This snapshot, which I took at The Animation Guild’s annual Christmas party on December 12, 2003, was the closest I ever got to meeting Roy E. Disney, who died yesterday, December 16th, at the age of 79. He appeared there in the midst of an epic struggle for control of the Disney Empire with Michael [...]
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Roy E. Disney
December 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Producers
EmmyTVLegends.org Launched
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Producers, Television history and criticism
The Academy of Television Arts iand Sciences’ Archive of American Television has launched EmmyTVLegends.org website, which aims to put its voluminous collection of over 600 video interviews with “with the pioneers and legends of [ American]television.” The site, which uses YouTube to host the interviews, represents a second try for the Archives, which according to [...]
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An Interview with Gary Kurtz
June 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Producers
The following story was originally published in issue 49 of Animatoon (2004), the Korean animation magazine, and was based on an interview I conducted in at the Café Nero in the Pimlico section of London on April 30, 2004. As I noted in the story, I knew Gary when we were both students at [...]
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Max Fleischer at The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Producers
Steve Hulett, on The Animation Guild blog, noted this story by Joel Feingold from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Max Fleischer’s days as a cartoonist at the paper from 1901 to 1905. It also reprints several examples of his work, including the one on the left, from August 1902, noting “Chawles’ resemblance to Betty Boop.” [...]
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Annie Awards Make History
February 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Filmmakers, History and criticism, Producers
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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Jack Zander
December 20th, 2007 · No Comments · Directors, Producers
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 [...]
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