You may remember a post I did the other day about the Disney short film “Lonesome Ghosts”. While doing some additional research on the short, I found that Mark Mayerson did a shot by shot animator identification for the piece. (Mark has a great blog. Add it to your bookmarks) It’s very interesting to see just how the short was broken up, and who animated which sequences. [Read more…]
When I was a kid, one of my earliest animation related memories was of the Disney cartoon “Lonesome Ghosts”. Our family doctor had a toy called the Fisher Price Cartoon Viewer, a toy which had interchangeable cartridges which were sections of cartoons. One of my favorites was “Lonesome Ghosts”.
I used to watch the section with Mickey in the flood and Goofy with the dresser over and over again, forward and backward. It was a great way to see the overlapping action of how things moved and followed the main movement of the characters. I didn’t know this at the time. I was just watching a cartoon.
What are some of your early cartoon influences?
