Tralfaz: Tales of Terry, Ted and Leon, 1932. Cartoons in the form of an operetta may not sound like much to us, but in 1932 it was apparently a big deal. Sound cartoons were only a few years old and, already, they needed something other than the gimmick of coordinated music and sound effects to move forward. So the Paul Terry studio came up with the operetta format. Critics at The Film Daily cheered. The Terry studio itself was new, in a way. Terry left the Fables Studio in 1929. The following year, his cartoons (with Frank Moser) were copyrighted by Audio-Cinema, then by Terry-Moser-Coffman in 1931. That’s one of the revelations you’ll find leafing through the trade paper’s issues in the first six months of ’32.
But, as you can see, Ted Eshbaugh opened a studio in Los Angeles (the address given was apparently residential) and grabbed Carl Stalling from Iwerks to compose his scores; whether Stalling simultaneously worked for Iwerks, I don’t know. There’s an intriguing item about Warners expanding its cartoon department. Philips Broadcast of 1938 - George Pal. SWEET PACIFIC George Pal Puppetoon. George Pal - Olio for Jasper (1946) Ward Jenkins. TomSito.com - TOM SITO. Michael Sporn Animation – Splog. Operation Wonderland - Part 2. Operation Wonderland - Part 2. Untitled. Tutorials & Resources | On Animation | Page 2. Tutorials & Resources | On Animation | Page 2. Dec. 2 – The Year Without a Santa Claus -- A Cartoon Christmas. THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS Original Air Date: December 10th, 1974 Santa’s calling it quits for a while. Let’s see how you deal with that, World!
The 1st name in Christmas Specials Ten years after the debut of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Rankin-Bass was still on a Christmas Special hot streak. As with Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town and The Little Drummer Boy, they’d continued to follow the formula of adapting a well-known Christmas song into an hour-long stop-motion Christmas special. The Year Without Santa Claus, however, was the first Rankin-Bass special to be based on a newer (or at least, lesser-know) story, based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Phyllis McGinely. Micheal McKean & Harvey Fierstein as Heat Miser & Snow Miser The special premiered on ABC in 1974 and has aired every year since, currently in rotation over at ABCFamily. From 2008′s A Miser Brothers Christmas I kid the Rankin-Bass! It’s all over, folks.
Click to enlarge our custom panorama Mrs. And two elves. William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore! On February 26, Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore co-directors William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg entered the stage at the 84th Academy Awards to accept the Oscar for Best Animated Short. The film was the first effort from their Moonbot Studios and accomplished exactly what the creative duo set out to do: prove to the world that top quality animation could be crafted even in Louisiana. Joyce and Oldenburg joined producer Lampton Enochs to create the comedic, heartfelt Morris Lessmore following turbulent periods in their lives. William Joyce Writer-illustrator Joyce was already no stranger to animation. That same year, Joyce and Reel FX, co-founded by Oldenburg, launched Aimesworth Entertainments to produce video games, books and movies. But Joyce was growing weary of traveling back and forth between two coasts, desiring to work in his native Shreveport, Louisiana.
Brandon Oldenburg, left, William Joyce and Lampton Enochs Animated Views: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Home : Blue Sky Studios. The RABBIT of SEVILLE. Animation Backgrounds.