Popeye on Golden Records
Jack Mercer and Mae Questel, and one of the most popular children’s labels of the baby boom era, combined for a perfect storm of cartoon spinnery: Popeye on Golden Records!…
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Terrytoons in CinemaScope
I’m one of the handful of people who collects cartoons on 16mm film. Some I got for bargain prices, others I had to shell out more, and a lot more…
Cartoon Events This Week In LA: Technicolor Toons, Golden Books and Fleischer Tribute
TECHNICOLOR TOONS Thursday night (5/29) at 7:30pm I’ll be introducing an all-new program of Technicolor Toons – which is fast-becoming an annual tradition – projected on the big screen at…
Treasures From The British Pathé Archive
This month, notable film archive British Pathé has made its entire library of over 85,000 videos available to a wider audience by uploading them to YouTube. These films had been…
Books By Jerry Beck
In The Beginning… Once upon a time, way back in 1981, long before the internet… Will Friedwald and I teamed up to produce the blue book on the left –…
Animation Anecdotes #153
Bedroom Story. According to legend, while Walter Lantz was on his honeymoon at a cabin at Sherwood Lake in California, his marital bliss was interrupted repeatedly by an annoying woodpecker….
“Gulliver” Comes To BluRay
Editor’s Note: Throughout the years, I have been asked more times than I can count: “Who has the best “Gulliver’s Travels” on video?” I now have a definitive answer to…
Early N.Y. Animator Profiles: John C. Terry
Editor’s Note: Today I am happy to introduce a new semi-regular columnist to Cartoon Research, Charlie Judkins, who has a keen interest in the East coast origins of the animation…
“Old MacDonald Had A Farm” (1945) with the Original Titles!
Today on Thunderbean Thursday: The Lure of “Noveltoons” (and the farmer that must not be named). I have to admit: I was never into the Paramount’s Noveltoons or Screen Songs…
BOOK REVIEW: “Jacky’s Diary” by Jack Mendelsohn
Why am I reviewing and recommending you buy a hard cover reprint book featuring a comic strip that looks like crudely drawn child’s scrawl? Because you need it. And because…
