Fleischer Promo Art #8: “Boop Power!”
This week we cover May and June 1935 – with more rarely seen Fleischer promotional art from the pages of Paramount Sales News. By now, Betty was in long skirts…
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Fleischer Promo Art #7: “Popeye Power!”
This next installment of 1935 Paramount Sales News cartoons features some nice “color” renderings of Popeye and Betty. There’s one of those beautiful cartoony horses that Mike Barrier despises in…
Fleischer Promo Art #5: “Popeye and Betty, Box Office Champs”
Here we are, the fifth and final installment of 1934’s Paramount Sales News cartoons by Hal Seeger. The sun has set on Betty Boop while the Popeyes are increasingly excellent….
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!…
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…
