Kitty Cornered: The 75th Anniversary of “Bad Luck Blackie”
While Tex Avery had a number of cartoon masterpieces, this film stands out as a wonderful example of the director’s exaggerated imagination and genius.
While Tex Avery had a number of cartoon masterpieces, this film stands out as a wonderful example of the director’s exaggerated imagination and genius.
As Mr. Peebles is still unable to sell Magilla, even after several markdowns, the primate winds up celebrating a major anniversary.
Here we are again: January, the start of a new year. The perfect time to consider beginnings, starts, and firsts.
The film first surfaced as a project at Disney in 1939, when the Studio first purchased rights to the T.H. White’s books.
The animated featurette was made at a challenging time for the Walt Disney Studios – when they needed a hit.
Here are some additional seasonal offerings from television’s past, suggested by “Cartoon Research” readers.
Walter Matthau was such perfect casting for Ebeneezer Scrooge.
Directed by Jack Hannah, who helmed a number of the studio’s classic shorts and had a talent for leading artists to realize character and story.
Many were caught off guard by this choice of subject matter for DreamWorks’ first traditionally animated feature film.
In the twenty-five years since its release, this film has been somewhat overshadowed by the Pixar blockbuster films that followed.