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A crowdfunding campaign launched by a mentee of esteemed animation artist Bob McKnight II is nearing its $9K goal to preserve his legacy.

#BobMcKnight #AnimationHistory #LooneyTunes
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2026/04/gofundme-campaign-aims-to-preserve-the-animated-legacy-of-bob-mcknight/

GoFundMe Campaign Aims to Preserve the Animated Legacy of Bob McKnight | Animation Magazine

A crowdfunding campaign launched by a mentee of esteemed animation artist Bob McKnight II is nearing its $9K goal to preserve his legacy.

Animation Magazine

internetarchive Mar 12

How did Mickey Mouse go from borrowing hit songs to making Disney’s own musical legacy? 🎶

1930 Mickey Mouse comic strips referenced popular songs, like "Singin’ in the Rain," placing the character inside a shared musical culture. But that all changed with the original tune, "Minnie’s Yoo Hoo," marking the shift from borrowing culture to creating it.

Learn more on our blog 👇
https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/24/mickey-tunes-in/

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Douglas Howell Feb 2

DOUGLAS WATCHES EVERY ANIME
1929-30 - THE MINISTRY AND MURATA

By 1929, the Japanese Ministry of Education must have been pouring money into MURATA Yasuji's films. And in one film specifically from 1929, it starts to show.

#AnimeReview #AnimationHistory #Murata #DWEA

https://douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/02/02/1929-30-the-ministry-and-murata/

Image is from "Taro's Train", Yokohama Cinema Shokai, 1929.

Douglas Howell Jan 30

1927-1928: YAMAMOTO AND KIMURA

YAMAMOTO Sanae produces the earliest surviving animated tale of a key Japanese folk hero, and KIMURA Hakusan turns his hand to propaganda. Things are starting to move in a bad direction.

https://douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/30/1927-1928-yamamoto-and-kimura/

#AnimeReview #AnimationHistory #History #Yamamoto #Kimura

Hollywood Outbreak Jan 18

‘Zootopia 2’ just made animation history. The sequel is now the highest-grossing animated film of all time after a massive global box office run.

#Zootopia2 #MovieNews #AnimationHistory #BoxOffice

https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/2026/01/18/zootopia-2-breaks-animated-box-office-records/

'Zootopia 2' Breaks Animated Box Office Records

Zootopia 2 makes animation history as the highest-grossing animated film ever, delivering a record-breaking global box office run.

Hollywood Outbreak

Home 1 [Unofficial]Dec 21

Mark Osborne’s MORE and the Cost of Ambition

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://stopmotionmagazine.com/mark-osbornes-more-and-the-cost-of-ambition/

Damon Dec 10

60 years ago today, A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS (though it debuted in Canada a few days before depending on the CTV station). Here's a promo for the first airing.

Until the late 1960s, it was normal for advertisers to sponsor entire timeslots and produce the programs. The sponsor took all the ad time and often tied the ads with the programs (resulting in things like the Flintstones hawking cigarettes since the show was originally aimed at adults). A Charlie Brown Christmas was commissioned by Coca-Cola, and plugs for them were put in the original opening and closing credits. (Someone noted that Snoopy can be seen singing in the original credits.)

Director Bill Melendez had previously worked with the Peanuts gang in a series of vignettes for the Ford Motor Company from 1959 thru at least 1964, the first time they had been animated.

If you have time, you can read on Wikipedia about the development of the special, which involves a documentary producer at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, baseball, and an unaired documentary called A Boy Named Charlie Brown (which is available for purchase thru Charles Schulz’s museum).

#vintageTV #classicTV #VintageBroadcast #VintageMedia #TVhistory #animation #AnimationHistory