Animation Anecdotes #365
“Everybody in the world knows Porky has a stutter,” said Ira Zimmerman of the National Stuttering Project in 1991. “But it is inappropriate to depict stuttering in print.”
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Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1986
Pixar’s Luxo Jr. didn’t win an Oscar – and neither did Osamu Tezuka, John Canemaker or Wendy Tilby among many other notable filmmakers in 1986. Here’s an overview of the field.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1983
1983 was a significant year, as it marked a return for a Disney short as an Oscar nominee. But it was a clever clay animated spoof, produced in Brooklyn, that took home the Academy Award.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1979
Don Bluth’s Banjo The Woodpile Cat was one of 33 animated shorts submitted, qualified and screened – but snubbed for an Academy Award in 1979.
BOOK REVIEW: John Canemaker’s “The Lost Notebook”
I don’t know about you, but I just spent my Memorial Day weekend reading (and drooling over) the latest book by animation historian extraordinaire John Canemaker, The Lost Notebook: Herman…
