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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…Watch those old vaudevillians like Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and Buster Keaton. Learn timing from those guys; that’s who the Looney Tunes guys and the Disney folks learned it… |
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The Tune Squad is back for more in the Space Jam: A New Legacy trailer
…must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over the A.I.’s digitized champions on the court: a… |
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AMPAS to honour Looney Toonmasters
Variety reports that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will toast toonmasters Tex Avery and Michael Maltese with “Putting Looney in the Toons,” a tribute marking the centennial… |
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Coming Events: Tunes For Toons
This Saturday, April 29, at 3:00pm, ASIFA-Hollywood presents its Tunes For Toons program. “Author, teacher and animation historian Daniel Goldmark discusses the story behind the musicians who made our favorite… |
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Something for the weekend…?
…we’re – hey! – giving away three copies of the new toon Bah, Humduck! and one set of the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Four to a handful of lucky… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…for a legendary career scoring Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, Iwerks had only a brief stint doing a couple of Porky Pig cartoons for Schlesinger. Iwerks then went to… |
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You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…King, Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, and The Smurfs: Season One, Volume Two. Case Study: Standard keepcase, in a foil embossed slip-sleeve. Some advertising materials appear as inserts. Ink… |
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…Fred Claus, Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6, Popeye The Sailor Volume 2, and The Smurfs: Season One, Volume Two. Mirroring the previous Paramount release, this disc also has the… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…things, Pocahontas marked the directorial debut of Eric Goldberg, animator of Aladdin’s Genie and later animation director on Joe Dante’s Looney Tunes movie, Back In Action. Co-directing here with Mike… |
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A Charlie Brown Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…found from the menu, including Scooby-Doo And The Goblin King, Fred Claus, Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6, Popeye The Sailor Volume 2, and The Smurfs: Season One, Volume Two…. |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…fans shouldn’t immediately spring for this set – and the almost concurrent first volume for the Looney Tunes a couple of weeks later – anyway. For those whose primary Hanna-Barbera… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…Review: In the grand scheme of things, Chuck Jones will always be remembered chiefly as the instigator behind many of the best Looney Tunes cartoon shorts, and the best animated-cats-in-France-musical… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…is the fact that Eric Goldberg, the lead animator on Aladdin’s Genie, the Rhapsody In Blue segment from Fantasia/2000 and animation director on Joe Dante’s recent Looney Tunes feature, is… |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
If you want to know the recipe for good music, don’t ask Michael Giacchino. He only knows about GREAT music! As Remy the rat in Pixar’s Ratatouille shows, every great… |
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Richard Sherman tunes up Iron Man 2
In an exclusive chat with the D23 fan community site, none other than Richard Sherman shares his enthusiasm at being asked to pen a Disney-esque melody for current smash Iron… |
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Professor uses toons for tunes
{{link http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=99501 Toon Zone}} posted a fun little article on music professor Daniel Goldmark, who uses cartoons in the classroom to introduce students to the musical classics! Check it out… |
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Oscar’s song shortlist includes 11 animated tunes
Seventy-five songs from 2013 films have been shortlisted for nominations in the Original Song category at the Oscars, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Those from… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…want of a better term. If someone gets an electric shock, their bones will appear as they get zapped like they’re a Looney Tunes character. If there’s an extended gag… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…long weekday morning show is titled Toon In With Me and airs at 7am ET. It’s anchored by Bill Leff and his puppet pal Toony the Tuna. Between Looney Tunes,… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…visuals of Disney’s renaissance, and its humor can still be felt in any number of CG or television animated comedies. There have been attempts, particularly with the Looney Tunes features,… |
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O Brother Bear, Where Art Thou?: Why Disney Channel turned down Brother Bear: The Series
…no involvement with the series, remaining at Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida. Kurt Dumas (Looney Tunes: Back in Action) joined the series as a storyboard artist, with Jill Daniels (Phineas… |
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Free Birds creators explain why Reel FX’s first theatrical feature is no turkey
…park attraction Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem, and all of the recent Looney Tunes theatrical shorts, including I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat and Daffy’s Rhapsody. By June 2009, however,… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…Eric Goldberg temporarily left Disney to direct the animation in Looney Tunes: Back In Action, Disa – one of Goldberg’s former trainees – went with him. Warner Bros. offered Disa… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
…the toons looking authentically like film, but they’re miles ahead in terms of freshness and clarity than Warners’ Looney Tunes remasters or Disney’s own work on the Disney Treasures restorations,… |
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Legend of the Guardians flying home in December
…release will include artwork galleries, a music video and Fur of Flying, the CGI Looney Tunes short that was shown before the film during its theatrical run. A 3-D version… |
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Cartoon Network reveals a full slate
…Yoda Chronicles. Returning shows include Adventure Time, Regular Show, Annoying Orange, The Amazing World of Gumball, The Looney Tunes Show, MAD, Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc, Johnny Test, DreamWorks Dragons: Riders of… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…later this year. Also providing quirky entertainment for grown-ups was Helluva Boss [above, right]. What started as a brutally zany crossover of Looney Tunes and The Office has evolved into… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
…is reminiscent of a Yosemite Sam cartoon and Rawhide Clyde is strangely similar to the Looney Tunes character. Finally Dirty Dawg is very similar to Top Cat. Overall, it was… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: The Complete First Season
…one Looney Tunes enjoyed with Tiny Toon Adventures in the early 90s. Tom and Jerry Tales falls somewhere in the middle, but it does lean towards a relatively good second… |
