Posts tagged CotD.
February 15, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
From this date in 1950 comes a Disney feature film based on a story by Charles Perrault. Cinderella really marked the return of the Disney studios top the animated feature film, and marked the beginning of the middle period of the Disney oeuvre.
February 14, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Released two years ago today, and last year's winner of the Academy Award for best feature animated film, the cartoon oif the day is Rango. Directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp- wow, that sounds like a couple of pirate films we know- this stylish western was on the tops of many lists last year. Let us know what you thought of this one.
February 9, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
A short so funny we could make it a cartoon of the week, Ali Baba Bunny released on this date in 1957. One of the classic Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny pairings, this one also included the running gag about "I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque..."
February 8, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Today's CotD takes us back to 1936 for The Early Bird And The Worm. Directed by Rudolf Ising, this color short was from the Happy Harmonies Theatrical Cartoon Series.
February 7, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Who is celebrating their twentieth anniversary today? The two stone-age kids that grew up next door to each other- Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm! In 1993, ABC aired I Yabba-Dabba Do!, a special directed by animation giant William Hanna. How tough was it for Fred to give away the bride?
February 1, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
From a sort of informal series, How To Ride A Horse is one of those Goofy shorts that just make you laugh. Goofy is amazing, he can carry a whole short and even a whole series, all by himself.
January 28, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
From 1950 we have this classic pairing of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in Boobs In The Woods. This Looney Tune was directed by Robert McKimson and written by Warren Foster.
January 25, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
From Columbia and UPA films, Gerald McBoing Boing was an Academy Award Winner in 1951. For such a highly regarded short, it is not rated high at BCDB. What do you think, is this worthy of an Oscar, or is the BCDB rating justified?
January 23, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
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.
January 19, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Probably the least known and least watch Disney animated film of all time, So Dear To My Heart is even less watched than Song of the South. Most people cab at least sing Zipitty Do Dah from Song of the South.... who can even tell you who starred in So Dear To My Heart?
January 9, 2013 · Big Cartoon DataBase
The fifth incarnation of Scooby-Doo began on this date in 1978 with Watch Out! The Willawaw! from Scooby's All-Stars. WHen the series started, no one thought it would go to five shows, much less the thirteen shows it has spawned to date. Five curious teens and their dog and going on almost 50 years.
December 21, 2012 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Disney is quoted as saying, "It all started with a mouse." Disney was always inventing, always trying new things, pushing the animation envelope. Today is the seventy-fifth anniversary of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, and while it was not the first animated feature film, or even the first in full color... it was certainly the first commercially successful animated feature film, and it's legacy is still being felt today.
December 15, 2012 · Big Cartoon DataBase
I am REALLY on the fence about The Emperor's New Groove. Sure, it has it's moments... it has Eartha Kitt... it also has Patrick Warburton and Wendie Malick. On the down side, it does have the barely one-dimensional David Spade in the lead role, and it was directed by Mark Dindal who was still perfecting the art of really screwing up an animated film here (his Masters thesis was Chicken Little in 2005, easily the worst film ever from Disney.)
December 14, 2012 · Big Cartoon DataBase
One of Chuck Jones' specials from the 1970's, A Very Merry Cricket featured Les Tremayne as Chester C. Cricket and Harry the Cat and Mel Blanc as Tucker the Mouse. Chuck wrote and directed this sequel.
December 7, 2012 · Big Cartoon DataBase
What would the holidays be without great Rankin-Bass animated specials like Frosty The Snowman? 43 years young today, Frosty The Snowman is not that horrible sequel Frosty Returns (which was cel animated), but proper stop motion animation and narration by none other than Jimmy Durante.
December 6, 2012 · Big Cartoon DataBase
A cartoon we get asked about a lot (and I do mean a LOT!) is La Planète Sauvage (English Title: Fantastic Planet). Not one I saw when I was growing up, but many of you obviously did. This joint production by French and Czechoslovakian filmmakers was seen as a metaphor for Soviet oppression of Czechoslovakia, and pressure from the Communist government.
December 5, 2012 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Let's go way back in time for today's CotD... on this date in 1930, Disney released the Mickey Mouse cartoon Pioneer Days. Directed by Burt Gillett, it was one of the earliest "costume dramas" featuring Mickey and his gang.
November 30, 2012 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Released on this date in 1963, Transylvania 6-5000 was the last Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. And this cartoon is thoroughly Chuck. From the backgrounds to the character design to the timing, this short is a one-stop lesson in Jonsian cartoon directing.
November 28, 2012 · Big Cartoon DataBase
Released this day in 1931, Hittin' The Trail For Hallelujah Land is a founding member of the infamous Censored Eleven is also one of the least seen... I guess that is the point of being censored. So watch this one today, and let us know what you think- rightly suppressed or much ado about nothing???
November 27, 2012 · Big Cartoon DataBase
On this date in 2002, Disney released Treasure Planet. Sort of a Disney version of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island," set in outer space.