RADIO ROUND-UP: Bert Gordon: The Mad Russian
How do you do-o-o-o? The final installment of this month’s Radio Round-Up profiles Bert Gordon’s radio career, and the influence of his character “The Mad Russian”…
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Animation Anecdotes #338
“Yes, it’s gross,” said John Kricfalusi. “But cartoons don’t have to be good for you. Give kids a break. There’s nothing in there that’s going to get you in jail or anything.”
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre’s Animated Appearances
The focus of this article is to explore the Chinese Theater’s various appearances in golden age cartoons – and a full, unofficial history of the venue.
Animation Anecdotes #318
Jean Vander Pyl remembers The Flinstones audition.” Joe asked, ‘Who wants to be Wilma and who wants to be Betty?’ it was so informal in those days.”
The Second Annual Golden Awards Banquet, March 1, 1985: The Video, Part 2
Today we present the roll-call of the honorees, which were mostly presented in alphabetic order. As before, I have prepared some thumbnail bios of each.
Animation Anecdotes #296
Reason and Emotion (1943) was a wartime short made by the Disney, depicting emotions as cartoon personas. The character of Emotion was modeled after animator Ward Kimball.
Robert McKimson’s “Daffy Doodles” (1946)
“Science is some folks’ calling Others pilot a ship My mission in life stated simply is… A mustache on every lip!” Since this cartoon was his directorial debut, this column…
Animation Anecdotes #230
Among today’s anecdotes: Lou Scheimer of Filmation Studios talking about runaway production, Peter Chung on “Reign”, and whatever happened to Disney’s “Secret Lab”?
Famous Studios 1953-54
In 1953, Famous Studios was contracted to provide a 3D Popeye short and a 3D Casper cartoon during this season’s output. The final results found Famous superior to the other studios (including Disney) in creating dimensional cartoons.
Animation Anecdotes #218
Dave Fleischer On Screen. In the low budget Republic live action movie Trocadero (1944), actor Eddie Bartell introduces several minor celebrities in the audience at that famous nightclub including “The…
