Mayerson on Animation

If you have ever bought anything from Amazon online, you know that they send you emails to alert you to items they believe you will want bas...

I'm frankly amazed (and amused) that the video of Disney re-use is still generating comments after more than a week. I was certainly a...

Mark Kausler has updated the site for his independent film, It's the Cat . There are original cels for sale as well as artwork on disp...

"And 44 percent of the time (there are commercial airline crashes), the two pilots have never flown together before, so they're not...

This Tuesday, March 24, Turner Classic Movies will be running four and a half hours saluting the work of animation director Chuck Jones. Th...

For those in the Toronto area who might be interested, this year's industry day at Sheridan College will take place on April 30. In addi...

Ressemblances dans les films Disney - Vidéos humour One of my students, Agnes Salek , pointed this compilation out to me. It is skillfully...

I was not aware of this film until today. It's from 1947, written and directed by Frank Tashlin for the Lutheran Church. Some of the c...

The Toronto Star has an article today about the Purchase brothers, who hope to break into the live action film business and who are working...

I've had a link to David Nethery's blog listed here for a long time, but he has a second blog done for the Academy of Art in San Fr...

Mark Kausler 's animated short, It's the Cat , is now available for purchase at MyToons . Set to a 1920s recording by Harry Reser...

Another great example of silent comedy slowed down to real time. Here's Ben Model working his magic on the opening factory sequence of ...

This week, two very good sources of information, one on the east coast and one on the west, have blogged their thoughts about animation stud...

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...