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Robin Hoodlum - 1948 UPA Cartoon
2008-03-07 11:53:00 Some people claim that UPA cartoons are quite childish and pretentious but personally I feel that they themselves are being pretentious by not acknowledging that not all cartoons have to be like... More About: Cartoon , Robin , Hoodlum
Boomerang Classic Cartoon Channel - Australia
2008-03-06 15:14:00 Remember when Boomerang was launched in Australia four years ago? Remember how they promised to show all those classic cartoons that we have not seen for ages? Well, look at their line up now. Sure,... More About: Cartoon , My Thoughts , Classic , Channel
Victims of the Youtube Purge
2008-03-06 13:56:00 A few of the videos that have been uploaded to the blog have disappeared due to the great Youtube Purge . One of them is The Fox and The Grapes, the Columbia Fox and Crow cartoons directed by Frank... More About: My Thoughts , Victims
Flora - 1948 Columbia Cartoon
2008-03-06 12:25:00 Columbia weren't as well known for their cartoons as Warner Bros. or MGM, but they made a number of very fine cartoons. Of course the Fox and Crow series is well remembered but there were other... More About: Cartoon , Columbia , Flora
EC Comics - Shock Suspense Stories
2008-03-06 12:04:00 In the last few months I have been buying reprints of the old 1950s EC Comics . have been buying everything I can find from horror to sci-fi to war comics and I really like them. They have this sense... More About: Stories , Shock , Comic Books , Suspense
Superman Teaches About The Letter 'S'
2008-03-05 03:38:00 Not content with fighting Luthor, Bizarro, Brainiac and smoking, Superman takes some time out to teach kids about the alphabet, primarily about the letter 'S'. This and the Batman PSA ads were... More About: Advertising , Letter
Batman Fights Against Jaywalking
2008-03-05 03:30:00 In another PSA Ad we have Batman demonstrating the correct way to cross a road, rather than catching The Joker who has just robbed a bank. Fortunately for Batman The Joker gets run over and the falls... More About: Advertising , Fights
Superman Anti-drug PSA Advertisements
2008-03-05 03:21:00 Why is it that fictional characters have to be good role models? Is it not enough that Superman has to battle Lex Luthor, Bizarro and Brainiac that he also has to be a spokesman for the anti-smoking... More About: Advertising , Advertisements , Drug , Anti
Batman's Rogues Gallery - Killer Moth
2008-03-05 02:02:00 Killer Moth is one of Batman 's lesser known villains. He is someone who is known around Gotham City as a bit of a loser and a joke. Created by Bill Finger and Lew Schwartz in 1951 for Batman #63,... More About: Gallery , Killer , Comic Books , Rogues
Gumby - Gumbasia
2008-03-04 15:31:00 Here is the debut of Gumby in his version of Fantasia from 1955.
Wonder Woman - 1967 TV Pilot - Who's Afraid of Diana Prince?
2008-02-19 14:18:00 Everyone knows the iconic 1970s Wonder Woman TV show starring Lynda Carter, but did you know that Wonder Woman almost came to the small screen in 1967? A pilot was made by the producers of Batman and... More About: Diana , Prince , Pilot
The Legends of the Superheroes
2008-02-19 13:30:00 Legends of the Superheroes was an abysmal show that screened just once back in the 1979. It was planned as a belated sequel to the mega successful Batman series and even featured Adam West, Burt Ward... More About: Legends , The Legends
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder - Filmation Cartoon
2008-02-19 05:32:00 Batman has always been my favourite superhero. I never really liked Spider-man and have never read any Marvel comics. I've always been a DC Comics guy. I used to have a Batman action figure, which my... More About: Cartoon , Batman , Robin
More Fleischer Superman Cartoons - The Bulleteers and Terror on the Midway
2008-02-18 02:42:00 I love the Fleischer Superman series of cartoons from the early 1940s. They are so different to what other studios were doing at the time (funny animals) and the colrours and animation is just... More About: Terror , Cartoons , Midway
Marvel Superheroes - 1966 Cartoon Series
2008-02-17 08:34:00 Last night I posted a couple of clips for the old Marvel Superheroes cartoon from the sixties. The clips that I posted were of Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk. Captain America and Namor the... More About: Cartoon , Series , 1966
Marvel Heroes - 1966 Cartoon Series
2008-02-16 13:25:00 Here's a quick post of a couple of clips from Marvel Superheroes from 1966 . Iron Man - The Crimson Dynamo Hulk - Origin of The Hulk More About: Cartoon , Heroes , Series
Batman: New Times
2008-02-16 12:52:00 A few years ago a group of students from the Dave School of Media made a stop motion animated Batman movie using Mini Mate (Lego type) figures. The result was the awesome Batman: New Times .
Mighty Mouse - The New Adventures
2008-02-16 12:15:00 Mighty Mouse became really, really popular in the late 1980s, when Ralph Bakshi and created Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures . These cartoons were aimed at a more adult audience, which I suppose can... More About: Mighty
Supermouse - Mouse of Tomorrow
2008-02-16 11:57:00 Mighty Mouse was originally created as a parody of Superman. He was originally called Super Mouse, but it was soon changed to Mighty Mouse when Paul Terry learned that another character with the same... More About: Tomorrow
Superman - 1941 Fleischer Cartoon
2008-02-16 11:37:00 The Fleischer Superman series was groundbreaking in many ways. They helped to establish the Superman mythos, as it was not until Max Fleischer suggested to the creators of the comic book that it... More About: Cartoon
Superhero Week
2008-02-16 10:46:00 Here at Saturday Morning Cartoons we are celebrating Superhero Week . You'd think that the brightly garbed superheroes would be perfect for the animated medium, but during the golden age of animation...
Rooty Tooty Toot
2008-02-15 15:01:00 Rooty Toot Toot Directed by: John Hubley Continuining the UPA theme... This is a very energetic cartoon and undoubtably one of UPA's best. When UPA first started they were widely lauded for their...
Hell Bent For Election
2008-02-15 15:00:00 Directed by: Chuck Jones Animation by: Dave Hilberman Adrian Woolery Robert Cannon Ben Washam Zack Schwartz Originally Released: 1944 Not all animated cartoons are funny, as this cartoon, the first... More About: Election , Hell
Robin Hoodlum - UPA Fox and Crow
2008-02-15 14:57:00 By the late 1940s, UPA took over making cartoons from Screen Gems, for Columbia. They began by continuing on with a handful of the successful Fox & Crow cartoons, before developing their own... More About: Robin , Hoodlum
Batman - 1966 TV Introduction
2008-02-15 14:42:00 As a kid Batman was my favourite show. It still ranks very high and I really wish the Warner Bros., DC Comics anf Fox would settle their differences so this could be released on DVD. The first two... More About: Live Action , Introduction , 1966
Pitching my ideas for a new cartoon series
2008-02-15 14:16:00 One of my dreams when I was a kid was to become an animation director. That dream was shattered due to the fact that I cannot draw at all. The only thing stopping me from writing, animating and... More About: Ideas , Cartoon , Series
The Story of Ferdinand
2008-02-15 12:32:00 This Oscar winning cartoon from 1938 is another one of my all time favourites. Based on the popular children's picture book by Munro Leaf, this cartoon tells the story of a bull who does not want to... More About: Story , The Story , Ferdinand
King Kong (1933) - The Original and still the best
2008-02-14 13:41:00 The other night I was watching the late movie on the ABC and was surprised to see that it was King Kong, one of my all time favourite movies. Now I must admit that I am not much of a horror movie fan... More About: Original , Memories , King Kong
Ray Harryhausen
2008-02-14 13:31:00 Ray Harryhausen is perhaps the most well known of all stop motion animation directors. He worked as an animator on George Pal's Puppetoons (review of the Puppetoon Movie is still coming) and on the...
Hamas launches TV Bugs Bunny-lookalike who declares 'I will eat the Jews'
More articles from this author:2008-02-14 12:44:00 From the Daily Mail. By MATTHEW KALMAN in Jerusalem, 12th February 2008 Hamas TV show for children which was condemned last year for a Mickey Mouse lookalike character who encouraged terror... More About: Jews , Bugs , Bunny , Bugs Bunny 1, 2, 3, 4 |
