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Hair-Raising Hare (1946)

Mickey’s Good Deed 1932

The Clock Watcher 1945

my two moods

Favorite Silent Animation #1 - The Pet  (1921)

Winsor McCay is often considered the father of animation.  He may not have made the world’s first animated film, but his film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) was certainly the first major animated hit, and probably the most famous animated film of this era.  McCay was already hugely successful for his beautiful and inventive comic strips, such as Little Nemo in Slumberland.  McCay turned some of his comic strip ideas into clever animated short films, like How a Mosquito Operates (1912) and The Flying House (1921).  

All of McCay’s films are carefully and beautifully drawn, and they set a new standard for quality in the animation genre.  But my favorite McCay animated short is The Pet.  Based on an idea which first appeared in a 1905 Dream of the Rarebit Fiend strip, a woman finds a cute puppy-like creature on her doorstep.  At first he’s adorable and inquisitive, crawling into bed and exploring the house.  And then he begins to eat.  First food, then dishes, then, well, everything in sight.  He grows and grows, until he is a monster wreaking destruction on the city.  McCay so perfectly captures that surrealism of a nightmare, and yet this odd, calamitous creature remains adorable throughout, and there’s something so pleasing about watching him scoop up everything around him with his huge, shovel-like mouth.

Polar Trappers (1938)

Donald’s Double Trouble (1946)

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Tumblr’s management has done goofed AGAIN! The new content rules don’t affect me but here are some places you can find me in case the service is nuked completely/I never use this site again:

Original animation model sheet for the Aracuan Bird from the Blame It On The Samba segment from Walt Disney’s Melody Time (1948).

1001 Arabian Nights

78 in x of animated feature film history Release: Dec. 1st, 1959 Country: USA Director: Jack Kinney

“This film is a loose adaptation of the Arab folktale of ‘Aladdin’ from One Thousand and One Nights, albeit with the addition of UPA’s star cartoon character Mr. Magoo to the story as Aladdin’s uncle, ‘Abdul Azziz Magoo.’

The film was originally directed by Pete Burness, who was the series director on the popular series of Mr. Magoo theatrical cartoons produced for Columbia by UPA between 1949 and 1959. Disagreements with producer and UPA owner Stephen Bosustow led to Burness resigning and Bosustow recruiting Jack Kinney, the director of many of Disney’s Donald Duck cartoons, as the film’s new director. The voice of Magoo in the short cartoons, Jim Backus, reprises his role in the feature, with Katheryn Grant, the singer/actress wife of Bing Crosby, as the voice of Princess Yasminda. Dwayne Hickman, from TV’s The Bob Cummings Show and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, was the voice of Aladdin.

1001 Arabian Nights was the first full-length feature produced by UPA, a studio which had revolutionized animation during the 1950s by incorporating design and limited animation. The film was not a box-office success, and was UPA’s final release through Columbia, which had ended its distribution for the UPA short subjects in favor of lower-cost Loopy De Loop cartoons from Hanna-Barbera Productions. Following the film’s release, Bosustow sold UPA to Henry G. Saperstein.”

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1001 Arabian Nights is available on YouTube in Spanish.