Walt Disney’s “Mr. Toad” on Records
The first segment of the last Disney “package feature” of the ’40s makes a fine recording and a memorable park attraction–even to those who don’t know the film.
Sing Me A Cartoon #12: The Rarest of the Rare
Frank Luther recorded “Mickey Mouse And Minnie’s In Town”, and “In A Silly Symphony”. They were released on picture discs in early 1934 – and they didn’t sell at all!
Terrytoons in CinemaScope, Part 3
I’m back with more Terrytoons shorts in widescreen CinemaScope! It’s so hard to find these cartoons in proper ratio. Today, we present four more.
Animation Anecdotes #331
The soundtrack of Jafar’s song “Why Me?”, a campy and dramatic exploration of the character’s past failure, almost derailed Disney’s animated feature, Aladdin.
STOP-MOTION MARVELS: “George Washington Modeled in Clay (1927) and “Red Riding Hood” (1926)
We’ve been working on the sequel to the out of print Stop Motion Marvels, featuring a whole series of rare shorts.
RADIO ROUND-UP: Authentic Radio Voices in Cartoons
This installment of Radio Round-Up touches upon the character voices of radio that made appearances in animated shorts.
Laurel and Hardy Cartoons on Records
Before Hanna-Barbera released its syndicated series based on the beloved duo, both Peter Pan and Golden produced two discs that could easily have been demos.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1969
Ward Kimball wins the Oscar – wrestling it away from such stiff competition as Cool Cat, The Tijuana Toads and The Ant and The Aardvark.
Sing Me A Cartoon #11: More Mickey Melody
“Mickey Mouse And Minnie’s In Town” rolls off the tongue a little clumsy–and it was not nearly the Disney hit song that “Who’s Afraid. . . ” was.
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]
