Orphan Toon Musings–”Follow The Ball”: Max Fleischer’s Forgotten Sound Cartoons

review by Rachel Newstead
For the animated cartoon, sound arrived not with a bang, or a whimper, but a bark.
The scene: a movie palace of decades ago. The lights go down. On a grainy black-and-white screen, the audience sees a black cartoon dog in an iris shot a la the MGM lion. Several barks issue [...]