Buggin Out in the Bunker

Specimens from the ‘illustration bunker‘ of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive:

01 Rojankovsky's Frog Went A-Courtin' (1955)
From Frog Went A-Courtin’, illus. by Rojankovsky (1955). It’s in print!

02 Rojankovsky's Frog Went A-Courtin' (1955)
From Frog Went A-Courtin’, illus. by Rojankovsky (1955). It’s in print!

03 Rojankovsky's Frog Went A-Courtin' (1955)
From Frog Went A-Courtin’, illus. by Rojankovsky (1955). It’s in print!

04 Felix Lorioux's Le Buffon des Enfants
From Felix Lorioux’s Le Buffon des Enfants

05 Felix Lorioux's Le Buffon des Enfants
From Felix Lorioux’s Le Buffon des Enfants
(I think this one made the rounds recently, but I needed to feature it on my blog too!)

06 Felix Lorioux's Fables De La Fontaine
From Felix Lorioux’s Fables De La Fontaine. Part 1, part 2.

07 Felix Lorioux's Le Buffon des Enfants
From Felix Lorioux’s Le Buffon des Enfants

08 Artzybasheff's Machinalia (The Rod Mill)
From Artzybasheff’s Machinalia (The Rod Mill)
(I’ve had a post in the works featuring As I See, though ASIFA covers this material well)

09 Einar Norelius' Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1934)
From Einar Norelius’ Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1934). Part 1, part 2.

10 Einar Norelius' Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1929)
From Einar Norelius’ Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1934). Part 1, part 2.

11 Einar Norelius' Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1934)
From Einar Norelius’ Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1934). Part 1, part 2.

12 John Bauer's Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1915)
From John Bauer’s Bland Tomtar Och Troll (1915)

13 Willy Pogany's Mother Goose (1928)
From Willy Pogany’s Mother Goose (1928)

14 Gustaf Tenggren for Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales
Gustaf Tenggren for Hawthorne’s Tanglewood Tales

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The site also has a huge amount of comics, animation stills, cartoons, vintage advertisements and other ephemera — it’s endlessly wonderful.

15 Jimmy Swinnerton
comic by Jimmy Swinnerton

16 Jimmy Swinnerton 2
comic by Jimmy Swinnerton

17 Jimmy Swinnerton, 1927, Near to Nature babies
From Jimmy Swinnerton, Near to Nature babies (1927)

18 Jimmy Swinnerton, 1927, Near to Nature babies 2
From Jimmy Swinnerton, Near to Nature babies (1927)

19 From John Sutherland's Rhapsody of Steel (1959)
From John Sutherland’s Rhapsody of Steel (1959)
You can follow a link to the movie from the above link

20 Miguel Covarrubias, Senator Smith W. Brookhart & Marlene Dietrich, in Vanity Fair, September 1932
Miguel Covarrubias, Senator Smith W. Brookhart & Marlene Dietrich, in Vanity Fair, September 1932

Thanks go to Stephen Worth, the Director of the ASIFA, for sharing these images on A Journey Round My Skull. Please click the links for more information and images at the archive.

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