Robert McKimson’s “Fool Coverage” (1952)
We love Robert McKimson on this site. This week’s breakdown features Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and a highly eccentric insurance policy…
We love Robert McKimson on this site. This week’s breakdown features Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and a highly eccentric insurance policy…
Golden Records First (and Last) Cartoon Music Compilation – Four decades of animation, combined into just one eclectic album in the early seventies.
The sorriest set of submissions from any year, thus far. Ward Kimball, Jules Engel and Chuck Jones must have pulled their hair out.
By 1929, the Mickey Mouse shorts had attained a theme song – a deliberately corny, purposefully rustic opus called “Minnie’s Yoo-Hoo”.
While he may not have the marquee value of Mickey, Humphrey holds a special place for Disney and animation fans alike.
“You would probably never see Jeremy Irons and James Earl Jones cast as brothers in a live-action film… but this is animation.”
I wanted to talk a little bit this week about film restoration relating to this exact moment in time and history. What to preserve, why these ones first, and what is the best way to do it?
In this weeks breakdown, well see whats the buzz is all about in this Harman-Ising Happy Harmonies cartoon!
Here are two vintage LP collections of great songs to commemorate the birthday of Walt Disney’s original theme park in Anaheim, which has a birthday next Monday.
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]