Colonel Heeza Liar Foils the Enemy (1915)
Despite the bombs which he suffers from at the war front, war correspondent, Col. Heeza Liar succeeds to foil the enemy lines.
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It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Colonel Heeza Liar, usually a purveyor of tales like Baron Munchausen, was the star of the first successful cartoon production house, J.R. Bray's operations. Although the cost of cartoon production remained high and Bray gave up animation with the coming of sound, he controlled a number of patents in the field, usually called the Bray Hurd patents, and lived very well off those for many years.The war in Europe raging and the US out of it, Colonel Liar appears in this episode of the series as a war correspondent. He skulks about the battlefield, dodging cannonballs and interviewing French officers. It's not a terribly interesting cartoon, but given its age and importance in the evolution of screen cartoons, it's worth a look.