More Spots Animated by Bill Littlejohn
Today we take another look at the work of the very wonderful Mister Bill Littlejohn. Always humorous, always expressive, the easy-going look of his animation often masked his enormous technical…
Tag Archives: Playhouse Pictures
Pilsner Pranks: More Spots with Beer
We feature a lot of commercials about beer in our classic animated advertising posts. Why is that? It’s because in the golden age of television commercials there were a Hell…
The Wind-up… The Pitch…
Remember when every normal, red-blooded American kid wanted to play baseball, and only the real weirdo’s wanted to draw pictures? Major league players like Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris were…
Detroit Iron / Hollywood Hoopla
Longer. Lower. Wider. That was the mantra of the American automotive industry in the latter half of the 1950’s. Of course, for most of us human-being people, only the wider…
Celebrity Voices Impersonated
Ever since the advent of sound film, celebrity vocal impersonations have been a staple of animation. Some of cartoondom’s brightest stars (Gandy Goose and Sourpuss anyone?) have been patterned after…
Playhouse Revisited
Once again we delve into the Playhouse Pictures files to bring you a selection of stupendous spots and stills, along with a very special surprise. The spots are from 1957…
Public Relations, Education, and Animation
Today we will be looking at a quartet of animated sales and educational films. Hopefully, some of these shorts will be new to you – the names of their animators…
Playhouse Potpourri
This week we bring you an assortment of miscellaneous goodies from the Playhouse files. Playhouse Pictures was founded by Ade Woolery in 1952. Ade had worked at Disney, Screen Gems,…
Leftover Commercial Round-Up
When Jerry and I put together these commercial posts, there’s always some stuff that ends up getting left out for one reason or another. This week we swept up a…
Ethel and Albert, Hank Saperstein, and the Phone Company
Greenfield. Murray Hill. Sycamore. Tyler. Kingswood. What do these words have in common? Once upon a time they were all telephone exchanges. You know, like PEnnsylvania 6-500. The words were…
