Animation Un-LOC`d: Report on Afternoon Of Remembrance:

The Afternoon Of Remembrance is always informative with fascinating details of accomplishments quite often outside the field of animation.

John Ahern was not only a story and layout artist he was also an avid rock climber who once repelled down on vandals, relieved them of their spray cans of paint and then proceeded to spray paint their faces.

Bob Allen redesigned Howdy Doody and created the Zoo-It-Yourself toys.

Gordon Bellamy lived 2 blocks from the Twin Towers and did a series of drawing of the aftermath of 9/11 that were published he national magazines.

Brice Mack put wheels on a boat and drove it to Las Verges where he had a crane lift the boat into the swimming pool at the Sands.

Bob Winquist created the giant male sculpture that Little Alex turned into a murder weapon in Clockwork Orange.

And these are just some of the stories that were related from the podium. I talked to Ted Thomas about an upcoming documentary he is doing about the fampus trip that Walt, Frank and Ollie, Mary Blair and others took to South America in 1941.

I also talked to Mark Kausler about his next Cat short, There Must Be Some Other Cat, which is in Ink and Paint and bogged down for lack of funds. Anybody wanting to help out on that front should contact Mark over at his CatBlog http://itsthecat.com/blog/ . Or just stop over and check out the coolness in the way of past cartoon pages.

Tee Bosustow, with a new beard that made him hard to recognize, told me about the Internet Animation Festival they are running and his ongoing UPA documentary project. For more information on either http://www.upapix.com/ .

The following are photos from the event. In this case a thousand pictures are not worth the few words you missed if you were not at this year`s Afternoon Of Remembrance.