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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3

…The Puppetoon Movie, and three years after the release of the similarly positively reviewed The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2 disc, producer Arnold Leibovit is back to present another collection of…

Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2

…as Madcap Models, or more commonly Puppetoons. A number of those shorts were shown in the compilation feature The Puppetoon Movie (1987), a film that also utilized new bridging sequences…

The Puppetoon Movie

…“Madcap Models,” but the Puppetoon name still appeared in the credits. Legends such as Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen worked on Puppetoons at one point or another, but it was…

The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder

…experience once again George Pal’s one-of-a-kind Puppetoons! The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 is coming from Puppetoon.net September 1, 2023! Preorders are now open! CONTENTS: Puppetoons Western Daze (1940) The Ballet…

The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2

…the bridging sequences in the first Puppetoon feature. (Standard definition.) The Puppetoon Movie Montage (10:51) is actually a montage of fascinating rare photos of George Pal, spotlighting the creaton of…

Puppetoon Movie Volume 2 now available for a reduced price at Amazon.com and Puppetoon.net

The acclaimed second volume of restored Technicolor George Pal Oscar-winning Puppetoons are available now at reduced prices on both Amazon and Puppetoon.net. Perfect for holiday gift-giving, this high-definition Blu-ray and…

Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 fundraiser launches

Coming soon after the acclaimed release of The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2, producer Arnold Leibovit has set up his crowdfunding page for the next volume. This is not a typical…

The return of Puppetoons

…Pal • The Puppetoon Movie Speedy Alka-Seltzer (Miles Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution) • The Puppetoon Movie Montage • Full Production and Donor Credits • Includes 6-Panel Color Booklet, Liner Notes by…

George Pal’s Puppetoons to get a hi-def release

Courtesy of a Facebook post by Jerry Beck’s Animation Scoop blog, we learned of an October release of The Puppetoon Movie on Blu-ray, in a deluxe 2-disc set. This compilation…

Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power

…Pal escaped to America, producing the Puppetoon series that powered his creativity for creating “trick films”. The Puppetoons popularity and critical success saw Pal nominated for seven consecutive years in…

Stop-Motion Marvels!

…Warner Bros. Vitaphone release. Peanut Vendor (1933) is a wild two-minute unreleased experimental film from Len Lye, though it shares a fun musical sensibility with the Puppetoons. Speaking of… A…

The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?

…let’s get on with things! — Ben Simon 1. The Puppetoon Movie Our favorite disc of the year by far was this splendid two-disc set that featured the compilation feature…

The Animated Seuss

…CGI feature out of it in 2008.) The Puppetooned Seuss George Pal, producer of the Puppetoons series, made two animated shorts using Dr. Seuss stories. The Puppetoons were brilliant shorts…

The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still

…Arrow and StudioCanal also put out terrific and much-deserved collector’s sets for the 1980 classic version of Flash Gordon. The best Blu-ray release for me was naturally The Puppetoon Movie…

"Putting the 'F' back in 'Freedom'" – Team America has landed!

A hilarious teaser for the much-discussed “puppetoon” film by the politically scathing pair behind South Park has hit the net! Head on over to the Apple site to get your…

The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!

…independent release, of the 1987 The Puppetoon Movie that celebrated with style the career of the otherwise unfairly overlooked George Pal complete with additional toons, feature-length documentary and his debut…

Ray Harryhausen RIP

…the supervision of George Pal (on his Puppetoon series) and original King Kong animator Willis O’Brien on the 1949 edition of the similarly themed Mighty Joe Young, Harryhausen soon became…

Frankenweenie

…through many of Max and Dave Fleischer’s strange excursions into the surreal in their Betty Boop cartoons, to George Pal’s Puppetoon series in the 1930s, which often featured a terrified…

ParaNorman

…to have found a natural bonding with such subject matter over the years, especially in recent times. George Pal’s Puppetoon series in the 1930s often featured a terrified character called…

Lady and the Tramp’s Peggy Lee on the right side of the (sound)tracks!

Puppetoon short titled Jasper’s in a Jam; and she performed on musical-variety shows when American television was in its infancy. (Her earliest known TV appearance was in May of 1946.)…

Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition

…the multiple cartoon specials (including George Pal’s 1944 Puppetoon And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street) that lend it a multi-media quality that predates the later Sesussical…

Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1

…budding scholar of animation history would do well to purchase their Cartoons That Time Forgot series (in partnership with Kino), The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu (with Bosko Video), The Puppetoon

The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!

…digitally removed – we can only hope The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm, with George Pal’s amazing Puppetoon animation, is next! But when it came to live-action releases, I…

The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?

…Meanwhile, the independently-produced compilation The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3, from producer Arnold Leibovit, thrilled fans with more spectacular restorations of over twenty animated films from film legend George Pal. I…