Category Archives: Classic

Classic

Tom Chasing Jerry for
10 hours

Peter Jackson’s Tom & Jerry trilogy (the director’s cut) is now on You Tube.

Classic

“Moon Rock” (1970), A Rare Film by George Dunning

by Amid Amidi   Wednesday January 2, 2013   7:13 pm

The career of director George Dunning will always be summed up with two words: Yellow Submarine.

Classic

Meet the First (Stone Age) Animators

by Amid Amidi   Wednesday January 2, 2013   12:59 pm

The human desire to animate drawings may stretch further back (much further back) than a couple hundred years.

Cartoon Modern

Modern Car-Toons: A Look At Autos In Mid-Century Animation

by Amid Amidi   Tuesday January 1, 2013   10:50 am

Animation can provide a fascinating window into the past. In the 1950s and 60s, cars became a daily part of life and animation …

Cartoon Culture

Join the KKK (That’s Krazy Kat Klub, You Racist!)

by Amid Amidi   Sunday December 30, 2012   8:39 pm

There’s some ugly stuff to be found in the dusty bins of animation history. Case in point: this wildy inappropriate ad …

Animators

Psychedelic Screwball: The Films of Italian Director Bruno Bozzetto

by Amid Amidi   Sunday December 23, 2012   11:01 pm

Bruno Bozzetto – who has produced a remarkably solid body of work, ripe for rediscovery.

Classic

George Pal Rareties

by Jerry Beck   Thursday December 13, 2012   7:00 pm

Leonard Maltin shared with me this recent find: an Artie Shaw record album with cover art by George Pal!

CGI

Tomorrow in NYC: Lillian Schwartz Retrospective

by Amid Amidi   Sunday December 9, 2012   1:19 pm

The Museum of Modern Art is presenting a retrospective of work by legendary computer animator Lillian Schwartz at 7pm.

Classic

“Popeye The Sailor Man” by Billy Murray

by Jerry Beck   Sunday December 2, 2012   12:00 am

Someone on ebay is selling brand new cylinder records – for those who still have working Edison Amberola phonograph machines…

Classic

Warner Bros Posts Fleischer Superman Cartoons Online

by Jerry Beck   Tuesday November 20, 2012   12:05 am

Yesterday, Warner Bros. quietly post most of the Fleischer
Superman cartoons to their You Tube channel. Normally this …

Classic

“The Further Adventures of Uncle Sam” By Robert Mitchell and Dale Case

by Jerry Beck   Thursday November 8, 2012   6:00 am

I don’t believe I’d ever seen the Oscar-nominated Further
Adventures of Uncle Sam (1970) until today. It’s a fascinating …

Classic

This Friday in NYC: Documentary About Richard Williams’ “The Thief and the Cobbler”

by Amid Amidi   Monday November 5, 2012   7:38 pm

This Friday, November 9th, New Yorkers can see the East Coast
premiere of Kevin Schreck’s new documentary Persistence of …

Animators

Friday in LA: Rare Stop-Motion Classics

by Jerry Beck   Wednesday October 24, 2012   12:05 am

I think all twelve programs compromising the latest Platform
International Animation Festival are terrific – not a bad show …

Classic

Rare Animation on TCM: “Silent Cartoons”

by Jerry Beck   Saturday October 20, 2012   8:30 am

Here’s a fun gallery of actual film frames from the collection
of Tom Stathes – the collector extraordinaire who provided the …

Classic

FIRST LOOK: Jerry on TCM

by Jerry Beck   Friday October 19, 2012   3:00 pm

As previously noted, this Sunday night yours-truly, Jerry Beck,
spends the whole evening co-hosting an entire block of …