The Skeleton Dance
Almost every Halloween, the Walt Disney Company seems to showcase one of its earliest black-and-white cartoons, the very first Silly Symphony.
Category Archives: ANIMATION ANECDOTES
Mickey Mouse in “Runaway Brain” (1995)
The short marked the first appearance on Mickey Mouse on the big screen since the 1990 featurette The Prince and the Pauper.
Disney Studios 1938
Back in the late 1930s, many magazines sent writers to Disney Studios to see what Walt Disney was up to after the success of Snow White.
In His Own Words: Ralph Bakshi on Jim Tyer
In 1994, Bakshi wrote the following about his first encounter with Tyer.
Footrot Flats: The Dog’s (Tail) Tale
Regarded as a New Zealand animated feature film, it was entirely animated in Sydney, Australia by director, Robbert Smit.
Don Bluth’s “Xanadu”
The first work of the newly established Don Bluth Studio that public saw was the two minute musical sequence in the feature film “Xanadu” (1980).
The Animated Fantastic Four
The classic Marvel comic book by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby has had quite a legacy as an animated series throughout the decades.
In His Own Words: Casey Kasem on Shaggy
The voice behind Norville “Shaggy” Rogers on Scooby-Doo Where Are You?
The Bob Clampett Walt Disney Connection Part Two
On the 1962 animated version of Beany and Cecil, Clampett decided to parody the popular “Disneyland” television program in an episode entitled “Beanyland”.
The Bob Clampett / Walt Disney Connection – Part One
Bob Clampett always held Walt Disney in high esteem and used him as a business model in creating his own brand.
