Rare Color Film of 1941 Disney Strike

I was organizing some dvds tonight and stumbled upon this rare color footage from the 1941 Disney strike. If I recall correctly, it’s …

Beep! Beep!

Looking for something to do today? Try watching 43 Road Runner cartoons on YouTube. Or if you prefer a more painless way of committing …

BG Inspiration

Art director Hans Bacher (Mulan) has started up an incredible new blog called Animation Treasures. He’s painstakingly recreating pan …

Woody and Popeye

Next week the Popeye collection goes on sale. While we wait, here are two recent vintage commercials that didn’t quite make it as …

RIP, David Hilberman

ASIFA-San Francisco president Karl Cohen forwarded a note to let us know that UPA co-founder and one of the last of the truly great …

Monday Morning Inspiration: Tex Avery

The word genius is thrown around a bit too frequently nowadays (admittedly, I’m guilty of it myself), but true animation geniuses the …

Popeye Update

Once again, the original title from Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves. This time I was able to grab the frame from the DVD …

Thurl, Thurl, Thurl

Ahhh… The joys of Thurl collecting. If you love old cartoons (or are simply addicted to Kellogg’s Sugar Frosted Flakes) then you …

Chuck Jones, Ken Harris, and Ben Washam

Animators at Work

Animator David Nethery has created a wonderful photo album of classic and contemporary animators at their animation desks.

Popeye DVD: Bonus Materials

This is the original main title, unseen for 70 years, to Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves, shot with my cel phone camera …

Terrytoon Animators at work, 1939

Asifa-Hollywood’s Animation Archive has unearthed and posted a rare silent 8mm film shot by animators at Terrytoons detailing the process …

All About Arnold Stang

New York freeform radio station WFMU has one of the best blogs devoted to alternative pop culture and strange music. Today’s post by …

First Hitler, now Mussolini

How many facists does it take to create a classic cartoon character? A play we posted about earlier concerning a fictional meeting …

A Letter from Ward Kimball

Animator and director Will Finn has posted a letter that he received from Ward Kimball in 1973 packed with sage words about becoming an …

Paramount Shorts 1934

Here’s a killer item on ebay. If I could afford it, I’d buy this. Since I can’t I might as well post it here and maybe one of our …

Columbia’s Barney Google

One of the “Holy Grails” amongst us cartoon historians is the series of four Barney Google cartoons produced in Technicolor by Columbia …

UPA-NY TV Spots Donated To MoMA

It was just a couple weeks ago that I was lamenting on the Cartoon Modern blog the unavailability of the UPA commercials. Today I have …

June Foray hears a… “Who?”

I was speaking to June Foray today and was surprised to find out she isn’t in the cast of the currently-in-production CG Horton Hears A …

Viacom sells Famous Music

Well, there goes Popeye the Sailor Man, It’s A Hap-Hap Happy Day and Casper The Friendly Ghost. Not the characters (they were sold off …

Pingwings Rediscovered

Tony Mines of Spite Your Face Productions sent me a note about an early-1960s British animated series, The Pingwings, which had been …

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