Vintage Australian Animated Commercials
“Congobeat” has posted on YouTube several really cool, vintage animated advertisments from Australia. Each one put a smile on my face. …
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Pink Panther Magic Eye Stereogram
You know those Magic Eye pictures? The ones that, if you stare at it long enough, you can see 3-D (without glasses). Here’s an attempt to …
Porky statue found!
Here’s a picture of me with a very rare pig (Uhh… I’m the one on the left). Aside from production cels, how many physical props are …
Monday Morning Inspiration: 4 Great Posts
So much valuable educational material is being posted online nowadays. Here are a few newish items that have caught my …
Van Beuren’s Toddle Tales and Rainbow Parade
Steve Stanchfield has done it again. An animator, educator, cartoon historian and film preservationist, Stanchfield has spent the last …
Spider-man (1967)
Love it or hate it – the theme song has become a classic. Marvel.com is posting the entire series of the 1967 ABC Spider-man Saturday …
Radio Barrier
Animation historian Michael Barrier spent 40 minutes today discussing classic cartoons on the radio show RadioWest, originating from The …
Chaotic Tom & Jerry commercial
Tom and Jerry have always represented chaos — but this Indian commercial is mind-numbing in its confusion. Here, Tom & Jerry join forces …
Crumley Cogwheel (1962)
Another week, another oddball adult-skewing Paramount cartoon from the 1960s. Unlike previous films I’ve posted recently, this one was …
Early Terrytoons: Fried Chicken and Chop Suey
During the golden age of animation Disney was the top – and Terrytoons were the bottom. Cartoonist Paul Terry started making cartoons at …
A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature
In response to Amid’s earlier post on Oscar Winning shorts, Tom Knott located the extremely rare Oscar winning John Hubley cartoon, A …
The Warner Archive Collection
Starting today, Warner Bros. begins opening their film vaults by making hundreds of previously unavavilable movies available on DVD. For …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Three Oscar-Winning Shorts
Here’s a delightful way to begin the week. Cartoon Brew reader Saturnome writes: Your post last week featuring Bob Godfrey’s Great …
MGM Cartoons: Altered and Reissued
Cartoon historian David Gerstein has been rummaging through the Library of Congress and has come up with the dialogue cutting …
From Dime To Dime (1960)
If it’s Saturday, it must be time for another obscure 1960s cartoon that, for one reason or other, was never released to TV. Today we …
The two heads of Gulliver
Last night I had a great time catching up with one of my favorite animated features of all time, Max Fleischer’s Gulliver’s Travels …
Up is Down by Millie Goldsholl
It’s exciting when you’re introduced to the work of a filmmaker that you’ve never heard about, such as last weekend when I stumbled upon …
Bob Godfrey’s Great (1975)
A rare treat is now online: Bob Godfrey’s epic animated short Great. This irreverent musical about 19th century British engineer Isambard …
Oswald old and new
Our pal Ruben Procopio has just posted images of his sculpt for a forthcoming Walt Disney/Oswald Rabbit statue, for the Disney Classics …
The Last Terrytoon one-shot
I’m back with another lame attempt by a classic cartoon studio to be relevant in the 1960s. Today I’ve got what I believe is the last …
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