Flights of Fancy (Part 4): Rising to the Occasion
Today’s batch of titles from the mid 1930‘s take up the subject of flying on a sometimes smaller scale – several literally scaling down the action to the world of toys.
Max and Dave: Betty Boop 1933… Things are Looking Up!
By early 1933, Betty Boop appeared to be on top of the world. Not only enjoying great success on screen, but crossing over into the realm of the phonograph record.
Yearbooks #4 – Two Off-Model Yearbooks with Disney characters (Or so they claim)
This is a post solely to show how off-model these can get. I swear this is one of the last ones I’ll share that looks this awful.
The Animated Marx Brothers That Never Were
Perhaps we should all be grateful they never got made.
A Few Little 35mm Commercials – Happy 2022!
Here are three little commercials in a row – suitable entertainment for the first post this year.
Flights of Fancy (Part 3): Lifts from Take-Offs
This week we start to notice more frequent reuses and modifications of old material among the numerous aerial cartoons produced during the early 1930’s.
A Happy New Year Salute to the Great Don Messick
From sidekick to superstar, here’s a salute to one of animation’s finest actors with a look at some unusual recordings from his career.
Yearbooks #3 – Disney Characters Helix High School 1955
For this post, I’m going to showcase some yearbook art produced without permission of their copyright holders. And it’s ugly.
Star Trek: The Animated Series
Many fans felt it gave a nice sense of closure to the original live action series and thought it a good transition to the later feature films.
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, UCLA in Westwood and Woodbury University in Burbank – teaching animation history. More about Jerry Beck [Click Here]
