A Happy New Year Salute to the Great Don Messick
From sidekick to superstar, here’s a salute to one of animation’s finest actors with a look at some unusual recordings from his career.
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Happy New Year! Watch a Reel of Mid-Century Modern-ish Commercials with Me!
For the last Thunderbean Thursday of the year: a reel full of local commercials from the 1950s.
Back to School (Part 10)
By now in our study of education in animation, television was firmly entrenched, and could no longer be relegated to the category of a passing fad.
Back to School (Part 9)
This week, we continue in our survey of the 1950’s, beginning with an Academy Award winner and more ventures into stylistic limited animation.
Back to School (Part 6)
This week, a mix of musical styles, celebrity impersonations and cameos, considerably more palatable than Paul Terry’s “Aesop’s sugar coated pills of wisdom”.
Back to School (Part 5)
In the spirit of exploration, higher learning gets turned on its ear with a round of experimental concepts, with unusual and sometimes daring visual modes, bordering on the surreal.
Back to School (Part 4)
The later Thirties bring a few new twists into our cartoon curriculum to the point where, at least for the animated world, “Swing” was added to the class list for any self-respecting toon.
“GUESS WHO??” Voice Artists in the Woody Woodpecker Cartoons
To accompany this important release I would like to provide a guide to the often obscure actors heard as voices in Walter Lantz cartoons represented in this collection.
Hit the Beach (Part 8)
In this installment, we cover the years 1951 through 1953 – another period when suntans seemed more desirable, in spite of dermatologists’ advice.
Hit the Beach (Part 6)
In the late 1940s, with sea lanes clearing, attention seems to shift in the animation industry to the leisure voyage, and to destinations of palm-fringed shores.
