Hearts and Flowers – Part 1
As Valentine’s Day approaches, it seems appropriate to celebrate the season with the start of a retrospective on the involvement of flowers as a central figure in the animated cartoon.
Tag Archives: Oswald Rabbit
Let Me Pick Your Brain! (Part 1)
Aside from the usual array of supernatural spooks so common to the season, a more Earthbound villain is also a frequent inhabitant of the Halloween scene: the evil scientist.
We, Robots!: Part 1 – The 20’s and 30’s – Animal Automatons
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?
Pinto Colvig Got that Oswald Habit, 1930
Before he was the voice of Goofy, Pinto Colvig was the voice of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit for Universal and had a big part in the studio’s transition to sound cartoons.
Animation Anecdotes #239
June Foray’s earliest cartoons; Hawley Pratt; Jeffery Katzenberg; Bob Clampett; Hayao Miyazaki and more – in today’s collection of anecdotes.
F.D.R., the Depression – and a few New Deal Cartoons
When enough times goes by, history can seem more like mythology, with the artifacts left behind being the only things left to ‘prove’ things really happened. Time takes with it…
Animation Anecdotes #151
Lantz Remembers Oswald. “I was on the lot the day Disney left Universal. I had animated a scene for a Laurel and Hardy film where they were asleep and dreaming…
A Lantz comparison: ‘My Pal Paul’ and ‘Hot and Cold’
Bill Nolan is one of the truly unsung heros of cartoons and character animation, and likely the most influential animator through the 20’s in terms of character animation and design/…
The “White” Oswald Rabbit
Today, a small tribute to the white version of Oswald Rabbit… The middle Lantz lucky rabbit, who failed to impress in approximately 33 cartoons produced between 1935 (first appearing in…
Let’s Sing Along With Oswald!
This 9×12″ 12-page Oswald book from 1930 comes to us from super-collector Martin Almeyra. This particular copy was signed by Walter Lantz, who dedicated the book to “Mary” who, Almeyra…
