In 1908, Émile Cohl released the short film Fantasmagorie, widely regarded as the world's first animated cartoon. From these humble beginnings, cartoons blew up into detailed theatre shorts by the ...

Director Rob Marshall said the penguins in the sequel have "more personality." Director Rob Marshall loved the 1964 Mary Poppins and wanted to include hand-drawn animation mixed with live action in ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co plans to bring back hand-drawn animated films at its Feature Animation studio, a Disney-Pixar executive told investors on Thursday. "At Disney (Feature ...

The last time we heard from the hand-drawn animators at Disney, they offered up the barnyard tale “Home on the Range.” The 2004 ’toon was so forgettable it seemed as though it really might be the last ...

In a recent study by “Nature Climate Change” and reported by WWF, by 2100, even if we moderately reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, local extinctions of polar bears in some parts of the Arctic are ...

Old-school Disney fans were saddened last week when, at a shareholder’s meeting for the company, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the hand-drawn 2-D animation for which the studio has long been known — ...

The latest exhibit at Orange County Regional History Center may get creative juices flowing and prompt waves of nostalgia. “Animationland” provides hands-on artistic activities, and its companion ...

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