The Encyclopedia of Cartooning is the newest part of the Animation Resources website, and it’s still very much under construction. If you are interested in what we plan to do in this space, have a seat and listen to this interview with Stephen Worth where he outlines the history of cartooning and talks about the issues that will be a big part of this section of the Animation Resources site…
A-HAA Podcast hosted by Michael Woodside and Danny Young: Stephen Worth on the History of Cartooning
FEATURED EXHIBIT
Grim Natwick is undoubtedly one of the most influential animators who ever lived. His career spanned the entire history of animation- from its earliest days in New York to Richard Williams’ Cobbler and the Thief in recent times. Grim worked at many of the major studios- Hearst, Fleicher, Iwerks, Disney, Lantz, UPA, Jay Ward, Melendez and Richard WIlliams. He animated in every style, but was able to maintain his own personal flavor, regardless of whether he was animating for modern studios like UPA or cartoony ones like Fleischer. If one had to define the single element that set his animation apart, it would have to be that his characters always seemed to have a genuine spark of life.
ARTICLES
- SILENT ERA
- Lotte Reiniger’s “Adventures of Prince Achmed: The First Animated Feature
- Grim Natwick on Animation Design: Origin of the Three Fingered Hand
- GOLDEN AGE: General
- Nat Falk’s “How To Make Animated Cartoons Part One”
- Part Two: How Animated Cartoons Are Made”
- Part Three: How To Draw And Animate”
- GOLDEN AGE: East Coast
- Fleischer Screen Song: Mariutch
- Fleischer Talkartoon: Swing, You Sinners
- Terry-Toons Studio Tour 1939
- Terry-Toons: Model Sheets and The Temperamental Lion
- Terry-Toons: Carlo Vinci Notes
- Terry-Toons Storyboard by Jim Tyer
- Terry-Toons: Catnip Capers
- Van Beuren: The Little King in “On The Pan” 1933
- Misc: Scooper Conlan’s Scrapbook
- GOLDEN AGE: West Coast
- Iwerks: Berny Wolf 1911-2006 Model Sheets
- Iwerks: Grim Natwick on Ub Iwerks
- Columbia: Ray Patterson at Mintz
- Disney Studios Tryout Book
- Disney: The Building of the Burbank Studio
- Disney: Three Interesting Documents
- Disney: Bambi
- Disney: WWII- Dispatch From Disney’s
- Walt’s War
- Disney: Ferdinand the Bull
- Disney: Two Concept Artists: Albert Hurter and Charlie Thorson
- Disney Model Sheets: Reluctant Dragon and Pinocchio
- Disney: Mice and Duck Model Sheets
- Disney: More Model Sheets
- Disney: Song of the South Golden Book
- Disney Christmas Cards
- Casey Strikes Out In Coronet Magazine
- Warner Bros: Musical Timing Rediscovered
- Warner Bros: Late 1930s Looney Tunes Placemats
- Warner Bros: Bugs Bunny in Coronet Magazine
- MGM Animation Drawings
- MGM: A Tail Of Two Bulldogs
- Lantz: A Drawing Lesson From Walter Lantz
- MODERN ERA
- UPA’s Man on the Land
- UPA Model Sheets
- UPA: Lu Guarnier 1914-2007: Studio Gag Drawings
- Cascade: UPA Done Right
- Sutherland: Rhapsody of Steel
- Hanna Barbera: Ruff And Reddy
- Hanna Barbera: Warren Foster- The Greatest Cartoon Writer of All Time
- Hanna Barbera: Huckleberry Hound Weekly
- Hanna Barbera: ALex Toth Model Sheets
- Hanna Barbera/Jay Ward: Huck Hound and Rocky & Bullwinkle Golden Books
- Format Films: The History of the Chipmunks
- Format Board
- Format Films: Jules Engel’s Color Keys For “The Alvin Show”
- CONTEMPORARY
- Bakshi Phone Doodles
- Advice From Ralph Bakshi
- Bakshi: Louise Zingarelli’s Cool World Board
- Spumco: Stimpy’s Invention Storyboard
- Spumco: Vincent Waller’s Doodles
- Character Design: Katie Rice’s Sketchbooks
- Bob Kurtz Commercial Reel
- BIOGRAPHICAL
- Exhibit: Grim Natwick’s Scrapbook
- Bob Givens: Grand Old Man of Animation
- John Canemaker on Bill Tytla
BIOGRAPHY
- ARMSTRONG, Sam
- AVERY, Fred “Tex”
- BABBITT, Art
- BAGDASARIAN, Ross (aka: David Seville)
- BAKSHI, Ralph
- BARBERA, Joe
- BEARD, Cecil
- BENEDICT, Ed
- BICKENBACH, Dick
- BLACKBURN, Norm
- BLAIR, Mary
- BLANC, Mel
- BURNESS, Pete
- BUTLER, Daws
- CLAMPETT, Bob
- CLARK, Les
- COATES, Claude
- COLVIG, Pinto
- DAVIS, Marc
- DAVIS, Virginia
- DEJA, Andreas
- DEMPSTER, Al
- DISNEY, Roy E.
- DISNEY. Walt
- EARLE, Eyvind
- EISENBERG, Harvey
- ENGEL, Jules
- FISCHINGER, Oskar
- FORAY, June
- FOSTER, Warren
- FREBERG, Stan
- GIVENS, Bob
- GOFF, Harper
- GORDON, Dan
- GRAHAM, Don
- GRANT, Joe
- HANNA, Bill
- HARDING, Laverne
- HUBLEY, John
- HUEMER, Dick
- HURTER, Albert
- HURTZ, Bill
- ISING, Rudy
- IWERKS, Ub
- JUSTICE, Bill
- JOHNSTON, Ollie
- JONES, Chuck
- JULIAN, Paul
- KAHL, Milt
- KIMBALL, Ward
- KRICFALUSI, John
- KURTZ, Bob
- LANTZ, Walter
- LARRIVA, Rudy
- LARSON, Eric
- LOUNSBERY, John
- MALTESE, Mike
- Mc CABE, Norm
- MC CAY, Winsor
- MESSICK, Don
- MOORE, Fred
- NATWICK, Myron “Grim”
- NOBLE, Maurice
- PAL. George
- PALINGINIS. Gilda
- PATTERSON, Don
- PEET, Bill
- RASINSKI, Connie
- REINIGER, Lotte
- ROSS, Virgil
- SALKIN, Leo
- SEARS, Ted
- SCHWARTZ, Zack
- SIBLEY, John
- SPENCE, Irv
- STEIN, Milt
- TENGGREN. Gustaf
- TERRY, Paul
- THOMAS, Frank
- THORSON, Charlie
- TOTH, Alex
- TURNER, Gil
- TYER, Jim
- TYTLA, Vladimir “Bill”
- VINCI, Carlo
- WALLER, Vincent
- WAN BROTHERS
- WASHAM, Ben
- WEEKS, Clair
- WHITE, Al
- WILLIAMS, Richard
- WOLF, Berny
- ZINGARELLI, Louise
INBETWEENS ARTICLES
- Puppet Animator Jiri Trnka
- Deja View: Andreas Deja Visits Katheryn Beaumont
- Milt Kahl’s Version of Captain Hook
- Pioneer Filmmaker George Melies
- YouTube: Mickey’s Man Friday 1935
- YouTube: Donald Duck in The Autograph Hound 1939
- Terry-Toons Comic Book Covers
- Coloring Book Covers
- Gene Hazelton’s Flintstones Comic Strip
- Winsor McCay
- Fleischer Studios Scrapbook
- Bambi at Animation Backgrounds
- Tex Avery Model Sheets
- Looney Tunes Publicity
- Alice in Wonderland from Mickey Mouse Weekly
- Music: What? No Mickey Mouse?
- Flip the Frog Coloring Book
- Photos of Tex Avery and Fred Quimby
- YouTube: The Hockey Champ 1939
- Ollie Johnston’s Three Fairies from Sleeping Beauty
- YouTube: The Robber Kitten 1935
- Animation Drawing: Maleficent as a Dragon from Sleeping Beauty
- YouTube: Goofy in How To Fish 1942
- Fleischer’s Bouncing Ball- I’d Climb The Highest Mountain
- Animation Layout Drawing: Fleischer’s Mr Bug Goes To Town
- Bert Green on Animation 1919
- Bill Peet Working on the Dumbo Storyboard
- Snow White Comic Book 1944
- Splog: Michael Sporn Presents A Barks Christmas
- Milt Kahl’s Madame Medusa
- Recommended Book: Setting the Scene
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