10 Years Ago in Animation: Looking Back at 1997

It’s been ten years but I feel that Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke holds up pretty well (and will look still look great good ten, twenty, and thirty years into the future).

20 Years Ago in Animation: Looking Back at 1987

Shown above is the opening from the 1987 classic anime film Robot Carnival.

30 Years Ago in Animation: Looking Back at 1977

Inspired by Disney’s Fantasia Allegro non troppo was THE animated film of 1977 directed by Bruno Bozzetto.

40 Years Ago in Animation: Looking Back at 1967

Forty years ago Tatsunoko introduced the classic anime series Mach Go Go Go which would become known in the United States as Speed Racer, which will be revisited by Hollywood in the upcoming year.

50 Years Ago in Animation: Looking Back at 1957

Produced by Miami’s Soundac Studios the animated series Colonel Bleep was the first color cartoon made for television and entered syndication in 1957 as part of “Uncle Bill’s TV Club”.

60 Years Ago in Animation: Looking Back at 1947

Animated in 1947 by Famous Studios Naughty but Mice was the first cartoon in the Herman and Katnip series.

70 Years Ago in Animation: Looking Back at 1937

Shown above is an amazing promotional film for Disney’s Snow White from 1937.

80 Years Ago in Animation: Looking Back at 1927

Before Mickey there was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, featured above in Trolley Troubles a short film made in 1927.

Kabaya Petit Pastel: Ice Cream Themed Chocolates

Kabaya Petit Pastels are ice cream shaped chocolate candies. What caught my eye in the package design was the strong use of pink, magenta and yellow which are colors that you almost never see in American package design. The designers of the package were what I would call “anti-minimalist” and have crammed every centimeter of the layout with little details:

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Madonna vs. the Dragon

This classic 1995 Japanese commercial for Takara Sake features Madonna in traditional garb. It holds up pretty well, no?