This 1938 animation is technically an advertisement for a toothpaste company, but it's not like tooth care comes up more than a couple of times in this 9 1/2 minutes. Rather, it's a great cartoon about a boy who brings a dog home, faces his...
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This is the grave of Mel Blanc. Born in 1908 in San Francisco, Melvin Blank, grew up in a Jewish immigrant household, first in his birth place and then in.
I decided to watch another in the Criterion Channel series on animation for adults. Chico & Rita is a 2010 Spanish film about a pre-revolutionary Cuban tempestous romance between a.
Criterion Channel is running a series of arthouse animation for adults. I'm checking out some of it. I'm by no means an expert on animation, but some of this is pretty interesting. Belladonna of Sadness, the 1973 film by Eiichi Yamamoto is a trip. It's...
Doctor Utopia is in the 1948 house ready to destroy you with all his isms, but Thank God Common Sense America is there to protect us from this dastardly foreigner.
Henry Ford used World War I to have a series of right-wing anti-labor animations made. They are pretty gross. This film was trending a bit on Twitter the other day..
This little 3 minute cartoon from 1916 is a harsh look at poverty in the early twentieth century, focusing on a guy so hungry that he tries to get in an accident so he can cash in on his insurance plan. Harry Palmer, the creator...
We've talked about the classic early lunatic 1906 film Dream of a Rarebit Fiend earlier in this series. Well, the basis for this was the cartoonist Windsor McCay who started.
In my new gig as a blogger for the International Observatory of Human Rights, I talk about the ways journalists, human rights workers, and humanitarians are turning to animation to.
I subscribed to Filmstruck awhile ago and have seen some pretty interesting films on it. But perhaps none as fascinating as Fantastic Planet, from 1973. A Czech animated film, except that the director (Renè Laloux) and language was French, this film, made in Prague and...
The story about Trump not having anywhere to stay at the G-20 meeting is hilarious to me because given what an unreconstructed racist our dear leader is, it is surprisingly.
On May 29, 1941, cartoonists at Disney went on strike. This ultimately successful strike was a critical point in the organizing of Hollywood and also marked the end of Disney's.