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Here’s a piece of Fleischer animation unseen in over 80 years… in fact it may never have been seen in movement at all. Director Bob …

During World War II, dozens of Disney artists were drafted into the US military. Today I’m sharing letters written by three of those …

Peter Rosenberg of Cartoon Crazys, the folks restoring Gulliver’s Travels, as I mentioned in this post, wrote this on our Comments …

In case you haven’t noticed, the classic Warner Bros. cartoons are nowhere to be seen on broadcast television or on cable. It’s been that …

Though Max Fleischer’s Gulliver’s Travels in public domain and widely available on several home video formats, the film has never been …

I found this intriguing two page article on Clutch Cargo in that 1960 issue of TV Guide I mentioned yesterday. I’m a big fan of the …

Courtesy of the Life Magazine photo library, now online as part of Google Images, comes a treasure trove of behind the scenes publicity …

In case you were wondering if anyone has started archiving all the caricatures of Cab Calloway in classic Hollywood cartoons… I suggest …

Looks like Betty Boop has returned to her pre-Code rootsâ€¦ gambling! Dave Filipi (Film Curator of Wexner Center for the Arts in …

According to this article in today’s London Times, Popeye the Sailor will lose its copyright protection in Europe on January 1. …

Here’s a special end-of-the-year treat for New Yorkers: the Fleischer’s second and last feature, Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941), is playing …

Comic art collector Eric Sack is an old friend who has perhaps the finest collection of original underground comix art in the United …

How else could we end this but with an excerpt from A Charlie Brown Christmas, the greatest piece of holiday animation ever created, …

Directed by Bill Melendez, this is the 1974 Emmy Award-winning special Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Clause. Melendez’s years of …

Warner Bros. is finally releasing the classic Paramount Superman cartoons (1941-43) on a stand alone DVD set. These are the nine Max …

Looney Tunes make a return appearance to television on New Years Day when Cartoon Network is scheduled to broadcast an all-day 14-hour …

Celebrating Christmas old-school Chipmunk style…

Today’s entry from the UK is more curio than classic: the 1959 Halas and Batchelor cartoon The Christmas Visitor, directed by John Halas, …

Der Schneemann (The Snowman) is a delightful 1943 animated short directed and animated by Hans Fischerkoesen in Nazi Germany. …

We’re sticking around in the Thirties today for the Van Beuren short Pals (aka Christmas Night) starring Soglow’s The Little King. A …