Recommended Buying

I want to recommend one more book from the McFarland website.  It's called The Animated Film Encyclopedia and it's subtitled: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features, and Sequences, 1900-1979.  That, it is.  Its compiler, Graham Webb, has done a terrific job listing every single bit of American theatrical animation — even title and animated sequences in live-action movies — complete with extensive credits.  I was most impressed with the hitherto-unidentified voice credits.  It includes some amazingly-obscure ones, many of which answer riddles that some of us have discussed for years.  At $125.00 the copy, this book is not cheap.  But if you're the least bit into animation history, it's a must-get.