Channel Frederator Blog

When you are in need of visual stimulation, there is no better blog than Agence Eureka. A French woman, who goes by the name pita ou franck, has scanned her vast collection of artwork and photos from magazines, newspapers, board games, playing cards, postcards, wrapping paper, paper dolls, and an endless array of other ephemera. You could spend days delving. The scans are high quality and the selection is carefully curated. Take a look. You will not regret it.

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In Disney’s 1929 Silly Symphony “The Skeleton Dance”, we see several skeletons dancing around in a graveyard. This cartoon was quite popular, and was the first cartoon to use non-post-sync sound.

The cartoon was so well received that ten years later, Mickey Mouse was trapped in a haunted house, playing music for a group of dancing skeletons.  This cartoon was “Haunted House”. It reused many bits from “The Skeleton Dance”, many of which were the exact same drawings, frame for frame.

-Floyd Bishop

There is a piece on “Sleeping Beauty” over at the Art of Disney Animation blog.  The post includes lots of art from the film’s artistic director Eyvind Earle. [Read more…]

It gets harder and harder each year to find artwork that you may not have seen before by your favorite artists from the past. Over at his Disney and More blog, Alain Littaye has posted several pieces by Marc Davis. Alain explains that tthe reason these are so rare is that many of them show ideas for the attreaction that were never used. At any rate, they are a great find.

-Floyd Bishop

Check out the LATEST Episode of Refrederator, RIGHT HERE!

Last week we asked you to come up with your own theories on Casper’s demise.
They ranged from weird to surreal, wacky to morbid, psychotic to gore filled grossness!!!
We picked a few theories and gleefully combined them with Jeaux Janovsky’s illustrations of Casper’s many deaths for you.
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http://www.channelfrederator.com/episode/REF_20080505
Howdy Classic Cartoon Fans!

This week we introduce you to a road raging goat in Official Films’ Goofy Goat Antics from 1931.

This goofy goat really gets our goat!

Make sure to watch til the end, not only will you want to join your local Glee Club, but we have a “SUPER” special surprise for you!

Reheating the Classics Up again.
-Jeaux Janovsky

http://www.channelfrederator.com/episode/REF_20080428
Animals eh?

You guys and gals asked for sappy animal sugar gumdrops, and we deliver.
This week is pure cavity coated cuteness with Gaumont-British Animation’s Ginger Nutt’s Bee Bother from 1949.

YOU WILL NEVER LOOK AT SQUIRRELS THE SAME.
-Jeaux Janovsky