I’m not nearly as worried about mice and rats as I am of the looney in charge of Health and Human Services.Hantaviruses are spread in rodent droppings, which is why they’re a greater threat out West where desert climates suit rodent life and their droppings don’t return to the earth quickly. And how better could […]

Here’s issue number 9 of Fleischer’s Animated News, published in August 1935, with cover art by animator Nick Tafuri.

Among its highlights:

– Lou Fleischer writes about the Music Department.

– Gag cartoons by Hal Seeger, Joe Oriolo, and Harry Lampert. (Lampert was the assistant manager of Fleischer’s inking department; he later moved into comic books, where he co-created The Flash for DC.)

– Tintype bios on Nelly Sanborn (Dave’s secretary/head of the Timing Department), Joe Fleischer, and Johnny Burks, who constructed the “setbacks” in the cartoons that involved the Fleischers’ stereoptical process.

– Full story and animation credits for Dave Tendlar’s Betty Boop and Grampy (1935)

– What “screwy jobs” did many of the Fleischer artists have before animation?

• Thanks to Jerry Beck and Bob Jaques for sharing these rare materials