Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1955
If you weren’t Famous Studios or (surprise!) UPA you were not nominated this year. Everyone else: Nominated!
Category Archives: Animation History
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1954
Once again an overload of Paramount submissions, two really good Warner Bros. cartoons, a visually spectacular Donald Duck and an independent film from John Wilson.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1953
We continue our research into what cartoons were submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration – but failed to make the cut.
A “Tom & Jerry” Storybook (1949)
This little storybook from 1949 gives us not only some nice color and black and white illustrations, but a storyline based loosely on two theatrical cartoons.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1952
Imagine you are attending the preliminary screenings for the 1952 cartoon short Oscar nominations – watching everything from Little Audrey to Norman McLaren.
Network Status Reports 1956-1964
These internal memos – I believe from the files of CBS – I post for no other reason than they’re just a few more pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of animation history.
The Ray Abrams Archives – Part 3: Cowboys, Co-Workers and Polo Ponies
Some more momentos from the archives of veteran Lantz/MGM animator Ray Abrams. This time a few items that reflect his personal interests – and his art.
The Ray Abrams Archives – Part 2: Envelope Art
Continuing our deep dive through a treasure trove of mementos from veteran animator Ray Abrams (Lantz, MGM, Avery, H-B) courtesy of his son William Abrams.
The Ray Abrams Archives – Part 1
The son of Lantz animator Ray Abrams has a whole cache of material that his dad saved – staff photos, gag drawings, personal sketches – and he’s graciously sharing them with us.
The Animated Studio of America: The Rise and Fall of Vincent Whitman
A story about three con artists, one of which was a very early animation pioneer, who duped the wealthy into investing in an animation studio that was planning on dominating American animation production.
