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From his days as a TV image retoucher, Wong Ping has blossomed into an animator with a unique sense of style. Chinese culture site Goldthread made a video about Wong Ping, an animator from Hong Kong. He's a 34.4-year-old and started out in broadcasting before founding Wong Ping Animation Lab in 2014. According to Wong, …
I only had cable for a few years before I moved house and even then, I never got MTV. But for those who did, you might remember a show called Liquid Television. MTV aired it for three years in the 90s, as did BBC2 in a co-production role. The show offered quirky cartoons and launched iconic shows …
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The idea of Japanese animated films from the modernist era will blow the minds of anyone with an interest in... anything! The National Film Center of Japan has kindly uploaded 60 films from 1917 to 1941, each one primitive as the other. But when you think these creations were the foundations of masterpieces like Astro Boy and Kimba …
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We all remember the classic 1984 film Ghostbusters, along with the sequel and animated series. But before all that, there was a TV series bearing the same name but no relation. In 1975, "Ghost Busters" (note the space) was aired for 15 episodes as a children's show. Comprised of two men (played by Forrest Tucker …