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Disney In Deutschland
For those of you who were disturbed by our post of Bimbo in Israel, here’s the flip side of the coin. Currently playing in San …
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UPA-NY TV Spots Donated To MoMA
It was just a couple weeks ago that I was lamenting on the Cartoon Modern blog the unavailability of the UPA commercials. Today I have …
Update at the Ken Harris website
John Dyson, the grandson of master animator Ken Harris (1898-1982) started a website last year to post artwork, photographs and ephemera …
Chronicle Blogging
Development piece by John Hubley from UPA’s Rooty Toot (1952). From the collection of Mike Glad. The folks at …
The Great UPA Debate
It all started on John Kricfalusi’s blog in a series of posts where he analyzes UPA’s modern graphics, comparing them to traditional …
The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm
When the CIA isn’t busy destabilizing other countries, they apparently like to help animation studios create cartoons. At least that’s …
An Animation Legend Has A Garage Sale
The last surviving member of Disney’s Nine Old Men, Ollie Johnston, has moved to Oregon, and this past weekend, there was a quietly …
Monday Morning Inspiration: Now Hear This (1962)
Now Hear This is without doubt one of the weirder (and more difficult to find) WB shorts that Chuck Jones ever made, but it’s a nice …
More Rare Kimball Video
Brew reader Dave Stuckey has uploaded yet another crazy rare Ward Kimball clip: a Firehouse Five Plus Two performance from the MGM film …
Len Lye’s Post Office Films
Ok, so imagine you’re the post office and you need to make three animated shorts to illustrate the following concepts: new parcel rates, …
R.I.P. Ward Kimball’s Railroad
According to this piece in today’s LA Times, Ward Kimball’s family is dismantling his backyard Grizzly Flats Railroad – one of the major …
Psst! Pass It On
Psst! Pass It On… is a collaborative filmmaking experiment in which three different creative teams work together to create a 90-second …
Animation Writing Roundup
The most interesting writing and interviews about animation can no longer be found in any particular magazine; rather it’s spread out …
Beany & Cecil Boards by Bruce Timm
File this under “Weird Things I’ve Accumulated Over the Years.” While cleaning out some boxes recently, I ran across photocopies of a …
Canemaker at Apple Store Soho
Apple and indieWIRE are presenting several Filmmaker Talks at the Apple Store Soho during the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Tomorrow our …
Cartoon Modern is Voted Best Film Book of 2006
I’m not one who likes to brag but that’s because I usually don’t have a whole lot to brag about. Things are a little different today …
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Incompetence
Really now, c’mon EcoZone.tv. If you’re going to hire somebody to ape somebody else’s style from concept through design through gags, …
Why execs should refrain from being “creative”
This is an amusing anecdote from Rocky & Bullwinkle writer Bill Scott which took place back in the early-1950s while he was working at …
Three Classics by Chuck Menville and Len Janson
All praise the Internet for making available three difficult-to-find LA-produced indie animation classics—Vicious Cycles, …
This Tuesday in LA: I Am 8-Bit
I Am 8-Bit, the yearly artistic celebration of retro-video games, returns tomorrow night, April 17, to Gallery 1988 (7020 Melrose Ave, …
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