BY GARY SCOTT BEATTY, PUBLISHER AND EDITOR, MUSKEGONONLINE.NET
Finally, it can be told! How do studios make cartoons?
How do they draw all those thousands of pictures and transfer them to film? Who knew it was accomplished by dogs, cats and elephants? 1931's Makin' Em Move (retitled In a Cartoon Studio here) is one of the last of Van Beuren Studio "Aesop's Fables" series, originally begun by Fables Studios (Howard Estabrook, and Paul Terry, who in 1929 had left to form TerryToons Studios).The cartoon-in-a-cartoon is a parody of popular damsel in distress film serials, begun with Perils of Pauline (1914). http://muskegononline.net/0313/cartoon-0313.html
Opening Night (1933) follows Cubby Bear as he sneaks into the amazing Roxy Opera House. http://muskegononline.net/0313/cartoon-0313.html