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Jammin’ the Blues (and some other stuff)

Feb 23, 2017 Nathanael Hood 0

by Nathanael Hood It wasn’t the first Hollywood film on jazz, but it was damn near the best. Cobbling together some of jazz’s leading luminaries in 1944, Life photographer Gjon Mili shot his first and […]

Animation

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 […]

feed the kitty
Animation

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Feed the Kitty (1952)

Aug 20, 2016 Brandie Ashe 4

The 1950s were arguably the most prolific decade, artistically speaking, of animator/director Chuck Jones’ career. It was the decade that saw Jones take certain stock Warner Bros. characters to new heights: he made Daffy Duck a […]

Animation

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 […]

Animation

“Pronoun Trouble”: Bugs, Daffy, and the “Hunting Trilogy”

Jul 27, 2015 Brandie Ashe 0

Today, July 27th, marks the official seventy-fifth birthday of one of the most iconic cartoon characters of all time, the inimitable Bugs Bunny. To celebrate, the Retro Set looks back at a trio of classic Bugs […]

Dot and the Line
Animation

Saturday Morning Cartoons: THE DOT AND THE LINE (1965)

Jan 3, 2015 Brandie Ashe 1

The 1950s were arguably the most successful decade of animator/director/overall creative genius Chuck Jones’ career: he directed almost two dozen cartoons for the Warner Bros. studio during that period. Eight of these cartoons would eventually […]

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