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George Pal Rareties

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. …

Here’s a fun gallery of actual film frames from the collection of Tom Stathes – the collector extraordinaire who provided the rare prints …

As previously noted, this Sunday night yours-truly, Jerry Beck, spends the whole evening co-hosting an entire block of classic animated …

This is gallery of images from Columbia Pictures cartoon shorts produced by UPA (United Productions of America), the groundbreaking …

This gallery of images is posted to augment your enjoyment of Max Fleischer’s Mr. Bug Goes To Town (1941) which will be screened on …

Regular readers to this site are well aware by now that I’ll be part of a six-hour presentation of classic animation on TCM (Turner …

To tie-into my forthcoming appearance on TCM and augment your viewing pleasure, I’m going to post a gallery of art and images each day …

I can’t praise enough Google’s use of their homepage to give credit to animation and comic pioneers. Their front-page Google Doodle for …

Unabashed Plug: Out next week is Vol. 2 of Warner Home Video’s Blu-ray cartoon collection, Looney Tunes Platinum Collection. I’m a little …

The post about the 1955 Chuck Jones short A Hitch in Time was well received, so let’s complete the story. Jones made at least two more …

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the west coast premiere of the classic Chinese animated feature Uproar In …

A Hitch in Time is a new one for me: a 1955 propaganda short directed by Chuck Jones that encouraged U. S. Air Force personnel to …

Writer Chris Lukather has just posted a nice interview with Ruth Clampett which contains some new insights into her father – the …

The old adage goes that history is written by the victors. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t other stories worth telling. Recently, I’ve …