Off-Ramp and Filmweek animation expert Charles Solomon reviews "The Puppetoon Movie," by Arnold Leibovit, now available on Blu-ray. Before Wallace and Gromit, or Jack Skellington, or Gumby, there was ...

**** The Puppetoon Movie: The history of animation is not a Mickey Mouse affair — not exclusively, anyway. Consider, for example, the work of George Pal. Best known today for his work on such ...

Nearly 90 years after George Pal pioneered the technique, the films are stunning: explosions of movement, color, and music, all depicted in wooden figures that seem to move magically across the screen ...

Baby boomers have a soft spot in their hearts for filmmaker and special-effects pioneer George Pal. Long before impersonal computers began creating special effects, Pal brought science fiction and ...

There’s two weeks of animation coming up at the American Cinematheque in Hollywood. The Egyptian is hosting a 4-Day tribute to legendary fantasy filmmaker George Pal starting Thursday night September ...

Traditionally, animation has attracted more than its fair share of crazies and compulsives. Perhaps you have to be a teensy bit cracked to want to spend so much time and effort making little things ...

George Pal, known for his science-fiction films in the 1950s and 60s, was also known for making a series of animated shorts called Puppetoons in the 1930s and 40s. This short was made for Chuck Jones ...

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