Animation Anecdotes #109
Two Thumbs Up. In the Disney animated feature, “Aladdin” (1992), when Aladdin pushes through the crowd to see Prince Achmed, he stands between caricatures of producers-directors Ron Clements and John…
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Animation Anecdotes #108
A Real Pussycat. The 1970 Hanna-Barbera television series “Josie and the Pussycats” about an all-girl pop music band was the result of the success of Filmation’s “The Archie Show” and…
Animation Anecdotes #107
The Superchicken That Never Was. There were actually two pilots made for the Jay Ward cult classic, “Superchicken”, but neither were ever shown to the general public. In the first…
Animation Anecdotes #106
Merchandising Mishap. Charles Schulz was involved with most of the Peanuts merchandising connected to the animated specials, but not all of it was successful. Schulz once said, “Our most disastrous…
Animation Anecdotes #105
No Starch. Pat Sullivan, the producer of the silent Felix the Cat cartoons, would make only infrequent visits to his cartoon studio. However, when he did decide to put in…
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…
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…
