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Posted on 10.13.09 by Widge @ 5:00 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. So Day 14 has generally been up for grabs. Last year we watched the Paul Lynde Halloween Special. Which, seriously, if you haven't seen, you need to. No lie. And when you're done with that--I started to look for other Halloween specials. And there's Bugs Bunny in that list, yes, but if you're going to watch what's ostensibly a Halloween clip show, you might as well just watch a cartoon instead. So here's "Broom-Stick Bunny" from 1956. It's Bugs, it's Mel Blanc, it's Chuck Jones. What more do you need? Oh, well, June Foray as the witch--you need that too, naturally. Direct link for the feedreaders. This short is available on Volume 2 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, fully restored and looking amazing. I strongly recommend you pick it up if you haven't already. And for more goodness, we checked out the original Frankenstein trailer two years back. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 10.12.09 by Widge @ 1:32 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. Each Monday we want to give you some of the finest WTFery to be found online, in an effort to prepare your brain for the nonsense that any work week entails. And yes, some of you in the U.S. have today off. If you do, bookmark this and come back tomorrow. Long-time person-who-throws-me-links Barry331 shot this one over. And it's so terribly wrong. It's the third episode in a series called "Charlie the Unicorn," from a twisted and mysterious organization known as FilmCow. I don't know much else other than that except that I could probably watch stuff like this all day long. Enjoy. Direct link for the feedreaders. For more of this nonsense, check out FilmCow here. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 09.30.09 by Widge @ 12:14 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. Bursting forth from its casements once more, unsatisfied with possessing the month of October alone, Halloween stakes its claim to September 30th as well. That's right: sequels can kill. Welcome to 32 Days of Halloween PART III. Out first year out, we started with Mickey. Then last year, it was over to Bugs. Now, back to Mickey, with a 1995 animated short from Disney that's so good, you'd swear it had come directly from Pixar. Runaway Brain. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 09.12.09 by Widge @ 9:37 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  One of the panels at Disney's D23 this weekend was a preview/discussion of Beauty and the Beast 3D, due out next year (they kept saying "next year" although the IMDB lists a February date--and it sounded like they were still hard at work on it, so who knows). On hand and moderating was producer Don Hahn, along with co-director Kirk Wise, Beast animator Glen Keane, voice of Belle Paige O'Hara and Robert Newman, who's the guy in charge of converting the film to 3D. The panel before the footage was your basic retrospective, that offered up some treats. For one thing, they had footage of the recording sessions: showing O'Hara going through multiple takes to get started on "Belle" and Richard White recording the voice of Gaston. For another, O'Hara stated Angela Lansbury, though "terrified" of the song, blew through "Beauty and the Beast" in a single take. One bit is that there's finally going to be a making-of book released. Apparently at the time it wasn't thought that a making-of book for such a film would sell, but now Tale As Old As Time: The Art and Making of Beauty and the Beast is available for pre-order on Amazon with a February release date. You can snag yours here. Categorized as: Animation
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Posted on 07.27.09 by Widge @ 9:24 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. It was 69 years ago today that Bugs Bunny's first appearance, "A Wild Hare," was released. There were other "proto-Bugs" characters, but this is considered to be his first official short. It's directed by Tex Avery and the usual suspects of Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan are on board for the voices. And as you might expect, it's still good. Categorized as: Animation
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