that were ridiculed in the press.

Scenes from Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends were re-cut, edited, and re-dubbed into comical shorts as part of Disney XD's Marvel Mash-Up shorts for their " Marvel Universe on Disney XD " block of programming that includes Ultimate Spider-Man and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

The Walt Disney Studio released excerpts from many of their animated feature films, as well as some shorts, in both Standard and Super 8, some even with magnetic sound.

The Warner Bros .- Seven Arts logo used on the Looney Tunes shorts from 1967 to 1969.

He was captivated by movies from an early age, particularly the westerns of Howard Hawks and John Ford, as well as 1950s low budget horror films, such as The Thing from Another World and high budget science fiction like Forbidden Planet and began filming horror shorts on 8 mm film even before entering high school.

The Red & Blue shorts from Italy were also shown.

The use of budget-cutting animation measures in animation dates at least to the 1920s ; a handful of the Bosko cartoons in the early years of the Looney Tunes series used several visible tricks ( such as mirror images and repeated scenes ) to give the shorts the comparable appearance of the Disney shorts of the same era, even though they were produced on a budget of just over half of their Disney counterparts ( Disney himself was known to recycle animation in his early years as well ); meanwhile, Max Fleischer took the obvious shortcut of recording the entire soundtrack in one session after the animation was completed in his 1930's cartoons ; he also made frequent use of " mumbling " to avoid the need to synchronize animating mouths to voices.

However, in the Famous era shorts there have also been " original " one-time characters with Bluto-like personalities and mannerisms such as the blond, beardless lifeguard in " Beach Peach.

These include most of the shorts featuring Donald Duck in the post-war era along with all starring Chip ' n Dale and Humphrey the Bear ; he also directed some shorts starring Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Pluto and some minor Walt Disney characters.

However, Apple distributed the February 25, 2007 79th Academy Awards nominees for the Animated Shorts, Live Action Shorts and Documentary Shorts as well as half of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival shorts, beginning a new era.

These sound shorts received limited distribution through the 36 theaters owned by The Red Seal company, which became defunct shortly before the sound era officially began.

Independent animators have produced innovative, often experimental, shorts since the silent era.

He continued to be very prolific in the talkie era, often putting his fine singing voice on display and including his humorous, self-penned songs in his comedy shorts.

A marathon of selected Charley Chase shorts from the silent era was broadcast in 2005 on the American cable television network Turner Classic Movies.

Russell the artist arrived on the cultural scene at a time when the " wild west " was being chronicled and sold back to the public in many forms, ranging from the dime novel to the wild west show and soon evolving into motion picture shorts and features of the silent era, the westerns that have become a movie staple.

Virtually all major film production companies had units assigned to develop and produce shorts, and many companies, especially in the silent and very early sound era, produced mostly or only short subjects.

Al Christie moved permanently from the East, where he had been working with the Horsleys creating the extremely popular silent era Mutt and Jeff comedy shorts, to Southern California.

Jackson Beck ( July 23, 1912 — July 28, 2004 ) was an American actor best known as the announcer on radio's The Adventures of Superman and the voice of Bluto in the Famous era Popeye theatrical shorts.

In many ways, the show reverts back to the silent era of shorts with surreal settings and offbeat character depictions.

Thomas in fact became the only Our Gang cast member to appear in all 52 MGM Our Gang shorts, and was also the only holdover from the Hal Roach era to remain in the series until its end in 1944.

By this point, his persona was sufficiently well known that he was frequently caricatured in Looney Tunes animated shorts of the era.

It is considered one of the best Our Gang shorts produced after Roach sold the series to MGM in mid-1938 ; the post-Roach era is generally considered a subpar era for Our Gang.

Historian Kay Sloan has shown how various reformist groups made social problem shorts and features during the silent era.

She starred in at least 78 silent era motion pictures from 1913 to 1917, of which 66 were one and two-reel shorts.

Cycling can be more efficient and comfortable with special shoes, gloves, and shorts.

With utilities and programs often included free with modern operating systems, many users can make their own animated movies and shorts.

They can also be swim trunks, lifeguard trunks or board shorts.

Sikhs who have undergone the khanḍe-kī-pahul, the Sikh initiation ceremony, can also be recognized by the Five Ks: uncut hair ( Kesh ); an iron / steel bracelet ( kara ); a Kirpan, a sword tucked in a gatra strap ; Kachehra, a type of special shorts ; and a Kanga, a small comb to keep the hair clean.

The touch can also be a push, often on the shorts, or one rider hurling the other into the race by a hand-sling.

Thermonuclear weapons are also less efficient at producing EMP because the first stage can pre-ionize the air which becomes conductive and hence rapidly shorts out the electron Compton currents generated by the final, larger yield thermonuclear stage.

Ub's birth name can be seen on early “ Alice ” shorts that he signed.

Both AltiVec and SSE feature 128-bit vector registers that can represent sixteen 8-bit signed or unsigned chars, eight 16-bit signed or unsigned shorts, four 32-bit ints or four 32-bit floating point variables.

Both shorts can be seen as evidence of the repetition of plot themes that plagued the series as it progressed.

Clothing which can stimulate sexual desires, such as " short shorts and skirts, tight clothing, and shirts that do not cover the stomach " are discouraged.

In some countries adult women can be seen wearing loose-fitting shorts that end at or just below the knee, as these are seen as sufficiently modest.

Gym shorts are generally made of cotton, spandex, polyester, or another synthetic fiber with a cord sewn in that can be tied at the front to tighten the waist.

Aldous Huxley wrote that the Felix shorts proved that " What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.

Traditionally, series are produced as complete half-hour programs ; however, many cartoon series are produced as animated shorts of 10-11 minutes, which can then paired with other shorts to fill a set time period.

Loafers are comfortable shoes and can be worn " fashionably " by both men and women, with jeans, shorts, pants, and dresses.

The shorts sometimes air on Teletoon in Canada and as of now can be seen on YouTube.

The Looney Tunes shorts made by the studio can be easily identified by their modernized " Abstract WB " opening and closing sequences.

The Kachera can be classed between underwear and an outer garment, as in appearance it does not reveal private anatomy, and looks and wears like shorts.

The project went through, but considering the abrupt transition from shorts to feature a few minutes to an hour and a half, Pixar set out to create a special half-hour to see if he can manage a production that is similar to that of an actual film.

The summoning towers also produce a magnetic field used to give flying ships their ' lift ' ( as evidenced when Paul shorts the main power stone in the castle, causing all flying ships to crash ) and can be used as a landing pad for the flying ships.

An example of one of these peculiar combinations can be seen in his 1991 Good Revolution, which depicted black and white images of a male torso in boxing shorts set amongst doodles of a kitchen stove.

He had a distinctive characteristic visual style, which can be seen as far back as Davis ' Columbia shorts, in which the characters move from the foreground to the background, as well as from side to side, using all axes of the animation field.

The program consists of an international competition open only to feature and animated films on art and artists or literary adaptations, a national competition, non-competitive, informative sections on specific themes which can include documentaries, shorts and feature films.