Streamline Pictures – Part 4
Continuing the outline format and chronology of Streamline Pictures history, where I was employed from January 1991 through March 2002. This week I cover the company’s output from 1994 through…
Continuing the outline format and chronology of Streamline Pictures history, where I was employed from January 1991 through March 2002. This week I cover the company’s output from 1994 through…
Usually the animation that I write about in my columns is by well-known studios. Sometimes it’s by a brand-new studio, or a foreign studio that I’ve never heard of; though…
Garfield’s Judgement Day. Even at the height of Garfield the cat’s popularity in the late 1980s, creator Jim Davis couldn’t interest animation studios in his feature length animated script, “Garfield’s…
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, 20th Century-Fox released a film about a battle in outer space featuring a boy, some comical robots and ruthless alien…
Continuing my list of “Top Ten” favorite anime features, with a few I was personally involved with from my days with Streamline Pictures. 4. Laputa: The Castle in the Sky….
So I get a lot of spam from Amazon.com trying to sell me books and DVDs similar to those that I’ve bought before. Usually I don’t pay much attention to…
Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell. In the first Pepe LePew cartoon, “Odor-able Kitty” (1945), the amorous French skunk chases a MALE tomcat who has disguised himself as a skunk to avoid…
Border Planets: Galaxy Investigation 2100. Ginga Tansa 2100 Toshi: Border Planet. August 24, 1986. 73 minutes. 10:00 p.m. to 11:35 p.m. Original idea: Osamu Tezuka. Development: Osamu Uemura, Iuchi Shuji,…
Welcome to the fifth installment of my Tezuka Pro TV Specials series. This is the one not produced by Tezuka Pro. I can already hear you asking, “Wait a minute;…
We resume our survey of the Tezuka Pro TV Specials of 1978-1989 with the star-studded Marine Express. Kaitei Choutokkyuu Marin Ekusupuresu. (Marine Express: Undersea Super Train). August 26, 1979. 91…