Bringing Dinky Doodle (and Weakheart, Pete the Pup, and others!) to Home Video
As I promised, I said I would be back soon with even more exciting news…and that’s what we shall get into today.
Tag Archives: Walter Lantz
Walter Lantz’ Andy Panda in “Meatless Tuesday”
For the first time in a long while on Cartoon Research, here is an animator breakdown of a Walter Lantz Cartune.
Toons Trip Out (Part 4)
Several old friends whom we’ve met in past journeys in this series get another crack at gallivanting around the globe.
La Verne Harding: Hollywood in a ’54 Red Mercury
Harding was the first female animator in Hollywood and she exerted a strong design influence on the Walter Lantz characters, including Woody Woodpecker.
1960s Theatrical Cartoons Rock & Roll
Theatrical animation studios of the 1960s tried to rock and roll. Whether they did it well is a matter of opinion.
Walter Lantz “House Of Magic” (1937)
It’s understandable the Meany, Miny and Moe cartoons were the least of the series that Walter Lantz produced in the 1930s. Here’s an example why.
Go To Hades – Part 2A (Sort of)
This week (with apologies), a potpourri of “stuff we missed” due to an inadvertent reversal in order of intended segments of this article last week.
Animation Trails: Unhealthy Appetites
A look at the concept of an otherwise “good guy” character developing cannibalistic traits. There was usually, though not always, a common motive – downright hunger.
“Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat” (1941)
This year marks the seventieth anniversary of Universal Pictures withdrawing Walter Lantz’s cartoon Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat from distribution.
The Bronze Age 2
By looking at 1972 month by month, it becomes clear just how transitional the year was in moving animation from the Silver Age to the Bronze Age.
