George Pal’s “The Brothers Grimm” and “The Time Machine” on Records
The journeys of two great Pal-taculars (both with stop motion) to vinyl and disc were like adventures in themselves.
The journeys of two great Pal-taculars (both with stop motion) to vinyl and disc were like adventures in themselves.
A set that hasn’t moved forward in a little while is the Blu-ray revision to the first Stop Motion Marvels collection. He’s an update on that.
The story behind a feature-length Puppetoon dream which turned into a live-action reality.
I really love pencil tests, as I’m sure a lot of you do. Here’s one of my favorites.
Many a toon has donned mask and cape, either in the hopes of fooling others into belief that they’re a superhero, or in a psychological effort to fool themselves into believing it too.
One of the films I’m working on is almost a rarity — Wilbur the Lion (1947), one of the last in the Puppetoons series. Take a look at the restoration in progress.
One of the other major side projects I’ve been working on is digital restoration/cleanup for a second volume of George Pal’s Puppetoons.
Paramount Pictures released the last of the “Puppetoons” in 1947. Of the five releases, only one stars Jasper – and another featured Duke Ellington.
In 1946 Jasper recieved an Academy Award nomination – and one of Pal’s Puppetoons was an animated adaptation of the American folktale, John Henry.
This is a special post to announce this blog’s new 5-posts-a-week policy. Plus information on cartoons being presented at UCLA’s 2019 Festival of Preservation.