Brooks College Program Wednesday On Wednesday night, the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive will be presenting a program entitled Treasures of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. It will include a screening of rare cartoons, an exhibit of vintage animation artwork, and a panel discussion hosted by Jerry Beck on how animation's past can change its future. You won't want to miss this!



In his posting on Cartoon Brew today, Amid Amidi commented on the news that Turner UK is planning to edit references to smoking from the cartoons in its library. This is just the latest in a long string of "objectionable" gags that have fallen to the editor's sciscors over the past thirty years... references to WWII, ethnic humor, drinking, gambling, fistfights, and a long list of other vices- large and small- have been edited out of cartoons to protect children from being exposed to negative influences. Very few classic cartoons remain on television any more.

But those of us who love the art of animation know that animation isn't just for kids... These films have great historical importance, and deserve to be preserved and presented intact. Amid calls for collectors to circulate copies of the banned and edited films themselves, so they won't disappear completely. But there is another way- an organization dedicated to keeping these films alive... I'll give you one guess which organization I'm referring to!

Here are just a few classic images you likely won't see on TV, but you will see in the Treasures of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive program Wednesday night...



Treasures of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive
Wednesday, August 23rd, 6pm
Brooks College Campus (Brooks Cafe)
Map to Brooks College Campus
4825 East Pacific Coast Hwy
Long Beach, CA 90804  ¶ 5:28 PM