"Every time I revisit The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ... In these scenes, Blimp seems the buffoon that fans of Low's cartoon must have expected. However, we flash back to 40 years earlier ...

All of this means that The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is especially ... to all Brits as the subject of a popular cartoon strip. But this Blimp—a.k.a., Major General Clive Wynne-Candy ...

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (General Cinema Finance—United ... Blimp is the grand old lobster of the cartoon, angry, hurt and bewildered to find his age and his military experience ...

Powell and Pressburger took the Colonel Blimp character that political ... level of crudity that real-world readers knew Blimp and Low’s cartoon for. But soon after that, Powell and Pressburger ...

In fact, the Colonel Blimp on which “Sugar” Candy was based appeared in a satirical cartoon strip that ran in the London Evening Standard from 1934. “Blimp” quickly became shorthand for a ...

Low became famous in the Thirties for his Evening Standard cartoons of Colonel Blimp, the mustachioed ... to Soviet authorities about a 1927 Efimov cartoon that ridiculed his policies.

He was referring to Colonel Blimp, a creation of cartoonist David Low published in the Evening Standard throughout the 1930s and 40s. Blimp was a pompous, upper-class army officer with portly ...

That's not even counting the cartoon characters who have entered the language, such as the reactionary, pontificating Colonel Blimp created by David Low in (coincidentally) The Evening Standard in ...

Like The Godfather or The Bridges Of Madison County, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp is a film whose success is made all the more remarkable by its origins.

No such growing pains exist in Colonel Blimp. The imagery on-screen is as sumptuous today as it was in 1943. It’s like this mold of visual storytelling was just waiting for the duo to arrive.