ONE PERFECT FRAME

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THE STUPID CUPID (1944, Warner Bros)

(dir: Frank Tashlin)
(animation: Art Davis)

WHAT'S COOKIN' DOC? (1944, Warner Bros)

(dir: Bob Clampett)
(animaton: Bob McKimson)

MELODY TIME (1948, Disney)

(dir: Gerry Geronimi)
(animation: Milt Kahl)

Happy Valentine's Day y'all!

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WOODY WOODPECKER (1941, Lantz)

(animation: Les Kline)

DONALD’S DIARY (1954, Disney)

(dir: Jack Kinney)
(animation: John Sibley ?)

CUE BALL CAT (1950, MGM)

(dir: Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera)
(animation: Ed Barge)

Carl Barks panels are perfect frames themselves ♥️

THE POWERPUFF GIRLS (1999, Cartoon Network)

(from ep: "Bubblevicious")

(dirs: Craig McCracken, Genndy Tartakovsky)
(storyboards: Mike Stern)

85 YEARS AGO TODAY - Walt Disney's Pinocchio made its world premiere at the Center Theatre in New York!

Some frames I selected that I feel best highlights the film’s timelessness, cinematic beauty and intense dynamics! (1/3)

TICK TOCK TUCKERED (1944, Warner Bros)

(dir: Bob Clampett)
(animation: Phil Monroe)

DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (1953, Warner Bros)

(dir: Chuck Jones)

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN (1938, Warner Bros)

(dir: Chuck Jones)
(animation: Ken Harris, Ace Gamer)

KICKIN’ THE CONGA ROUND (1942, Fleischer)

(de-facto dir: Tom Johnson)

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (1988, Disney/Amblin)

(dir: Robert Zemeckis)
(animation dir: Richard Williams)
(animation: Dave Spafford)

Littlejohn this Herculean assignment years later (quoted in Leonard Maltin's "Of Mice and Magic"): "I'd gotten excited about it and said, 'That's one of the ones I want to do,' and oh God, I was an idiot for volunteering. It was a staggering amount of work. There were a lot of shingles there!"

A RAINY DAY (1940, MGM)

(dir: Hugh Harman)
(animation: Bill Littlejohn)

A real tour-de-force piece of animation animated wonderfully by Bill Littlejohn!

At that time, @oneperfectframe.bsky.social shared a frame from an episode of SpongeBob that I storyboarded. I found the original panel, and we did a. collab on Instagram. An honor to have been highlighted on one of my favorite IG accounts. #SpongeBob #ManRay #MermaidMan #Storyboard #Cartoons

HARE SPLITTER (1948, Warner Bros)

(dir: Friz Freleng)
(animation: Gerry Chiniquy)

CHICKEN LITTLE (1943, Disney)

(dir: Gerry Geronimi)
(animation: Ward Kimball)

*Sourced

To corroborate Peet’s account; here’s a rather patronising inter-office memo from director Woolie Reitherman to Peet. Particularly noteworthy are the parallels: “Can you animate the picture?” (Walt) and “Remember you are not going to animate the picture” (Woolie)

Sources from Andreas Deja’s blog.

After years of stockpiling resentment, Peet finally hits a breaking point and leaves Disney to start another career full-time as a renowned children’s author!

Excerpts from Bill Peet’s autobiography—a fascinating account of Peet’s version of “what really happened” during pre-production of “Jungle Book”, prompting Peet to leave Disney for good!

BIRDS ANONYMOUS (1957, Warner Bros)

(dir: Friz Freleng)

THE SIMPSONS (1987, FOX)

(from ep: “Maggie’s Brain” via The Tracey Ullman Show)

(animators: David Silverman, Bill Kopp, Wes Archer)

THE CAT CONCERTO (1947, MGM)

(dir: Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera)
(animation: Ken Muse)