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The TV Animation Business Part 5
How Companies Keep Their Costs Down: Co-production Imagine this scenario. You live in the United States, but when you turn on your …
Jerry Beck
BEST BUY BARGAINS
Tipped by a reader, I made a trip to a local Best Buy in search of a intriguing DVD set of Abbott & Costello features Universal is …
The TV Animation Business Part 4
How Companies Keep Their Costs Down: Outsourcing Because the number of channels is growing proportionally faster than the number of …
ON THE FRONT LINES
What can I say? It’s amazing!I never thought I’d live to see the day they’d release restored, perfect copies of DER FUEHRER’S FACE, …
JOHN SEELY 1923-2004
John Seely recieved music credit on six Warner Bros. cartoons released in 1958 – when Milt Franklin and the Warner studio musicians went …
APPLESEED TRAILER
Have you seen this trailer for the CG/2-D anime feature APPLESEED?Not sure what I think of it myself – but it’s a good trailer.
The TV Animation Business Part 3
What If You’re Not a Multinational? The multinational corporations are not the only companies making animated TV series. But if …
The TV Animation Business Part 2
How Multinational Corporations Thrive As I mentioned in the last installment, the paradox of the TV business is that the increasing …
DISNEY TREASURES
Oh boy! I’m excited!They go public on May 18th, but I just recieved an advance set of the long-delayed
EAST COAST SCREENINGS
Hair HighWe plug a lot of Los Angeles screenings here, but we have a lot of east coast friends too – and I’ll do my best to post …
The TV Animation Business Part 1
Three Ways to Make Money I’ve worked in different kinds of television animation for my entire career. As a result, I’ve …
POPEYE ON DVD – PART 2
As long as I’m on a rant about POPEYE on DVD, allow me to shamelessly plug a brand new release from the friendly folks at VCI …
Chuck Jones Mural In Danger of Being Destroyed
My friend John Tebbel has been volunteering at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (moccany.org) in New York City. He wrote into the BREW …
PINTO COLVIG
The late Pinto Colvig (1892-1967) has never been honored for being the first person to portray “Bozo the Clown.” As of May 28, 2004, that …
POPEYE ON DVD?
Fleischer POPEYENo, not yet.King Features has released a dvd boxed set of 1960s Popeye cartoons – some of the worst cartoons ever made. …
A Review of Chris Landreth’s ‘Ryan’
I saw a screening of Chris Landreth’s latest computer animated film, Ryan, last week. The film is an animated documentary, somewhat in …
Hello from Toronto
Hi folks. This is my first entry as a guest “brewer” here. I mention it so that if you suddenly find yourself wondering why some …
HOGAN’S ALLEY
It’s that time of the year again!Another fantastic issue of HOGAN’S ALLEY has hit the stands – and it’s another treat for those of us who …
GEPPETTO’S SECRET
Someday soon, a flood of subpar 3-D CG animated features will enter the marketplace and Hollywood’s love affair with the technology will …
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