Cooking With Boop! Fleischer Promo Art #19
“Some of the cartoons below may reflect the period in which they were made, when racial stereotypes and prejudices were commonplace. These were wrong then and wrong now, and do…
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Fleischer Promo Art #7: “Popeye Power!”
This next installment of 1935 Paramount Sales News cartoons features some nice “color” renderings of Popeye and Betty. There’s one of those beautiful cartoony horses that Mike Barrier despises in…
Fleischer Promo Art #2: “Sell Betty Boop Cartoons!”
Here we are at the #2 installment of the Paramount Sales News cartoons. Hal Seeger gives us one offering a week beginning at the end of March 1934. Excuse the…
“Stuffy Durma” animated by Jim Tyer
The animation scene in New York City during the early 1960s were either feast or famine, depending on your point of view – and your talents as an animator. Terrytoons…
Unsquashing Betty Boop
There is a lot to say about Olive Films’ Betty Boop: The Essential Collection Vol. 1. From just a cursory glance, the selection of films is something you’d expect to…
BOOK REVIEW: “Arthurian Animation”
The mere thought of the King Arthur legend, of the knighthood, chivalry, and magic of it, never fails to bring to mind rich personalities and landscapes, and has thus had…
Report from Toronto: Taafi 2013
The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International’s second year commenced last weekend. From what little I was able to gleam (I’m relocating to the New York City area next week, so…
Animator’s Draft: “The Windblown Hare” (1949)
I’ve rather missed going into detail identifying animators and their scenes like I did when I originally began blogging seven years ago. Unfortunately, I’ve learned since then that you can’t…
The Clampett-Freberg-Lorre Connection
As Bob Clampett’s reign at Warner Brothers Cartoons was coming to an end in the first half of 1945, a young, very talented man was brought in to do voices….
Pianist Envy
I missed posting this in time for Oscar night, but rather than talk about Seth MacFarlane’s performance, let’s turn back the clock to another historic Oscar controversy… It was once…
