Showing posts with label film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label film. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Bambi Meets Godzilla, a 1969 short short film

By Jack Brummet, Film Ed.

Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969) is a cartoon created entirely by Marv Newland. Less than two minutes long, the film is a classic of animation—#38 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons (1994) [1].  It's wonderful.  I remember seeing it around the time it was released.  I haven't seen it since then...


[1]  Jerry Beck (ed.) (1994). The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals. Atlanta: Turner Publishing. 
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Mary & Gretl, a 1917 stop motion video by animator Howard S. Moss

By Jack Brummet, Archives Ed.

In the film Mary & Gretl, a fairy brings two dolls to life.  This is from a series of stop-motion puppet movies by the animator Howard S. Moss.

The book, "Origin of American Animation 1900-1921" describes the film: “Alice in Wonderland meets the Garden of Eden…[a] surreal fable of a drunk rabbit, bowling dwarfs, and the two bewildered girls..."


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