Animation In New York: A Key To The City
I began compiling a database of information on American animation studios, with hundreds of them in the New York area. Here’s some of that research.
Corey Burton and Captain Hook
Burton has been performing the voice of one of my favorite Disney characters, Captain Hook, professionally since he was seventeen years old.
“Everybody Sing” (1937) and Sparks’ “Mickey Mouse” (1982)
Since Easter seems to always have bunnies associated with it, it seems like an appropriate day to run a Lantz Oswald cartoon.
Flights of Fancy (Part 17) – Disturbing the Peace
We’ll cover more titles than usual this week, due to several containing only rather short sequences of direct relevance to these articles.
“Why Aren’t These the Real Cartoon Voices?”
The whats, whys and wherefores of the (sometimes odd) “studio cast” recordings based on cartoons.
Show Me the Honey: The 45th Anniversary of “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh”
Celebrating this compilation of previously released shorts which has become so much more through the years.
Peter Pan: Return to Neverland
The opportunity to revisit Peter Pan, Hook and Tinker Bell proved irresistible to family audiences looking for entertainment in 2002.
Willie Whopper in “The Good Scout” (1934)
Let’s take a break and watch a Willie Whopper!
Flights of Fancy (Part 16): Beyond the Blue Horizon is a Rising Sun
A mixed bag for this wrap-up of the war years, still providing some education to the troops, but beginning to serve up laughs again for the civilian audience.
Jerry Beck is a writer, animation producer, college professor and author of more than 15 books on animation history. He is a former studio exec with Nickelodeon Movies and Disney, and has written for The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. He has curated cartoons for DVD and Blu-ray compilations and has lent his expertise to dozens of bonus documentaries and audio commentaries on such. Beck is currently on the faculty of CalArts in Valencia, UCLA in Westwood and Woodbury University in Burbank – teaching animation history. More about Jerry Beck [Click Here]
