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Quincy Magoo, better known as Mr. Magoo, is a fictional cartoon character created at the UPA animation studio in 1949. Voiced by Jim Backus, Mr. Magoo is an elderly, wealthy, short-statured retiree who gets into a series of comical situations as a result of his extreme near-sightedness, compounded by his stubborn refusal to admit the problem.
This is a list of UPA theatrical cartoons featuring Mr. Magoo. Most of the films listed were distributed by Columbia Pictures , but the final three ( Magoo Meets Boing-Boing , Magoo Meets Frankenstein , and I Was a Teenage Magoo ) were distributed by UPA themselves.
Mister Magoo is an American animated television series which was produced from November 7, 1960 to February 2, 1962. [1] Each episode includes five four-minute shorts and was either aired together with bumpers as a single half-hour show, or was split up with one short airing each weekday, along with other cartoons. [ 2 ]
1001 Arabian Nights is a 1959 American animated comedy film produced by United Productions of America (UPA) and distributed by Columbia Pictures.Released to theaters on December 1, 1959, the film is a loose adaptation of the Arab folktale of "Aladdin" from One Thousand and One Nights, albeit with the addition of UPA's star cartoon character, Mr. Magoo, to the story as Aladdin's uncle, "Abdul ...
In 2013, Shout! (with Sony) released the Mr. Magoo Theatrical Collection containing all the Mr. Magoo theatrical shorts and the full-length feature 1001 Arabian Nights (which was also released through Sony's MOD program in December 2011). The set was originally set for release on February 14, 2012 but then delayed to June 19, then December 4 ...
Kung-Fu Magoo is a 2010 animated action comedy film based on the Mr. Magoo character, created by Millard Kaufman and John Hubley. [2] This film was produced by Classic Media , Ánima Estudios , and Santo Domingo Films. [ 3 ]
Magoo Meets Frankenstein (later released on the TV series Mister Magoo) I Was a Teenage Magoo (later released on the TV series Mister Magoo retitled "Teenage Magoo"; submitted and screened at the 33rd Academy Awards for an Oscar consideration, but wasn't nominated [ 6 ] )
Near-sighted Mr. Magoo goes to see a movie but instead mistakes the airport across the street for the theater and takes a seat on a departing airplane. This cartoon makes reference to the 3-D movies that briefly became popular around the time of the release of this short as Magoo comments on the apparent realism of his movie experience ("it's like I can actually feel the plane taking off!")