The Tunes Were Still Looney
The Bosko series of Looney Tunes was going on a pace. They have been popular with exhibitors, and they endeavored to plug songs by Warner Brothers’ publishing companies.
The Bosko series of Looney Tunes was going on a pace. They have been popular with exhibitors, and they endeavored to plug songs by Warner Brothers’ publishing companies.
Invisibility is a subject which has instant appeal to an animator. Imagine the “line mileage” saved when you don’t even have to draw your featured character!
We’ve still got one article worth of fallout from the realm of superstition to wade through, so fasten your seat belts for another bumpy ride.
The earliest cartoon robot man appears in the Van Buren Aesop’s Fable talkie The Iron Man. Here’s a survey of all robot men in the 1930s.
The initial 1930-31 Looney Tunes were doing respectably well in the marketplace, as they continued to plug songs from Warner Bros. various publishing companies.
Once again Mark Kausler has pulled out a set of early silent Paul Terry Aesop Fables cartoons from his massive collection.
We continue along last-week’s trail, following closely behind the protruding abdomen of a marching ant, as his column descends into the depths of a subterranean tunnel.
After the Cut and Landing Accidents were produced for the Navy. These are especially hard to come by, leaving vintage prints from the era being the only copies available.
This week (with apologies), a potpourri of “stuff we missed” due to an inadvertent reversal in order of intended segments of this article last week.
Returning once again to the ethereal realm of devils and angels, we pick up where we left off last week, to see how the forces of good and evil coped with the outbreak of Axis hostilities overseas.