Animating the Space Race
This month my focus is on theatrical cartoons that made reference to the competition between the US and the Soviet Union to land on the Moon first.
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Animation Anecdotes #318
Jean Vander Pyl remembers The Flinstones audition.” Joe asked, ‘Who wants to be Wilma and who wants to be Betty?’ it was so informal in those days.”
Popeye Goes Latin – Part 2
W’ere On Our Way To Rio was the third of the Technicolor Popeye’s – and one could argue the most lushly-animated cartoon Famous Studios ever produced.
Popeye Goes Latin – 1
Cartoons discovered the appeal of the Conga Dance, as demonstrated by its appearance in shorts from Warner Bros.. Terrytoons… and yes, Max Fleischer.
More TV Cartoon Press Releases
This week we look back at several press releases and reviews for non-Hanna Barbera TV cartoons in the early 1960s.
Putting the Texaco Billboard back into Fleischer’s ‘Hurry Doctor!’ (1931), “Screen Songs” Special Set and ‘The Fatal Note’ (1933)
And a handful of Paramount Screen Songs frame grabs!
Terrytoons – The Viacom Years
CBS had allowed 20th Century-Fox to distribute Terrytoons’ new cartoons to theaters, but Viacom dealt strictly with television syndication. Then Viacom acquired the studio.
MOONLIGHTING ANIMATORS IN COMICS: Dave Tendlar
This week’s post is dedicated to Dave Tendlar—an overlooked talent in the annals of theatrical animation.
Four Brothers Named Mills
A number of artists appeared in the Fleischer Screen Songs cartoons. One act not only did three Screen Songs cartoons, but had good-natured fun with caricature. That act was the Mills Brothers.
Filmation’s “Journey Back to Oz” (1974) on Records
How does the soundtrack to Filmation’s seminal animated feature connect with Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack, Astro Boy, a Congo airline and a plate of bad shrimp?
