Jim Korkis on Bob Clampett’s “Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs” (1943)
Bob Clampett was responsible for a still-controversial cartoon short, a scathing parody of Disney’s Snow White – with black caricatures.
Category Archives: ANIMATION ANECDOTES
Animation Anecdotes #314
“I was hired by Screen Gems in late 1936 and stayed until late 1937,” said veteran animator John Walworth. “By that time I had become an assistant animator.”
Animation Anecdotes #313
With a team of six researchers, Tom Barreca located every warehouse where Hanna-Barbera material was stored and began opening up dust-covered canisters.
Animation Anecdotes #312
The lady of the house in the classic MGM Tom & Jerry cartoons — did you ever want to see her face? Well now you can!
Animation Anecdotes #311
Rapper Ice-T told SPY magazine in 1994 that as a kid, “I watched cartoons like Winky Dink. Winky Dink, man! Winky Dink was some O.G. (Original Gangster).”
In His Own Words: Ken O’Connor
From a lecture by Ken O’Connor presented at the Chouinard Art School on December 4, 1959 about his work on Fantasia.
Animation Anecdotes #310
Chuck Jones told the Union newsletter in 1976: “I suppose you could call it retroactive plagiarism, because we stole Izzie Klein’s idea of a little boy ghost ten years before he created Casper.”
Animation Anecdotes #309
Bill Clinton told Time Magazine in 1993, “I’m a lot like Baby Huey. I’m fat. I’m ugly. But if you push me down, I keep coming back. I just keep coming back.”
Animation Anecdotes #308
“His almost limitless ability to understand the essence of a character and to invest himself into its being is what made him so consummate an artist,” said Chuck Jones of Mel Blanc.
Animation Anecdotes #307
The president of Tezuka Productions in Tokyo took note of some apparent similarities between Disney’s The Lion King (1994) and Osamu Tezuka’s TV series Kimba, The White Lion (1965).
