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A REPORT FROM BRAZIL

Sounds like John Canemaker, Bill Plympton and hundreds of South American animation fans had a great time at the Anima Mundi festival last …

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More Great Animation on YouTube

Here’s a couple more rare animated shorts that were recently added to YouTube. The first, FLYING MAN (1962), was helmed by YELLOW …

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Upcoming Halas & Batchelor Book

HALAS AND BATCHELOR CARTOONS: AN ANIMATED HISTORY is a new coffeetable book coming out in August that is “part-history, part-tribute, …

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MORE OSWALD TALK

John Canemaker discusses Oswald The Rabbit on NPR’s TALK OF THE NATION.

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CONGRATS TO ANNIE AWARD WINNERS

The ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Awards ceremony and party Saturday evening was an unqualified success. The award show has been growing and …

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TONIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD

If you are in L.A. today, get yourself over to The El Capitan Theatre tonight for a screening of a newly restored LADY AND THE TRAMP, …

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OSCAR SHORT NOMINEES

And the nomineees are:Badgered (A National Film and Television School Production) Sharon ColmanThe Moon and the Son: An Imagined …

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Why I Like Animation

People ask me on occasion why I like animation. It’s a difficult question to answer, and one that I’ve rarely (if ever) answered to my …

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The Birth of the American Cartoon

I’ve previously noted that John Canemaker is making two don’t-miss Los Angeles appearances on Thursday January 12th and Saturday January …

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MICKEY AND THE GANG

Way back in August I plugged this book, but now that I’ve got it in my hot little hands and have spent hours perusing its pages – I gotta …

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Swindle and Esopus

It’s always exciting to see animated films and animation artists receive recognition in mainstream art publications. Achieving this type …

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Dali and Disney in PRINT

The new issue of PRINT (Sept/Oct) has a good piece by John Canemaker about the legendary collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador …

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OTTAWA UPDATE #1

Tonight we started screening films at the Ottawa Internation Animation Festival. I’m on the feature jury, so I won’t give my opinions yet …

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ANIMATION AT REDCAT

If you live in L.A. and can’t get to Ottawa next week – several screenings at Disney Concert Hall’s REDCAT Theatre in October might help. …

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Unsung Heros of Animation

I can count all the great books about modern independent animation on one hand…hell, probably on one finger, because there simply …

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MOON AND SON Screening in LA

THE MOON AND THE SON: AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION, the well-received 28-minute animated short by famed animation historian John Canemaker, …

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Tips from Ward Kimball

I was re-reading the Ward Kimball section in John Canemaker’s masterful WALT DISNEY’S NINE OLD MEN AND THE ART OF ANIMATION and ran …

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