Another edition of Fleischer’s Animated News, the Paramount cartoon studio in-house newsletter from 1935 (click thumbnails below to enlarge). This time, a new editor and an issue highlighting a wedding of one of the staff. This issue features some great gag cartoons and a profile of pioneering female animator Lillian Freidman. This wedding may have inspired the 1937 Color Classic Bunny Mooning. For fun, I’ve embed it below.
Jerry Beck is a writer, animation producer, college professor and author of more than 15 books on animation history. He is a former studio exec with Nickelodeon Movies and Disney, and has written for The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. He has curated cartoons for DVD and blu-ray compilations and has lent his expertise to dozens of bonus documentaries and audio commentaries on such. Beck is currently on the faculty of Cal Arts in Valencia, UCLA in Westwood and Woodbury University in Burbank – teaching animation history. More about Jerry Beck [Click Here]
I love the little nuggets found in these Fleischer’s Animated News postings, Jerry! As a comic book guy, I especially get a kick out of seeing the work of future comic pros such as Harry Lampert, John Stanley and even Hal Seegar (he a brief foray into comics). I keep hoping one of these will mention either Bob Kahn (aka Kane) or Jacob Kurtzberg (aka Jack Kirby). Both had a short stint with Fleischer, circa 1934-35, so they may have been too soon for these house organs, but I’m enjoy reading them just the same! Keep ’em coming!