French Animated Features – Part 14: 2012
This is the 14th installment of my survey of French animated features – this week a look at the features released in 2012 and films by such diverse artists as…
Monthly Archives: February 2015
In Search Of The First Keebler Elf
So this week we take a look at the origins of the famous Keebler Elves. I had this industrial film (embed below) from 1970 in my collection for years –…
Animation Anecdotes #198
Garfield’s Judgement Day. Even at the height of Garfield the cat’s popularity in the late 1980s, creator Jim Davis couldn’t interest animation studios in his feature length animated script, “Garfield’s…
Rare War Shorts from the Disney Studio
With Thunderbean ‘world headquarters’ moving out of the basement here and into an actual office, I’m finding time to work a little more on the titles for this year. As…
Soyuzmultfilm: The Fun Years
Those of us who are Baby Boomers are possibly acquainted with Russian animation without knowing it. Those elaborate, sober, drowsy cartoons with stereotyped casts of sly wolves and foxes, vulnerable…
Live-Action “Peanuts” on Records
“The spin is in” for a lesser-known 1973 TV cast album based on an even lesser known NBC TV presentation of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. YOU’RE A GOOD…
Paramount Sales News #36: Fleischer’s “Raggedy Ann”
March-April 1941 Not much to boast this week. The misfires were unfortunately becoming prevalent in the Popeye series. Flies Ain’t Human (released on April 4th) set a standard for appropriating…
French Animated Features – Part 13: 2011
The lucky thirteenth installment of my survey of French animated features is here – with a look at the features released in 2011 and films by such diverse artists as…
