Your Favorite Long Lost Original Title Cards
Original opening titles, some which seemed impossible to see for decades, keep showing up on a pretty regular basis.
Party Animals – and Other Species (Part 3): Paramount’s “Party Dolls”
Boop, Lulu and “Lou”… A celebration of the irrepressible Fleischer/Famous party girls.
Celebrating the 111th Birthday of “Mercer, the Popeye Man”
Within a few years of his January 1910 birth, artist/writer and “primo Popeye” voice actor Jack Mercer started his entertainment legacy. Let’s look at a few vintage Mercer grooves.
What’s The Story Behind the Picture?
One of the things I find most enjoyable about this site is the many illustrations that I have never seen before that accompany the articles.
The Original Animation Anecdotes
To celebrate my 300th installment of Suspended Animation, I am briefly returning to my original format.
Happy New Year To All: “Let’s Celebrake!”
I think this should be required cartoon viewing on New Years Eve. Here it is again in a print you may not have seen before!
Party Animals – and Other Species (Part 2)
Celebrate the New Year with these cartoon revelers!
1949-51: Another Decade, Still Looney
By the early 1950’s the need to plug Warner songs wasn’t as drastic as in the past.
New “Cartoon Roots”, Old Otto Messmer Rarities
The new Cartoon Roots: Feline Follies chronicles some of Messmer’s early animation work from the late 1910s and through some of 1923.
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 CalArts in Valencia, UCLA in Westwood and Woodbury University in Burbank – teaching animation history. More about Jerry Beck [Click Here]
