Animated Bookmarks - Continued

Today I am continuing to highlight some interesting bookmarks from my very full bookmark folder. 

The Mel Blanc Project

By The Oregon Cartoon Institute 

A brief website of information about Mel Blanc from his home state of Oregon and a series of public lectures that took place in 2011. From their about section:

“The Mel Blanc Project is a series of public history/art education events made possible in part by a grant from the Kinsman Foundation and by a grant from the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation.

The Mel Blanc Lecture Series will examine Mel Blanc’s Portland years through the lens of  vaudeville he saw, the music he heard,  the radio he made, and the South Portland neighborbood [sic] in which he grew up. Guest speakers will share their expertise via onstage conversations that audiences will be invited to join. The lectures take place June 8 – June 29, 2011.

The Mel Blanc Walking Tours introduces Mel Blanc’s Portland by matching key events of Mel Blanc’s childhood and early adulthood with the exact sites in Portland where those events took place. The walking tours take place July 23 and July 30, 2011.”

Unfortunately, those lectures have not been archived online. 

An Interview with STAN FREBERG

by George Stewart

Stan Freberg is the other voice actor in Looney Tunes, who, I guarantee, you’ve heard before. His career in radio and early television was huge. This lengthy interview from 1999 is a fascinating one. The only downside to some early internet records of interviews is a following up on its authenticity. Unless there’s a lot of documentation, I always read them with a grain of salt. 

BFI Launches Animated Britain – Largest Collection of Historic UK Shorts

The British Film Institute, in 2018, uploaded a slew of British made animated shorts to their online website. Stop motion, claymation, traditional hand drawn, and a ton more interesting oddities that are still streaming on their site today. You will lose a couple hours on this site and you may have some funky dreams. 

Genndy Tartakovsky Explains How He Created Primal's Ferocious Fantasy World

By Cheryl Eddy

Genndy Tartakovsky is one of my favorite animation directors. He has a style that is easily identifiable and pushes animation in directions we’ve never seen before. This interview from 2019 was published just before his series, Primal, premiered on [adult swim].