tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post8669010813876463725..comments2024-03-28T11:45:24.378-07:00Comments on Tralfaz: Turmoil at Van Beuren, 1933Yowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-17267030292045062352014-06-07T17:17:54.075-07:002014-06-07T17:17:54.075-07:00Remember the anecdote about, I think, George Sidne...Remember the anecdote about, I think, George Sidney asking Disney if MGM could use Mickey Mouse in ANCHORS AWEIGH, and Disney replying "Mickey Mouse has never been in an MGM film, and never will!" Was Disney's memory that bad? Anecdote is probably apochryphal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-75041395149397288742013-07-12T01:11:34.940-07:002013-07-12T01:11:34.940-07:00Steve, it's possible, considering he was overs...Steve, it's possible, considering he was overseeing layouts.<br />He was at Iwerks by January 1934 so, yeah, his stay with Leon was six months.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-76577748620242123652013-07-11T12:20:01.172-07:002013-07-11T12:20:01.172-07:00In regards to who directed Pettin in the Park it i...In regards to who directed Pettin in the Park it is possible that Earl Hurd could have been the director on that cartoon, as well as the other Bernard Brown cartoon Those Were Wonderful Days. Hurd had previously directed cartoons before. He probably left the studio before he had the chance to be credited.steve Znoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-48227083559425671582013-07-06T22:57:23.345-07:002013-07-06T22:57:23.345-07:00It's a shame the people at 'Boxoffice'...It's a shame the people at 'Boxoffice' elected not to make their on-line archives text-searchable. I gather 'Variety' is behind a paywall and 'The Hollywood Reporter' isn't available on-line (and was pretty skimpy in content in the one year that's at archive.org).<br />'The Film Daily' seems to have paid less and less attention to cartoon shorts as the '40s rolled along. Part of it may have been because cartoon studios were swallowed by major studios. Leon Schlesinger only had cartoons to promote in the trades. When Warners bought his studio, it continued to promote bread-winning features. Cartoons weren't money-makers, so why promote them?Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-15387256022900898122013-07-06T22:34:31.051-07:002013-07-06T22:34:31.051-07:00Agreed with Jerry above....very fun reading these ...Agreed with Jerry above....very fun reading these trade clippings..Steve C.Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-84491769669317472022013-07-06T15:33:49.695-07:002013-07-06T15:33:49.695-07:00Tremendous post! I don't envy you transcribing...Tremendous post! I don't envy you transcribing all this, but it's vitally important to carry this information into the digital age - and I thank you for doing it. Researchers should note, FIlm Daily is very good - but it isn't the whole story. Ultimately a full examination of all the trades - including Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Boxoffice, Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Exhibitor, and others - will reveal the whole picture. Many of us spent years going through the physical copies of all these magazines, page by page (there are bound volumes at the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library in Hollywood and I believe likewise at New York's Lincoln Center's Library of the Performing Arts) and know how difficult it is to cull this information. Thanks Don. Keep Yowping!Jerry Beckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14448694508424661314noreply@blogger.com