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Kenyan Animation Outpost Update

February 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Africa, Animation studios, Television animation

This is by way of an overdue update on Tinga Tinga Tales, the Kenyan animated TV series I reported here on June 30th. The series (see trailer above) has begun broadcasting on the CBeebies,(Children’s BBC) (those living in the UK can see past episodes here). In the meantime, check out this BBC story on the [...]

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Clair Weeks and the Beginnings of Indian Animation

August 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Animation studios, Animators, Indian cinema

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archives has recently been posting a slew of wonderful material from their Clair Weeks collection, including this entry on Weeks’ role in jump starting the Indian animation industry. Weeks’ career is a fascinating one, as after 16 years at Disney (where his credits ranged from Snow White to Peter Pan), he [...]

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Joe by Gilbert Bundy

August 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Animation studios, Animators, Harvey Deneroff

The Joe in question is my father, Joe Deneroff, and the drawing by cartoonist and illustrator Gilbert Bundy was apparently done in 1943 when both were working in the US Army Air Force’s fabled First Motion Picture Unit FMPU),  based at Fort Roach (i.e., the Hal Roach Studio, Culver City, California). My mother said my [...]

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Animation Studio Links Discontinued

June 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Animation studios, harvey @ deneroff.com website

It is with some regret that the Animation Studio Links portion of this site is being discontinued. These links were initiated when the site was first started under the name Animation Consultants International in 2001. It was something of a labor of love, which has become increasingly hard for me to keep up. I appreciate [...]

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Yip Harburg at Fleischer

April 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Animation studios, Music and film

Jerry Beck has this fascinating item at Cartoon Research on Yip Harburg and his work at the Fleischer Studios in the early days of talking pictures.  Harburg, of course, was one of America’s finest lyricists, whose work includes the words for two of the most memorable songs  of the Great Depression — “Brother, Can You [...]

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More from Life: Hanna-Barbera, 1960

December 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios, Animators, Filmmakers, Television animation

The caption in the Life/Google archive for the photo above (by Allan Grant) reads: "Carlo Vinci, artist drawing cartoon at Hanna-barbara [sic] productions." Taken in 1960, the year Hanna Barbera became the force in television animation with The Flintstones, when it debuted on the ABC network on prime time.  The image below has the [...]

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Do You Know This Krazy Kat?

December 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios, Filmmakers, History and criticism, Short films

The Nitrate Film Interest Group of the Association of Moving Image Archivists‘ has a Flicker site where archivists post frame scans (and clips) of unidentified films. The above "frame scan is from the end of the film when the audience realizes that Krazy has been eating his furniture in his sleep."
David Bordwell recently noted [...]

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More From Life: Gerald McBoing Boing

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios, Cel animation, Short films

Whenever I lecture about UPA, I almost always mention the Life magazine story about Gerald McBoing Boing as an indicator of how popular the film was. Thus, it was no surprise to find a whole slew of images from the film in the Google/Life magazine archives. What is interesting is that they were apparently photographed [...]

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Life Magazine Photos Online!

November 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios, Animators, Filmmakers, Television

Life magazine’s photo archives are in the process of being posted online, thanks to Google.  The magazine was the picture journal of its day and was published weekly from 1936-1972, and continued to be issued in various stand alone forms until 2000. And its roster of photographers reads like a Who’s Who of Photo [...]

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Kenyan Animation Outpost

June 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Africa, Animation studios, Television animation

The recent news that Playhouse Disney has joined with Britain’s Tiger Aspect Productions is co-producing a new animated TV series, Tinga Tinga Tales for preschoolers with Kenya’s Homeboyz Entertainment. The show, which revolves around African animals and is just starting animation,  is based on the Tinga Tinga art of Tanzania and was commissioned last [...]

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20th Society for Animation Studies Conference at the Art Institute at Bournemouth, July 18-20, 2008

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation conferences, Animation studios

Animation Unlimited 2008 is the name of this year’s Society for Animation Studies conference at the Art Institute at Bournemouth, which is in the English seaside resort town. The Society is very close to my heart, having founded the international membership organization in 1987 and served as its first president. SAS, I am happy to [...]

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Blue Sky Tax Credits

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios

In January, I commented on Blue Sky Studios’ announced move from one New York suburb to another, i.e., from White Plains, New York, to Greenwich, Connecticut. The main reason for the move was because of Connecticut’s lucrative tax credit program. It seemed to give Connecticut a successful animation house, proved again by the subsequent [...]

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An Aardman Chronology/Filmography

January 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios

Film historian Kristin Thompson is trying to compile a rather extensive chronology/filmography for Aardman Animations. The results so far have been posted on her and David Bordwell’s blog in hopes of filling in the blanks, so to speak.
The project arose as a byproduct of Thompson and Bordwell’s work on revising their Film History: An Introduction [...]

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Blue Sky Moves to Connecticut

January 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios

News broke on Thursday, January 10th, that Blue Sky Studios, producers of Ice Age, Robots and Ice Age: The Meltdown, as well as the forthcoming Horton Hears a Who! (pictured above), is moving some 12 miles from White Plains, New York, just north of New York City, to Greenwich, Connecticut. While the move [...]

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Of Christmas Cards Past

December 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Animation Christmas cards, Animation studios

While in the midst of unpacking files left over from my last big move, I came across a batch of Christmas cards I got in the 1990s and thought this would be a good time to share them. I was then a freelance animation journalist and these cards were among the perks.
Christmas cards can, in [...]

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