Animation Anecdotes #181
Donald’s Fighting Pose. In the earliest Donald Duck cartoons, the little quacker was quite pugnacious and audiences immediately laughed when he took his fighting pose. That pose was created by…
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In His Own Words: Jack Hannah Remembers Some Disney Shorts
Jack Hannah joined the Disney Studios in 1933 and spent five years as an animator, another five years in the story department where he was teamed with Carl Barks as…
Donald Duck’s Quacked Records
In honor of his 80th birthday, today we fill the Animation Spin bill with fowl material from three decades of Donald Duck discs. DISNEY’S GOIN’ QUACKERS Disneyland Records #2513 (12”33…
DUCKS AND TAXES: The Story of “The New Spirit”
It has been said that the only two things that are certain in life are death and taxes. So, this month, as some of us struggle with taxes, we can…
In His Own Words: Jack Hannah Remembers Donald Duck’s Foils
John Frederick (Jack) Hannah was born in Nogales, Arizona on January 5, 1913. He passed away on June 11, 1994 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank, California. He was honored…
Animation Anecdotes #139
Warner Commercials. In the Fifties, the Disney Studio earned money doing a variety of television commercials and even creating new characters. Warner Brothers also had a commercial unit that Jack…
Animation Anecdotes #128
King Kirby and the Fleischer Connection. Jack Kirby is perhaps best known for the many comic book characters he co-created from Captain America to the X-Men to the Hulk but…
“The Three Caballeros” (In Featurette Form)
Walt Disney’s The Three Caballeros (1945) is one of my favorite Disney features – mainly because it’s the least “Disney” animated feature Disney ever made. It’s an “anti-Disney” Disney film,…
Walt Disney’s “Donald and The Wheel” (1961)
As Jim Korkis informed us last month, Walt Disney found great success with non-theatrical educational films, especially ones that could double as theatrical featuettes and eventual fodder for The Wonderful…
