Making Snafu Cartoons / First Motion Picture Unit / Redford Theatre Cartoon Festival
This week: Rare behind-the-scenes footage filmed during the production of a Snafu cartoon!
This week: Rare behind-the-scenes footage filmed during the production of a Snafu cartoon!
For Halloween, a cartoon that makes us SCREAM: it marks the moment when the Walter Lantz cartoons take a precipitous turn for the worse, commencing a nosedive from which they never recovered.
Bob McKimson sustained Daffy Duck’s zany personality well into the early ‘50s. Clever gags, aided by sharp timing and witty dialogue, make this an overlooked classic.
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.
While “The Bear and the Beavers” promises great comic potential, it is marred by Ising’s lumbering, Disney-esque, approach to story and timing. Here are the animators he supervised.
There it was, a hidden treasure inside of a cartoon explosion, a desperate few seconds of avant-garde filmmaking that played to millions of post-war moviegoers and then to Baby Boomers…
Here’s the draft from Chuck Jones’ first cartoon as director, “The Night Watchman”. Bob McKimson, Phil Monroe, Ken Harris, Ben Washam, and Rod Scribner are on board – let’s see who animated which scenes.
In some ways, the 1950-51 season was the zenith of Famous Studios existence. Perhaps not creatively, but in their role as Paramount’s in-house cartoon studio they had certainly established a…
Gather ‘round, folks! It’s a Bugs Bunny jungle “pitcher”! Precarious journeys in a mysterious jungle proved successful in newsprint and screen throughout the first half of the 20th century, as…
This week, we’re looking at an early Tom and Jerry that introduces a new bulldog opponent. Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera knew how to differentiate their two stars from the…