Flights of Fancy (Part 5): When Pigs Fly
Another batch of aerial toons from the classic thirties.
Walt Disney’s “The Sword in the Stone” on Records
The last animated feature released during Walt’s lifetime resulted in two unusual LP albums, one very elaborate and the other running only 14 minutes!
Yearbooks #5 – USC (El Rodeo) 1942
This will be the first posting of a yearbook that received artwork directly from the Disney studio.
In His Own Words: Willis Pyle
Pyle worked at Disney and UPA and later enjoyed a long career as a freelance animator on such projects as Richard Williams’ Raggedy Ann and Andy.
Tracking Down Some of the Mysterious Mysteries in Finding Prints
… and where did the original film elements go.
Flights of Fancy (Part 4): Rising to the Occasion
Today’s batch of titles from the mid 1930‘s take up the subject of flying on a sometimes smaller scale – several literally scaling down the action to the world of toys.
Max and Dave: Betty Boop 1933… Things are Looking Up!
By early 1933, Betty Boop appeared to be on top of the world. Not only enjoying great success on screen, but crossing over into the realm of the phonograph record.
Yearbooks #4 – Two Off-Model Yearbooks with Disney characters (Or so they claim)
This is a post solely to show how off-model these can get. I swear this is one of the last ones I’ll share that looks this awful.
The Animated Marx Brothers That Never Were
Perhaps we should all be grateful they never got made.
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]
