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The Upstate Four: An Interview with Fran and Will Krause
. The Upstate Four (viewable in two parts above) is an eleven-minute Cartoon Network pilot created by brothers Fran Krause and Will …
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SpongeBob SquareButts
SpongeBob SquarePants + Sir Mix-a-Lot + Burger King = The viral ad that everybody’s going to be linking to for the next week. Case in …
Earliest Disney records?
Here’s a treat. Music historian and record archivist Mike Kieffer sent me a copy of his latest find. It’s the first authorized recording …
Rodney (1956)
Last week Amid posted several Disney industrial films and got quite a nice reaction, so I thought I’d try posting another one – this one …
Protesting Foie Gras at Euro Disney
As part of an online campaign to protest the serving of foie gras at Euro Disney, Jurjen Bosklopper and Mustafa Kandaz created an …
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 …
Jack Dunham, 1910-2009
I’ve learned that American animator Jack Dunham passed away a couple weeks ago at age 98. I’d written about Dunham back in 2006 after a …
CG Blogging
No, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. Since November, blogger Dave Stratton has been posting in the form of “daily dialog-driven …
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 …
Oddball Sixties Disney Industrial Films
The Social Side of Health and The Fight are a couple of oddball industrial films directed by Nine Old Man Les Clark at Disney in 1969. …
The Secret of Kells
The Secret of Kells is a largely hand-drawn 2-D animated feature that is garnering a lot of good buzz from people who have seen it, such …
Crumley Cogwheel (1962)
Another week, another oddball adult-skewing Paramount cartoon from the 1960s. Unlike previous films I’ve posted recently, this one was …
Bob Arbogast (1927-2009)
The L.A. Times is reporting the passing of cartoon voice actor Bob Arbogast. Not exactly a household name, Arbogast nonetheless …
Why Cartoonists Don’t Go Out in Public Much
Something funny for Friday. Australian animator David Blumenstein made this spot for a local Melbourne comic event called Comic Book …
The Lost Tribes of New York City
Filmmakers Andy and Carolyn London (A Letter to Colleen) interviewed people around New York City and transposed their voices onto …
Where The Wild Things Are trailer
Decidedly not animated, but based on a beloved Maurice Sendack illustrated book, and once-upon-a-time optioned by Disney, I couldn’t …
Re-Animating Live-Action Films
Artist Christopher Panzner is promoting a new animation technique that he has dubbed Re:Naissance, which is essentially rotoscoped key …
“The Orange” by Nick Fox-Gieg
The Orange is a droll and effective piece of storytelling directed by Nick Fox-Gieg and based on a story by Benjamin Rosenbaum. It was …
Cat Shit One
This trailer, created by Studio Anima, is for a proposed anime series called Cat Shit One. It’s based on a manga by Motofumi Kobayashi, …
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 …
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