Archive for the ‘disney’ Category

Thursday, December 21st, 2023

Illustration: Early 50s Disney Christmas Cards

50s Disney Xmas Cards
Today, we digitized a batch of wonderful 1950s Christmas cards from the Disney studio from 1948 through the mid-1950s. The designs on these cards are so much fun, it makes you wish the films themselves looked this cartoony.

50s Disney Xmas Cards50s Disney Xmas CardsThere’s a point that I need to make every once in a while… The Animation Archive Project Blog is NOT the archive itself. It is only a forum for us to report the progress of the project and show examples of the sorts of things we were working on that particular day. Today, we digitized Christmas cards… tomorrow it might be an illustrated children’s book from the 1920s… the next day a clip from an animated cartoon by Paul Terry… there is no order implied or intended. The order comes in the way keyword searches link material within the database itself.

The other thing to keep in mind is that for every image you see here on this blog, there are dozens and dozens that we don’t post. Our database has grown into the terabytes. There’s no way that we will ever be able to post all of it online. My hope is to eventually syndicate the archive as kiosks at university libraries, studios and to Animation Resources members all over the world. But that’s quite a ways in the future!

I want to thank the family of Clair Weeks for sharing these great cards with us.

50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards

1949

50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards

1950

50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards

1951

50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards

1952

50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards

1953

50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards

1954

50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards

1955

50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards

1956

50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards
50s Disney Xmas Cards

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Thursday, August 31st, 2023

Inbetweens: Coloring Book Covers

Here is a gallery of comic book covers… The good, the bad and the ugly. Enjoy!

Cartoon Coloring Book

Cartoon Coloring Book

Cartoon Coloring Book

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Cartoon Coloring Book

Cartoon Coloring Book

Cartoon Coloring Book

Cartoon Coloring Book

Cartoon Coloring Book

Cartoon Coloring Book

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Tuesday, April 25th, 2023

Illustration: Great LP Record Jackets

Record Cover

Animation Resources volunteer and resident video guru, Eric Graf has amassed an amazing collection of novelty and children’s records from the 50s and 60s. He brought a stack by the other day to be scanned. Check out how these covers make you want to rush to your phonograph to play the record. Tiny, badly designed CD and DVD covers just don’t have the same impact. Thanks, Eric for sharing these with us!

Record Cover
Record Cover
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Record Cover

Stephen Worth
Director
Animation Resources

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This posting is part of a series of articles comprising an online exhibit spotlighting Illustration.

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