In the Center Ring (Part 8)
1947 was a busy year for cartoon circus action, among them a George Pal Puppetoon, a Disney featurette, a Tex Avery oddity, and visits by Andy Panda and Popeye.
1947 was a busy year for cartoon circus action, among them a George Pal Puppetoon, a Disney featurette, a Tex Avery oddity, and visits by Andy Panda and Popeye.
To celebrate the new year, I thought it would be worth spending our day off perusing the early comic book exploits of this Walter Lantz favorite.
World War II was coming to an end, and Americans considered themselves as living high off the hog – and no doubt many started to look like one in the process.
For the first time in a long while on Cartoon Research, here is an animator breakdown of a Walter Lantz Cartune.
Only a few days left until Valentine’s Day. So gather ye rosebuds while ye may, from the dazzling bouquets of animated blooms from Hollywood’s Golden Era.
This week’s breakdown is a Walter Lantz cartoon – starring a Dick Lundy/Freddy Moore redesigned Andy Panda!
Colorized Oswald. In 1984, Fred Ladd and Entercolor Technologies Corp. did a colorization test on the Walter Lantz Oswald the Rabbit cartoon The Toy Shoppe (1934). Universal rejected it and…