Tunes From The Merrie Melodies 1932-33 Season
By the end of the 1932-33 movie season, the film industry was seeing light at the end of the tunnel- and the Merrie Melodies continued to plug Warner’s popular published songs.
Remembering Myron Waldman: A Talk with His Sons, Bob and Steven
Myron Waldman was one of Fleischer’s most beloved animators. I recently conducted an interview with Bob and Steven Waldman about their father and I asked Jerry to share it here on Cartoon Research.
Don Bluth’s “Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera”
All about the 1990 Hanna-Barbera simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida – where guests became part of an animated adventure in a H-B cartoon.
Did Animation Get It Wrong or Right?
Many times I’ve wondered, after watching an adaptation of a comic character or book, just how they managed to get things so wrong given the fact that the original is so rich in content and character.
Let Me Pick Your Brain! (Part 3)
Back for more batty brain-bashing, as evil scientists have their way with out favorite heroes – including the world’s most famous mouse.
Breakfast with Count Chocula at The House of the Seven Gables
Animation Spin celebrates Halloween with the cartoon creepies of the grocery store aisle and records fresh from their cereal boxes, followed by a detour to a dark house in Salem.
“How To Live With A Neurotic Dog”
Here is a never-before published oddment. It’s something that just turned up, my color planning thumbnails for the production of “How To Live With a Neurotic Dog”.
The Many Lives of Duck Dodgers
A survey of Duck Dodgers and Marvin Martian in over 60 years of animation – in all formats.
The Itch For the Unseen, Again…
The 1945 Spanish animated feature “Garbancito de La Mancha” is the first European Cel-animated feature, and bizarre in a more 1930s way than 40s.
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 Cal Arts in Valencia – teaching animation history. More about Jerry Beck [Click Here]
