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.
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.
First, an excursion to the Wild West. Then, an examination of a 1930’s travel phenomenon.
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.
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?
This week, animator Mark Kausler posts a selection of silent Paul Terry Aesop Fables cartoons, from his collection of Commonwealth Home Movie prints.
Today, we look into a Terrytoon featuring Farmer Al Falfa – and its main animators Frank Moser, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and Art Babbitt.
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.
Ask almost any baby boomer who grew up on television programming of the late 1940s and early 50s about their earliest memories of cartoons. Many will mention Farmer Alfalfa. Or…