Mine (and Yours): Favorite Important Moments in Animation History!
Here are top 10 of my favorite ‘moments’ in animation history. And please share some of yours.
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Streamline Pictures – Part 18
While writing these columns on the history of Streamline Pictures, I came across several old files of long-forgotten and never-published information. Here is a chronologic list of all the anime-specialty companies with their initial releases.
Streamline Pictures – Part 6
One of my duties at Streamline Pictures was to keep a scrapbook of the reviews that Streamline’s movies, videos, and books got in newspapers and magazines. Here is an alphabetical…
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…
Streamline Pictures – Part 3
To Recap: Carl Macek and Jerry Beck established Streamline Pictures in 1988 with a mission to accurately dub Japanese animation after years of substandard, dumbed-down dialogue and replaced music –…
Streamline Pictures – Part 1
Streamline Pictures was one of the first American companies formed to license Japanese animation for American distribution – with the goal of presenting the original anime uncut, leaving the original…
My Top Ten Anime Features – In Conclusion
For the last six columns, I have listed what I admit are my 15 favorite Japanese anime features, as distinct from trying to figure out what the 15 “Best” might…
My Top Ten Anime Features (Part 3)
Continuing my list of “Top Ten” favorite anime features with three from the modern masters of anime, Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Otomo and Mamoru Oshii. 6. My Neighbor Totoro. Tonari no…
