Michael Sporn Remembered: His Interview With Jack Mercer
I was shocked to hear of Mike Sporn’s passing on Sunday. He has left us much too soon, but not without making an amazing mark in the history of animation….
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“PM Picnic” (1948)
“PM is pleasing millions with it’s clear, clean taste.” I had a post a while back that was about Alcohol in cartoons- I should have included this back then, but…
A Visit to “Scrappy’s Art Gallery” (1934)
I hope that sooner-than-later the Scrappy cartoons are released on DVD or BluRay. They remain some of the hardest of series to see, along with the Krazy Kat’s produced by…
Cartoons Of Christmas Past
Today: The last vestige of Christmas Cartoons before putting them away for the year. Many years back, the landlord for the house we were renting stopped over just a week…
Mid Century Modern, Volume 2: “Look Who’s Driving”
Somehow a majority of the projects from this year seem to be wrapping up at the same time. On the new titles news, the Gulliver’s Travels BluRay is off to…
A Kolortone Cartoon: “An Egyptian Gyp”
A short blog post this week, but I’ll make up for it with next week’s entry – really! These last handful of months have been easily the busiest days I’ve…
Ub Iwerks in the 1930s
Another busy week here at Thunderbean. A final master for two titles went out today, with another in the coming week. All told four titles are in the process of…
A Thunderbean Thanksgiving
Welcome to a Thunderbean Thanksgiving Thursday: Where today we are being thankful for animation, and all the supporters of this odd-love of ours. I hope you are enjoying Thanksgiving day,…
Comparison Study: “Toy Time” and “Silvery Moon”
It’s been a bonus features sort of week here, working nearly around the clock. As I’m gathering and compiling materials for bonus features on some of the new DVDs, I…
The Genius of Les Elton
It’s a short one today folks… I’m over at Jerry Beck’s house, here in California for the CTN Expo with some of the animation students from the school I teach…
