For the period from September 1962 to August 1963, Seymour Kneitel and crew kept busy producing 13 theatrical originals for Paramount, were deep into the King Features Trilogy, and were preparing and producing some new Casper cartoons for ABC.
Part ten of my survey of Argentine animated feature films – featuring Plumiferos and Gaturro.
Almost everyone my age remembers the Saturday morning cartoon, Muppet Babies. But next to no-one remembers its one-time sister program, Little Muppet Monsters. Here’s a look at this forgotten Henson series.
“If I do a show like Popeye or Godzilla, we don’t own it outright. We participate with many partners. That’s why we prefer to do something original,” says Joe Barbera.
Today, from the “Sam Bassett, Hound for Hire” series. Produced in 1962 and ’63 by Australian Phil Davis, the scariest thing about the show was the animation was produced in Zagreb.
A landmark of Disney animation, Tortoise and the Hare received an Academy Award for Best Animated Short for 1934, defeating Charles Mintz and Walter Lantz’s first cartoons in color, respectively.
“The Most Frightening Album Ever Made!” When Hanna-Barbera Records & flamboyant horror movie Producer/Director William Castle got together on vinyl, the result was murder!
Paramount was able to release 21 new cartoons this season due to a clever arrangement with King Features – plus a new alliance with Gene Deitch which yielded two additional shorts.
Part nine of my survey of Argentine animated feature films – featuring films by directors Gustavo Cova and Andrés G. Schaer.
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]
