The Inkling Chronicles

Animators Is Da Kwaziest Peoples

Short clip from Fleischer cartoon "Stoopnocracy" (1933) featuring a funny inside-joke where the lunatic asylum ambulance is called to "1600 Broadway" to pick up a crazy person. (1600 Broadway was the address of the Fleischer Studios in New York City).  Hopefully this will come out someday on a Fleischer DVD in better quality, but for now this is the best I can find .  It's amazing when you see some of these cartoons taken from an original 35mm print how beautiful they look , but these 3rd or 4th generation prints (not helped by the low-res. Flash player on YouTube) make them look technologically archaic , charming in some ways I suppose, but not a good representation of how good these cartoons looked in the original versions.   ( at least the gag still plays )

 

John Korty- The Bolex Reporter 1963

Once upon a time, there was a wonderful magic box called the Bolex camera.  And there was a wonderful magazine about what one could do with the magic box called "The Bolex Reporter" .   In one of those issues of the Bolex Reporter in 1963 there was an article on "Animation Unlimited" by  animator John Korty.   Korty would go on to produce and direct a unique animated feature called "Twice Upon A Time" (exec. produced by a certain Mr. George Lucas) , "one of the most amazing animated features that you've never heard of."   Ward Jenkins has just posted the first part of a long article about Twice Upon A Time on his blog. 

Here's the article by John Korty :

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