Fleischer’s Animated News #7
Another edition of Fleischer’s Animated News, the Paramount cartoon studio in-house newsletter from 1935 (click thumbnails below to enlarge). This time, a new editor and an issue highlighting a wedding…
Another edition of Fleischer’s Animated News, the Paramount cartoon studio in-house newsletter from 1935 (click thumbnails below to enlarge). This time, a new editor and an issue highlighting a wedding…
What’s Nudnik? Nudnik was animator Gene Deitch’s favorite creation, the star of a series of twelve Paramount theatrical cartoons in the 1960s – and a character pretty much forgotten today….
I said in my first column that the earliest animated cartoon that I can remember seeing was Disney’s Pinocchio, on its first rerelease in October 1945, just before my fifth…
Paramount’s Famous Studios in 1943 was a studio in transition. Paramount ousted the Fleischer brothers and began moving the operation back to New York. Popeye was the prize. The series…
Not every Hollywood animated cartoon produced in the 20th Century still exists. Sure, every episode of Johnny Cypher in Dimension Zero is accounted for, but a large amount of silent…
Cue Sheets are legally obligated paperwork that started at the dawn of sound motion pictures – and are still required for all motion pictures and television shows still today. This…
TERRYTOONS ORIGINAL TITLES Terrytoons, the New Rochelle New York studio run by Paul Terry, was considered the bottom of the barrel. But with popular characters like MIGHTY MOUSE, HECKLE &…
(part 1 of 6) 1937 to 1980 Below is a checklist of every animated feature released theatrically in the United States, in order of release, from 1937 to 1980. This…
Once upon a time, JERRY BECK studied at The School Of Visual Arts in New York City intent on becoming a great animator. But his interest in animation’s history led…