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Alabama News NEW from MeTV: “Toon In With Me” You can catch MeTV's "Toon In With Me” weekdays from 6 AM - 6:30 AM and Saturday Morning Cartoons starting at 6 AM on your MeTV Montgomery! Updated: MeTV  announces the launch of the new original morning show  Toon In With Me! The weekday one-hour hosted series will feature original comedy sketches, special guests, interviews, games and more, produced to lead into many of the greatest classic cartoon shorts ever made. Also announced is the launch of Saturday Morning Cartoons, a three hour cartoon block of animated favorites. Designed to a...

Scott Thomas Anderson December 31, 2020Updated: January 3, 2021, 5:25 pm Leon Schlesinger, the producer who created Warner Brothers’ “Looney Tunes,” meets Porky Pig in the 1940 short film “You Ought to Be in Pictures.” Photo: Cartoon Research , Cartoon Research In 1932, cinema screens were glowing with a Betty Boop cartoon called “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You.” This animated dream of cannibalism debuted some of the first live-action footage ever of Louis Armstrong playing his trumpet, his crisp, quick solo rising to a clarion growl, his band bri...

Animation’s Early Days: Artists, Hucksters, Talking Mice and Pigs Max Fleischer with Betty BoopCredit...Fleischer Studios, Inc. Buy Book ▾ By Michael Tisserand By Reid Mitenbuler All swims were adult swims in the early days of American animation. Hand-drawn shapes frolicked and misbehaved before an audience that reacted with shock at this new life they were witnessing. Cartoons could be delightful and winsome, but they could also be as unsettling as anything else that was breaking new in the early 20th century. Sex! Death! Dinosaurs! It was all onscreen and it was all new. The visio...

‘Fantasia,’ ‘Snow White,’ Betty Boop, Popeye and the First Golden Age of Animation When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By the time Walt Disney’s “Fantasia” premiered at Manhattan’s Broadway Theater on Nov. 13, 1940, what had started out as an animated short to revive Mickey Mouse’s flagging career had become a feature-length extravaganza. Images in the movie channeled evolutionary theory and abstract art, depicting roaring dinosaurs, vibrating shapes and dancing brooms. Everything was ...

Paramount Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection Robin Williams as Popeye, Wesley Ivan Hurt as Swee’Pea and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl in 1980’s 'Popeye.' Robert Altman directed Williams — who stepped in for original star Dustin Hoffman — and Shelley Duvall in the film. The Hollywood Reporter's critic deemed it a "disappointment," but the movie went on to box office success. Popeye, which turns 40 this month, owes a debt to another beloved character: Little Orphan Annie. Producer Robert Evans desperately wanted to make Annie for Paramount. But when it went to Columbia, he was determin...