AOS and The Bathroom by Yoji Kuri
Whereas the age of a live-action film, no matter how classic, can always be discerned by the appearance of its actors, the …
Classic
How Animation Veteran David Weidman Became Famous
Eighty-nine years young, David Weidman is the subject of a long profile in today’s LA Times written by David Keeps. Weidman began his …
Betty Boop filmstrip
Here’s a curio: a 1930s vintage toy projector slide show, featuring Max Fleischer’s Betty Boop, Koko and Bimbo in a new adventure in the …
Post’s Beep Beep The Road Runner Cereal
Here’s a real Looney Tunes curio: A 1968 animatic for a Post Cereals commercial that was never produced – for a breakfast cereal that …
Popular Science/Fleischer App
Shields Pictures, the owners of the old Paramount Pictures Popular Science theatrical shorts, just recently released their very first App …
Trailers From Hell: Heavy Traffic
Joe Dante and our friends from Trailers From Hell have just posted the coming attractions preview for Ralph Bakshi’s Heavy Traffic …
Merry Christmas from Harman-Ising
It’s the first day of Summer – and Mike Van Eaton has just shared with me another rare piece of animation history. Click the thumbnails …
Get Well, Martha Sigall
Our friend Martha Sigall has been in Intensive Care for the last few days. According to her son, Lee: She was in ICU for four days …
More Looney Tunes character designs
The photo above is one I snapped of the wall of the Warner Bros. booth at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas last week. The hype for the new …
Craig Yoe’s Krazy Kool Kids Komics
Another week, another amazing book from Craig Yoe. And another enthusiastic plug from me, because these are truly great books. This time …
Quirino Cristiani documentary
A 2008 documentary about pioneer Argentine animator Quirino Cristiani (1896-1984) has just been released on DVD. Cristiani made the first …
Spotted A Few Things at the Licensing Show…
…and wanted to share them with you. As I said in a previous post, I attended the 2010 Licensing Expo in Las Vegas yesterday. Here are …
Original MGM Cartoon title art
The image above left is the original art, for the original title card of Rudolf Ising’s 1940 MGM Cartoon, The Fishing Bear. The image …
Animated Shorts of Bob Godfrey
Whenever the short films of British animation legend Bob Godfrey have appeared on YouTube, they’ve been quickly removed. But now there’s …
A Lost Fleischer Cartoon
I have friends in the stock footage business. They buy large libraries of old 16mm movies by the ton (usually home movies, travelogues …
Snoopy Flying Ace
I’m not a gamer, so I can’t speak for the playability, but the design work by Peter Wagner for the new Xbox Live Arcade game Snoopy …
Introducing: The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons
I just received a copy of my latest book, The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes, directly from the printer and snapped the photo above for you to …
The New York Times on the new Looney Tunes
Brooks Barnes recounts the recent history – and uncertain future – of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes franchise in today’s New York Times. The …
Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension (1996) trailer
Here’s a trailer from one of the rarest Looney Tunes of all: Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension. It’s never been on television, …
Amazing Archive of Vintage TV Commercials
The commercial above comes from Duke University’s AdViews digital archive which is the most significant collection of vintage TV …
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