Mayerson on Animation

Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues is the kind of film that a major studio would never make, and that's exactly why it's so valu...

Nancy Beiman and Michael Sporn have posted that the complete Sita Sings the Blues can be watched online at the WNET site. I don't ...

The Museum of the Moving Image is located in Queens, New York, in a building that was once a working film studio owned by Paramount. Durin...

Ben Model is a musician who accompanies silent movies as well as a silent film historian. He's done some very interesting work taking s...

( UPDATE: Variety reports that Midway Games, makers of Mortal Kombat , filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Feb. 12.) Slate has ...

The N.Y. Times is reporting that Nina Paley's animated feature Sita Sings the Blues will air on the New York PBS station WNET on Marc...

Above is the complete version of The Bandmaster , directed by Dick Lundy for the Lantz studio. It's available on The Woody Woodpecker a...

A few weeks ago, I ran an entry entitled Disney Snobbery . It used an anecdote given to me by Børge Ring, who did not anticipate or endorse...

(There are no spoilers below.) Coraline is a catalog of wonders. It has enough imagination for five feature films. Unfortunately, it only...

What started out as Michael Sporn trying to identify a boy in a picture has developed (in the comments) into several lengthy reminiscences ...

Thanks to Turner Classic Movies, I've just seen the 1945 version of Brewster's Millions for the first time. I was surprised to fin...

Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly ) is interviewed on monetizing internet content. The interview concludes wit...

I have an odd fascination with the Lantz studio. By all accounts, Lantz himself was a nice man who was pleasant to work for. I've neve...

At Ralph Bakshi's website , there is a podcast where he remembers his time at Terrytoons in the 1950s when the studio was being run by ...

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 ...