Doctor Bluebird

⭐ Featured Review

"With the end of the Walt Disney monopoly on three-strip Technicolor, the other cartoon studios rushed to show what they could do with it. This early Mintz cartoon for Columbia shows what: not much. Mostly it's a study in blue, blue birds, blue skies, nice cerulean blues that were impossible under two-strip Technicolor. The lines are simplified, annoyingly so, and the production itself is sometimes awkwardly childish, even for the Scrappy series, which often ran out of steam halfway through each cartoon: great first half, then vamp until the end credits. It happens here, too. After showin..."