Animation Anecdotes #104
Fritz the Cat Problems. Back in 1971, Ralph Bakshi was having trouble with some of the animators working on the X-rated Fritz the Cat animated feature. Bakshi said the people…
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Animation Anecdotes #103
Jay Ward’s Wonderful World of Color. At the beginning of NBC’s prime time “The Bullwinkle Show”, the show’s early episodes began with a Bullwinkle hand puppet (voiced by Bill Scott)…
Animation Anecdotes #102
That’s the Woodpecker Song. The Woody Woodpecker Song was recorded by Kay Kyser in 1947 and it was an immediate hit. Recorded at 11:50 pm on December 31st to avoid…
Whatever Happened to the Calvin and Hobbes Animated Movie?
“It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!” were the very last words in the 3,150th and final Calvin and Hobbes newspaper strip by Bill Watterson that ran…
Walt Disney’s “The Golden Touch” (1935)
Editor’s Note: I always get a kick out of reading about The Golden Touch, the last cartoon Walt Disney himself personally directed. It was a failure – but it taught…
The Mystery of Goofy’s Duo “Freeway Phobia”
Editor’s Note: I’ve always been intrigued by the twin pair of Goofy traffic safety films released by Disney in 1965. The question is: “Why”? Why two of them? Why released…
Animation Anecdotes #101
Editor’s Note: Animation Historian Jim Korkis began writing columns of animation anecdotes in the Spring 1977 issue of Mindrot (issue #6) published by David Mruz. Jim went on to write…
