Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Sunday, April 22, 2012

You are so jealous.

I am about to see DON HERTZFELDT. FOR REAL. THIS IS SO COOL. YAAAAAAAAYYYYY! E.T.A. AN AWKWARD MOMENT WITH DON HERTZFELDT I am the girl one.

Vau!Vau! Boris Kolar, 1964

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The Penwiper, Joseph Sunn, 1926

Short made by pioneering Chinese-American filmmaker Joseph Sunn for Raph Wolfe's Mud Stuff series.

Monday, April 16, 2012

The Romance of Betty Boop, Bill Melendez, 1985

Those familiar with the Fleischer brothers original Betty might find her characterization in this 1985 television special jarring, though clearly pains have been taken to assure Mizz Boop retains her ba-doop (she's apparently based heavily on Grim Natwick's character sketches.)


Still, it's a cute special with some cool design, if you can step back from your strong expectations of what a Betty Boop cartoon is supposed to be (and deal with her cringe inducing sexy-talk.) The fey, louche, cross-eyed, butt-chinned Waldo VanLavish cracks me up.


Whatever happened to that Bimbo fellow? He seemed like such a nice young man.


Saturday, April 14, 2012

Zal and Simorgh, Ali Akbar Sadeghi, 1977

No subtitles or translation but enjoy this beautiful animation from Iran.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

All Wrong Old Laddiebuck, Charlie Bowers, 1919

A cautionary tale reminding our boys in uniform to beware of temptresses in their newfangled auto-mobiles.

Friday, April 6, 2012

När Kapten Grogg skulle porträtteras, Victor Bergdahl, 1917

Featuring some pretty ingenius interaction between animated characters and live actors.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Das Wunder, Walther Ruttman and Julian Pinschewer, 1922

And advertisement for Kantorowicz-Liköre, wherein our protagonists suffer no ill effects whatsoever from consuming alcohol.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Petites Causes, Grands Effets, O'Galop (Maurice Rossilon) 1912

With one other anti-booze film, Le circut de l'alcool(1912) and Pour résister à la tuberculose (1918)which suggests that one can "knock out" tuberculosis with fresh air and exercise rather than medicine.

Seems legit.




With subtitles and a more contemporary soundtrack.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

The Adventures of *, John and Faith Hubley, 1957

Gotta have more Hubley wonderfulness.

Oh, incidentally, the * in this cartoon is not the same as Kurt Vonnegut's *. Totally different guy.