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The Animated Movie Guide
THE ANIMATED MOVIE GUIDE Jerry Beck Contributing Writers Martin Goodman Andrew Leal W. R. Miller Fred Patten An A Cappella Book Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Beck, Jerry. The animated movie guide / Jerry Beck.— 1st ed. p. cm. “An A Cappella book.” Includes index. ISBN 1-55652-591-5 1. Animated films—Catalogs. I. Title. NC1765.B367 2005 016.79143’75—dc22 2005008629 Front cover design: Leslie Cabarga Interior design: Rattray Design All images courtesy of Cartoon Research Inc. Front cover images (clockwise from top left): Photograph from the motion picture Shrek ™ & © 2001 DreamWorks L.L.C. and PDI, reprinted with permission by DreamWorks Animation; Photograph from the motion picture Ghost in the Shell 2 ™ & © 2004 DreamWorks L.L.C. and PDI, reprinted with permission by DreamWorks Animation; Mutant Aliens © Bill Plympton; Gulliver’s Travels. Back cover images (left to right): Johnny the Giant Killer, Gulliver’s Travels, The Snow Queen © 2005 by Jerry Beck All rights reserved First edition Published by A Cappella Books An Imprint of Chicago Review Press, Incorporated 814 North Franklin Street Chicago, Illinois 60610 ISBN 1-55652-591-5 Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 For Marea Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix About the Author and Contributors’ Biographies xiii Chronological List of Animated Features xv Alphabetical Entries 1 Appendix 1: Limited Release Animated Features 325 Appendix 2: Top 60 Animated Features Never Theatrically Released in the United States 327 Appendix 3: Top 20 Live-Action Films Featuring Great Animation 333 Index 335 Acknowledgments his book would not be as complete, as accurate, or as fun without the help of my ded- icated friends and enthusiastic colleagues. -
The Jack Benny Program. (March 28, 1948)
“The Jack Benny Program” (March 28, 1948) Added to the National Registry: 2004 Essay by Kathy Fuller-Seeley (guest post)* Jack Benny Radio’s most iconic comedian, Jack Benny performed for 23 years on NBC (1932-1948) and then CBS (1949-1955). His voice was as familiar to listeners as those of President Franklin Roosevelt or crooner Bing Crosby. Supported by his cast of zany characters, Benny and his comedy/variety program became an American institution, beloved by millions who tuned in every Sunday nights at 7:00 pm. First sponsored by Canada Dry Ginger Ale and debuting on the NBC Blue network on May 2, 1932, the radio show actually began as a twice-weekly half-hour musical program (with tunes sung by Ziegfeld Follies chanteuse Ethel Shutta accompanied by her well-known husband George Olsen’s orchestra) interspersed with brief monologues by Jack Benny. Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 in Waukegan, Illinois) was a veteran performer, who had under his belt a 20-year career as violinist-turned-stand-up comedian in vaudeville, Broadway revues and movies. His Midwestern-inflected, easy-going “master of ceremonies” style of humor suited the intimacy of radio, and he assumed the transition to the new medium would be easy. He found to his horror, however, by the fourth of his Canada Dry broadcasts, he had run out of old stage monologues to recycle. He quickly brought in vaudeville writer Harry Conn. Together, Benny and Conn (who’d be with the show for four years) developed a fresh humor, a fourth-wall-breaking workplace situation comedy, in which Jack the host traded banter and barbs with the announcer, band leader and singer, in their convoluted joint efforts to put on a radio show. -
Milt Josefsberg Collection
Thousand Oaks Library American Radio Archives Milt Josefsberg Collection Introduction The Milt Josefsberg Collection of the American Radio Archives at the Thousand Oaks Library consists of ca. 8 linear feet of papers and ca. 25 hours of sound recordings, documenting the later part of the career of radio and TV comedy writer and producer J. Milton Josefsberg. The collection contains scripts of radio and television programs, story outlines, presentation material, and correspondence, as well as research material, drafts and galley proofs of the manuscripts for Josefsberg’s two books (The Jack Benny Show. The Life and Times of America’s Best-Loved Entertainer; Comedy Writing: For TV and Hollywood). Biography J. Milton Josefsberg was born on June 29, 1911 in Brooklyn, N.Y., as the son of Jacob Josefsberg (phonograph store owner) and his wife Dinah. He attended New Utrecht High School, where he started his writing career as humor editor of the school magazine. Josefsberg studied journalism and advertising at City College of New York, working part time as a reporter for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, to support himself. In 1936, he married his high school sweetheart, Hilda Wolarsky. They had two sons: Alan Roy and Steven Kent, both of whom became teachers in California. Milt Josefsberg died in Burbank, California, after suffering a stroke, on December 14, 1987. In the early 1930s columnists Walter Winchell and Mark Hellinger published humorous contributions sent them by Josefsberg. This led to a career as press agent for stars like Phil Harris, Paul Whiteman, Gertrude Berg, Buddy Clarke and Kate Smith (1933-38).