Max and Dave: Popeye: Into the 1940’s
The Popeye cartoons of the 1940’s are less likely to include quotes from popular songs being published by Famous Music – but they are filled with pop melodies nonetheless
The Popeye cartoons of the 1940’s are less likely to include quotes from popular songs being published by Famous Music – but they are filled with pop melodies nonetheless
If nothing else – It’s been a pretty great year for Fleischer animation.
Today, in somewhat random order we’ll focus on some highlights of early television animation, all dealing with the subject of robots.
Into the 1960s robots remained a popular subject for animation, still thought of as the cutting edge of modern technology.
I’ve read a lot of books this year and haven’t had a moment to post about them. But now the time has come.
There was less pressure from Paramount to include songs from their features in the cartoons, though some would still show up.
It’s time to return to the subject of cartoons featuring robots, and the advances of mechanization into the war years.
Even if her cartoons could be broken down into sub-series (Pudgy, Grampy, etc.), Betty was still expected to do her songs.
From theatrical shorts from 20th Century Fox, to the Filmation Saturday Morning series – then thrown to the curbside by Paramount – an overview of those two talking magpies.
Frank Goldman was trained as an architect before following his cousin to Bray Studios, where he made himself more than useful.