From the Files of Walter Lantz…
I thought it might be a good day to spend time rummaging through my Walter Lantz files. Here’s a potpourri of visual materials submitted for your approval – and for future reference.
I thought it might be a good day to spend time rummaging through my Walter Lantz files. Here’s a potpourri of visual materials submitted for your approval – and for future reference.
For our final post of the year – a look at the animated Columbia logo art the start of Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse.
My unabashed rave review for the new mega-book devoted to Mickey Mouse, a feast for the eyes – but more importantly, a major reference work.
Issue #19 of The Exposure Sheet is the final one of the year. Bios include animator Vive Risto, inbetweener Murray Hudson, and painters Eleanor Minett and Mildred O’Blenis.
This week we see brief bios for animators Rudy Larriva, Lloyd Vaughn, Warren Batchelder and Keith Darling – and opinions on Inki from historian William K. Everson in 1963!
Late August through mid-September 1939 at the Leon Schlesinger studio as production on The Mighty Hunters (aka Canyon Kiddies) has the studio excited.
We continue our close look at Leon Schlesinger Productions, circa mid-March/early April 1939, with the fifth and sixth issue of their in-house newsletter, The Exposure Sheet.
Once again we get to hang with the gang at Termite Terrace – through the pages of their zany in-house newsletter, The Exposure Sheet.
One of the animated sequences in a live action film I really like is the ‘Walrus and the Carpenter’ scene from the bizarre 1933 Paramount Alice in Wonderland.
For some of you this is a ‘double-dip’, a reprint – but I’m going to post all 40 issues of Warner Bros. Cartoons 1939-1940 in-house newsletter – two issues each week.