Nearly thirteen years have passed since the last issue of Fleischer’s Animated News, the Paramount cartoon studio’s employee newsletter, was shared on Cartoon Research (check the past posts of issues #1-7 HERE). Let’s pick up where we left off…

Charles Hastings, a former Walter Lantz animator infamous for accidentally blinding Tex Avery’s eye with a paper clip, was the cover artist of this edition (credited as “Hasty”). At the time of this issue, Hastings was an animator in the Willard Bowsky unit, but soon shifted to Dave Tendlar’s and Tom Johnson’s respective crews.

Other highlights include: gag cartoons by Sidney Pillet, Hal Seeger, and Herman Cohen; a profile on camerawoman and film editor Kitty Pfister, who was hired by the Fleischers in 1926; an article on timing by Nelly Sanborn, head of the timing department; and reviews for Myron Waldman’s latest Betty Boop, A Language All My Own (working title: A Song for Harmony), and Willard Bowsky’s latest Popeye, Dizzy Divers, that give full credit to the writers and animators.

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Thanks to Jerry Beck and Bob Jaques for these rare materials.

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