A Revolutionary Article (Part 1)
Starting this week, a stroll down memory lane to witness how past generations remembered our nation’s founding fathers.
Starting this week, a stroll down memory lane to witness how past generations remembered our nation’s founding fathers.
Robert McKimson remains one of the most underappreciated directors in animation history.
Into the last throes of theatrical animation hops our six-legged friend and the subject of this series: the cartoon flea.
The remainder of the 1939-40 Merrie Melodies include titles that crystalize the personalities of two of Warner’s top characters.
With character design running the gamut from mere black dots to miniature sensual humanized chorus girls, we continue our weekly survey of toons focusing on the common flea.
I bet you’ve just been itching for more coverage of the checkered career of the common flea in animated film. Well, you can quit kicking – here it is!
After animator Irv Spence finished his gangster spoof “Rats in Spats”, he embarked of a more elaborate color production, again using the animators at MGM for his cast.
Origin stories are a dime a dozen for superheroes. Having multiple such tales for a barnyard fowl is a bit rarer. This post, as Rod Serling might say, is submitted for your approval…
Into the late 1940’s, with another springtime holiday for eggs on the plate. It’s high time all of Hollywood’s chickens and bunnies took some tips on the subject from the greatest “Wabbit” of them all.
We continue with the first of many extended seasons of Merrie Melodies to come. The Warner animators were not only creative, but prolific in output – a profitable combination of character traits, to say the least.