An Update on “Willie Whopper”
A mini-update from the front lines on the boy with a big imagination. I promised an update on the Willie Whopper project, so here it is, but first a quick…
Tag Archives: MGM Cartoons
What’s Your Favorite Cartoon Title?
What is your favorite cartoon title, and what makes a good one? While hunting through things from my childhood at my Mothers, I discovered a few pieces of paper that…
UPDATE: Leo the Lion and some stills from the “Willie Whopper” transfers!
The Ub Iwerks’ Willie Whopper and Flip the Frog project continues! I really enjoyed seeing the animated clips from some of Leo’s other appearances over the years. We transferred some…
Which Is The Ugliest MGM Cartoon Poster? (NSFW)
Man, these posters are ugly! MGM made some of the best short cartoons ever, with brilliant directors like Tex Avery, Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera – and perhaps the…
Commercials Animated by “Those MGM Guys”
Okay, maybe it isn’t quite accurate to call them “MGM guys” since they all worked for other studios as well. But these are some of the animators that come to…
Tex Avery’s “Lucky Ducky” (1948)
Today we celebrate one of my favorite Tex Avery MGM cartoons – Lucky Ducky (originally released October 9th, 1948). It was a duck hunting cartoon (Porky’s Duck Hunt) eleven years…
Harman and Ising at MGM
Super collector Martin Almeyra has shared with me (and by extension, you) his collection of Harman-Ising material. So much material that I will have to dole it out in several…
The Lion’s Roar for MGM Cartoons
From October 1937 until August 1941 MGM published a magazine (MGM Short Story, at left) – exclusively distributed to its exhibitors – devoted to its live action and animated short…
MGM’s “The Old Mill Pond”
Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising were Walt Disney’s most dogged competitors – friendly competitors to be sure, but they spent much of their time in the 1930s not only trying…
