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 ...

The only problem with George Pal’s “Puppetoons” is the name. When we hear the word puppet, we are inclined to first think of Jim Henson’s hand puppet creations. Yet the Puppetoons — the subject of an ...

Fans of "The Wrong Trousers" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas," watch "The Puppetoon Movie" to meet the ancestors of your favorite characters, and re-discover the legacy of George Pal. Off-Ramp and ...

**** 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 ...

When George Pal stopped producing his stop motion Puppetoon short subjects in 1947, he kept his pioneering replacement animation technique alive in various feature films he made throughout the years ...

Twenty five new additions to the National Film Registry were announced today by The Library of Congress. Among the 2015 honorees, are three animated films and one live action short based on animation ...

George Pal (born Gyorgy Pal Marczincsak; February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian-American animator, film director and producer. He is best known for his classic Puppetoon replacement animation ...