Animation Anecdotes Redux
Today to celebrate installment #400 of Suspended Animation, I am returning to my original format of random anecdotes.
Today to celebrate installment #400 of Suspended Animation, I am returning to my original format of random anecdotes.
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.
Producer Joe Barbera said in 1982, “Even though they’re a happy little group of Smurfs, they have problems too.”
Walt Kelly had liked animation artist Don Morgan, and handpicked the artist to ghost the Pogo strip.
One of the most prominently missing princesses appeared in a Disney animated feature that the Walt Disney Company would care to forget.
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.
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.
The Disney studio’s plans for a Gremlin’s feature was thwarted by… Gremlins?
The actresses who provided the voices and the live action reference were Margaret Kerry (redhead), Connie Hilton (blonde) and June Foray (brunette).
By the age of eleven, she was using the name Illene Woods and had her own program on a local radio station in 1941.