Monthly Archives: July 2011

Meet John Doughboy (1941) — Looney Tunes Theatrical Cartoon Series

Meet John Doughboy (1941) - Looney Tunes

CotD: One of Leon Schlesingers’ wartime car­toons, “Meet John Dough­boy” fea­tured Draftee Porky hawk­ing War Bonds ~

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Droopy Leprechaun (1958) — Droopy Theatrical Cartoon Series

Droopy Leprechaun (1958) - Droopy Theatrical Cartoon Series

Droopy vis­its Ire­land and is mis­taken for a lep­rechaun by a greedy local bull­dog who thinks that he can make it rich by prov­ing he’s a “real live lep­rechaun,” but watch out for the Mad Duke.

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The Secret Of NIMH (1982) — Feature Length Theatrical Animated Film

The Secret Of NIMH (1982)

A group of ani­mals are injected with a potion in the National Insti­tute of Men­tal Health (NIMH) which make them as intel­li­gent as humans. They eas­ily escape and set them­selves up in a barn, free­load­ing from the humans around. They begin to con­sider leav­ing the barn for the wilder­ness and going it alone.

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Monty Python troupe reunites for animated film bio

A Liar's Autobiography

EPIX, the pre­mium enter­tain­ment chan­nel, video-on-demand and online ser­vice, announced Mon­day that it is in pro­duc­tion on A Liar’s Auto­bi­og­ra­phy, a 3D ani­mated fea­ture film based on the mem­oir of Monty Python mem­ber Gra­ham Chap­man, who died in 1989.

Made in asso­ci­a­tion with Bill and Ben Pro­duc­tions Ltd., Trin­ity (UK) and Brain­storm Media, A Liar’s Auto­bi­og­ra­phy tells the story of Chapman’s life in the famously atyp­i­cal Python style.
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The Chicken from Outer Space (1995) — What A Cartoon! Show

The Chicken from Outer Space (1995) - What A Cartoon! Show

An elderly couple’s dog must defend them from a mali­cious space chicken, bent on con­quest by infect­ing them with muta­genic eggs. The chicken’s goal? First this quiet farm in the mid­dle of nowhere, next, the world.
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