The Isle of Pingo Pongo is a 1938 Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Tex Avery. The short was released on May 28, 1938 and features Egghead, an early version of Elmer Fudd.
The cartoon revolves around themes of jazz and primitivism, and is set on a remote island. The central character is an early version of Elmer Fudd known as Egghead, and most of the cartoon consists of travelogue-type narration and blackout gags, many including Egghead. The inhabitants of Pingo-Pongo are mostly tall, black, and have big feet and lips. Like other cartoons at this time, the native inhabitants resemble animals and reflect stereotypes of the time.
Tin Pan Alley Cats is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies directed by Bob Clampett. A follow-up to Clampett's successful Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, released earlier in 1943, Tin Pan Alley Cats focuses upon contemporary themes of African-American culture, jazz music, and World War II, and features a caricature of jazz musician Fats Waller as an anthropomorphic cat. The short's centerpiece is a fantasy sequence derived from Clampett's black and white Looney Tunes short Porky in Wackyland (1938).
Like Coal Black, Tin Pan Alley Cats focuses heavily on stereotypical gags, character designs, and situations involving African-Americans. As such, the film and other Warner Bros. cartoons with similar themes have been withheld from television distribution since 1968, and are collectively known as the Censored Eleven.
Spider-Man is a 1967–1970 animated television series in the superhero fiction genre. It was the original animated TV series based on the Spider-Man comic book series created by writer Stan Lee and by artist Steve Ditko, and was jointly produced in Canada (voice acting) and the United States (animation). The first two seasons aired on the ABC television network, and the third was distributed in syndication. Grantray-Lawrence Animation produced the first season, and seasons two and three were produced by Krantz Films in New York City. The show starred the voice of Paul Soles as Peter Parker (Spider-Man). The series ran from September 9, 1967, to June 14, 1970.
The show is best-remembered for its catchy theme song: "Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can..."
Chirpy is a 2001 animated short by director John Goras, winner of Best Animation at the 2002 New York Underground Film Festival.
After showings in Germany and the UK, Chirpy was banned in London by ruling of the Westminster Council in 2002.
A sequel called Chirpy Returns was released in the summer of 2007.
Jolly and adorable little yellow bird Chirpy eats some psychedelic smiling mushrooms. Chirpy walks through the woods while tripping out of his tiny skull. He encounters a huge horse and the two animals "get freaky," so to speak.
Chirpy was "classically animated" using acetate, paper and 16mm film.
Animator Bill Plympton has described the film as "one of the sickest animated films ever made".
During the time Toei Animation shopped the rights to the Sailor Moon anime around in North America, it received a pitch from Toon Makers and Renaissance Atlantic (the same company that handled the adaptations of Super Sentai into Power Rangers for Saban Entertainment). This pitch, dubbed "Saban Moon" by fansnote , turned out even less faithful to the source material than the much-maligned DiC dub.
It also (obviously) never got picked up, so what little anyone knows about this pitch comes from a two-minute music video that features footage from from a 17-minute pilot episode (which, as of this writing, has never seen the light of day), an interview with Rocky Solotoff, the pilot's director and producer, and several scripts and cels that turned up in late 2012. This version would have seen the civilian lives of the "Sailor Senshi/Soldiers/Scouts/Guardians" (referred to in this version as the "Princess Fighters") filmed in live-action segments that featured an ethnically- and disability-diverse cast (the pilot made Sailor Jupiter black and Sailor Mercury a wheelchair user).
The only footage of this pilot in circulation came from a panel at an anime convention; this low-quality shakey-cam footage also recorded the reactions of the convention's audience. A version with the perspective corrected exists, as does a slightly longer version which contains some of the preamble from panel host Allen Hasting (the author of the computer graphics software package Lightwave 3D who claims to have designed the vehicles, even though Rocky Solotoff said he didn't use Lightwave and a completely different person designed the vehicles). Not much else was known about the pilot until late 2012 when cels and copies of the animated portion's shooting script suddenly started appearing on eBay after the storage locker of a former Toon Makers executive was repossessed. For the first time, the characters names and the plot were actually known, though much remains unknown (such as how the live-a
Black Star and the Golden Bat was a film released in South Korea and Spain in 1979.
The film starred a yellow-costumed version of Batman which was clearly not the same as his Earth-1A doppelgänger's.
The film was clearly set on an alternate Earth, rather than the universe that the Super Friends inhabit. On this Earth he is known as the Golden Bat.
Because the Earth that the Golden Bat calls home has thus far remained unnamed, the Super Friends Wiki shall refer to it as Earth-SK79.
This movie features a much different version of Batman, one that has Superman-like super powers, and a yellow version of the costume.
In this movie he faces off against the supervillain known as Black Star, who in the comics was an old enemy of the Seven Soldiers of Victory.
The movie was released on home video in Spain by at least two different video distributors
Sunday Go to Meetin' Time is a 1936 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on August 8, 1936.
Because of the racial stereotypes of black people throughout the short, it is withheld from circulation, one of the "Censored Eleven" shorts.