Animation Anecdotes #112
Time Paradox. In the Warner Brothers’ cartoon “Bear Feat” (1949), the gag involves the Bear family trying to put together an act for Mingling Bros. Circus after reading an ad…
Monthly Archives: May 2013
“Barking Dogs” (1933)
A revisit to Cubby Bear! Cubby has been one of my favorite characters for some unknown reason, and this is easily one of my favorite Van Beuren cartoons. I first…
Fleischer’s Animated News #6
Calling all Fleischer fans! This sixth issue (May 1935) of Fleischer’s Animated News is loaded with information. “Tintypes” (personnel biographies) in this issue are for General Manager Sam Buchwald and…
The Strange Case of the 1973 “Doraemon” Series
I talked about Japanese cartooning team Fujiko Fujio in my previous post, so I won’t dwell too much about them here. But I figure now would be a good time…
Mickey Mouse in Two New Books
Some of the best Disney scholarship being done today is hidden in the margins of a series of Mickey Mouse comic strip reprint books being published by Fantagraphics Books. David…
Lost In Translation
When the Japanese animated TV series Samurai Champloo (26 episodes, May 20, 2004 to March 19, 2005) first appeared, most anime fans, both in America and in Japan, said, “That’s…
Harman and Ising at MGM
Super collector Martin Almeyra has shared with me (and by extension, you) his collection of Harman-Ising material. So much material that I will have to dole it out in several…
ANIMATION ANECDOTES #111
Everybody’s A Critic. In a 1994 biography of actress Marlene Dietrich written by her daughter, Maria Riva, Maria recalls her mother’s reaction to being at the premiere for Disney Snow…
“GI Bill Of Rights” (1946)
This week’s entry is GI Bill of Rights, originally part of the ‘Few Quick Facts’ series. This is one of two animated shorts/ segments that continued to elude me while…
Chip, The Wooden Man
Chip the Wooden Man would fit perfectly in the Marvelous Land of Oz. However, he wasn’t an L. Frank Baum character, but was the creation of Kinex Studios of Hollywood,…
