Traditionally, animation has attracted more than its fair share of crazies and compulsives. Perhaps you have to be a teensy bit cracked to want to spend so much time and effort making little things ...

Off-Ramp and Filmweek animation expert Charles Solomon reviews "The Puppetoon Movie," by Arnold Leibovit, now available on Blu-ray. Before Wallace and Gromit, or Jack Skellington, or Gumby, there was ...

**** The Puppetoon Movie: The history of animation is not a Mickey Mouse affair — not exclusively, anyway. Consider, for example, the work of George Pal. Best known today for his work on such ...

Nearly 90 years after George Pal pioneered the technique, the films are stunning: explosions of movement, color, and music, all depicted in wooden figures that seem to move magically across the screen ...

George Pals stop motion Puppetoons were peopled with all types of characters Two of his most popular were a pair of lovestruck kids named Punchy and Judy Here downonhisluck Punchy obtains a magical ...