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Animation

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 […]

Animation

Saturday Morning Cartoons: A WILD HARE (1940)

Jun 6, 2015 Brandie Ashe 0

Seventy-five years ago next month, an unassuming gray rabbit was born in Brooklyn. And from those humble beginnings, he would go on to become one of the most famous anthropomorphic animals to ever grace the silver […]

I love to singa
Animation

Saturday Morning Cartoons: I Love to Singa (1936)

Apr 18, 2015 Brandie Ashe 0

When Tex Avery began directing animated shorts at Warner Bros. in 1935, he jumped headlong into a demanding production schedule. Though Avery’s was not the only unit producing cartoons for the Warner studio–two other units […]

Droopy Dan McGoo
Animation

Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945)

Sep 27, 2014 Brandie Ashe 1

In MGM’s 1943 animated short Dumb-Hounded, director Tex Avery debuted a new character, a laconic, quick-witted, slow-talking hound dog. Originally dubbed “Happy Hound” (though this is never explicitly mentioned onscreen), the dog spends the entire cartoon tracking […]

Animation

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Blitz Wolf (1942)

Sep 6, 2014 Brandie Ashe 2

A searingly funny and very loose adaptation of the traditional Three Little Pigs tale, the Tex Avery-directed Blitz Wolf premiered eight months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent entrance of the United States into World War […]

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