The Case of The Missing Cartoon: “Spree For All” (1946)
Not every Hollywood animated cartoon produced in the 20th Century still exists. Sure, every episode of Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero is accounted for, but a large amount of silent…
Category Archives: Animation History
Cartoon Music Cue Sheets
Cue Sheets are legally obligated paperwork that started at the dawn of sound motion pictures – and are still required for all motion pictures and television shows still today. This…
Theatrical Cartoons 1957-58
We continue our survey of theatrical shorts with these pages from the October 12th 1957 issue of Boxoffice Magazine. Theatrical cartoons were far from dead in 1957 – but they…
Calvin and The Colonel (1961)
Calvin and The Colonel was one of ABC’s animated prime time follow-ups to the phenomenal success of The Flintstones. Unfortunately, the show not only bombed – but it has essentially…
Fleischer’s “Stone Age” Cartoons
With Dreamworks’ The Croods topping the box office, I thought it would be appropriate to take a look back at the original “modern stone-age” cartoons. No, not The Flintstones. Twenty…
The Marvel Super-Hero Cartoons (1966)
I was the perfect age to soak in the super-hero craze of the 1960s. We all knew way back when how cheap these Grantray-Lawrence Marvel Super Heroes cartoons were –…
The Bob Clampett Coloring Book
Get out your crayons! Today, courtesy of Aaron Higgins, who through his Retro Reprints archive of classic coloring books, is allowing me to share selected pages from this jaw-dropping 1963…
Theatrical Cartoons 1961-62
My recent reprinting of Boxoffice Magazine’s annual short subject issue for 1964-65 proved so popular, I think I’ll feature these on a semi-regular basis. This week I’ve decided to take…
Walter Lantz Thru United Artists
When Walter Lantz met with Universal in 1947, to renegotiate his contract, the studio played hard ball. It wanted to completely own all of the Lantz cartoons in perpetuity. But…
A Terrytoons Poster Gallery
To paraphrase former President Ronald Reagan, the six most terrifying words in the English language are: “This Theatre Regularly Shows Terrytoons Cartoons!” – or language to that effect. Let’s be…
