Animation Anecdotes #129
A Good Hobbit Is Hard To Break. The November 1977 Rankin-Bass animated television special based on Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” had animation done by TopCraft (a Japanese company that later re-formed…
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Animation Anecdotes #128
King Kirby and the Fleischer Connection. Jack Kirby is perhaps best known for the many comic book characters he co-created from Captain America to the X-Men to the Hulk but…
Who Is Harry Welch – and Was He Ever The Voice of Popeye?
Cartoon Researcher Shaun Clancy sent in these scans (below, click thumbnails to read) from a Popular Science article from March 1941, about a fellow named Harry Welch (aka Harry Foster…
Famous Studios Popeye (1943)
Paramount’s Famous Studios in 1943 was a studio in transition. Paramount ousted the Fleischer brothers and began moving the operation back to New York. Popeye was the prize. The series…
Popeye in “Stealin’ Ain’t Honest”
Released March 22nd 1940, Stealin’ Ain’t Honest is the 79th Fleischer Studios Popeye cartoon. Produced in Miami Florida, by the Tom Johnson unit, it’s one of the cartoons that pursues…
Animation Anecdotes #101
Editor’s Note: Animation Historian Jim Korkis began writing columns of animation anecdotes in the Spring 1977 issue of Mindrot (issue #6) published by David Mruz. Jim went on to write…
