Happy Birthday to It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
- in Advertising
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Let’s celebrate and prove how sincere we really are.…
Tag: animation
Beautiful RKO Radio Pictures Ad for Disney’s Silly Symphonies
- in Ephemera
A lovely 1937 RKO Radio Pictures ad for the Walt Disney animated shorts series, Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies.…
Vintage Animation: “Who Profits from Profits?”
- in Auction Finds
A gallery of one dozen 35mm slides showing scenes from the 1960s animated business short film, “Who Profits from Profits?”…
Venture Bros. Wrapup: “A Very Venture Halloween”
- in TV & Radio
The Venture Bros. returns to Adult Swim after a two-year absence with the hilarious holiday special, “A Very Venture Halloween.”…
Man, Challenge of the GoBots Was Really a Twisted Cartoon
Let’s watch this scene from Challenge of the GoBots and take it out of context as a sexual assault!…
Hanna-Barbera Makes Me Want to Do Drugs
- in Funny Stuff
And here I thought I had seen all the funky PSAs the ’60s and ’70s had to offer. I’m not sure how effective this 1970 public service announcement from Hanna-Barbera was at keeping kids off…
Sunday Jazz: Shorty Rogers, Stan Freberg, and “Three Little Bops”
- in Music
Let’s take a fun little diversion from our Sunday Jazz routine to watch “Three Little Bops,” the swinginest cartoon Looney Tunes ever made.…
Trailer Trash — The Lorax, A Thousand Words, and 21 Jump Street
- in Movies
This week I offer snap judgments of The Lorax, A Thousand Words, and 21 Jump Street based solely on their theatrical trailers.…
I Love You, Internet: DangerMouse fan art I would totally buy
One day, when the Danger Mouse cartoon gets a reboot, this will be the movie poster. It has to be.…