Marketing of Animated Cartoons in the 1930s: A Case Study of the Loew’s Chain in New York City
A special report on the distribution and marketing of cartoon shorts during the golden age of Hollywood.
Mickey Mouse in “Runaway Brain” (1995)
The short marked the first appearance on Mickey Mouse on the big screen since the 1990 featurette The Prince and the Pauper.
“Pencil Mania” with Tom and Jerry
This short, maybe more than any Van Beuren cartoon, seems to celebrate creativity and the imagination, and, as in the best of the series, it’s a freewheeling little adventure.
Hit the Beach (Part 4)
Ending the 30’s and into the 40’s, we find numerous additional animated outings for the sand and surf crowd.
Walking in a Disney Wonderland
A 70th birthday salute to Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland and the soundtrack album released almost 50 years after it premiered.
Disney Studios 1938
Back in the late 1930s, many magazines sent writers to Disney Studios to see what Walt Disney was up to after the success of Snow White.
In His Own Words: Ralph Bakshi on Jim Tyer
In 1994, Bakshi wrote the following about his first encounter with Tyer.
Scrappy in “Graduation Exercises” (1935)
It’s Scrappy time again — just as every day should be.
Hit the Beach (Part 3)
Proceeding deeper into the 1930’s, we continue to encounter the occasional visit to a savage cannibal island, and even more retellings of Robinson Crusoe.
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 Cal Arts in Valencia, UCLA in Westwood and Woodbury University in Burbank – teaching animation history. More about Jerry Beck [Click Here]
