Howard Beckerman (1930-2024)
He left us on Saturday. Here’s a little tribute to a man who inspired a generation of animators.
Tag Archives: Paramount Cartoons
Fleischer and Famous Studios: A Grab Bag, or Filet of Leftovers
Extreme cases present themselves, when a cartoon you had to skip over because it was unavailable suddenly gets found. Here are a few.
Max and Dave: Specials, Leading To Noveltoons
The Fleischers must have thought they could restore their relationship with Paramount by putting out occasional specials in Technicolor. They were wrong.
Party Animals – and Other Species (Part 3): Paramount’s “Party Dolls”
Boop, Lulu and “Lou”… A celebration of the irrepressible Fleischer/Famous party girls.
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.
A Paramount Screen Song: “The Circus Comes to Clown” (1947)
I’m actually most fond of this one because of the character designs and the very odd appearance of Blackie the Sheep, unusually miserable in this one short.
Let’s Do It Again – Only Backwards!
Many cartoons made for wonderful children’s records, soundtrack albums and hit singles. So, why shouldn’t it work the other way around?
Quiz Show Cartoons: 1960s – Part 5
By the early 1960’s, theatrical Hollywood cartoons still found occasional inspiration in the idea of the game show–which was gong through its own crisis at the time.
The Paramount Cartoon Studio and the Press, 1968
Paramount Pictures closed its cartoon studio in December 1967. The studio’s last cartoons were distributed well into 1968, and most of them came and went without any notice in newspapers.
Paramount Cartoon Close-Up: “La Petite Parade” (1959)
I couldn’t let 1959 go without a little close up on a “cult cartoon” Paramount produced during this season. La Petite Parade, for those of us who grew up watching the “Harveytoons”, was particularly memorable.
