Looking back at the best cartoons of the 1950s needs to take into account the era. With the ravages of World War Two somewhat receding and film production and attendance stabilising, animated feature ...

JAN-WILLEM DE VRIES has written several books and articles about the Toonder Animation Studio’s. One of his future publications might be an extensive (and heavily illustrated) chronicle of the studio ...

Here's a treat – an amazingly detailed illustration (see below) depicting the “hi-fi” of the 1950s by cartoonist/illustrator Roy Doty. This illustration appeared in the “Records” feature in the April ...

On Thursday, Walt Disney Co. will launch its big new marketing event, the D23 Expo, in Anaheim with predictably bright and shiny promotional messages about upcoming projects such as ‘The Princess and ...

In the late 1950s, TV news was on the rise, as more and more Americans (nearly 90 percent of them, in fact) were buying sets. As broadcasters competed with print journalists for breaking news, writers ...

The Mary Meuser Memorial Library will present “The Hanna-Barbera Heyday: The Story of William Hanna & Joseph Barbera” at the next Coffee, Tea and Memories event at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Strausser ...

Just for fun, here’s title cards for a few shorts which will be included in my forthcoming Chronicle book on 1950s animation design. It’s a shame that industrial and educational films from that period ...

Gandhiji is an octopus, a coy bride and Frankenstein. Netaji is in various garbs—Macbeth, Hamlet and a nurse. Sardar Patel is a school teacher pulling an offending Netaji by his ear. Jinnah, Gandhi ...

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Here's a treat – an amazingly detailed illustration (see below) depicting the “hi-fi” of the 1950s by cartoonist/illustrator Roy Doty. This illustration appeared in the “Records” feature in the April ...