When we think of Tex Avery’s cartoons, his soundtracks don’t instantly spring to mind. But a careful listen to his soundtracks reveals his painstaking approach to comedy, built frame-by-crazy-frame.
Several new books I think you should know about… for reading over the winter holidays.
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”. If so, Casper, Daffy, the Fox and Crow should be VERY flattered!
Wicke only voiced the villainous Bluto for a few years, from approximately 1935 to 1938, but to highly memorable effect, especially in Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad.
Something was a edited out of this 1947 Popeye cartoon. Do you have a theory on what might have been contained in the cut footage?
In 1938, The National Board of Review magazine published a radio transcript of “an instructional talk” by Fleischer animator Tom Moore and voice/story artist Jack Mercer.
In the 1960s producer Larry Harmon wrote a regular column for The Hollywood Reporter about his thoughts and plans for his animation empire. Here are several of those columns.
This is the second half of a 2-part look at the MGM studio employee newsletter – the columns and photos devoted to the cartoon department.
A selection of in-house studio columns I have from the MGM employee publication, the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studio Club News, 1937-1942.
What’s your favorite Chuck Jones 1960s-era Tom & Jerry cartoon? Today a look back at that era (or error?) of MGM cartoons.
