ASIFA-Hollywood: The International Animated Film Society
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Commercial Success
AFI commercials of the 50`s and 60`s screening sold out house.
Scrappy next month.
Scrappy next month.
99 Cent Review
Like the plague I have been avoiding the whole Mel-O-Toons series. But nothing new was on the racks this last Friday, I had a dollar seven burning a hole in my pocket, and I had just taught my last class for the semester and I was feeling like something cartoon to unwind with. So I took a second look.
Anybody that reads these pages knows that I am addicted to the DVD rack at my local 99 Cent Only Store. And you just might have heard that I think that Genius Entertainment does a good job most times in transferring to DVD.
I have been passing up their Adventure Tales Volume One because of the cover illustration. It is taken from Little Hawk Mel-O-Toon, the regurgitated, recondensed, 60`s kids record set to very limited crap animation with a narrator that has more action in his droning voice then ever appears on screen.
True there are 4 Mel-O-Toon cartoons (sic) on this disk and they are as bad as I remembered them. Worse if they break into song, which 2 of them do. Then there are 3 Famous Cartoons that are a step or 5 above them. I already have copies of all other these either on VHS or DVD. The real payoff is the opening and closing Cinecolor toons.
Adventure Tales Volume 1 opens with a great Fleischer cinecolor Ants in the Plants, a fun romp in the insect world with an anteater as the villain.
The DVD ends with a Van Beuren Molly Moo-Cow The Hunting Season. I like Molly, even if she is utterly deformed, she doesn`t have one. Here she becomes friends with 2 ducks and then takes on a hunter to save them from the dinner table.
Because of these two Cinecolor films and only because of them I am giving this disk a passing grade. It is worth the $1.07 and the wait in line behind 2 people. If there had be 3 people in line that would have been a different story.
2 Cinecolor Toons Makes this DVD Worth $1.07
Anybody that reads these pages knows that I am addicted to the DVD rack at my local 99 Cent Only Store. And you just might have heard that I think that Genius Entertainment does a good job most times in transferring to DVD.
I have been passing up their Adventure Tales Volume One because of the cover illustration. It is taken from Little Hawk Mel-O-Toon, the regurgitated, recondensed, 60`s kids record set to very limited crap animation with a narrator that has more action in his droning voice then ever appears on screen.
True there are 4 Mel-O-Toon cartoons (sic) on this disk and they are as bad as I remembered them. Worse if they break into song, which 2 of them do. Then there are 3 Famous Cartoons that are a step or 5 above them. I already have copies of all other these either on VHS or DVD. The real payoff is the opening and closing Cinecolor toons.
NOTE: Cinecolor, a 2 color process with a orange layer printed on one side of the film and a blue layer printed on the other side of the film, owes a lot to Walt Disney who gained exclusive rights for animation to the 3 color Technicolor process thus locking out other animation studios until his exclusive ran out in the mid 30`s
Adventure Tales Volume 1 opens with a great Fleischer cinecolor Ants in the Plants, a fun romp in the insect world with an anteater as the villain.
The DVD ends with a Van Beuren Molly Moo-Cow The Hunting Season. I like Molly, even if she is utterly deformed, she doesn`t have one. Here she becomes friends with 2 ducks and then takes on a hunter to save them from the dinner table.
Because of these two Cinecolor films and only because of them I am giving this disk a passing grade. It is worth the $1.07 and the wait in line behind 2 people. If there had be 3 people in line that would have been a different story.
2 Cinecolor Toons Makes this DVD Worth $1.07
- Ants in the Plants (Fleischer - Cinecolor - 1940)
- Much Ado About Mutton (Famous - 1949)
- Hector`s Hectic Life (Famous - 1948)
- A Mutt in a Rut (Famous - 1949)
- Little Hawk (Mel-O-Toon - 60`s)
- Paul Bunyan (Mel-O-Toon - 60`s)
- Robin Hood (Mel-O-Toon - 60`s)
- Tom Sawyer (Mel-O-Toon - 60`s)
- The Hunting Season (Van Beuren - Molly Moo-Cow - 1935)
Friday, March 25, 2005
Hey guys.
I was just reading the flyer for this Saturday's screening of commercials and I realized that there's a small error in the listing. Instead of the Ted Astley screening room, it says that it's being held at the Steven Ross screening room. I'm not sure if that's another name for the same location or what, but it might be good to post a quick note on the blog and Cartoon Brew.
nattering & gromishing,
Steve Gattuso
Thanks Steve. It is the Ted Astley Theater, I have that word from Jerry. I am closing out my last class for the semester today so I am running way behind on this blog.
ASIFA-Hollywood presents
ANIMATED COMMERCIALS
From the 1950s & 60s
A selection of the coolest animated television commercials from the golden age of TV.
Uber cool designs, cigarettes, beer... from the greatest animators in the business.
More details on this special screening to be posted shortly...
Saturday March 26th - 3:00pm
The American Film Institute
TED ASHLEY/WARNER BROS. SCREENING ROOM
2021 N. Western Ave.
Hollywood, CA
I was just reading the flyer for this Saturday's screening of commercials and I realized that there's a small error in the listing. Instead of the Ted Astley screening room, it says that it's being held at the Steven Ross screening room. I'm not sure if that's another name for the same location or what, but it might be good to post a quick note on the blog and Cartoon Brew.
nattering & gromishing,
Steve Gattuso
Thanks Steve. It is the Ted Astley Theater, I have that word from Jerry. I am closing out my last class for the semester today so I am running way behind on this blog.
ASIFA-Hollywood presents
ANIMATED COMMERCIALS
From the 1950s & 60s
A selection of the coolest animated television commercials from the golden age of TV.
Uber cool designs, cigarettes, beer... from the greatest animators in the business.
More details on this special screening to be posted shortly...
Saturday March 26th - 3:00pm
The American Film Institute
TED ASHLEY/WARNER BROS. SCREENING ROOM
2021 N. Western Ave.
Hollywood, CA
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Were-Rabbit is coming!
So I am thinking to myself, Larry (I`m on a first name basic with me) what are you going to blog today? The old e-mail to the rescue in spades
Then Were-Rabbit is coming, the Were-Rabbit is coming! And there is a new trailer out at Wallce and Gromit
How cool is that. Starevich, O`Brian, Harryhausen, Park. Chip their faces on the sacred mountain of some oppressed indigenous people. Stop Motion forever!
Then Were-Rabbit is coming, the Were-Rabbit is coming! And there is a new trailer out at Wallce and Gromit
How cool is that. Starevich, O`Brian, Harryhausen, Park. Chip their faces on the sacred mountain of some oppressed indigenous people. Stop Motion forever!
Monday, March 21, 2005
I May Have Shot Myself in the Foot
So here I am counting down the days until Martha`s book comes out and I go out to Amazon to check the shipping date.
So that means that I need to add another 7 days to my own wait. And I thought I was being smart ordering it on line. Of course I doubt that my local bookstore will stock it right away.
When Martha was 12 years old she lived next door to Schlesinger`s Pacific Title Company and use to run errands for the artists. So started her career within the animation industry. Just 10 more days until you can read her story and 17 until I can.
Items Ordered
1 of: Living Life Inside The Lines: Tales From The Golden Age
Of Animation
By: MARTHA SIGALL
Shipping estimate: April 2, 2005
Delivery estimate: April 7, 2005 - April 9, 2005
So that means that I need to add another 7 days to my own wait. And I thought I was being smart ordering it on line. Of course I doubt that my local bookstore will stock it right away.
When Martha was 12 years old she lived next door to Schlesinger`s Pacific Title Company and use to run errands for the artists. So started her career within the animation industry. Just 10 more days until you can read her story and 17 until I can.
I Dreamed I Saw Jim Hill Last Night
You might want to stop over at Jill Hill Media today, he always has things of interest http://www.jimhillmedia.com/
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Disney's ALADDIN REUNION
Time for a little reminder. The Aladdin Reunion is coming up. The list of guests is growing. This should be a good one. When I e-mailed Jim Hill about this one a few months back he said that he was making air plane reservations. And he is coming in from the East Coast. (I believe him because he flew in for the Lion King Reunion)
I think what I am trying to say is that if you live in Southern California then there is no reason to miss this once in a life time event.
I think what I am trying to say is that if you live in Southern California then there is no reason to miss this once in a life time event.
ASIFA-Hollywood cordially invites you an
Disney's ALADDIN REUNION
Cast & crew reunion
Join us as we celebrate Disney's Aladdin with a cast & crew reunion on Friday Night April 22nd in the auditorium at the main branch Glendale Library. Confirmed Guests will be Andreas Deja- animator of Jafar, Eric Goldberg animator of the Genii, directors John Musker & Ron Clements and Will Finn - animator of Iago. Animator and Crazy Hakim the dung salesman, Tom Sito, will moderate.
More details to be announced. Mark you calender now!
April 22nd, 2005 - 7:00pm
GLENDALE CENTRAL LIBRARY
222 E. Harvard Street
Glendale, CA
