“Hungarian Goulash” (1930)
Today, from animation archivist Steve Stanchfield’s secret stash, an exclusive rarity. For years, Paul Terry’s Terrytoons have been off the air and unavailable for any to see. For decades before…
Category Archives: Animation History
8mm Looney Tunes
In a quick follow-up to my post on AAP last week, lets take a look how AAP, later United Artists (UA), exploited the pre-1948 Warner Bros. cartoons library to the…
Warner Cartoon Postcards
I got a lot of positive response to my post about The Bugs Bunny Show last week – including this postcard from reader DJ Anderson. The image above is a…
“Planet Patrol” by Grantray Lawrence
Little is known about the pilot Planet Patrol, except that it was produced by Grantray-Lawrence sometime in the late 50s or early 60s. The commercial studio – formed by animators…
Scrooge McDuck And Money (1967)
It may have started with a mouse… but it all ended with Scrooge McDuck and Money. Released roughly three months after Disney’s death, in March 1967, it would in theory…
1940s Columbia Screen Gems Posters
The little studio that couldn’t. Columbia’s poor Screen Gems studio tried its best to compete, but never really came up with a memorable character along the likes of Bugs Bunny,…
WANTED: The Bugs Bunny Show
Yesterday I hosted a Looney Tunes marathon screening (six hours!) in Los Angeles. I devoted one hour of it to running a bunch of ABC’s Bugs Bunny Show (1960) bumpers…
Walt Disney’s Forgotten “Carrot” Characters
Well, ya learn something new everyday… for example, I never knew Disney helped the British Government win the war by promoting carrot recipes in the Yorkshire Post newspapers – until…
An Animators Draft: A Car-Tune Portrait (1937)
Today I am re-posting an original animators draft for the Max Fleischer “Color Classic” cartoon A Car-Tune Portrait (released June 26th, 1937). Drafts for non-Disney cartoons are scarce, but vital…
When A.A.P. became U.A.A.
We all know A.A.P (Associated Artists Productions). For a company that really only existed for two years, it left behind quite a legacy. The company’s name has long been associated…
