Jerry- you left out MGM- Barney Bear is there as well!
Thanks for this terrific post! Makes me wish I could see the entire book.

Neat! “Magic with a Pencil” indeed!

My favorite quote:

“Note the simplicity and directness of the drawings in this animating sequence…There is not a superfluous line in any of the eight drawings. The action is thought out well.”

Ah, if animation today were still like that…

Great stuff! Is that a gag from Chuck Jone’s Presto Chango in there?
Thanks fer sharing, Jerry

Thank you. I have seen multi-generational photocopies of a few pages, namely the Hoppity, Bugs and Porky ones but not the whole chapter. I knew it was from A Nat Falk book. When I saw the first Nat Falk book online I assumed I mis-remembered. Thanks again for this valuable artistic and historic resource.

Barker Bill lives!

This is awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing.

If I had to guess, it looks like Jim Tyer drew page # 73. I hate his stuff. Alot of people in the biz tend to worship him, but ignoring volume, shapes, and flow doesn’t make you a great animator.

His stuff is great when he was on Popeye shorts, and equally as good when his was doing that Sydney the Elephant graphic stuff, but his Terrytoons stuff is blob-a-mation.

Have to see if I ever get a copy of this one someday (still feel proud of my copy of “How to Make Animated Cartoons” with Paul Terry’s autograph/Farmer Al Falfa sketch inside).

Cool stuff. But it’s odd how instructions on “How To Draw A Head” (pg. 70) admonish:

“The underlying shape of a head is a circle or oval. Begin by drawing one of these shapes. Draw free hand. Don’t use a compass.”

Yet the head on that page (and those on page 73) all use circles drawn with… a compass.

I remember this book very well. Our town library had a copy of it when I was a little kid fifty years ago. I took it out frequently. Don’t I wish I owned a copy!

Do you think that the books shown here are mislabeled? Could the sellers have misread “Jr’s” for “It’s”

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Alan%20D.%20Bogorad

What do you think? Or was there a similar title written by the same author?

Thanks Jerry for agreeing to post this! I, like you, am surprised this chapter has never been posted on the Internet until now.

I’ll answer a few questions:
To Bill Field: This is the only chapter with copyrighted animated characters. The rest of the book is a standard art book, which may be of some interest to burgeoning artists, but you can let me know if you would like to see more.

To Brad Constantine: Yes, that is from “Presto Chango”.

To Mike Scibetta: I think the sellers have misread it as “It’s”. I’ve also seen it for sale with “Jr” spelled out as “Junior’s”.

I’ve had the book since I was a child. My dad originally received it as a gift in 1944.