Alexeieff and Parker’s Night on Bald Mountain (1933) remains one of the most unusual and unique looking animated films ever created. While visualizations of music have always been a popular…
I’ll be brief this week, folks – it’s super busy here, working around the clock to finish up the cartoon film shows for the Detroit Institute of Arts that coincide…
“Are you a REAL Driver?” You have to give Metropolitan life insurance some credit for trying. In 1936, they hired Audio Productions to make an animated film on driver safety,…
In honor of the opening of Watch Me Move, an exhibit celebrating animated films that starts today at the Detroit Institute of Arts, here is How Animated Cartoons are Made,…
There sure are a lot of drunk characters in old cartoons…. Drunkeness seems to be one of the most popular of themes in Golden Age Animation. I never really understood…
Just a short one today….. Scrappy is my favorite character. Maybe it’s because he often spends most of his own cartoons in a less than happy state, rarely finding solace….
Bill Nolan is one of the truly unsung heros of cartoons and character animation, and likely the most influential animator through the 20’s in terms of character animation and design/…
This was one of my favorite things when I was a kid – Red Raven ‘Movie’ Records! These worked sort of like a zoetrope, with a continuous animated movie drawn…
It’s been more than a busy week here and continues to be, but a cartoon showing is still in order! When I was first collecting cartoons, I found this film…
Out Of The Inkwell: “Modeling” Here is the Fleischer cartoon Modeling from 1921. It’s fairly early in the Fleischer Brother’s productions, and features some great early Stop Motion animation as…
