I've added a video bar to this blog that shows some videos from laughingsal's channel on YouTube. These films are by cartoonist and filmmaker Sally Cruikshank, who goes by the handle laughingsal on YouTube. I believe this screenname comes from an automated funhouse character, manufactured in the 1930's.
(Public Domain photo of Laughing Sal from Wikipedia)
You can hear the laughter of this automaton on the website of the Musee Mechanique:
Sally Cruikshank is perhaps most familiar from numerous animated sequences she made for Sesame Street from 1989 to 2000, but "Quasi at the Quackadero" earned her fame. This 1975 animated short was selected as one of the 50 greatest cartoons in a poll of 1000 animation professionals. It's in the National Film Registry. You can find it on her YouTube channel. Cruikshank's own website is http://www.funonmars.com/.
My favorite of Sally Cruikshank's films is "Face Like a Frog" :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOptGLEOsJ8
My information on Sally Cruikshank comes from Wikipedia, Cruikshank's YouTube channel and her website.
