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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TV was once filled with cartoon hosts like Captain Don, Skipper Tom and Cousin Cliff. Did you have a favorite TV Cartoon host?
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.
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.
Here’s an interesting cartoon to chat about. It’s an enjoyable little romp – and it stars Mutt and Jeff.
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!
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.