Magoo’s Christmas Carol panel in NYC
The Paley Center for Media on 52nd Street will be hosting a screening and panel discussion celebrating The First Christmas Special: Revisiting Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 6:00 pm. Following a screening of the show, a panel including animator/author Darrell Van Citters; Judy Levitow, daughter of Magoo’s director Abe Levitow; and Marie Matthews, Voice of “

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Animator and now author Darrell Van Citters will appear at events in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland to celebrate and sign his book Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol:The Making of the First Animated Christmas Special . Van Citters has scheduled book signing events to be held at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco next Tuesday December...
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be hosting two back-to-back animation events in August. The first, on Thursday night August 19th, will be a panel on the art of animation voice acting. Panelists will include June Foray, Jim Cummings (Winnie the Pooh) , Yuri Lowenthal ( Ben 10 and anime) and Russi Taylor (Minnie Mouse) , animation...
Animator Doug Compton used a classic 1955 Stan Freberg recording as the basis for his Christmas card this year: a fully animated version of Nuttin’ For Christmas which he drew and animated every frame of. For reference, the song’s lyrics (written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett) are here . Enjoy – and Merry Christmas!
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Check out this amazing Japanese trailer for Disney’s A Christmas Carol. It’s a complete 180 degree turn compared to the over-the-top American trailer and instead of slapstick, focuses on the ghost aspects of the story. If the previous trailers didn’t get you excited, perhaps this Japanese trailer will. The film will be released...
I am making my daughter a picture book for Christmas this year. This is a page out of it. If you enjoyed this, please follow my tumblr! www.cwphoto.tumblr.com
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Just a reminder, I’m hosting two (count ‘em 2) Christmas Cartoon Parties this week: 1. CARTOON DUMP – our annual Christmas special is tonight, December 21st, at 8pm. Our special guest comedian will be Billy the Mime . Join Frank Conniff and me for an evening of Holiday themed cartoons, music and skits at the Steve Allen Theatre...
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