Yearbooks #6 – Touring with Mickey and Other Great Stuff
The finale of my Yearbooks series.
The Animated Mike Ploog
A look at the famed comic book artist, rarely explored for his frequent flirtation with some significant animation projects.
Aesop Fables: “Land O’ Cotton” (1929)
Scanned from a reversal print made from a rare Kodascope 16mm print from the 30s, just as it was becoming unprojectable.
Flights of Fancy (Part 18): “Up” To Their Old Tricks
Finishing the ‘40’s and into the 1950’s, as the early years of the new decade provide a mix of small and large parts for airplanes.
Max and Dave: Color Classics 1934-35
The Color Classics strove for the Disney-esque and frequently featured original songs, some of which were quite memorable.
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.
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]
