Animation Anecdotes Redux
Today to celebrate installment #400 of Suspended Animation, I am returning to my original format of random anecdotes.
Category Archives: ANIMATION ANECDOTES
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Bluth’s “All Dogs Go to Heaven”
It was the first animated feature made with Don Bluth in sole control without input from Amblin since The Secret of NIMH over seven years earlier.
The Birth of Hanna-Barbera’s “Smurfs”
Producer Joe Barbera said in 1982, “Even though they’re a happy little group of Smurfs, they have problems too.”
Remembering Don Morgan
Walt Kelly had liked animation artist Don Morgan, and handpicked the artist to ghost the Pogo strip.
Princess Kidagakash Nedakh
One of the most prominently missing princesses appeared in a Disney animated feature that the Walt Disney Company would care to forget.
Heckle and Jeckle Tales
From theatrical shorts from 20th Century Fox, to the Filmation Saturday Morning series – then thrown to the curbside by Paramount – an overview of those two talking magpies.
In His Own Words: Chuck Jones on Music in Animation
Many of Jones’ best cartoons rely on music for their impact, so it is no surprise he had some opinions on the topic of music in animation even back in 1946.
Warner Bros. Gremlins
The Disney studio’s plans for a Gremlin’s feature was thwarted by… Gremlins?
In Her Own Words: Margaret Kerry of “Peter Pan” Mermaids
The actresses who provided the voices and the live action reference were Margaret Kerry (redhead), Connie Hilton (blonde) and June Foray (brunette).
In Her Own Words: Illene Woods on “Cinderella”
By the age of eleven, she was using the name Illene Woods and had her own program on a local radio station in 1941.
