Work-In-Progress: Restoring Eshbaugh Films in Color
These have been busy weeks at Thunderbean. There are four dvd or BluRay sets wrapping up at close to the same time – One finished entirely now, The Fleischer Classics…
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Halloween!! How about a few Midnight Frolics?
I’m a big fan of the Columbia Rhapsodies produced by the UB Iwerks Studio. They are odd films, but then again, so many of the cartoons Columbia produced were odd….
A Spooky Thunderbean Thursday: “Night on Bald Mountain” (1933)
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…
“Rhapsody Of Steel” (with Time Code!)
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…
“Once Upon A Time” (1936)
“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,…
“How Animated Cartoons are Made” (1919)
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,…
Thunderbean Thursday: Hitting the Sauce
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…
Scrappy’s Art Gallery, Duracolor and Ted Eshbaugh’s Scrappy?
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….
A Lantz comparison: ‘My Pal Paul’ and ‘Hot and Cold’
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/…
Red Raven Records and Creepy “Teddy Bear” Themes
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…
