Thursday, October 28, 2004
Today's Frazz
The allusion escaped me and I google'd "mark twain can't jump" to find this information:
"Twain heard a story about a frog, and made an entry in his notebook: "Coleman with his jumping frog - bet a stranger $50. - Stranger had no frog and C. got him one: - In the meantime stranger filled C's frog full of shot and he couldn't jump. The stranger's frog won." He published 'Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog' in The Saturday Press of New York on the 18th of November in 1865. It was reprinted all over the country and became the foundation stone of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867). This work marked the beginning of Twain's literary career, and set the tone of his subsequent stories. Twain focused not the outcome of the story but the manner of telling."
I do remember seeing some claymation stories of Mark Twain when I was younger, especially one about a frog race, and one frog being full of something (shot? wtf is that). In fact the frog was sabatoged by the opponent's owner, and was fed a lot of something.
I also remember these claymation stories including some crazy adam/eve story, where, adam loved to ride a log down a waterfall, much to the laughter of my brothers (and my confusion since I think I was still too young to understand). He would yell something to the like of "Geronimo" or something, which my brothers repeated, again, which I did NOT understand. Eve tried to stop him from going down the waterfall, to the point where she made large red octagon stop signs, and a little armbar thing. Ahh, finally something I get.
Another story involved Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens -- same difference really, just a difference in how he was called) had some hot air balloon and wanted to see Halley's comet and he was going to die. The hot air balloon rose into SPACE (yes, hot air balloon rose into FREAKING SPACE. hilariously enough, at the time I plainly accepted it nonchalantly as obvious fact), and Clemens did what he could to get to it for whatever reason.
I was curious as to what this story was trying to say and I google'd "Mark Twain halley's comet" to find this quote from Mark Twains biography:
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."
- Mark Twain, a Biography
He did in fact die the year Halley's comet returned from its 75-year round trip. I wish I could see these claymation stories again, now with a relatively heightened sense of understanding.
Anyone remember these by any chance?
The allusion escaped me and I google'd "mark twain can't jump" to find this information:
"Twain heard a story about a frog, and made an entry in his notebook: "Coleman with his jumping frog - bet a stranger $50. - Stranger had no frog and C. got him one: - In the meantime stranger filled C's frog full of shot and he couldn't jump. The stranger's frog won." He published 'Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog' in The Saturday Press of New York on the 18th of November in 1865. It was reprinted all over the country and became the foundation stone of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867). This work marked the beginning of Twain's literary career, and set the tone of his subsequent stories. Twain focused not the outcome of the story but the manner of telling."
I do remember seeing some claymation stories of Mark Twain when I was younger, especially one about a frog race, and one frog being full of something (shot? wtf is that). In fact the frog was sabatoged by the opponent's owner, and was fed a lot of something.
I also remember these claymation stories including some crazy adam/eve story, where, adam loved to ride a log down a waterfall, much to the laughter of my brothers (and my confusion since I think I was still too young to understand). He would yell something to the like of "Geronimo" or something, which my brothers repeated, again, which I did NOT understand. Eve tried to stop him from going down the waterfall, to the point where she made large red octagon stop signs, and a little armbar thing. Ahh, finally something I get.
Another story involved Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens -- same difference really, just a difference in how he was called) had some hot air balloon and wanted to see Halley's comet and he was going to die. The hot air balloon rose into SPACE (yes, hot air balloon rose into FREAKING SPACE. hilariously enough, at the time I plainly accepted it nonchalantly as obvious fact), and Clemens did what he could to get to it for whatever reason.
I was curious as to what this story was trying to say and I google'd "Mark Twain halley's comet" to find this quote from Mark Twains biography:
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."
- Mark Twain, a Biography
He did in fact die the year Halley's comet returned from its 75-year round trip. I wish I could see these claymation stories again, now with a relatively heightened sense of understanding.
Anyone remember these by any chance?
Comments:
Hey, I was googling Halley's comet and Mark Twain and came across your blog. I know the claymation stuff you're talking bout! It was the first full-length claymation film. It's called "The Adventures of Mark Twain" and it was done by Clubhouse Pictures and Will Vinton Productions, as part of Atlantic Entertainment Group.
Hope this info helps if you ever want to watch the film again :-)
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Hope this info helps if you ever want to watch the film again :-)
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