#1960s anime

[terebifunhouse]

if you missed the Old School Afternoon program at Anime North last month, don't fret; you can catch the entire thing from noon until six on Sunday June 30 at twitch.tv/terebifunhouse!

[yamikurutto-official]

Behold my 1960s anime persona! Yamiguma!

[retropopcult]

Animator Eric Larson uses two puppies as reference while he sketches scenes for Walt Disney's "One Hundred and One Dalmatians", 1960

[nemfrog]

"Various urodele amphbians, not all to the same scale." The life of vertebrates. 1962.

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[doctorbeth]

Secondary Hospital for Toucan and Hippo

Sometimes, animals need to go to a higher level hospital, kind of like visiting the Mayo Clinic after having first been treated at the local community hospital. When the toucan's person first wrote to me, he was looking for that higher level hospital.

Toucan was born in 1965. His person got him by sending in box tops from Fruit Loops Cereal. Earlier this year, he decided that Toucan, while still furry, really needed a bath, and he sent him, along with his friend hippo, to a hospital (not mine). When they came back, they were clean, but their colors were faded, their fur was gone, and their facial features (as well as hippo's ears and tail) had all been replaced. Their person was, needless to say, not happy.

Here is the diagnosis photo of Toucan that he sent:

Toucan was supposed to be two shades of yellow as well as blue and purple! His man was ok, with the new eyes, but his beak was malformed (he couldn't get small bugs with that rounded tip) and his tail had a poor patch.

Hippo (who was too shy for diagnosis photos) was similarly pale and unfurry, with the wrong ears, eyes, nostrils, and tail!

The only treatment I can offer for fading and balding is new fur, which I explained to the pair's man. He thought this would be acceptable (especially since it was reversible if he didn't like it, unlike their earlier cleaning), so he sent them in -- I got to be the Mayo Clinic :-)!

We went through a few options for colors and furriness amounts, but eventually figured out the right balance and surgery commenced. Here is the Toucan all better and waiting for some Fruit Loops:

The hippo took a bit longer. While the man had photographs (old original photos from film!) of them younger, the angle on Hippo was not great for his nostrils, and it took a few tries to get them and his eyes just right. But here he is all better too... he's even showing off his new tail!

They flew home (not far, just down to Los Angeles) and their person wrote:

The pair have arrived safe and sound.  They have never looked better.  Thank you so much for your superb craftsmanship.

[inthedarktrees]

The Island of Misfit Toys

Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) Rankin/Bass

[zegalba]

1960s anatomical Horse sculpture, found via eBay

[dailyflicks]

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS 1965 — dir. Bill Melendez

[tomato-bird-art]

“What shall we hang? The holly or each other?”

Made a last minute print inspired by my favorite Toxic Christmas Movie, The Lion in Winter (1968). I always love doing a detailed piece like this! I’ll be selling prints at EBABZ tomorrow, but feel free to pick up a copy on my storenvy as well <3

[sovietpostcards]

Virgin lands. Best pig-tender Maria Rogacheva with her pet. Photo by Yakov Ryumkin (Kazakhstan, 1961).

[izimbracreenshots]

A Thousand and One Nights. by Eiichi Yamamoto, 1969

[terebifunhouse]

speed into 2017 with that Let's Anime piece that originally appeared in Otaku USA magazine!

[yamikurutto-official]

Showa anime kids (MY AU) but they are now adults (part 1)

[filmgifs]

I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It’s not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.

A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) dir. Bill Melendez

[nemfrog]

Various chelonians. The life of vertebrates. 1962.

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[weirdlandtv]

Animation art from the intro to the 1966 BATMAN TV show. (Art by Lee Mishkin.)

I was a kid when BATMAN (1989) came out. It was a massive pop culture phenomenon, here in Holland too, and someone somewhere in television network land shouted out, “Quick! Batman! What do we have!”, and someone somewhere remembered the old TV show, and then someone somewhere dug up and dusted off that old TV show and pushed it into running a few more laps. This hopelessly Bat-crazed kid tho thought the show was hopelessly quaint and after a few episodes didnt tune in anymore same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.

Annoying snarky tone aside, it’s actually a fun show. It has many fans still, and fans are never wrong.

One thing I only notice now: is that Clayface, between Catwoman and the knife-wielding Texarkana Phantom Killer? (Is that Catwoman?) Also, who are the two villains who lead the charge? There’s one who looks like Shaggy’s evil scientist uncle and a green-shaded one with a scaley mask. They seem too distinctive to be just generic villains. Sending out a Bat-signal to any Bat-fans…