…named Astro Boy. The origin takes place over the first couple of episodes, and soon Astro is enrolled in school, where he initially faces prejudice from the human kids. (The…

…schoolmates and a robot sister (Zoran), and he meets his nemesis “brother” Atlas— now a direct creation of Dr. Tenma. Astro Boy faces a variety of threats to Metro City…

…at the time the United States’ best-selling non-fiction title. We also get to see Schulz in his private life, driving his kids to school, and at work. Rare footage is…

…Schoolhouse Rock was born. Schoolhouse Rock was broadcast on Saturday mornings on ABC between 1973 and 1985. They would also come back for five more years in the 1990s. The…

…back to their roots and to a place creatively where they were actually able to pull off those later milestones. With some of the “old school” feel Disney in attendance,…

…in high school. After a spell in the Army, Knotts tried out for radio parts, finally landing a part in the Andy Griffith Broadway production No Time For Sergeants. When…

…storyboards and concept art for Treasure Planet can be found here, with around 27 images depicting various scenes from the movie in early form. In Art Design, The Brandywine School…

…and a square jawed hero smashing up the villains that would cause any offence. At heart it’s a geek movie, made in the style of those old-school serial adventures but…

…handcrafted, “old-school” Disney began to look old hat. Now, I loved the recent Disney films, especially Tarzan, Lilo And Stitch and Treasure Planet…but I can see the argument that they…

…It’s not all about the ass though, as the episode also sees Larry failing to impress at Hunter’s school. Turning to Donkey for help, we see the true side of…

…(for exterior “haunted castle” set ups). Shooting on video at least allowed for the then-fairly new trickery of paint-box effects to be added to the show, or fun old-school touches…

…long awaited Columbia classics), The Harveytoons Complete Collection boxed set, and a yukky looking all-CGI Casper video, Casper’s Scare School, that continues the downward trend that has beset the post-1995…

…plots acted out by school friends, but at United he was drawn to animation. Borrowing a film camera, he experimented with making the crude images cleaner and more fluid. When…

…absolutely motors along with some great onscreen segments with Walt, and fabulously amusing old-school film footage of an early fair that’s quite risqué (Diversions For Father) for not only Disney…

…You Going Little Ghoul (with Hansel And Gretel as the bedtime story and a King Kong skit set on the Vampire State Building, natch), Gool School (with Frankie’s childhood movie…

…“school”. Nemo seems to be a benchmark; several times throughout the film I noted similarities, not least in the opening, with the losing of the egg and safe recovery echoing…