LA Times (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Here s a list of a dozen remakes and revival projects now at various stages in the studio pipeline.
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
The next several Saturday nights at the Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles will feature a rare festival of vintage stop motion animation films. Tonight (11/15) at 7:30pm is Stop Motion Rareties featuring Starevich, Bowers’ and Svankmajer amongst much odd and unusual. Next week (11/22) at 7:30pm an entire show of George Pal Puppetoons; and [...]
ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
The War of the Worlds “The fools! They’re cutting their own throats!” Ever since the 1992 election when America voted for Bill Clinton, this film has haunted me – not the Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise travesty of a few years ago, but the 1953 George Pal classic. Based on the H. G. Wells novel of a Martian invasion, the movie casts Gene [...]
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
There is a beautiful copy of George Pal’s advertising short Philips Broadast of 1938 currently available on the Europa Film Treasures site. It’s almost overwhelming to see animation that’s so fun, so colorful, so individualistic and so stylish. This was produced exactly seventy years ago, yes, SEVENTY years ago, and yet it feels as fresh [...]
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Attention New Yorkers! This Saturday, November 1st, master film collector Serge Bromberg returns to the Big Apple, and will present rare prints of animated shorts that he has discovered and restored, accompanying them with anecdotes and piano music, in a program created especially for the French Institute Alliance Francaise. Bromberg, the Annecy Animation Festival creative [...]
Mayerson on Animation (Free subscription) | 15/10/2008
Europa Film Treasures , an online archive of films, has a section devoted to animation. The highlights of that section, by far, are two films produced by George Pal: The Philips Broadcast of 1938 and the Puppetoon Tulips Shall Grow (pictured above). Both are from excellent colour prints and include the original titles. The other animated films there are more historical curiosities than satisfying entertainments....
Michael Sporn Animation - Splog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
I received this email from NY animator, Willy Hartland. He’d bought a Puppetoon head and is trying to locate the film it comes from. I need help authenticating that it’s in fact a Puppetoon head. It’s clearly a chef character, from perhaps a TV commercial, because I have yet to find the character on my various George Pal [...]
technabob (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
I don’t know if I should really be sharing this dorky tidbit, but back when I was just a pup, I was a serious bad-ass on the miniature golf course. I actually won a couple of shiny plastic trophies, and even an official gold-plated Jack Nicklaus putter from the neighborhood Putt-Putt...
Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
To commemorate the 100th birthday of composer Raymond Scott (1908-1994), the folks at his official website, RaymondScott.com, have commissioned one of my favorite caricaturists, Drew Friedman, to create a limted edition portrait of Scott and his Quintette. Scott is, of course, best known for his jazz compositions (such as Powerhouse) which were heard in numereous [...]
Autopia (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
*I hope any aliens who exist on Titan, below the freezing point of ammonia, don't watch George Pal movies. The Huyghens there is a very squat, grumpy, rather sinister-looking 1950s UFO. Link: YouTube - Huygens landing site revisited.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
"Baby boomers have a soft spot in their hearts for filmmaker and special-effects pioneer George Pal," writes Susan King. His movies are so humanistic in a genre that frequently passes by that element," noted director Joe Dante (The Howling,...
GammaBlog (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
I did the stop-motion animation on this ambitious little short in 1962 or 1963. It is, of course, inspired by the H.G. Wells novel and the George Pal movie. But my traveler goes back in time, not forward, and is not quite as philosophically oriented as Well’s traveler. I always wanted my animated films to have [...]
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
In Woking, England, there stands a tribute to H.G. Wells and those badass Martian tripods that he brought to Earth in 1898. You can't really point to the tripod itself and say, "Ooh, that's cool." I mean: you can, because it is cool. But the fact is the setup there tells the [...]
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
BEVERLY HILLS – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is best known as the exclusive highbrow organization that hands out those little gold Oscars every February. Of course, the commoners have as much chance of crashing that glittery world-famous ceremony as rocketing to Mars. But don't despair.
Space.com (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
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