Archives for June 11, 2018

“The Juggler of Our Lady,” a 1958 Terrytoons CinemaScope cartoon adapted and designed by R.O. Blechman from his book, directed by Al Kouzel, and narrated by Boris Karloff. The score is by Phil Scheib:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Even Hitler, I imagine, would have defined his New Jerusalem as a world where there are no Jews, not as a world where they are being gassed by the million day after day in ovens, but he was a Utopian, so the ovens had to come in.”

W.H. Auden, “Dingley Dell and the Fleet”