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….
Category Archives: THUNDERBEAN THURSDAY
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…
What is “A Fabletoon”?
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…
Fleischer Fun, Part 2: “Gulliver’s Travels” and “Modeling” Restored!
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…
Fleischer Fun, part 1: ‘Singin’ like the Birdies Sing’
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…
The Gingerbread Castle
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…
What Ever Happened To Gabby Goat?
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…
“Along Came A Duck” (Music Track Only)
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” (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…
