Know Your Old Film Distributors (Part 1)
Here’s a sort of ‘short list’ of companies that you’d likely come across if you’ve been collecting film over the years. All of these have released classic animation over the years.
Tag Archives: Castle Films
Castle Films – Of Color
Castle Film’s distribution of cartoons to the home-viewer market helped African American parents to entertain their children in comfort for years.
Santa’s Big Picture Show
For this week’s Thunderbean Thursday, my good friend Chris Buchman has prepared a nifty article about Christmas on the home screen. Chris is one half of ‘The Blue Mouse Studio’,…
A Pre-Thanksgiving Thunderbean Christmas Post
Some Christmas Cheer, early this year… I really like dusting off the Christmas Boxes each year, and even though we haven’t done that yet this year, I hope that we…
Castle Films and Kiko The Kangaroo
This week I’ve uploaded a neat curio: A Castle Films promotional film from 1943, featuring Eugene Castle himself and radio-and-movie star Lew Lehr. It’s an odd little promotional film, but…
8mm Cartoon Boxes
In honor of my appearance on today’s live broadcast of Stu’s Show (at 7pm Eastern, 4pm Pacific, if you miss it: archived downloads available here) where we’ll be discussing collecting…
“Boy Meets Dog” by Walter Lantz
Starting today, I’m going to devote each Thursday here on Cartoon Research exploring the film vault of Steve Stanchfield of Thunderbean Animation. Steve is graciously allowing us in to view…
