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THE THREE STOOGES
Most of us who love cartoons also have a love for The Three Stooges. Even those cheap TV cartoons made in the 1960s fascinate me. Steve …
Jerry Beck
TONIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD
If you are in L.A. today, get yourself over to The El Capitan Theatre tonight for a screening of a newly restored LADY AND THE TRAMP, …
FORGOTTEN ANIMATOR TOM JOHNSON
Michael Sporn, on his excellent blog, has posted a bio of animator Tom Johnson from the October 1935 issue of Max Fleischer’s in-house …
NYT OP-ED ON DISNEY-PIXAR
We couldn’t state it any better than this: Neal Gabler in the New York Times today on the Disney-Pixar merger….the seeming conflict …
OSCAR SHORT NOMINEES
And the nomineees are:Badgered (A National Film and Television School Production) Sharon ColmanThe Moon and the Son: An Imagined …
OSCAR FEATURE NOMINEES – NO CG
The nominees are:Howl’s Moving Castle (Buena Vista) Hayao MiyazakiTim Burton’s Corpse Bride (Warner Bros.) Tim Burton and Mike …
BUBBLEGUM FINK
Get your fix of 60s kitsch at Bubblegum Fink – a blog full o’ fun stuff like comics, saturday morning cartoons, record covers, model …
COMING SOON: PRINCE VLADIMIR
Just when you thought cel animation was dead and shipped to Siberia: PRINCE VLADIMIR, a Russian production, will be released in the …
HANNA BARBERA LAND
Back when the family vacation was a real trip: Steve Thompson has been posting brouchures from the 1972 and 1973 King’s Island Happy Land …
ONE MORE QUESTION
Sting (at right) is featuredin THE SWEATBOX (2002)In all the delirium over the wonderful Disney-Pixar news this week, one burning …
WE LOVE MARY BLAIR
ASIFA-Hollywood’s Archive Blog has started posting images from Mary Blair’s long-out-of-print Golden Book of Little Verses and archivist …
FRENCH ANIMATION AT MOMA
Miayazki is the talk of several websites right now (due to his films being showcased this month on TCM), but another international …
DISNEY BUYS PIXAR
In case you haven’t heard — now it’s official. Jobs is Disney’s largest shareholder. Any way you slice it – he’s now the big cheese. …
CHICKEN LITTLE REDUX?
Now in production in Denmark, A.Film is making The Ugly Duckling And Me, a CG feature – as well as a companion TV series of 26 episodes. …
FLIGHTS OF FANTASY
I just found out that Image Entertainment issued a 3 disc boxed set last month called
MY TWO CENTS ON DISNEY/PIXAR
I would have preferred that Pixar create its own distribution company and compete with the industry as a full-fledged stand alone player …
HOODWINKED: THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS
Cory Edwards, director/writer of HOODWINKED, defends criticism of the film and discusses the process of its production on the Animation …
CARTOONS ON EARLY TV
Film buff John McElwee has started a blog, Greenbriar Picture Shows, devoted to his love of old movies. His comments are witty and he …
CLASSIC DISNEY SHORTS ON IPOD
Yesterday, Amid and I joined Roy Disney, Don Hahn, David Stainton, Leonard Maltin and several others at a preview screening of a …
LADY & THE TRAMP
Disney recently restored its CinemaScope materials on LADY & THE TRAMP (1955) for a forthcoming DVD release. But to experience the film …
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