R.I.P. Marie WInn, 88, in Dec. ("The Town That Had No Policeman," 1970)

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1 total messages Started by Lenona Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:28

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Author: Lenona
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:28

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OK, so she didn't work on the animated shorts themselves - or illustrate
any of her books, I assume.

But the shorts are pretty good!

She was probably best known for writing about (and naming) the Manhattan
hawk, Pale Male.

Not to mention her 1977 book: "The Plug-In Drug."


https://news.novabbs.org/interests/article-flat.php?id%589&group=alt.obituaries#25589


Excerpt (that I wrote):

I remember, as a kid, watching a cartoon with my class at school - it
was "Why We Have Taxes, or The Town That Had No Policeman" (1970). It's
about 6:30 minutes long and it was based on Winn's book "The
Thief-Catcher: A story about why people pay taxes." (That's what it says
at the end, anyway - BUT, the short was made in 1970 and the book is
dated 1972, IIRC!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvl8faAO3Xk
(45:26 minutes long)

1:13 Why we have laws / Shiver, Gobble and Snore
7:47 Why we have elections / The Kings of Snark
16:44 Why we have taxes / The Town that had no policemen
23:10 Why we use money / The fisherman who needed a knife

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