Another cool and trippy Professor Balthazar episode has been added to YouTube (by Dzmrdz):
Leteci Fabijan - The Flying Fabian. You can find it in my Balthazar playlist!
Thanks to Chris Sobieniak who has earned himself another Balthazar scouting medal! Check out his animation blogs.
"Shmoon are delicious, and are so eager to be eaten that if they are looked at by someone who is hungry they will gladly jump into a frying pan, after which they taste like chicken, or into a roasting pan, after which they taste like beef (Raw,they taste like Oysters on the Half-Shell). They also produce eggs, milk, and butter (no churning labor needed.) Their fresh pelt is a perfect boot leather, or house timber depending on how thick it has been cut. Their eyes are ideal suspender buttons, and their whiskers are perfect toothpicks. Naturally gentle, they require minimal care, and are ideal playmates for young children. In short, they are simply the perfect ideal of a subsistence agricultural herd animal." (from Wikipedia)
The Shmoo was created and first drawn by the cartoonist Al Capp in his newspaper comic strip Li'l Abner.
Skeletal Systems
Salt'n'peppah Shmoo
Finally someone (DzmrDz) has uploaded some episodes of the Croatian cartoon Professor Balthazar. This I have been waiting for since March last year (old post). Thanks to anonymous commentator and to Fikret Karic for telling me this! One of the episodes has the very suitable title "Martin Makes it to the top". Sure the cartoon is in Croatian but if I could understand it you should too. Enjoy the colours, the characters and the music!
Did you note that in this first Balthazar episode - Izumitelj cipela - his beard is red and curly?
PS. The company DVDLAB are in the process of preparing an italian well restaurated version of whole series. We wish them good luck!
"DePatie-Freleng (often abbreviated DFE) mostly made animated commercials for television, but they're big break came when Blake Edwards commissioned them to create an animated opening for his movie, "The Pink Panther"."
Check out som nice Pink Panther (and others) title screens here: DePatie-Freleng Website
A wonderful collection of 40s and 50s ads with cartoon elements scanned and uploaded by signature leifpeng(click and check out his other stuff). Leif also has a blog called Today's Inspiration!
Via A Best Truth
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Some great screenshots of a bunch of cool cats from a war-time (WWII) Warner Bros cartoon called Tin Pan Alley Cats.
Hardly politically correct but they ARE cool cats.
Screenshots from another cartoon in a similar style: Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs
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Amid Amidi, writer of the remarkable animation blog Cartoon Brew will soon have a new book out called Cartoon Modern (dedicated to all things 1950s animation design). The blog, Cartoon Modern, is of course an extension of this work.
Cool!
/mrdantefontana
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A toon diet? Yes, I guess you could say Swedish kids were on a toon diet when I grew up; it was like Christmas when there were cartoons from Disney, Hanna Barbera or Warner Bros on the telly (Swedes will appreciate there was a joke in there). Mr Feckenbrenner reminded me that we had to make do with stuff like the British toon Roobarb.
Watch him move in this short example (mov / wmv).
Who ever said that nostagia is a bad thing? Check this fantastic site out. It's full of great stuff. Food packaging, store displays, krazy ad characters, cartoon characters and much much more! Get lost in there!
Tick Tock Toys - Archives & Galleries
(Americans should be even more happy about the site...)
Thanks to Stationsvakt!
Njut av en samling bilder hämtade från den tecknade filmen Melody från 1953. (Klicka på bilderna för större)
Från The Ward-O-Matic
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Retarded Animal Babies. Som Happy Tree Friends men ännu sjukare. Bättre? Bestäm själv! Men tänk på att smaklöshet inte faller inte alla i smaken.
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Happy Tree Friends - söta utanpå, äckliga innuti.
Länk till episoden Eye Candy
För mer Happy Tree friends.
Making Fiends heter en serie små filmer. Har bara kollat på ett par avsnitt ännu men de verkar lite lagom udda och kanske värda ett slängt getöga eller två.
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"Known as a domineering and manipulative man..." Wikipedia om Murry Wilson, Beach Boys (lyssna) brödernas far.
På The 365 Days Project finns en liten artikel om honom (7 januari) och denna KFC-jingel som han gjorde.
