“Mendelssohn’s Spring Song” (1931)
Mendelssohn’s Spring Song on a hot summer day! Here is a brief introduction to a short that really deserves a longer one. I first saw this film in a black…
Mendelssohn’s Spring Song on a hot summer day! Here is a brief introduction to a short that really deserves a longer one. I first saw this film in a black…
Here is See How They Won from 1935: Boots Chemists (the Boots Drug company), was a popular chain drug store in Britain, sort of a CVS or Walgreens of the…
Since it’s the 4th of July, it seems like it’s a good time to see a patriotic cartoon..and here’s one that’s usually a little harder to see. There were only…
Since we’re talking about a ‘fair’ in this week’s edition, I think it’s only ‘fair’ to take a moment to talk about the hidden archives of the collector world. We…
I’ve been dying to show these for a few weeks now! There will need to be of course a future article delving much, much deeper into this as a subject…
I’ve been transferring more and more nitrate prints these days. Many of these films have just not been seen since their original theatrical runs- so it’s about time they made…
Steve asked me to “do the honors” this week a select a favorite to highlight from one of his discs. That is a daunting task. But here’s a little film…
A revisit to Cubby Bear! Cubby has been one of my favorite characters for some unknown reason, and this is easily one of my favorite Van Beuren cartoons. I first…
This week’s entry is GI Bill of Rights, originally part of the ‘Few Quick Facts’ series. This is one of two animated shorts/ segments that continued to elude me while…
There can be no better example of what Steve Stanchfield is trying to accomplish with his series of Thunderbean Archive DVDs than this cartoon Cheese Burglar (1946). This public domain…