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Van Citters launches Magoo’s Christmas Carol blog
To support the second printing of his self-published book on the making of Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, Darrell Van Citters has begun a …
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June Foray’s Birthday
It’s becoming an annual tradition around here, one I hope we celebrate for the next fifty years. Before the day is over, we want to say …
Who was Herbert Iwerks?
The abundance of information on-line has a curious way of creating more mysteries than solving them. For example, everybody knows who Ub …
Every Warner Bros. Cartoon in 7 minutes (or less)
This video contains a still image from each of the 1000+plus Looney Tunes cartoons released by Warner Bros. from 1930 to 1969 – all to …
Popeye and Olive get Married (1939)
The killer ebay find of the week: a rare 1939 publicity photo (click thumbnail below left to enlarge) of voice actors Jack Mercer …
Frank Tashlin’s Van Boring on Facebook
Cartoonist-animator-filmmaker Frank Tashlin drew a comic strip, Van Boring (He Never Says a Word), for the Los Angeles Times between 1934 …
Snapshots from Cinecon
As mentioned previously, I’m spending my Labor Day at the annual classic movie convention in Hollywood, Cinecon. Inbetween screenings I’m …
Looney Tunes on PBS History Detectives
Below I’ve embed the entire one-hour episode of History Detectives which aired last night on PBS. The first 18 minutes is devoted to …
History Detectives
A few weeks ago I recieved a call from the fine folks at the PBS show History Detectives. Seems they had someone who found a cache of …
Toby The Pup in The Showman (1930)
The Holy Grail for many of us cartoon historian-types are the lost RKO Toby The Pup cartoons. Originally released in 1930 and 1931, …
Betty Boop Fest to honor Grim Natwick
This weekend in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Rapids Betty Boop Festival will celebrate its native son: Myron “Grim” Natwick, the designer and …
Photo Flashback: Disney in the late-1930s
(click for hi-res version) This is a shot of Disney’s Hyperion studio circa the time of production on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. …
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 …
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 …
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