Just to show that I’ve still been writing about animation for places besides Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research, right now you can read two of my essays for the National Film Registry: one on Tex Avery’s Magical Maestro here and another on Dave Fleischer’s Technicolor Refreshment Trailer No. 1 (or “Let’s All Go to the Lobby”) here. The Avery piece draws information from Mike Barrier’s essential book and some new research by Keith Scott (and myself), while the Fleischer essay was unexpectedly fun because I managed to track down the composer Jack Tillar to add unique anecdotal information on that camp classic.
I have a few others in the works on Fleischer cartoons for LOC, but the mundanities of everyday life have gotten in the way of fun for now.
Two very nice essays, Thad. And both included information that was new to me.