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What's Opera, Doc?

litterateur — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:34:35 -0800

And now presenting the 10 Best Uses Of Classical Music In Classic Cartoons!

They are fighting for a new world of freedom and peace.

anastasiav — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:05:00 -0800

Toons at War previously on the same topic

Donald Fauntelroy Duck

Effigy2000 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:08:31 -0800

The Donald Duck animated short film anthology. Donald Duck's family tree. More Donald Duck family trees. Donald, Donald, Donald. Quack, Quack, Quack.

Animation Treasures

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:58:45 -0800

The author of this site takes screen-shots from long-pan scenes of classic animation and puts them together to re-create the original larger background images. Much cooler than it sounds, honest. [via MeFi's own kokogiak, sort of]

Carson's Cartooning Curriculum

klangklangston — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:28:07 -0800

Comic Strip Artist's Kit Carson Van Osten's tips for cartoonists and animators, scanned huge for easy printout.

That's (Almost) All, Folks

tsarfan — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:01:43 -0800

The 50 Greatest Cartoons Ever: the List - including links to the full-length videos of the corresponding toons on YouTube and Google, etc. Based on a twelve year-old-vote by the animation industry, which explains why there are no appearances by Cartman, Bart, or Fry.

Advanced Animation by Preston Blair

soiled cowboy — Sun, 07 May 2006 09:16:45 -0800

Advanced Animation by Preston Blair, "the best 'how to' book on cartoon animation ever published." Blair, a Disney and MGM animator, put the book together in 1947 to illustrate the various basic principles of animation, only to have the book pulled from shelves after the rights to use some of the characters were revoked. Animation historian Jerry Beck has been hunting for a first edition of Blair's landmark book for many years. He finally found a copy and is sharing high-quality scans on the Animation Archive. (Archive previously linked in this thread; discovered via this thread.)

I'll take my propaganda with a side of loony tunes

Astro Zombie — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:46:38 -0800

Education for Death. (YouTubefilter.) Disney-produced anti-Nazi cartoon short from 1943. Look for Hitler's Satanic horns. More weirdness from WWII: Warner Bros Snafuperman, starring Pvt. Snafu (originally created by Dr. Seuss!), who also deals with spies, all while jabbering away in a voice that sounds disconcertingly like that of a certain cwazy wabbit. From Archive. org -- Pvt. Snafu learns about booby traps, in one case literally. Bugs himself joined the Air Force, and was faced with gremlins for his trouble. Superman himself got in on the act, battling Japoteurs. After all, during the War we were plenty worried about those canny Japanese.

Political Comicry

Hands of Manos — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:04:37 -0800

Ann Telneas is an editorial cartoonist. She started out working for Disney Imagineering as a designer. She has also been an animator for various studios in London, Los Angeles, New York and Taiwan. She now holds many awards for her cartoons and is in several prestige publications. Her works are an impressive array of political caricatures, feminism, and cultural issues

Rapacious, soul-less, and always looking for the

Fofer — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:37:24 -0800

Walt would turn over in his cryonic chamber... (I know, I know, it's not true.) Speaking of family trees, Roy Disney (the last board member with ties to the founding family) resigned from the company Sunday, calling for the ouster of Chairman Michael Eisner. Stanley Gold soon soon followed. In a harsh letter, Disney said the entertainment conglomerate had "lost its focus, its creative energy, and its heritage" and that the public now held the perception that company is "rapacious, soul-less, and always looking for the 'quick buck'." No word yet from the Disneyland obsessives, but the folks at MousePlanet 's Mousepad seem optimistic about this development...

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Mouse?

jonp72 — Sat, 25 Jan 2003 23:12:33 -0800

Mickey Mouse attempts suicide and fights the Nazis. Minnie Mouse goes wild at National Lampoon, while Donald Duck has a drug problem. Read about a 1970s porn film, a series of underground comics, the missing black centaur in Fantasia, and all the other cultural history that Disney doesn't want you to see.