Adding Character to a Silent Cartoon with Music
If you have not had the opportunity to see silent films with live musical accompaniment, I urge to jump at the next chance you get.
Tag Archives: Walt Disney
Sing Me A Cartoon 5: More Nuptials for Mickey
To the best of my knowledge, “The Wedding of Mister Mickey Mouse” was not published, nor recorded, in the United States. Have a listen.
Sing Me A Cartoon 4: Mickey Mouse Gets Married. . . on records, at least!
If you know your onions about Mickey Mouse, then you know that his main squeeze was one Minnie Mouse.
Jim Korkis on Disney’s “Ben And Me” (1953)
Based on the popular book by Robert Lawson, Ben and Me tells the “true” story of an inventive churchmouse who was actually the real brains behind Ben Franklin.
Sing Me A Cartoon 3: Much More Mickey Mouse
“. . . that tricky, wacky-wicky, Bolseviki Mickey Mouse”. I don’t know if Disney would have approved of that description of Minnie’s boyfriend.
Sing Me A Cartoon 3: More Mickey Mouse
By 1929, the Mickey Mouse shorts had attained a theme song – a deliberately corny, purposefully rustic opus called “Minnie’s Yoo-Hoo”.
Sing Me A Cartoon 2: Mickey Mouse at the start
By the end of 1929, the Mickey Mouse cartoons were enormously popular, not only with the general public, but with high-falutin’ film critics …and song-writers.
Animation Anecdotes #321
Ralph Bakshi was working in 1989 on selling an animated series to NBC called Hound Town – about a group of dogs who observe the curious habits of humans.
Animator Breakdown for Disney’s “Toby Tortoise Returns” (1936)
This week’s animator breakdown features one of my absolute favorite Disney animated shorts. Its been at the top of my list, right from the very beginning!
David Gerstein on Cartoon Pop Music
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.
