The Exposure Sheet #19 & #20
Issue #19 of The Exposure Sheet is the final one of the year. Bios include animator Vive Risto, inbetweener Murray Hudson, and painters Eleanor Minett and Mildred O’Blenis.
A Hit Is A Wish the Chart Makes
Tin Pan Alley–the establishment of the music industry at the time of Disney’s Cinderella–gave some of the songs from the score short shrift.
Kem Weber and the Streamline Moderne influence at the Disney Studios in 1939
To understand why the Disney animation furniture is so revered, one has to look at Kem Weber’s earlier career and the design movements that influenced him.
Animation Anecdotes #388
“I appreciate the compliment of being called the ‘creator’ of Bugs Bunny but Bugs had many fathers. My co-sires: Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett and Bob McKimson.”
“Hallowe’en” (1931) with Toby the Pup!
The Toby the Pup cartoons have been high on my list of wants ever since I saw an article by Jerry Beck in Movie Collector’s World (back in 1981!)
The Other Disney Cartoons: “Minnie’s Yoo Hoo”
Composed by Carl Stalling for the 1929 short Mickey’s Follies – “Minnie’s Yoo Hoo” was the Disney studio’s first original song.
Walt Disney’s “Melody” and “Toot, Whistle, Plunk & Boom” on Records
The two-film “cartoon modern” series, sporting projection innovations of their day, were united on one Disneyland album as well as scattered among various individual releases.
The Exposure Sheet #17 & #18
This week we see brief bios for animators Rudy Larriva, Lloyd Vaughn, Warren Batchelder and Keith Darling – and opinions on Inki from historian William K. Everson in 1963!
If The Slipper Fits…
Five new songs wound up in Disney’s Cinderella. Of the five, one was virtually ignored by Tin Pan Alley. Two others received decidedly short shrift.
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]
