Animated Safety Films
This week, I’m taking a serious interest in all of your safety with these films that just happened to be animated. The animation this time, unlike most of what I…
Category Archives: THUNDERBEAN THURSDAY
Recalling An Afternoon With Walter and Gracie Lantz
For this week, I decided to turn my column over my colleague Chris Buchman – whom I wrote about here in May 2014. With Chris, Thunderbean produced and released “A…
Essential Cartoons That Aren’t on Blu-ray
What are your essential films that aren’t available on Blu-ray? In high school, I was a ‘film purest’. That is, I remember arguing with a friend how the merits of…
Cool Stuff From The Thunderbean Vault
That’s right! Cool miscellaneous stuff that will likely never be on any official release from anyone. It’s a post of oddities! I always thought the coolest thing about visitiing any…
More “Willie Whopper” Restorations (and pre-order details!)
I wanted to talk a little bit about the color Whoppers and a few more of the Willies this week, plus offer the ‘Pre-order’ for the set… but first, a…
FIRST LOOK: Willie Whopper Restorations
The summer here is always much anticipated; it’s a time where I’m able to catch up on so many things and commit uninterrupted time to the often interuppted or longer…
Cohl, McCay and Blackton Would Be Proud
Five days ago, Sweden won the top prize in this year’s Eurovision song competition, with Heroes by Måns Zelmerlöw. The Eurovision contest goes on for many days, and if you’re…
Hugh Harman’s “Winky the Watchman” – and How to Do a Great Commentary Track
I really wish Hugh Harman had made a feature film instead of the educational films his studio produced over the years. The production values in their mid-40s productions are quite…
Top Five Worst Of The Worst Cartoons
All cartoons can’t be classics… but the good has to come with the bad – that’s one of the great rules of life. With animation, it’s pretty easy to dismiss…
“Horse Laffs” (1934)
Here’s one of my favorite oddities: Horse Laffs (1934). The end title of this film proclaims you’ve just watched ‘A Daffy Doo-Funny Picture’. It was most likely made by John…
