Michael Sporn Animation – Splog

Did Walt Disney wear a Goldwater for President button on his lapel when he received the Medal of Freedom from President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964?

The question seems to have provided lots of speculation and gossip among those who don’t know and like to say they did. Michael Barrier has the answer today on his site, and it makes for a good read about a complex individual, Walt Disney.

I’m sort of sorry that this debate had to end.

– Jeff Scher has his latest film segment posted on the NYTimes Opinion page. “You Won’t Remember This” is a portrait of his son, Buster, from the age of a few weeks until he was four years old. As Jeff writes, “The film came from the notion that Buster wouldn’t remember these years, as, indeed, he doesn’t seem to, but the more I drew the more I realized that I didn’t remember them as clearly as I thought I would, either.

There is something about the omnivorous now in parenting, and the constantly shifting challenges and demands of the moment, that creates a kind of rolling amnesia for everything yesterday. This film is an attempt to hold onto some of these moments and also to share them with Buster, who is now an articulate, opinionated, sugar-and-movie-obsessed seven year old.”

Larry Ruppel‘s web site features an ad for which he animated a short bit. It’s mostly a long live advertisement for Motorola, and it’s so interesting that I thought I should draw your attention to it today.

For some reason I’ve thought a lot about it since viewing it yesterday. Great music.

You can see that spot by clicking here.

- This past week the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive posted more of their Milt Gross strips.

This batch includes Banana Oil Dailies from 1924 and Count Screwloose & Dave’s Delicatessen Sunday Pages from the early thirties. These strips are pure gold and you should be studying them all (for good hard laughs).

The post also links to a lot of past Milt Gross strips. What a treasure lode.

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