Animated Titles for Live-Action TV Shows
What a fun thing it was. Once upon a time it was pretty common for live-action TV shows to have animated openings. Some of them were more like filmed still…
Tag Archives: DePatie Freleng
Love-In: Commercials Animated by Ed Love
Where did Ed Love work? A better question might be: Where didn’t he work? A partial list of studios would include Disney, Iwerks, Lantz, MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Bob Clampett Productions, and…
Animation Anecdotes #142
Animated Ziggy. Ziggy is the loveable loser lead character in a newspaper comic panel of the same name. “Ziggy” first appeared in small books from the American Greetings Company in…
Animation Anecdotes #141
Ann Margrock. Artist Doug Wildey once was assigned in 1963 to draw a cartoon version of actress Ann-Margret to appear in an episode of “The Flintstones” television series. He easily…
DePatie-Freleng “Public Service Announcements”
DePatie-Freleng (DFE) was one of the major animation studios active in the 1960s and ’70s, mostly made up of Looney Tunes animators after Warner Bros. closed down their animation studio….
Animation Anecdotes #122
Animated Crimes. In 1978, legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby was doing storyboards for The New Fantastic Four show produced by DePatie-Freleng for Saturday morning. Comic book fans were excited…
DVD REVIEW: DePatie-Freleng’s “Super 6”
In this day and age, you just never know what weird and obscure cartoon will suddenly reappear, after being hidden from public for years, maybe decades. Case in point: DePatie-Freleng’s…
