Ted Eshbaugh’s “Cap’n Cub” (1945) – and ‘Momotaro’s Sea Eagles’ (1943)
A pair of World War II era aviation animation classics – one from the US with a high flying bear cub, the other from Japan with a patriotic monkey pilot.
Category Archives: THUNDERBEAN THURSDAY
Putting Together a Show of Classic Animation
What kind of cartoon show would you put together? And what cartoons would you never show? Here’s my list.
Scrappy in “Minding the Baby” (1931)
At the risk of this seeming like ‘Scrappy Thursday’, here’s another Columbia this week, and an interesting and really fun one.
A Puppetoon Break: “Aladdin and The Magic Lamp” (1936)
This is a great example of how loose, fun and well-posed the Puppetoon animation had progressed into by the late 30s.
“Let’s Go!” (1937)
Thunderbean News: Im sitting here, after a whole day of attempting to sit here, evaluating cleanups on Flip the Frog cartoons. On my mind are the many, many fixes. The…
A Foray into Foray – and “Scrappy’s Expedition” (1934)
Scrappy’s Expedition was one of the first Scrappy’s I ever saw – though many of the Hollywood caricatures are unrecognizable to young people these days.
“Raggedy Ann and Andy” at BAM – and The Ongoing Hunt for Original Titles
Happy late July folks. It’s Thunderbean Thursday on a Friday this week, due to the loss of June Foray. I want to thank Jim Korkis for trading places with me…
Scrappy in “The Battle of the Barn” (1932)
Love this cartoon – and from a technical standpoint, is full of well staged shots, including some really fun moving backgrounds.
Why Restore? Why Even Save Any of This?
I wanted to talk a little bit this week about film restoration relating to this exact moment in time and history. What to preserve, why these ones first, and what is the best way to do it?
