Argentine Animated Features – Part 5: 2000-2003
Part five of my survey of Argentine animated feature films – today with films from such diverse directors as Juan Antin and Manuel García Ferré.
Sid Siegel Brings Home a Television, 1948.
This is the second of three posts on Alberta Siegel’s earliest research on cartoon violence. What began as a simple inquiry has evolved into something much more revealing and surprising.
Animation Anecdotes #230
Among today’s anecdotes: Lou Scheimer of Filmation Studios talking about runaway production, Peter Chung on “Reign”, and whatever happened to Disney’s “Secret Lab”?
Terrytoons’ “Pink Elephants” (1937)
Pink Elephants (1937) is one of my favorite Terrytoons of the late 30s. Funny drawings, wild animation, and Cab Calloway-inspired music. Check it out.
Disney’s Oswald Rabbit “The Ocean Hop” (1927)
This week’s breakdown features everyone’s favorite lucky rabbit in a cartoon inspired by aviator Charles Lindbergh’s historic non-stop flight from New York to Paris.
“Linus the Lionhearted” (and Sugar Bear) on Records
This week, two musical eras are represented on two albums based on Saturday Morning animated characters created to promote breakfast cereals (and specially-marked boxes).
Paramount Cartoons 1957-58
Though Popeye was no longer being produced, the cartoons released in the 1957-58 season would be a last hurrah for the veteran crew before the budgets were completely slashed, staff was cut and the production order reduced.
Argentine Animated Features Part 4: The Patagonik Film Group Appears
Part four of my survey of Argentine animated feature films, today with films from the Patagonik group and Manuel García Ferré – featuring Dibu and Manuelita.
Japanese Animated Commercials – Part 5
Today we take another look at several more wacky and stylish (and in one case, politically incorrect) Japanese anime commercials!
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]
