Monthly Archives: March 2012

Drooler’s Delight (1949) — Woody Woodpecker Theatrical Cartoon Serie

Drooler's Delight

CotD: Ben Hard­away last voiced Woody Wood­pecker in “Drooler’s Delight; Grace Stafford would voice the rest of the Woody shorts pro­duced by her hus­band Wal­ter Lantz.
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Cat in Paris, Gruffalo’s Child premiere in Florida

Une Vie de Chat

The Oscar-nominated French ani­mated fea­ture “A Cat in Paris” and the British fea­turette “The Gruffalo’s Child” will both have their south­east­ern United States pre­mieres at the Florida Film Fes­ti­val, to be held from April 13 to 22.

Both films can be seen at 4 p.m. Sat­ur­day, April 14 at the Gar­den The­atre and at 12 noon Sun­day, April 15 at Regal Win­ter Park Vil­lage A.

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Animations on display this summer at London 2012


London 2012 Festival

Orga­niz­ers on Fri­day revealed details on the film pro­gram for the Lon­don 2012 Fes­ti­val –- a 12-week United Kingdom-wide cul­tural cel­e­bra­tion from June 21 to Sep­tem­ber 9 bring­ing together lead­ing artists from across the world with the very best from Britain.

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Scent-imental Romeo (1951) — Merrie Melodies Theatrical Cartoon Series

Scent-imental Romeo

CotD: Pepé is always the incur­able roman­tic, espe­cially in “Scent-imental Romeo as he chases another poor cat with a white paint stripe down her back.

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Scrooge McDuck And Money (1967) — Walt Disney Studios


Scrooge McDuck And Money

CotD: Other than a brief cameo appear­ance on the “Mickey Mouse Club” tele­vi­sion series, Scrooge McDuck’s first ani­mated appear­ance was in “Scrooge McDuck And Money .

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Disney’s 2012–13 Schedule Presented to Advertisers

Walt Disney Television Animation

Disney’s 2012–13 cre­ative con­tent for its kid-driven, fam­ily inclu­sive TV chan­nels, high­lighted by fresh ways to tell great new Dis­ney sto­ries, will be pre­sented to sponsors/advertisers this week in New York by Gary Marsh, pres­i­dent and chief cre­ative offi­cer of Dis­ney Chan­nels Worldwide.

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Connery’s animated “Sir Billi” premieres in Sonoma

Sir Billi

Sir Billi,” the first full-length ani­mated fea­ture to be pro­duced entirely in Scot­land, will get its first inter­na­tional screen­ing April 13 at the 15th annual Sonoma Inter­na­tional Film Festival.

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A Hare Grows In Manhattan (1947) — Merrie Melodies Theatrical Cartoon Series

A Hare Grows In Manhattan

CotD: Friz Freleng’s “A Hare Grows In Man­hat­tan” is renown for the tap-dancing Bugs sequence ani­mated by Vir­gil Ross.

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Hallmark to start production on “Jingle & Bell”


Jingle & Bell

Pro­duc­tion will soon com­mence on Jin­gle & Bell, a Hall­mark Chan­nel orig­i­nal ani­mated spe­cial, which will pre­miere on the net­work this hol­i­day season.

Jin­gle & Bel is the sec­ond story and ani­mated spe­cial to star one of Hallmark’s most lov­able char­ac­ters, Jin­gle the Husky Pup. The Hall­mark Chan­nel orig­i­nal ani­mated spe­cial Jin­gle All the Way was a rat­ings suc­cess for the net­work.
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Nickelodeon plans more than 650 new episodes

Nickelodeon

Nick­elodeon, at its annual upfront pre­sen­ta­tion held Wednes­day at Jazz at Lin­coln Cen­ter in New York, unveiled plans for an unprece­dented 650 new episodes — the top-ranked network’s most ever — of both brand-new con­tent and return­ing hits, as well announc­ing pre­miere details for the highly antic­i­pated ani­mated series The Leg­end of Korra, a stop-motion Sponge­Bob SquarePants Christ­mas spe­cial, and an orig­i­nal ani­mated series based on the Rav­ing Rab­bids video games.

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Johann Mouse (1953) — Tom and Jerry Theatrical Cartoon Series

Johann Mouse

CotD: Tom lost the grey stripe between his eyes in “Johann Mouse ” which won the sev­enth– and last– Tom & Jerry Oscar.

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No charge against officer who shot animator dead


Paul Boyd
There will be no charge against a Van­cou­ver police offi­cer who shot ani­ma­tor Paul Boyd, 39, eight times on the street, killing him, on the night of August 13, 2007.

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Disney’s “John Carter” ready to take $200M bath


John Carter

Dis­ney expects its partly ani­mated and fre­quently panned Red Planet film John Carter to lose $200 mil­lion, throw­ing the whole movie divi­sion into a sea of red ink.

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Dumb-Hounded (1943) — Droopy Theatrical Cartoon Series

Dumb-Hounded

CotD: Droopy first appeared in “Dumb-Hounded” from 1943, when he was named Happy Hound.
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Angry Birds Short To Sail Into Nick

Angry Birds Space

An all-new exclu­sive Angry Birds short film, “Angry Birds Space” lands on Nick­elodeon and Nick­toons on Wednes­day, March 21, at 7:00 p.m. on Nicktoons.

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