“The Three Caballeros” (In Featurette Form)
Walt Disney’s The Three Caballeros (1945) is one of my favorite Disney features – mainly because it’s the least “Disney” animated feature Disney ever made. It’s an “anti-Disney” Disney film,…
Category Archives: Animation History
The MGM Cartoon Department (1956): The Home Addresses
Here’s an interesting curio from my files, accumulated years ago from somewhere. It’s an in-house list of addresses for the staff of the MGM Cartoon Department, circa 1956 (click thumbnails…
The “White” Oswald Rabbit
Today, a small tribute to the white version of Oswald Rabbit… The middle Lantz lucky rabbit, who failed to impress in approximately 33 cartoons produced between 1935 (first appearing in…
Who Is Harry Welch – and Was He Ever The Voice of Popeye?
Cartoon Researcher Shaun Clancy sent in these scans (below, click thumbnails to read) from a Popular Science article from March 1941, about a fellow named Harry Welch (aka Harry Foster…
Animation Auction Alert!
Opening this month at the Van Eaton Galleries in Sherman Oaks, California, is a preview showing of original animation art being offered in an incredible auction by Profiles in History….
Fleischer Christmas Party Photo 1936
Pardon me if this image (above) has been posted before and identified… I can’t recall if it has. I just received a large jpeg of this incredible photo – too…
Let’s Sing Along With Oswald!
This 9×12″ 12-page Oswald book from 1930 comes to us from super-collector Martin Almeyra. This particular copy was signed by Walter Lantz, who dedicated the book to “Mary” who, Almeyra…
“The Enemy Bacteria” (1945)
Walter Lantz made many commercial, industrial and educational films beyond his yearly output of theatrical entertainment cartoons. One of the weirdest – and best – is The Enemy Bacteria, produced…
Paramount Cartoon Posters
Ahh… the Paramount cartoons of the 1940s. Today, a gallery of Famous Studios in its glory, with Popeye, Little Lulu, Screen Songs and the Noveltoons. Supplemented by George Pal’s stop-motion…
More Walter Lantz Photo Backgrounds
Once again collector Martin Almeyra has shared with us a bunch of the original photographic backgrounds from Walter Lantz Dinky Doodle or Hot Dog cartoons. This batch is unidentified as…
