Jerry Beck at Cartoon Brew breaks the news that two DVD sets devoted to UPA’s theatrical cartoons are coming out soon: UPA Jolly Frolics due out on March 5th from Turner Classic Movies and The Mr. Magoo Theatrical Collection 1949-1959 which s due out June 19th from Shout! Factory (both are available for preorder). Until now, the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Animation history and criticism'
UPA News: Two DVDs and a Book
November 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · American cinema, Animation history and criticism, Animation studios, Books, DVDs
Tags: Adam Abraham·The Mr. Magoo Theatrical Collection 1949-1959·UPA·UPA Jolly Frolics·When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA
Max Fleischer Teaching Student Officers to Read Maps
September 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · American cinema, Animation history and criticism, Documentary films, Filmmakers
The above article from the December 1918 issue of Popular Science is about how a training film produced by “the Training Division of the War College, Mr. Max Fleischer, a former member of the Popular Science Monthly staff, devised for the General Staff the system that we illustrate.” During World War I Max Fleischer was [...]
Tags: Bray Studios·Max Fleischer·Popular Science Monthly·U.S. Army War College·World War I
Film Histories, Part 1
September 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Animation history and criticism, Film history and criticism, Television history and criticism
This is the first in a series of posts in which I will evaluate some of the one-volume histories of film in English. Nominally, it will be from my perspective of their suitability of their use in the classroom, particularly those I teach on the undergraduate and graduate level at the Savannah College of Art [...]
Tags: Film history textbooks