GIVEAWAY: UPA Jolly Frolics DVD sets

CONTEST IS CLOSED! WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY. I’ve got two copies to give away of TCM’s 3-dvd UPA Jolly Frolics set. It’s …

FRIDAY in L.A: UPA at LACMA

To celebrate the publication of Adam Abraham’s essential new UPA history, When Magoo Flew and the just-released TCM/Sony DVD set,

UPA, UPA, and Away!

They’re out… and as Tony the Tiger would say: “They’re Grrrr-reat!” I will go out on limb right now and declare TCM’s UPA: The Jolly …

March 30th in LA: “UPA Day!”

As far as I’m concerned, there can’t be enough praise and recognition for United Productions of America (UPA). They may be long gone and …

Tee Hee Meets the Eames

I was digging around for some UPA photos the other day when I stumbled onto this photo that I’d labeled “Tee Hee and visitors.” Tee Hee …

Bert & Harry Piel

Just for fun – and thanks to Chuck Howell, the Archivist at University of Maryland’s Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture – we are …

2012 Animation Book Preview

The future of animation books, like the rest of the publishing industry, isn’t rosy. Page counts and print runs are shrinking, and …

UPA Cartoons Are Coming to DVD

Here they come – at long last. Columbia Pictures classic collection of UPA cartoons will soon be available as you’ve never seen them …

TONIGHT in LA: UPA tribute at Cinefamily

Tonight at 8pm is that tribute to UPA I told you about last week. Its the latest subject of my Animation Tuesday screenings, held each …

UPA Cartoon Tribute at Cinefamily

Creators of Mr. Magoo and Gerald McBoing Boing, United Productions of America (UPA) was the most significant animation studio of the …

Who was Lee Orgel?

In the Gay Purr-ee production photo above is (left to right): Lee Orgel, Judy Garland, Henry G. Saperstein, Robert Goulet, Abe Levitow …

Six Rare Pieces of Animated Ephemera

Here are six good and rare animation-related clips I discovered on Critical Past, a stock footage house that specializes in films from US …

Rare UPA Recordings by Mel Leven

Here’s another historical curiosity courtesy of animator Mike Kazaleh. Songwriter Mel Leven (“Cruella de Vil” for 101 Dalmatians) …

Magoo’s Christmas

Once again I visited with Stu Shostak this week to do his Internet radio show. During the commercial breaks I peruse Stu’s huge archive …

Bob McIntosh, R.I.P.

Bob McIntosh passed away on June 17, 2010 at the age of 94. Born on March 11, 1916 in Vallejo, California, and raised in Stockton, Bob …

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