I sit here downloading old animations from the Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog for H.o.p. Nice to have these made available for download. It’s a great site that provides some animation and cartoon history and knowledge but also is documenting their archiving of cartoons, comics, drawings, etc. There are times when it’s not exactly age appropriate for H.o.p. so I periodically check the site out and find posts that he’d be interested in. We looked at a number of things today as the old ‘toons available at Animation ID that were housed on YouTube have been pulled for probably copyright violation, which is too bad as it is through watching them that was H.o.p. was building an appreciation that might later result in his wanting us to buy DVDs of them.
These animation sites are such a boon for us to be able to root through them, giving H.o.p. some history of the medium and styles.
Right now he’s watching a sort of darkly surreal political cartoon he happened upon that his brain is trying to figure out. Has watched it several times, very quietly, asking me an occasional question about the meaning.
And later right now he’s watching the opening of the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon, which is a hell of a lot of fun.
He now has the promised tripod and has been trying it out.
We had a fun time the other day. He wanted me to film him pretending to be a vampire. He wrapped a blanket around himself and went and stood in the corner then slowly looked back at me over his shoulder. I cracked up laughing, at which point H.o.p. decided it would no longer be a drama, instead it was going to be a comedy. Over and over he had me film him as he turned, I would laugh, and he’d intone, “Who dares to laugh at the vampire!” as he advanced and then did a prat fall on the blanket.
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