93-Year-Old Cel Painter June Patterson Talks About the Disney Classics
June Walker Patterson worked as a cel painter on Disney classics like Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi. Today, she is 93-years-old and lives …
June Walker Patterson worked as a cel painter on Disney classics like Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi. Today, she is 93-years-old and lives …
After drawing a crowd of 15,000 attendees to Cowboys Stadium for a live simulcast of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, the Dallas Opera aims …
A tribute to the legendary director Frank Tashlin on his Centennial.
The Flintstones (1960) have been duly celebrated throughout the years, but one part of the Hanna-Barbera series that hasn’t received much …
Okay historians, a treat for you today – a gallery of rare Fleischer Studios material.
Move over, Captain America and Spy Smasher. Here come Bugs Bunny, Andy Panda and Gandy Goose!
Cartoon voice acting from the Golden Age of theatrical and TV animation (1930s to 1960s) was almost uniformly excellent.
Peter Jackson’s Tom & Jerry trilogy (the director’s cut) is now on You Tube.
The career of director George Dunning will always be summed up with two words: Yellow Submarine.
The human desire to animate drawings may stretch further back (much further back) than a couple hundred years.
Animation can provide a fascinating window into the past. In the 1950s and 60s, cars became a daily part of life and animation reflected the new automobile culture.
There’s some ugly stuff to be found in the dusty bins of animation history. Case in point: this wildy inappropriate ad promoting Krazy Kat theatrical animated shorts.
Bruno Bozzetto – who has produced a remarkably solid body of work, ripe for rediscovery.
Leonard Maltin shared with me this recent find: an Artie Shaw record album with cover art by George Pal!
The Museum of Modern Art is presenting a retrospective of work by legendary computer animator Lillian Schwartz at 7pm.
Someone on ebay is selling brand new cylinder records – for those who still have working Edison Amberola phonograph machines…
Yesterday, Warner Bros. quietly post most of the Fleischer Superman cartoons to their You Tube channel. Normally this wouldn’t be big …
I don’t believe I’d ever seen the Oscar-nominated Further Adventures of Uncle Sam (1970) until today. It’s a fascinating time-capsule of …
This Friday, November 9th, New Yorkers can see the East Coast premiere of Kevin Schreck’s new documentary Persistence of Vision, about …
I think all twelve programs compromising the latest Platform International Animation Festival are terrific – not a bad show in the batch. …