Animation Anecdotes #386
“I remember when he couldn’t sell his later pilots – the hilarious Fang, the Wonder Dog, Hawkear, and The Stupor Bowl – he said, ‘CBS dislikes us; NBC hates us and ABC detests us!’
The Annual Halloween Cartoon List – and yours too!
“When I used to show cartoons at my mom’s house on Halloween, she insisted that I bring ‘The Flora Dora Girls’, her name for this cartoon!”
Animator Profiles: MYRON WALDMAN
This week, we look into the career of one of the most notable animators of the East Coast, Myron Waldman!
Mickey Mouse’s Scary Record Collection, Part 1
With Mickey Mouse’s birthday only weeks away, let’s get a head start with some fascinating recordings in which he takes part in all kinds of Halloween hijinks.
The Exposure Sheet – Vols #13 & #14
August 1939 at the Leon Schlesinger studio. The in-house newsletter continues to note Old Glory is getting rave reviews; and intriguing “quotes” from Friz Freleng and Tex Avery.
A Dilly Dilly Hit
The song–based upon an eighteenth-century English tune–was the biggest hit connected with a Disney production since “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” nearly two years previous.
“The Laughing Salesman” (1989)
A lost anime about a creepy salesman who offers depressed people a chance to fulfill their dreams and fantasies, only for their greed to get the better of them.
Animation Anecdotes #385
One national magazine group invited children to write letters on ‘Why I Like Scrappy’, and gave prizes in the form of merchandise featuring the smiling little cartoon character.
‘The Puppet Murder Case’ (1935)
The Haunted Season is here. Today a Thunderbean report and a distinctive Scrappy cartoon – one of the more stylish of the series.
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]
