Animation

Bernard Garbutt (1900-1975) was an animator and teacher at Disney during the studio's golden age. He taught animal drawing during the pr...

 Paramount produced this classic newsreel that goes behind the scenes at the Fleischer Studios ( Link to YouTube video ) Book:  Out of the I...

Let's wrap our five-part interview with toy collector Mel Birnkrant with this question: Did the sensibility behind the Hays Code for mov...

in this 1963 short, comedian Mel Brooks is the voice of a skeptical character looking at abstract moving shapes in a crowded theater. ( Link...

Classic characters from 1930s animation often used a ball for the head or the pelvis.  A good source of this style is the 1936 book  Cartoon...

The 1930s was a time of economic depression, but it was also the decade when cartoon animation went through its greatest period of creative ...