This one was featured yesterday on Cartoon Brew, the excellent animation news site run by Amid Amidi and Jerry Beck, but it's too good not to post here, as well. It's newsreel footage from the Fleischer cartoon studio in Florida. Max and Dave Fleischer relocated there from New York in October of 1938 in order to take advantage of some tax breaks and also to avoid unionization. The Fleischer Brothers lost control of their operation in May of 1941 and the place was renamed Famous Studios. So this film is from somewhere between those two dates. It's a nice overview of how cartoons were made then and there, including a peek at the process where the usual background paintings were replaced by three-dimensional models on a turntable. Click away.
