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Le Oops: Porn Film replaces French Nursery Cartoon

French Flag

The class in a French nurs­ery school was expect­ing to watch a car­toon that their teacher had down­loaded from the Internet.

Instead, they saw a hard­core porn movie for sev­eral min­utes. And rouge-faced author­i­ties on Wednes­day called it an “extremely regret­table accident.”

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Cartoon of the Day: Rebel Rumble

The Peter Potamus Show

Today’s CotD is Rebel Rum­ble, an episode from The Peter Pota­mus Show. Hana and Bar­bera took a new tack with this show, one that would pay of for years. The stu­dio began sell­ing ani­mated half-hour blocks directly into syn­di­ca­tion. The new out­let grew the stu­dio faster than any­one thought pos­si­ble. After win­ning in syn­di­ca­tion, ABC saw the light and brought this show back to net­work television.

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Cartoon of the Day: Bad Luck Blackie

Bad Luck Blackie

Our first Tex Avery short of the year is Bad Luck Blackie, from 1949. Not his most pop­u­lar char­ac­ter or short, but one worth watch­ing if you are a fan of Avery.

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Cartoon of the Day: Hurdy-Gurdy Hare

Hurdy-Gurdy Hare

Robert McKim­son paired Bugs Bunny with Grue­some Gorilla in 1950 for Hurdy-Gurdy Hare. Any­time Bugs got to play against the Gorilla it was fun, and this film was no excep­tion. Seen it? Watch it today if it has been a while, or you need a good laugh or three!

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Cartoon of the Day: Bewitched Bear

Bewitched Bear

The episode Bewitched Bear is from the The Huck­le­berry Hound Show, the first suc­cess­ful ani­mated tele­vi­sion series by Bill Hanna and Joe Bar­bera. After mak­ing the tran­si­tion from the­atri­cal to tele­vi­sion, Hanna-Barbera became syn­ony­mous with TV ani­ma­tion, and were the pio­neers in the field.

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Cartoon of the Day: Somewhere In Dreamland

Somewhere In Dreamland

From the Fleis­cher Color Clas­sics series, today we cel­e­brate Some­where In Dream­land. While this was not the first car­toon in the Color Clas­sics series, it does have the unique dis­tinc­tion of being the first from the series pro­duced in three-strip Tech­ni­color. The prior shorts were all done in the infe­rior two-strip process.

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Animated Films, TV Up For Canadian Screen Awards

Canadian Screen Awards

Excel­lence in both film and TV was rec­og­nized Tues­day as the Acad­emy of Cana­dian Cin­ema & Tele­vi­sion announced its nom­i­nees for the inau­gural Cana­dian Screen Awards.

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Carton of the Day: Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs

Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs

Eas­ily the most con­tro­ver­sial of all Bob Clampett’s films, Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs was never intended to offend, but rather to enter­tain. What Clam­pett had intended as a cel­e­bra­tion of Black music and cul­ture of his time has turned into a touch­stone of racist film mak­ing at Warner Bros. Addi­tion­ally, being a War film, there are some very dis­parag­ing com­ments about the Japan­ese in the film. So what do you think– is this car­toon his­tor­i­cally sig­nif­i­cant enough to rise above it’s racial over­tones, or is this more of the man keep­ing prej­u­dice alive?

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Cartoon of the Day: Hare Do

Hare Do

From 1949, Hare Do is one of the great Bugs Bunny-Elmer Fudd meet­ings. Directed by Isadore Fre­leng, the short was ani­mated by Ken Champin, Vir­gil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy and Manuel Perez, this short has a sur­prise char­ac­ter in addi­tion to the two stars.

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Brave wins Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature


Golden Globe

The highest-grossing ani­mated film of 2012 won the Golden Globe Award for Best Ani­mated Fea­ture Film on Sun­day night.

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Cartoon of the Day: Bosko In Dutch

Bosko In Dutch

An early Looney Tune, Bosko In Dutch is gen­er­ally unre­mark­able in its story telling, ani­ma­tion or direc­tion. How­ever, the short is impor­tant because this was the first car­toon that one of the great­est car­toon direc­tors ever super­vised– albeit uncredited.

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Cartoon of the Day: Herr Meets Hare

Herr Meets Hare

Back to World War II with Herr Meets Hare, an Isadore Fre­leng pro­pa­ganda film from 1945. And who wouldn’t want to see Adolf and Her­man face off against.… Bugs Bunny!

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Cartoon of the Day: Batman (Opening Titles)

Batman (Opening Titles)

Not a car­toon per se, but one of the most famous ani­mated sequences ever on TV.… the 1966 Bat­man Open­ing Titles paved the way for a whole gen­er­a­tion of super hero car­toons on tele­vi­sion. As a mid-season replace­ment series, Bat­man began on ABC on this date in 1966.

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3 Animated Features up For British Academy Awards


British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)

Brave,” “Franken­wee­nie” and “Para­Nor­man” are the three nom­i­nees announced Wednes­day in the Ani­mated Film cat­e­gory of the EE British Acad­emy Film Awards, also known as the BAFTAs.

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Cartoon of the Day: The Sunshine Makers

The Sunshine Makers

Not a whole lot to choose from today, so I decided to go for unusual. The Sun­shine Mak­ers is from Van Beuren Stu­dios Rain­bow Parade The­atri­cal Car­toon Series, and while it may not be the most obscure choice I could make, it is cer­tainly not a series many are knowl­edge­able of.

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