Animation news, reviews and features from the BCDB blog, 2011 to 2017, kept here to read.
January 24, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
"Danger, Will Robinson!" Dick Tufeld intoned that warning as the voice of the robot on Irwin Allen's classic 1960s science-fiction series Lost in Space. He was the show's narrator, as well.
January 24, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Xerox checker and supervisor Star Wirth, head of the Xerox department at Hanna-Barbera from 1967 until 1999, died January 12.
January 24, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: As Homer found out in "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish ", sushi is a very yummy food. Fugu Me! This 20 year old episode also starred Star Treks' George Takei.
January 23, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Blues singer Etta James, perhaps the quintessential R&B diva, died Friday morning, said her son, Donto James. She was 73. Her legendary rendition of "At Last" was heard in the soundtracks of the Simpsons episodes The Strong Arms Of The Ma (2003) and The Wife Aquatic (2007).
January 23, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin" was named Saturday night as the winner of the Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures.
January 23, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Criminal proceedings against the owner of a Tunisian TV station that screened the 2007 animated film Persepolis are an affront to freedom of expression, Amnesty International said ahead of his trial on Monday.
January 23, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Scarcely a year old, Kirsten Lepore's "Bottle", is getting great buzz. Watch it to see what you think!
January 22, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: From Rocky and His Friends show, "Ridinghoods Anonymous", was a simple but oh, so funny and original take on the Red Riding Hood tale.
January 21, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Disney's first short to use the new Xerox process for transferring the pencil drawings to cels was "Goliath II", an Academy Award Nominee.
January 20, 2012 · Paul Anderson
"Rastamouse" has plenty of detractors, mon. Figures provided by broadcast regulator Ofcom indicate that the animated TV show about a crime-solving Rastafarian mouse was Britain's most complained-about children's program of 2011.
January 20, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
The first hearing in the trial of an Egyptian telecommunications magnate who tweeted a cartoon of a bearded Mickey Mouse and a veiled Minnie was postponed Saturday.
January 20, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: In his second of two appearances in "Wet Hare", Blacque Jacque Shellacque tries to equal Bugs Bunny and falls short.
January 19, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
French actress Rosy Varte, a veteran of 50 feature films over nearly 40 years, died Friday night in the American Hospital in Paris. She was 88.
January 19, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Wile E. Coyote breaks his silence for the very first time in "Operation: Rabbit", and also, for the first time, faces Bugs Bunny.
January 18, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
The nominees are Choke (Michelle Latimer), La Cité entre les Murs/Inner City (Alain Fournier), Muybridge's Strings (Koji Yamamura, Michael Fukushima, Shuzo John Shiota and Keisuke Tsuchihashi), Romance (Georges Schwizgebel, René Chénier and Marc Bertrand) and Wild Life (Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby, Marcy Page and Bonnie Thompson).
January 18, 2012 · Mr. Clevland
Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn" has received two nominations for this year's Orange British Academy Film Awards, Daniel Radcliffe and Holliday Grainger announced Tuesday at BAFTA's London headquarters.
January 18, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: Originally part of the The Huckleberry Hound Show, "Bewitched Bear" featured the bear that would go on to his own show, The Yogi Bear Show.
January 17, 2012 · Paul Anderson
Three animated films have been nominated by the American Cinema Editors for the 2012 ACE Eddie Awards, the society announced Monday.
January 17, 2012 · Ethan Minovitz
Police in an English town listed as a serious assault an incident in which Superman, Captain America, Shaun the Sheep and Tigger got into a donnybrook at a watering hole.
January 17, 2012 · Dave Koch
CotD: "Somewhere In Dreamland " was Fleischer Studios first cartoon filmed completely in Technicolor.