All posts tagged "Ub Iwerks"
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Features
Disney’s Live-Action ‘Dumbo’ Flies with Thursday Night Auds
March 29, 2019This Friday marks the release of Tim Burton’s live-action version of Disney’s much-loved 1941 animated classic...
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Festivals and Events
Epic Mickey Mouse Exhibit Coming to Disney Family Museum
December 5, 2018The legacy of Walt’s famous mouse continues to resonate. The Walt Disney Family Museum has announced...
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Shorts
Lost Oswald Short from Disney Discovered in Japan
November 20, 2018An animation historian in Japan has come forward with a lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon...
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Licensing
The Animation Lover’s Holiday Gift Guide
December 8, 2017FULLY BOOKED The Art of Ferdinand (Titan Books, $40) puts the colorful world of Blue Sky’s...
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Features
Poetry and Personal Connection: ‘Window Horses’
October 23, 2017An imaginative young Canadian poet named Rosie Ming (voiced by Sandra Oh) learns about Persian culture...
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Festivals and Events
VES Announces Inaugural Hall of Fame Honorees
October 11, 2017Marking its milestone 20th anniversary, the Visual Effects Society has announced the inaugural VES Hall of...
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Features
Rediscovering Oswald
September 26, 2017Like many in the animation industry, I was very aware that Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was...
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Festivals and Events
Disney, ‘Simpsons’ Cels at Auction in Dallas
December 7, 2015Heritage Auctions will be offering up a collection of beautiful cels from old and new classics...
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Features
Lost Disney Oswald Short Uncovered in London
November 4, 2015A researcher working at the British Film Institute in London has found in its archives the...
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Festivals and Events
Rare Golden Age Toons to Screen in Hollywood
June 2, 2015A special program of Golden Age Cartoons will screen at 3 p.m. June 20 at the...
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Home Entertainment
Disney’s Diamond Dogs: A New Release for 101 Dalmatians
February 10, 2015Today marks the re-release on Blu-ray of one of Disney’s most beloved animated classics, 101 Dalmatians,...
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Festivals and Events
Lost Oswald Short Emerges in Norway
December 15, 2014A long-lost short film created by Walt Disney back in 1927 has been uncovered in the...
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Festivals and Events
Animation Collectible Auction Brings in $1.28 million
July 11, 2014Cartoon collectibles are hot! Heritage Auctions, one of the top sellers of high-end entertainment collectibles, sold...
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Festivals and Events
Host Warburton, Presenters Set for Annie Awards
January 27, 2014Patrick Warburton is set to host the 41st annual Annie Awards Feb. 1 at UCLA’s Royce...
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Television
Disney Channel Celebrates Mickey’s Birthday on Nov. 18
November 8, 2013Disney Channel has planned a great way to celebrate Mickey Mouse’s birthday on Monday, Nov. 18....
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Television
Mickey Mouse to Star in New Disney 2D Shorts
March 12, 2013Watch out all you young whippersnapper toons. Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks’s 85-year-old character, Mickey Mouse,...
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Festivals and Events
40th Annie Nominations Reveal Cluttered Field
December 3, 2012The 40th Annie Award nominations were announced this morning (Dec. 3) and it looks like ASIFA...
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Tales from the Toon Trenches
Virginia Davis and the Road to Hollywood
February 16, 2012Several years before Mickey Mouse, little Virginia Davis was the first star of the operation that...
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Festivals and Events
“Lost” Disney Film Hits Auction Block
November 28, 2011The only known copy of Walt Disney’s film Hungry Hobos, thought lost until recently, has been...
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