Mayerson on Animation

Unfortunately, I can only find a portion of this cartoon online, though the complete cartoon is part of the DVD set The Woody Woodpecker and...

( UPDATE : Thanks to Alan Cook , here's a link to four of the five animated shorts that are nominated. The only missing film is La Mai...

"Even as movie attendance has dropped nineteen per cent from its peak of 1.6 billion theatregoers, in 2002, the number of films release...

There's a cliché that entertainment does well during recessions. It may not decline as much as other industries, but entertainment is n...

This 1932 photo was taken in front of the Charles Mintz studio. Standing, left to right: Harry Love, Preston Blair, Allen Rose. Kneeling: ...

I no longer read comics as I once did, but I do keep an eye on the comics industry, mainly to give me a basis for comparison when I look at ...

Cartoon Brew pointed to this cartoon by Hans Fischerkoesen, made in Germany in 1943. I think that I became familiar with his three wartime...

I'm only posting this as earlier today I said that Laika was perhaps the best positioned of what Fast Company referred to as the ...

Last week, the NY Times ran an article by Brian Stelter on people who are now earning a living from their postings on YouTube. For some, li...

After reading the entry on Delgo 's failure, Paul Teolis pointed me to this 2005 article from Fast Company on the "Baby Pixars....

According to Deadline Hollywood Daily , Delgo , an independent cgi-animated feature, opened in 2160 theatres this weekend and grossed $465,0...

Here's a lovely shot of Al Eugster taken by Harvey Deneroff in 1980 at Kim and Gifford Productions in New York. Al was 71, though he ...

Jeffrey Katzenberg was in Toronto last Monday, talking about DreamWorks' commitment to stereoscopic 3D and showing clips from the forthc...

Even before the current economic situation, certain media industries were in trouble. In particular, TV and newspapers had both been losing...

This isn't a doomsday scenario about there being only one customer left. It's about the fact that while people work for companies a...

I will, of course, remind everyone about this later, but Turner Classic Movies has an entire evening devoted to Chuck Jones next March 24. ...

(Click any image to enlarge.) As the semester draws to a close, I'm getting buried with grading, which is why I haven't updated this...

My sentiments, exactly. I just watched the new DVD release of Sleeping Beaut y. It’s the first time I’ve seen the film in over a decade and ...

This is the climax of the film where Cruella and the Baduns attempt to stop the truck carrying the dogs back to London. While it is an excit...