Michael Mallory

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Remembering Richard Stone

Michael Mallory - December 20, 2012

Some eighty years ago, after it was decided that cartoons should be heard as well as seen, the song scores in many cases became...

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Yvette Kaplan Looks Back at ‘Beavis and Butt-Head’

Michael Mallory - December 13, 2012

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to come face to face one of the many, many people I knew only over the telephone,...

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Gene of All Trades

Michael Mallory - December 6, 2012

Some things stay with you for a lifetime. When I was a kid I read a Yogi Bear comic strip in the newspaper in...

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Talking Turkey About Pocahontas

Michael Mallory - November 29, 2012

Another Turkey Day has come and gone (save for the excess pounds) and this time the our yearly national celebration of the communion between...

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Remembering Lucille Bliss

Michael Mallory - November 20, 2012

I have written about Lucille Bliss before on this blog. But upon hearing the sad news that this talented little lady passed away a...

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Clean-up Artists: Once Unsung, Now Unemployed

Michael Mallory - November 15, 2012

Since this past week has been one in which a lot of unexpected things happened, let’s go even further. Imagine a time in which,...

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When You Wish Upon a ‘Star Wars’

Michael Mallory - November 8, 2012

The big news in showbiz over for the last week has, of course, been the Walt Disney Company’s purchase of Lucasfilm for some four-billion-dollars...

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Someone Up There Likes Us

Michael Mallory - November 1, 2012

Unlike the biz as a whole, animation has long been a field in which people don’t specialize. Finding an artist whose skill set includes...

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Credit Where Credit is Due?

Michael Mallory - October 25, 2012

One of the tasks of a cartoon historian is to research and identify as accurately as possible which artists and artisans worked on what...

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Alexander Film: A Forgotten Toon Powerhouse

Michael Mallory - October 18, 2012

Some years back I was talking with a veteran animation director about animation’s Golden Age. “Golden age?” he replied, with an expression of disdain, “I...

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Pixar’s Buried Treasures

Michael Mallory - October 11, 2012

Among my favorite things to discover and write about are “Easter eggs:” the little hidden references and in-jokes that crop up in practically everything...

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Rick Hoberg’s Seriously ‘Amazing Friends’

Michael Mallory - October 4, 2012

What’s the classic line...“Everything old is new again?” Nowhere is that more evident than in the world of television. This week I’m thinking of what...

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George Miller: The Eyes Have It

Michael Mallory - September 28, 2012

Hey, do you know that a feature-length version of Tim Burton’s 1984 animated short Frankenweenie is coming out? Of course you do. It’s hard...

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Hip, Hip, Foray!

Michael Mallory - September 21, 2012

I write these words on September 18, 2012, which happens to be the birthday of the First Lady of Animation, June Foray. What better...

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Jeffrey and the Academy

Michael Mallory - September 13, 2012

One of the best things about having 25 years’ worth of interview transcripts in one’s garage is that it allows you to look back...

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John and Ron Mention ‘The Unmentionable’

Michael Mallory - September 7, 2012

This past weekend I had the pleasure of reconnecting with Disney Animation’s legendary “John and Ron”—John Musker and Ron Clements—at a Sherlock Holmes symposium...

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