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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950)

Oct 8, 2016 Brandie Ashe 1

When it comes to theatrical animation in the 1950s, there arguably were no greater innovators than the talented artists at United Productions of America. UPA’s highly stylized, modern aesthetic was visually appealing; the cartoons were creative […]

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)

Sep 17, 2016 Brandie Ashe 0

By the summer of 1933, the Fleischer brothers’ self-named animation studio was riding high. Based largely on the success of flapper dream girl Betty Boop, whose risqué series of cartoons became immensely popular in the […]

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: “The Dover Boys at Pimento University” (1942)

Sep 11, 2016 Brandie Ashe 0

Though Chuck Jones had a long and storied career at Warner Bros., first as an animator and then as the director of some of the most groundbreaking cartoons of all time, he almost didn’t stick […]

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: A Selection of Animated Red Riding Hoods

Sep 3, 2016 Brandie Ashe 0

Fairy tales have long served as source material for filmmakers–only natural when one considers how universal those stories truly are. These fantastical, largely archetypal narratives draw on moral codes and lessons that transcend time, telling and […]

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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s … Saturday Morning Cartoons!

Jan 9, 2016 Brandie Ashe 1

In 1941, Paramount approached Max and Dave Fleischer, heads of their in-house animation production, with a proposal: to adapt the increasingly popular Superman comic book into an animated series for the big screen. But the Fleischers were reluctant. […]

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: A Vintage Hallowe’en

Oct 31, 2015 Brandie Ashe 0

A wild, weird, and wonderful All Hallows’ Eve to you all! This week, The Retro Set offers a smorgasbord of classic Halloween cartoons for your ghoulish pleasure–some familiar, some perhaps less so. Felix the Cat […]

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