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A Cat in Paris

French animation boasts a long history, harkening back to Emile Cohl who produced the hand-drawn Fantasmagorie in 1908. What I like about the history of French animation is that it includes bold...

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Goodnight Phyllis, We Love You.

She was brash, she was bold and she was damn funny. Phyllis Diller took a road less traveled and in the process she helped pave the way for many female comedians who followed in her footsteps including...

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Snapshots of the Fall: Part II

In my last post I provided a look behind the curtain for the first five weeks of film programming for my fall film calendar. This week we look at the remaining 24 titles that round out the schedule. It...

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Dreams of a Rare Animator

While D.W. Griffith was innovating the language of cinema in dozens of one-reelers in the first decade of the 20th century, Winsor McCay began developing the foundations of American animation in a...

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We all know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It’s run by a big...

This is a season of traditions: those comforting rituals that we reiterate on an annual basis because no matter how small some of them may be (like the making of home-baked ginger snaps), they have...

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After the Party’s Over: Gerry Anderson 1929-2012

I celebrate my birthday on December 26th and this year I woke up to the sad news that the man who was responsible for some of my favorite childhood memories had passed away on the same day that I was...

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Children of Fantasia

On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I had the privilege and pleasure of attending a rare screening of a more-or-less unique version of Walt Disney’s Fantasia.  The venue was the Chicago Symphony...

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The secret genius of Preston Blair

There are certain names that have gone in history as legends of animation: Walt Disney, of course, Max Fleischer, Winsor McKay, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, John Hubley… but amongst their ranks there is an...

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Dreams of a Rare Artistic Fiend

While we’re on the topic of great animators, it’s well past time I got around to saying a few words about Winsor McCay. He’s rightly hailed as one of the early pioneers of animated cartoons. You can’t...

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Which dreamed it?

Alice was a real person.  Her name was Alice Lidell, and the Alice in Wonderland stories are littered with genuine biographical details.  Lewis Carroll, however, was not a real person—that was just a...

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TO LAUGH, TO CRY, TO SAY GOODBYE.

Last week the film series I program was graced by a visit from Eric Stough, the animation director for South Park. He was kind enough to let me select a recent episode for him to both screen and then...

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Nature and Nurture: Wolf Children

One of these images is from James Benning’s long-take experiment in landscape photography, 13 Lakes (2004), and the other is from the hit Japanese anime of 2012, Wolf Children. I’ll let you figure out...

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Zip a Dee Doo Dah

While celebrating my 20th wedding anniversary at Walt Disney World a couple of weeks ago, I had occasion to think about racist content in family movies. No, no–hold on, bear with me. I was having a...

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Daliwood

Salvador Dali’s surrealist career was bookended by his experiences in the movies. I have to couch that statement with the limiter “surrealist career” because Dali was a prolific and prodigious talent...

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Anime Goes West: Magic Boy (1959)

  In the 1950s Hiroshi Okawa wanted to make Toei Company the Disney of Asia. Toei had already become a prolific producer of jidaigeki (period drama) movies, focusing on cheaply made programmers to...

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Back to the Drawing Board

Next Monday, October 6, TCM presents an evening of early American animation, a must-see for cartoon fans of all ages. The line-up begins with the cartoons of Winsor McCay, followed by animation from...

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The Wonderful World of Disney Comes to TCM

As a kid growing up in 1970s my Sunday nights revolved around The Wonderful World of Disney. It was my cherished respite before the much dreaded school week began and I savored every last minute spent...

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Walt Disney Down South

Walt Disney had a problem. Technically, he had several problems, but they were all knotted up with each other like a set of headphones that had been left too long in someone’s pocket (great metaphor,...

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Think Pink: The Enduring Appeal of Lady Penelope

Last week I celebrated the 100th birthday of Orson Welles and this week I’m celebrating another milestone, the 50th anniversary of THUNDERBIRDS and the International Rescue team featuring secret agent...

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The Art of Standing Still

The problem with animated cartoons was baked in on Day One. Winsor McKay was not the creator of cartoons, but he’s close enough for discussion’s sake. Right away with his inaugural film,, he devotes...

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