Selected Shorts: THE SNOWMAN
Not every studio was as adept at melding cartoon silliness with sheer terror as Disney…
Sam "Burgundy Suit" Scott
Sam is a features writer for Looper and studied writing under Kevin Wilson at Sewanee: the University of the South. He's been a staff writer for The Solute since its launch in 2014 and editor of the Year of the Month series since 2017.
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Articles:
Selected Shorts: Mickey Mouse in THE MAD DOCTOR
Disney shorts were, for the most part, better crafted but safer and staider than the…
Selected Shorts: POPEYE
1933 was also the year the Flesichers introduced their biggest hit with their long-running adaptation…
Selected Shorts: More BETTIES
My assessment of the Fleischers as overrated earlier might seem harsh, but sampling five of…
Selected Shorts: SNOW WHITE
Snow White is a mind-boggling film…When Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel created Un Chien Andalou…
Year of the Month: Persia on THE EPIC OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
I grew up in not-quite-nowhere, the kind of small town with a little shop or…
Year of the Month: Tom ‘Vomas’ Morton on MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM
Fay Wray’s scream! Fast-talking female reporters! Waxwork-related horror! I bet you’re thinking “I’d have to…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of 1933
Year of the Month: James Williams on NASHVILLE
By the time Robert Altman broke through with M*A*S*H in 1970, he had been directing…
Year of the Month: Miller on HARD TIMES
The bare-knuckle boxing world of Depression-era New Orleans in Hard Times, where men meet in…