Max Fleischer’s “Modeling” (1921)
This heavily Amber-tinted print is now nearly 100 years old, but Max Fleischer and a young Roland (Doc) Crandall are still very much alive on these frames.
Category Archives: THUNDERBEAN THURSDAY
“The Magic Slipper” (1948)
Some good, pure cartoon escapism is on the plate for this week’s cartoon – take a little break and enjoy a Terrytoon in HD, from a rare, spliceless Kodachrome! print.
Cartoons For The Confined
This week I’m putting together some thematic cartoon play-lists for the coming weeks as we all hunker down. Here’s a few ideas for mine – including a beautiful new transfer of UPA’s Rooty Toot Toot.
Thunderbean Travels – and an RKO Newsreel Featuring ‘Snow White’ (1938)
Here’s an RKO Newsreel from 1938, the second half of which features behind the scenes footage of the Disney Studio producing several shorts and Snow White.
Thunderbeaning – and ‘The Popeye Club’
TV was once filled with cartoon hosts like Captain Don, Skipper Tom and Cousin Cliff. Did you have a favorite TV Cartoon host?
Van Beuren’s “Tom and Jerry” Blu-ray, part 1: Gathering Materials.
Here’s a pretty good breakdown, in chronological order, of where we’re at on the Van Beuren Tom and Jerry cartoons at this time.
Cinderella and Jiminy Cricket “Nash Spots”
Produced at Disney by Hurrell and Bounds (as independent producers utilizing Disney’s production staff), the Cinderella and Jimmy Cricket commercials are two of my favorites.
Mutt and Jeff in “Playing with Fire” (1926)
Here’s an interesting cartoon to chat about. It’s an enjoyable little romp – and it stars Mutt and Jeff.
Kinex in HD: “The Land of Wiz” and “The Land of the Wooden Soldiers”
Two of the five Kinex shorts I scanned today were tied together story-wise, so I thought it might be fun to post the raw scans for you, fresh from the telecine bakery!
“Lesser-Known” Films You Might Have Missed
The joy of discovering something I haven’t seen – I never seem to lose it. This week I post a few films YOU might not have seen.
