Oswald in “The Toy Shoppe” (1934)
From a 16mm print that’s starting to head south due to vinegar syndrome.
From a 16mm print that’s starting to head south due to vinegar syndrome.
What’s your favorite – or best – WW2 short? Plus Thunderbean Rambles and some progress on the ‘Cartoons for Victory’ Blu-ray!
I’m a huge fan of the 50s Don Patterson pictures at Lantz. They are funny, corny, and are completely unpretentious in design.
1943 would mark the final year in the decade’s output of Lantz cartoons to feature a mix of product by various directors.
Lantz continued to spotlight music in his new third series of releases of musical one-shots, aka “Swing Symphonies”.
For this post, I’d like to share my upcoming projects and exciting features currently available on my Patreon page.
A period of considerable change for Lantz and his studio.
The restorations here… what a pleasant surprise! Here are my “liner notes” for the cartoons featured.
Now labeled “A New Universal Cartoon”, not because the cartoon content was new, but that the studio itself was under “New” management.
In 1937 Lantz was trying to come up with a second series that would gain popularity, and put a great deal of effort into the monkeys Meany, Miny, and Moe.
