Mayerson on Animation

We're back inside Monstro, with Walt Kelly animating Geppetto, Eric Larson doing Figaro and John McManus handling the tuna. Carl Barks ...

This is an unusual sequence in that it's cast by animator. Woolie Reitherman handles all three main characters in this sequence: Pinocc...

Another very short sequence. Monstro starts to eat and Geppetto madly pulls the tuna into the boat to nourish himself and his pets. Geppett...

This sequence is so short it would be a crime not to comment on it immediately. What we learn here, after knowing that Geppetto and company...

This scene is more exposition. We see Monstro for the first time, see Geppetto's circumstances inside the whale and learn that he is ne...

Alberto Ruiz, David Coleman, Joe Weatherly and Stephen Silver will be appearing at The Labyrinth bookstore, 386 Bloor Street West, on Saturd...

Correction : By mistake, I credited Milt Kahl with shot 21.1 in the mosaic. The Jiminy animation is by Woolie Reitherman. I've edited...

The last installment of quotes from David Mamet's book Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business . ...

More quotes from David Mamet's Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business . "The making of movie...

More quotations from David Mamet's book Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business . "As the wri...

This sequence, where Pinocchio escapes from Pleasure Island and discovers that Geppetto has gone searching for him, is very much exposition....

David Mamet is a successful playwright ( American Buffalo , Glengarry Glen Ross ), screenwriter ( The Untouchables , Wag the Dog ), and dire...

Updated Below. August 7 is the 50th anniversary of Oliver Hardy's death. Ed Wynn once said that a comedian isn't a man who opens a ...

...or Barney meets Bluto, if you prefer. While looking at The Simpsons Handbook , I was struck how the construction of the characters resemb...

As I mentioned earlier, I think this is the scariest sequence in any Disney animated film. It is beautifully set up and there's even hu...

The Ottawa International Animation Festival has posted the list of films that have been accepted. There is also a list of retrospectives ...

While I'm in favour of copyright, allowing creative artists and their heirs to financially benefit from their creations, what do you do ...