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Animation Anecdotes #184
ANIMATION ANECDOTES
October 17, 2014 posted by

Animation Anecdotes #184

Designing Penelope Pitstop. The female Wacky Racer Penelope Pitstop was a last minute addition to the cast. “I remember sitting in my office while Joe (Barbera) was in a meeting…

Animation Anecdotes #183
ANIMATION ANECDOTES
October 10, 2014 posted by

Animation Anecdotes #183

The Kimball, Kelly and Moore Show. In 1941, Sterling Silliphant who was then the publicity director at the Disney Studio but later went on to fame and fortune as a…

Animation Anecdotes #182
ANIMATION ANECDOTES
October 3, 2014 posted by

Animation Anecdotes #182

Celling Peanuts. “We used to throw the cels away (from the Peanuts specials),” stated animator and director Bill Melendez in 1995 at the height of the market for buying animation…

Animation Anecdotes #181
ANIMATION ANECDOTES
September 26, 2014 posted by

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…