Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1956
Sorry Disney, Warners, Lantz and MGM. If you were UPA this year – you got nominated. Everyone else: Not Nominated!
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The Jazz Biopic That Wasn’t
Steve Bosustow told a newspaper in 1959 that work on a feature-length cartoon about the African American jazz artist Jelly Roll Morton was underway.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1953
We continue our research into what cartoons were submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration – but failed to make the cut.
Network Status Reports 1956-1964
These internal memos – I believe from the files of CBS – I post for no other reason than they’re just a few more pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of animation history.
Mid-Century Modern: UPA’s “Man Alive!” (1952)
Man Alive! is a strikingly designed and executed short by UPA produced for the American Cancer Society. The story has as much thought as the design.
Moonlighting Animators In Comics: Gil Turner
In the early ‘40s, while he was animating for Warner Bros., Gil Turner was one of the first artists recruited by Jim Davis to freelance in funny animal comic books.
Quincy Magoo Meets Jim Crow
Steve Bosustow traveled to New Orleans to promote the premiere of UPA’s 1001 Arabian Knights. He spoke at Tulane University, which in 1959 had no African American students – ironic, considering UPA’s earlier work like Brotherhood of Man.
Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1951
This is the second of a series of posts that look at the animated shorts submitted to the Academy for Oscar consideration but didn’t make the cut.
UPA’s “The Brotherhood of Man” (1946)
Perhaps the first classic film that UPA made was The Brotherhood of Man. The short was produced for the United Auto Workers to help with race relations in their factories.
Animation Anecdotes #281
“Columbia did not like the cartoon at all,” said Bill Scott of UPA’s Rooty Toot Toot. “They really would have liked for us to go back to just doing more Fox and Crow”.
