Thoughts on Running a Tech Print of “Pinocchio”
The relentlessness of time on old media.
Category Archives: THUNDERBEAN THURSDAY
Wartime Cartoons – What Are Your Favorites?
What’s your favorite – or best – WW2 short? Plus Thunderbean Rambles and some progress on the ‘Cartoons for Victory’ Blu-ray!
Van Beuren Aesop’s Fables “Fairyland Follies” (1931)
The film’s loose plot and ever looser animation revolve around a school of nursery rhyme characters singing and dancing. That’s really it.
Why do all those prints of (X) look that that?!!?! PART 2!
Before taking about some of the other studios, it makes some sense to talk about Eastman color and some of the reasons there’s so many ‘red’ prints.
Why do all those prints of (X) look that that?!!?!?
Some cartoonal film knowledge on what why see the versions of classic cartoons we see, part 1!!
Van Beuren’s “A Cat-Fish Romance” (1932)
Sometimes nothing better than an old PRC film or a good Pre-code Warners, but I’ll take a Van Beuren cartoon if there’s one laying around… and this one was lying around…
Flying Monkeys! Terrytoons gives us some “Raspberries” (1931)
Like many of the Terrytoons of this period, it works hard to have you laugh at every shot of the film – either with action or just the bizarre funny drawings.
Merrie Melodies: “I Like Mountain Music” (1933)
I think this is the first of the many ‘Magazine covers come-to-life’ pictures through the 30s.
Thunderbean Preview
The summer is here and it’s Thunderbean time!
“Flea for Two” (1955)- in IB Technicolor!
I’m a huge fan of the 50s Don Patterson pictures at Lantz. They are funny, corny, and are completely unpretentious in design.
