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…
I think we’re in pretty good times for old Fleischer animation, or, at least, better than in many years. I think it’s safe to say that any fan of 1930’s…
Many years back, I was at a film show hunting through a milk crate full of 16mm prints. Film shows used to work like this – similar to a garage…
Here’s a simple entry for this week- a Porky Pig cartoon, directed by Bob Clampett.. and Chuck Jones as the listed animator (of course other animators were on the picture…
Winston Sharples wrote some of the best scores of the 1930’s for the Van Beuren Rainbow Parade cartoons. They had an interesting cartoon-related after life beyond the actual films they…
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…
