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DOUGLAS WATCHES EVERY ANIME
1929-30 - THE MINISTRY AND MURATABy 1929, the Japanese Ministry of Education must have been pouring money into MURATA Yasuji's films. And in one film specifically from 1929, it starts to show.
#AnimeReview #AnimationHistory #Murata #DWEA
https://douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/02/02/1929-30-the-ministry-and-murata/
Image is from "Taro's Train", Yokohama Cinema Shokai, 1929.
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DOUGLAS WATCHES EVERY ANIME
1929-30 - THE MINISTRY AND MURATABy 1929, the Japanese Ministry of Education must have been pouring money into MURATA Yasuji's films. And in one film specifically from 1929, it starts to show.
#AnimeReview #AnimationHistory #Murata #DWEA
https://douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/02/02/1929-30-the-ministry-and-murata/
Image is from "Taro's Train", Yokohama Cinema Shokai, 1929.
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DOUGLAS WATCHES EVERY ANIME
1929-30 - THE MINISTRY AND MURATABy 1929, the Japanese Ministry of Education must have been pouring money into MURATA Yasuji's films. And in one film specifically from 1929, it starts to show.
#AnimeReview #AnimationHistory #Murata #DWEA
https://douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/02/02/1929-30-the-ministry-and-murata/
Image is from "Taro's Train", Yokohama Cinema Shokai, 1929.
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DOUGLAS WATCHES EVERY ANIME
1929-30 - THE MINISTRY AND MURATABy 1929, the Japanese Ministry of Education must have been pouring money into MURATA Yasuji's films. And in one film specifically from 1929, it starts to show.
#AnimeReview #AnimationHistory #Murata #DWEA
https://douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/02/02/1929-30-the-ministry-and-murata/
Image is from "Taro's Train", Yokohama Cinema Shokai, 1929.
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DOUGLAS WATCHES EVERY ANIME
1929-30 - THE MINISTRY AND MURATABy 1929, the Japanese Ministry of Education must have been pouring money into MURATA Yasuji's films. And in one film specifically from 1929, it starts to show.
#AnimeReview #AnimationHistory #Murata #DWEA
https://douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/02/02/1929-30-the-ministry-and-murata/
Image is from "Taro's Train", Yokohama Cinema Shokai, 1929.
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1927-1928: YAMAMOTO AND KIMURA
YAMAMOTO Sanae produces the earliest surviving animated tale of a key Japanese folk hero, and KIMURA Hakusan turns his hand to propaganda. Things are starting to move in a bad direction.
https://douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/30/1927-1928-yamamoto-and-kimura/
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1927-1928: YAMAMOTO AND KIMURA
YAMAMOTO Sanae produces the earliest surviving animated tale of a key Japanese folk hero, and KIMURA Hakusan turns his hand to propaganda. Things are starting to move in a bad direction.
https://douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/30/1927-1928-yamamoto-and-kimura/
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1927-1928: YAMAMOTO AND KIMURA
YAMAMOTO Sanae produces the earliest surviving animated tale of a key Japanese folk hero, and KIMURA Hakusan turns his hand to propaganda. Things are starting to move in a bad direction.
https://douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/30/1927-1928-yamamoto-and-kimura/
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1927-1928: YAMAMOTO AND KIMURA
YAMAMOTO Sanae produces the earliest surviving animated tale of a key Japanese folk hero, and KIMURA Hakusan turns his hand to propaganda. Things are starting to move in a bad direction.
https://douglaswatchesanime.co.uk/2026/01/30/1927-1928-yamamoto-and-kimura/
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60 years ago today, A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS (though it debuted in Canada a few days before depending on the CTV station). Here's a promo for the first airing.
Until the late 1960s, it was normal for advertisers to sponsor entire timeslots and produce the programs. The sponsor took all the ad time and often tied the ads with the programs (resulting in things like the Flintstones hawking cigarettes since the show was originally aimed at adults). A Charlie Brown Christmas was commissioned by Coca-Cola, and plugs for them were put in the original opening and closing credits. (Someone noted that Snoopy can be seen singing in the original credits.)
Director Bill Melendez had previously worked with the Peanuts gang in a series of vignettes for the Ford Motor Company from 1959 thru at least 1964, the first time they had been animated.
If you have time, you can read on Wikipedia about the development of the special, which involves a documentary producer at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, baseball, and an unaired documentary called A Boy Named Charlie Brown (which is available for purchase thru Charles Schulz’s museum).
#vintageTV #classicTV #VintageBroadcast #VintageMedia #TVhistory #animation #AnimationHistory -
60 years ago today, A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS (though it debuted in Canada a few days before depending on the CTV station). Here's a promo for the first airing.
Until the late 1960s, it was normal for advertisers to sponsor entire timeslots and produce the programs. The sponsor took all the ad time and often tied the ads with the programs (resulting in things like the Flintstones hawking cigarettes since the show was originally aimed at adults). A Charlie Brown Christmas was commissioned by Coca-Cola, and plugs for them were put in the original opening and closing credits. (Someone noted that Snoopy can be seen singing in the original credits.)
Director Bill Melendez had previously worked with the Peanuts gang in a series of vignettes for the Ford Motor Company from 1959 thru at least 1964, the first time they had been animated.
If you have time, you can read on Wikipedia about the development of the special, which involves a documentary producer at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, baseball, and an unaired documentary called A Boy Named Charlie Brown (which is available for purchase thru Charles Schulz’s museum).
#vintageTV #classicTV #VintageBroadcast #VintageMedia #TVhistory #animation #AnimationHistory -
60 years ago today, A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS (though it debuted in Canada a few days before depending on the CTV station). Here's a promo for the first airing.
Until the late 1960s, it was normal for advertisers to sponsor entire timeslots and produce the programs. The sponsor took all the ad time and often tied the ads with the programs (resulting in things like the Flintstones hawking cigarettes since the show was originally aimed at adults). A Charlie Brown Christmas was commissioned by Coca-Cola, and plugs for them were put in the original opening and closing credits. (Someone noted that Snoopy can be seen singing in the original credits.)
Director Bill Melendez had previously worked with the Peanuts gang in a series of vignettes for the Ford Motor Company from 1959 thru at least 1964, the first time they had been animated.
If you have time, you can read on Wikipedia about the development of the special, which involves a documentary producer at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, baseball, and an unaired documentary called A Boy Named Charlie Brown (which is available for purchase thru Charles Schulz’s museum).
#vintageTV #classicTV #VintageBroadcast #VintageMedia #TVhistory #animation #AnimationHistory -
60 years ago today, A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS (though it debuted in Canada a few days before depending on the CTV station). Here's a promo for the first airing.
Until the late 1960s, it was normal for advertisers to sponsor entire timeslots and produce the programs. The sponsor took all the ad time and often tied the ads with the programs (resulting in things like the Flintstones hawking cigarettes since the show was originally aimed at adults). A Charlie Brown Christmas was commissioned by Coca-Cola, and plugs for them were put in the original opening and closing credits. (Someone noted that Snoopy can be seen singing in the original credits.)
Director Bill Melendez had previously worked with the Peanuts gang in a series of vignettes for the Ford Motor Company from 1959 thru at least 1964, the first time they had been animated.
If you have time, you can read on Wikipedia about the development of the special, which involves a documentary producer at KPIX-TV in San Francisco, baseball, and an unaired documentary called A Boy Named Charlie Brown (which is available for purchase thru Charles Schulz’s museum).
#vintageTV #classicTV #VintageBroadcast #VintageMedia #TVhistory #animation #AnimationHistory -
Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 interview
https://stevejobsarchive.com/stories/pixar-early-days
#HackerNews #Pixar #EarlyDays #SteveJobs #AnimationHistory #BehindTheScenes #1996Interview
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Rizzoli and LAIKA Partner on Five-Title Publishing Collection
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Rizzoli and LAIKA Partner on Five-Title Publishing Collection
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Rizzoli and LAIKA Partner on Five-Title Publishing Collection
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Lotte Reiniger's Cinderella. (While "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" 1926 is more known, it's also more bogged down by stereotypes. Still worth a look, but since it's not her only work I chose this one.)
#animation #AnimationHistory #FemaleAnimators #LotteReiniger