“Hunting in 1950” (1926)
There’s a lot of fun gags here to make an enjoyable but somewhat thin-plot-ed cartoon.
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“Jack’s Shack” (1935)
A Terrytoon, based on the children’s nursery rhyme “The House that Jack Built”, is both charming and really, really strange.
“A Faithful Burro and an Old Sour Dough” – Uranium Blues (1956)
The 1956 Terrytoons mark the end of an era in many ways. Here’s why.
Flights of Fancy (Part 7): The Calm Before the Storm
With audiences turning more attention to newsreels to keep track of the goings on across the globe, animated parodies of newsreels also developed as likely places to find items on aviation.
Toons Trip Out (Part 2)
First, an excursion to the Wild West. Then, an examination of a 1930’s travel phenomenon.
We, Robots! – Part 2: The 30’s – Of Title Bouts and Technocrats
The earliest cartoon robot man appears in the Van Buren Aesop’s Fable talkie The Iron Man. Here’s a survey of all robot men in the 1930s.
We, Robots!: Part 1 – The 20’s and 30’s – Animal Automatons
A favorite turf for early animators was to fill a farm with scads of funny animals. So why not adapt it to include funny animal robots too?
Silent Era Aesop’s Fables
This week, animator Mark Kausler posts a selection of silent Paul Terry Aesop Fables cartoons, from his collection of Commonwealth Home Movie prints.
Terrytoons’ “The Explorer” (1931)
Today, we look into a Terrytoon featuring Farmer Al Falfa – and its main animators Frank Moser, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and Art Babbitt.
Terrytoons’ “Pink Elephants” (1937)
Pink Elephants (1937) is one of my favorite Terrytoons of the late 30s. Funny drawings, wild animation, and Cab Calloway-inspired music. Check it out.
