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Currently, the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive site is nearing 250,000 page impressions a month. That's a remarkable amount of traffic. Our contributions through the PayPal links are not sufficient to offset the cost of hosting a high traffic multimedia site, so I have engaged a new internet advertising service called The Rubicon Project to manage our banner advertising. There will a learning curve while the ad network analyzes our site's traffic and determines the most appropriate ads to serve up. Until then, I appreciate your patience and support as we navigate a few bumps in the road to making the web presence self-sustaining.

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive site is available for banner and skyscraper advertising on a month to month basis. If you would like info, please email me at sworth@animationarchive.org.
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Voice Acting: Mel Blanc On Advertising

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 4 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great biographies of important artists.


There's one aspect of animation that I haven't dealt with much yet- Voice Acting. My own research in this area is pretty limited. I hope sometime in the future, a specialist in this field will contribute their expertise to the Archive to curate this important aspect of cartoon filmmaking.

But that doesn't mean that we don't have any interesting material dealing with voice acting at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. Eric Graf stopped by with a wonderful treasure the other day... An LP record pressed by the production company of legendary voice actor, Mel Blanc. It's a recording of a speech by Blanc at the 1966 Annual Awards Luncheon of the Station Representatives Association. Titled "Mel Blanc Takes A Humorous Look At Commercials: Past, Present and Future (Who The Hell Is Mel Blanc?)", this record is a hilarious glimpse at both the advertising industry and a little known aspect of the career of one of the most famous voice actors of all time.

Who The Hell Is Mel Blanc?
(Mel Blanc Associates/1966)
(AAC Audio File / 32kbps-44.1kHz / Mono / 25 minutes / 6.25 mb)

Thanks for bringing this by Eric!

If you enjoyed this article, you'll also want to check out our... Profile of Carlo Vinci, John K on Flintstones Animators, Bugs Bunny In Coronet Magazine, Ward Kimball In Escapade Magazine, UPA Done Right, The Pencil Test of Art Babbitt's Best Scene, A Drawing Lesson From Walter Lantz, and Remembering Berny Wolf

Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
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Illustration: 1930s Colliers Illustrations

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for more jaw dropping examples of classic illustration.


You might remember a post we had here a couple of weeks back on mid-1940s illustrations from Colliers Magazine. Well, here for comparison are some examples from the pages of mid-30s issues. Colliers was the "Rolls Royce" of weekly magazines, with a tremendous circulation. The artists who illustrated the articles and advertisements were highly respected and very highly paid. They were worth every penny- check out those masterful ink wash duotones!

Archive volunteer Gary Francis has been scouring the swap meets for vintage magazines for us to digitize. Keep up the good work, Gary!








(Advertisement by Fontaine Fox, creator of Toonerville Folks.)




(For more great work by cartoonist Gluyas Williams, see David King's gluyaswilliams.com)








If you enjoyed this post, check out... Colliers Magazine From the Mid-1940s and also... John Held Jr.'s Flappers, Arthur Szyk's The New Order and Artzybasheff's Neurotica, Machinalia and Diablerie.

Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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Illustration: Kent Donates Colliers

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for more jaw dropping examples of classic illustration.



Yesterday, we had a wonderful surprise. Archive supporter Kent Butterworth stopped by lugging eight huge bound volumes under his arm. They were library copies of Colliers magazine from the late 1940s and early 1950s. He donated them to our library so folks who stop by can browse the amazing illustrations and cartoons. Thanks, Kent!

Here are a few images from the June 5th, 1948 issue... Check out the amazing illustrations for mundane products like outboard motors and golf balls! Magazines today can't compare.












You'll want to make a point of stopping by the archive to check these books out.

Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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