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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 [...]
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...
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 [...]
*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.
"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,...
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills has scheduled yet another program of particular interest to Cartoon Brew readers. Joe Dante is hosting George Pal: Discovering the Fantastic, a centennial celebration of the pioneer stop motion animator and fantasy film producer. The program will include the screening of two newly restored [...]
B Movie Celebration is happening in Franklin, Indiana September 26th through the 28th. Tickets are $102 with the online service fee but as long as that covers the admission fee to the 50 or so movies that they're screening and as long as they're showing them on an honest to God cinema big screen, [...]
Maybe I'll change my mind and say the next moment was the best. Frank Darabont approached the podium and talked about his cinematic heroes and how he also gets a thrill watching those younger than him completely blow him away, which doesn't happen very often, but he mentioned PAN'S LABYRINTH doing just that and how it'll have quite the lasting power. We watched a clip of Guillermo del Toro working...
Guillermo del Toro, writer and director of the upcoming sequel film Hellboy II: The Golden Army, told SCI FI Wire that he thinks the second film is even better than the original..
Guillermo del Toro, who is set to direct a pair of films adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, told SCI FI Wire that he wants the films to re-create the spirit of the books..
Guillermo del Toro, writer and director of the upcoming sequel film Hellboy II: The Golden Army, told SCI FI Wire that he thinks the second film is even better than the original.
