Animators Yuri Norstein’s HERON AND CRANE (1974) by Amid Amidi Friday March 31, 2006 4:44 am If you have an extra ten minutes to spare today, you can spendthat time no better than watching the lyrical short HERON AND …
Animators Scary Flash Animation by Amid Amidi Thursday March 30, 2006 6:49 pm Some sick perverted souls in South Korea came up with this piece of Flash animation. It might make you queasy. It might make …
Old Brew FLEISCHER COLOR CLASSICS by Jerry Beck Thursday March 30, 2006 5:06 pm Film buff John McElwee posted another great entry on his blogabout old cartoons. This time offering some perspectives on …
Old Brew GREAT TO BE NOMINATED by Jerry Beck Thursday March 30, 2006 7:15 am It’s back! Randy Haberkamps’s great series of Monday nightscreenings at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, …
Animators Eisner Ruins Something Besides Disney by Amid Amidi Thursday March 30, 2006 2:45 am If Michael Eisner talks and nobody listens, does he still have a talkshow? The debut of Eisner’s new series on CNBC tanked …
Old Brew UMB by Liron Damir by Amid Amidi Thursday March 30, 2006 2:19 am UMB is a graduate film created by Israeli animation/broadcastdesign student Liron Damir at the Bezalel Academy of Art and …
Old Brew ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS by Jerry Beck Wednesday March 29, 2006 4:00 pm Maybe it’s me – or maybe I’m just nostalgic for an old fashioned hand drawn animated feature – but this Asterix and the …
Old Brew TOONWORLD TV CLASSICS by Jerry Beck Tuesday March 28, 2006 10:30 pm My friend Wayne Daigrepont has a cell phone and just found outhe had Toonworld TV Classics. Here’s his email to me:So here’s …
Old Brew POW! BAM! WHAM! by Jerry Beck Tuesday March 28, 2006 11:10 am Holy Animated Sound Effects! As a child of the 1960s, I was ahuge fan of the 1966 BATMAN TV show. So I have to say I’m …
Animators Identifying Classic Animators by Amid Amidi Tuesday March 28, 2006 12:15 am My new favorite blog of the moment is Thad Komorowski’s“Identifying Animators and Their Scenes.” The site has only been …
Old Brew COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA by Jerry Beck Monday March 27, 2006 2:55 pm Films by Jove, owners of the Russian Soyuzmultfilm Studios filmlibrary, has invested more than $3 million to digitally …
Old Brew UPA LAST NIGHT by Jerry Beck Monday March 27, 2006 9:14 am Larry Loc on the ASIFA-Hollywood blog posted a bunch of photoshe snapped at last night’s UPA TRIBUTE at the Egyptian Theatre …
Old Brew UPA TODAY by Jerry Beck Sunday March 26, 2006 10:32 am The image above is a black-and-white still from one of the lastnon-Magoo UPA theatrical shorts, THE JAYWALKER (1956). It’s a …
Animators Disney’s Story of Menstruation by Amid Amidi Sunday March 26, 2006 1:42 am After posts about Disney’s forays into VD prevention andgonorrhea drugs, I’d be remiss to not post Disney’s 1946 film …
Old Brew RICHARD FLEISCHER (1916-2006) by Jerry Beck Saturday March 25, 2006 11:24 am Ray Pointer just informed us that film director, RichardFleischer, son of animation pioneer, Max Fleischer, passed away …