And the Horse He Rode In On:

Sunday mornings my daughter listens to a couple of radio shows on the Beatles. The format is 10 % talk about some Beatles theme, 5 % audio clips of the Beatles or other people involved with the Beatles talking about the theme of the day and 85 % Beatles songs that somehow kind of match up with the theme.

Yesterday, life was such and easy game to play, the theme was the Beatles animated TV show and the animated movie, The Yellow Submarine. Imagine my surprise when there was not one mention of George Dunning in the entire hour radio show.

The entire story was told from the point of view of the marketing guy at King Features. The Point Of View of the guy that they had to fight against to create a good show. This opens a whole new branch of history, Suit History. We could tell the Rocky and Bullwinkle story from the prospective of General Mills. Hey what a great thing it was to cancel the show once there were enough episodes in the can to syndicate re-runs. And then we could tell the Cole Porter story from the Point Of View of the horse that crippled him.

Hey radio talk guy. His name is George Dunning; he was the protege of Norman McLaren and a powerhouse at the Canadian Film Board. He directed the Yellow Submarine and an awful lot of the better Beatles Animated TV episodes. His unfinished animated feature The Tempests is brilliant. As for the suit at King Feature and the horse he rode in on.