In Her Own Words: Margaret Kerry and Cambria Productions
I got to spend a few hours with Margaret Kerry and I asked her some questions about Cambria Productions, which produced such unique series as Clutch Cargo and Space Angel.
Category Archives: ANIMATION ANECDOTES
Animation Anecdotes #306
Author and historian Leonard Maltin recalls, “Like most kids, I would scribble in my books – but where it would say ‘The End’, I would take a crayon and write ‘A Walt Disney Production’.”
Animation Anecdotes #305
“(Joe) Oriolo’s role, an important one, was to create the original graphics that accompanied my story,” said story man Seymour Reit. “He did indeed create the first drawings of Casper.”
Animation Anecdotes #304
Ferngully co-producer Wayne Young claimed in an interview that Disney tried to stall and undercut the making of his animated feature film.
Animation Anecdotes #303
Animator Dave Spafford created three versions of Woody Woodpecker – one for each nominee – to announce the winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Cartoon Short.
Those Warner Bros. ‘Gremlin’ Cartoons
Two Warner Bros. animated shorts were already too far into production when Roy Disney made a request to Leon Schlesinger not produce any gremlins shorts.
Animation Anecdotes #302
When voice artist Mel Blanc passed away, Warner Brothers bought trade ads of characters Bugs, Porky and Daffy, their heads bowed near a microphone and the word “Speechless”.
Animation Anecdotes #301
Casper, Richie Rich, Little Audrey and others appeared in the very first giveaway comic book for an airline. Twenty-one issues of Astrocomics were released to passengers from 1968-1979.
Animation Anecdotes #300
For my special 300th column: The Secret Origin of ‘Animation Anecdotes’ – and I tell of a time I was in a Filmation production… and actually got paid for it!
Animation Anecdotes #299
You can’t make this stuff up. In 1987, Filmation was actively promoting a new animated series called “Bravo!” about a group of round and furry characters called The Fuzzy Folks.
