Party Animals – and Other Species (Part 4): Party Protocol
As a public service this week, we provide an object lesson in the proper etiquette for party attendance and party throwing.
As a public service this week, we provide an object lesson in the proper etiquette for party attendance and party throwing.
The original negatives for the RKO Toby the Pup cartoons remain lost. Here’s what one of those cartoons looked like.
The Toby the Pup cartoons have been high on my list of wants ever since I saw an article by Jerry Beck in Movie Collector’s World (back in 1981!)
The buried history that cartoon music contains: vintage sheet music, rare original recordings, bizarre facts and weird old-time cliches. Lots of weird old-time cliches.
Since it’s the season, I’ve put together a ’Special’ (but really “unofficial”) Thunderbean set of Spooky Cartoons called “Halloween Rarities”. It’s a Blu-ray that includes Toby the Pup in Halloween.
This particular Cubby Bear title card was one of the things I most wanted and, happily, it showed up at long last!
While I know it’s not ‘quite’ Halloween yet, it does give me a good excuse to at least start putting up Halloween cartoon posts… and maybe I’ll do this all through the month.
So, Halloween has gotta be the cartoon lover’s favorite holiday, at least for all the weird animated films that either have Halloween themes. We seriously could put a link to…
These have continued to be busy weeks! The new Blu-ray as well as a new DVD title will both be back in the coming weeks from mastering, finally. New projects…
It’s a busy week here – student reviews and a auditorium full of animation history papers to read and grade; I always enjoy the work we’re seeing, though it leaves…