Perhaps historical would be a better word. I’m not talking about the winners in the competitive voting for ASIFA-Hollywood’s Annie Awards proper (listed here), but rather for the juried awards, including the June Foray and Winsor McCay Awards. What was startling was the fact that three of these honors went to animation historians: Jerry Beck […]
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Annie Awards Make History
February 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Filmmakers · History and criticism · Producers
Jack Zander
December 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Jack Zander, the veteran New York producer who began his career during Hollywood’s Golden Age of Animation, died on Monday at age 99. Among his accomplishments as an animator was animating Jerry in Puss Gets the Boot (1940), the first Tom and Jerry cartoon. However, after the war he established and ran two of New […]