Unpredictable as Weather (Part 34)
This week, a sampling of three studios’/producers’ works from the 1960’s – Jay Ward, Total Television, and King Features.
This week, a sampling of three studios’/producers’ works from the 1960’s – Jay Ward, Total Television, and King Features.
While Wall Street was laying an egg, things were humming nicely at the Van Beuren Studio.
The many famous animated characters who have appeared as balloons in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
First airing on CBS in 1973, the special features almost entirely new material not featured in Schulz’s comic strip.
A few month’s back I won a rare Kodachrome print of the first Noveltoon from Famous Studios. Take a look!
In this chapter, we enter the TV era, where the most prevalent form of weather is television snow.
Part 2 of Jim Korkis’ 1984 interview with Disney Legend Jack Hannah.
If you can track down copies of Jim Korkis’ interviews, do it. Here’s one of my favorites, with Disney Legend Jack Hannah in 1984.
Fifty years later, produced at that uncertain time at Disney and dismissed by a number of critics, has developed quite the audience from multiple generations.
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]