The Animated Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs himself suggested a cartoon series featuring Tarzan – but it would take 40 years and Filmation Studios to make it happen.
Category Archives: ANIMATION ANECDOTES
Thoughts on Mary Blair
What is there left to say about Mary Blair? The answer: there are always some nooks and crannies yet to be explored.
In Her Own Words: Joyce Carlson on Disney Ink and Paint
Joyce Carlson joined the Walt Disney Studios in 1944 as a “traffic girl” and ended the century at Imagineering in Florida – which is where I met her and interviewed her.
Who were Dick Shaw and Brice Mack?
Dick Shaw and Brice Mack who were accomplished cartoonists, good friends and worked during the Golden Age of Disney Animation.
In Their Own Words: The Directors of “Brother Bear”
In 2003 I spoke with the directors about their work on one of the last of the hand-drawn Disney animated films.
In His Own Words: Walt Disney on the Package Features
Here is an essay from a British annual, Film Review, on Walt’s thoughts about Melody Time and his compilation films.
What’s The Story Behind This Picture?
In the office of Leon Schlesinger, hung a huge oil painting of Bugs Bunny — a Christmas present from the employees of the Schlesinger Studio.
The Disney Package Features
A.K.A The “compilation features”, the “anthology features”, or “omnibus features”. Here’s the story.
Chuck Jones at Disney
When Warners briefly shut down its animation studio in 1953, director Chuck Jones took off to work at the Disney Studios
Al Kilgore’s “Bullwinkle” and Other Cartoons
A special little tribute to a great cartoonist who drew some of our favorite animated characters – far from the animation studios that produced them.
