Gerald McBoing Boing



Name: Gerald McBoing Boing
Year: 1950
Company: UPA
Director: Robert Cannon
Thoughts: I like the drawing style of this animation a lot. Its kind of underwhelming when it comes to set design though. After seeing Disney's animations using multiplane, its hard to go back and watch something like this with very minimal set design. It is also narrated in that singing poem voice like all Suess stories which tends to get on my nerves after awhile. 

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