Lost Early Anime: “Three Tales” (1960)
Today we look at “Three Tales”, a 30-minute anthology special from 1960 – long thought to be the first anime made for television – a fascinating use of limited animation and stylized graphics.
Today we look at “Three Tales”, a 30-minute anthology special from 1960 – long thought to be the first anime made for television – a fascinating use of limited animation and stylized graphics.
One of those shows you didn’t know existed. “Denka” was the last of the 1960s Fujiko Fujio series, and it was the least successful of them all. Here’s what it was all about.
Here’s another post covering those wacky Japanese animated commercials. So innocent, so cute, so bizarre!
Today we take another look at several more wacky and stylish (and in one case, politically incorrect) Japanese anime commercials!
In 1980, CBS aired a one-hour special called “The Fantastic Funnies”, produced by Lee Mendelson in association with the National Cartoonists Society. Over a dozen cartoonists were interviewed, talking about their work.
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There’s one thing that’s always there in most TV shows, the theme song. They’re there to get us hyped for the show, setting the mood for what’s about to come….
People involved in film preservation can attest to the challenges of finding missing films. Maybe the original masters were thrown out, maybe it got destroyed in a fire, or maybe…
Before I begin, I need to clarify that there are actually several episodes of the original 1960s Astro Boy that were considered missing. Of the 193 episodes made, episodes 34,…
I tackled this anime briefly in my very first post for Cartoon Research, but I felt it warranted a whole post. Chingo Muchabei has an interesting history in spite of…