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Get a taste of what animators in Spain are creating nowadays.

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The Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation and Animation Breakdown Festival are both happening this weekend.

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My next Animation Tuesday presentation at the Cinefamily (The Silent Movie Theatre) in Los Angeles is a curated compilation of trippy 40s and 50s Technicolor educational, industrial and instructional films from the Golden Age of Hollywood Cartoons! No boring classroom lessons here; these are highly entertaining examples of animation from the greatest talents in the field. From Disney, you’ll witness the rarely seen — by men, at least — Kotex-sponsored The Story of Menstruation (1946), from UPA we’ll screen both Bill Hurtz’ Man Alive (1951) and Abe Levitow’s Inside Magoo (1959), two theatrical shorts that explored the dangers of cancer BEFORE we knew the connection between the disease and cigarettes.

The highlight of the evening will be a 35mm Technicolor screening of John Sutherland’s 50s-design masterpiece Rhapsody Of Steel (1959, image above) with animation by Irv Spence and Emery Hawkins, backgrounds by Eyvind Earle, art direction by Maurice Noble and Victor Haboush, music by Dimitri Tiomkin. And that’s not all – there will be plenty of unique animated surprises! Plus, the program will be preceded by a big-screen showing of all ten selections in Cartoon Brew’s 2011 Student Festival (We’ll be doing a separate post soon about this special showing). Advance tickets on sale now. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind animation event!

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My Animation Tuesday screening this month is the first in a new series of semi-regular face-offs: The Heavyweights of Cartoon Comedy. We will periodically pit two titans of animation anarchy against each other — and this month we’ll be comparing and contrasting the work of Tex Avery and Jay Ward

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Who was funnier: Avery or Ward? Does it matter? Avery was the “King of Cartoons” with his series of MGM theatrical shorts of the ‘40s and ‘50s. His animated masterpieces practically invented the language of cartoons, and are rife with exploding bombs, eye-popping doubletakes and girl-hungry Hollywood wolves. Jay Ward, the prize-winning Bay Area producer, revolutionized TV toons in the ‘60s with witty dialogue, funny artwork and zany characters like Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right and Super Chicken. This big-screen contest will screen some of the best of the best (in rare 35mm film prints) — and the audience will be the real winner! The showdown begins at 8pm on Tuesday July 5th at The Cinefamily (aka The Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax) in Hollywood. Advance tickets on sale now!

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If you can’t find me in October, you aren’t trying hard enough. But before we discuss October, tonight Cartoon Dump (9/27) returns with it’s usual disreputable mix of sketches, songs, puppets, stand up comedy and the absolute worst cartoons ever made. Join Frank Conniff as Moodsy, the Clinically Depressed Owl, Erica Doering as Compost Brite, J. Elvis Weinstein as Dumpster Diver Dan and Jerry Beck as “Jerry Beck”, along with special guests Dave “Gruber” Allen and Erik Charles Nielsen, 8pm at The Steve Allen Theater, 4773 Hollywood Blvd. • Free Parking! • Advanced Tickets here • Phone: (323) 666-9797 • Map & Directions • And friend us on Facebook.

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Tuesday October 5th is my 3rd annual Halloween animation screening at the CineFamily/Silent Movie Theatre. This year I’m sharing the stage with Seamus and Mark from Screen Novelties, who have curated a special spooktastic show featuring several monster movies of their own along with clips and shorts of their most dearly beloved creepy creations. The second half of the evening we’ll screen a very rare 35mm print of Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, featuring of course, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Join us – it should be a howl!

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I’ll be showing vintage 16mm cartoons to open the Janet Klein show on Thursday October 7th at the Steve Allen Theatre. This month we are celebrating both Janet’s new album, Whoopee Hey! Hey! and my book The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. I’ll be signing books and Janet promises to sing several songs from classic cartoons. It starts at 8pm. Tickets: here.

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I’ll be attending the Ottawa International Animation Festival October 20th-24th where I’ll be doing a book signing (Thursday October 21st at 6pm), and screening a program of vintage cartoons now deemed Add a Comment