My All-Time Top Ten Favorite Cartoons – Part 2
These are my second best Top Ten films… What are yours?
Tag Archives: Gene Deitch
Dusty Memories: The Lost UPA “Dusty of the Circus” Pilot
A long lost Gene Deitch UPA pilot has been unearthed and preserved.
Terrytoons “Foofle’s Train Ride” (1959)
I think Gene Deitch was really amazing to take Terrytoons in this creative direction at this particular studio.
Gene Deitch (1924-2020)
A tribute to animator Gene Deitch from his greatest fan – me.
Jules Feiffer’s Storyboards for Gene Deitch’s “Munro”
To ring in the new year: Gene Deitch’s Oscar winner short subject, Munro – written and boarded by Jules Feiffer. Here are those original boards.
Gene Deitch on NUDNIK (Part 2)
The original Paramount release was for just 12 Nudnik films, which had the bad luck of coming out just at the time when U.S. movie theaters stopped showing cartoon shorts.
Gene Deitch on NUDNIK (Part 1)
Nudnik as a film series had the same bad luck as Nudnik the cartoon character. Nudnik was always in the wrong place at the wrong time, and so were his films.
The People At Terrytoons
My short but dramatic Terrytoons tenure has been well enough documented, but here I’d like to credit the names of those who helped (or hindered) that point in my cartoon career.
Terrytoons Juggled
In 1956 I was given the opportunity to become the creative leader of the reborn CBS-Terrytoons studio! Unfortunately only a few of the cartoons I produced there lived up to my expectations.
“How To Live With A Neurotic Dog”
Here is a never-before published oddment. It’s something that just turned up, my color planning thumbnails for the production of “How To Live With a Neurotic Dog”.
