A Thrilling Tour Through The History Of Wild Takes In Animation
Get ready to have your eyes pop out of your skull, because today we’re taking a look at some of the great wild takes throughout animation history.
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How The Hays Code Censored Cartoons And How Animators Responded
Hollywood tried hard to make theatrical cartoons less raunchy and fun, but animators still found a way to keep their work weird.
‘A Mouse Divided’ Is A New Book Exploring How Success Tore Apart Mickey Mouse Creators Walt Disney And Ub Iwerks
A new animation history book coming out this week aims to shed new light on the relationship between the two creators of Mickey Mouse.
Pete Docter Is Doing A New Disney Flipbook Series: ‘Nine More Old Men’
Disney’s Nine Old Men…move over and make room for Nine MORE Old Men!
Don’t Miss MoMA’s Amazing Tribute to Golden Age Technicolor Cartoons
“Inside Out” production designer Ralph Eggleston and historian John Canemaker will introduce some of the screenings.
A New Trailer For The New Walt Disney Biopic ‘Walt before Mickey’
If you didn’t like the Disney Company’s make-believe version of Walt Disney in “Saving Mr. Banks,” fret not, an independent company has now produced their own fantasy Walt biopic: Walt before Mickey.
‘Drunk History’ Tackles The Birth of Mickey Mouse
“Drunk History,” the Comedy Central series in which drunk celebrities explain real history, set their inebriated sights last night on Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, and the creation of Mickey Mouse.
5 Reasons Why Mickey Mouse Co-Creator Ub Iwerks Was Awesome
Most animation fans know that Ub Iwerks co-created Mickey Mouse. But he contributed much more to animation.
Let’s Cast the Walt Disney Biopic
Who needs the Disney Company! We’ve already got the movie poster for a biopic about Walt Disney so we may as well go ahead and cast the …
What I’m reading this weekend
(Thanks for the loan, Mike Van Eaton)
Jewelry based on 20s/30s cartoon imagery
Inspired by black and white cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, Paris-based web designer Tracey Polyflavor has been creating decorative …
The Amazing Animated Life of Fred Kopietz
If you have the slightest interest in classic Hollywood animation, do not miss this colossal 1991 interview with Fred Kopietz conducted …
Disney’s 1924 letter to Ub Iwerks
Mike Van Eaton (disclosure: he advertises on Cartoon Brew) is in the midst of compiling and co-producing a mammoth animation …
Who was Herbert Iwerks?
The abundance of information on-line has a curious way of creating more mysteries than solving them. For example, everybody knows who Ub …
