John Carter of Mars (1936)?

[pokerfan]

Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full-length cel-animated feature to appear on the big screen. But if things had gone a little differently, that honor might have gone to John Carter of Mars, which MGM was developing with legendary animator Bob Clampett. We do, however, have some remains of the failed project in the form of Clampett's test animation. (io9)
http://io9.com/5880189/watch-animated-test-footage-from-the-1936-john-carter-that-never-was

And the latest trailer from the upcoming 2012 film:

[frogmarch]

1. Wow! Fascinating!

Thank you so much for posting the videos, and for the link.

[pokerfan]

2. The golden age of animation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_American_animation

[frogmarch]

3. Thanks!

I sent all the info from your first post on to my kids because all three are very interested in animation. Now I'll send them the Golden Age wiki link.

This is so cool!

[2ndAmForComputers]

4. Looks a lot like the Fleischer Superman toons.

God, I loved those when I was a kid.

[pokerfan]

5. Max Fleischer's first Superman cartoon

1941...

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[nytemare]

6. Carl Sagan commented on the John Carter books in "Cosmos" - Link below

I truly look forward to this movie. Thanks for the link on the animation.

?t=4m26s

[pokerfan]

7. Cool, I forgot about that

Transcript for the low bandwidth readers:

I remember reading with breathless fascination the Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I journeyed with John Carter gentleman adventurer from Virginia to Barsoom, as Mars was known by its inhabitants. Wandering among the beasts of burden called thoats, winning the hand of the lovely Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium and befriending a 10-foot-high green fighting man named Tars Tarkas as the moons of Mars hurtled overhead on a summer's evening on Barsoom.

It aroused generations of 8-year-old, myself among them, to consider the exploration of the planets as a real possibility, to wonder whether we ourselves might one day venture to the distant planet Mars. John Carter got to Barsoom by standing in an open field spreading his hands and wishing hard at Mars. I can remember spending many an hour in my boyhood arms resolutely outstretched in an open field in twilight imploring what I believed to be Mars to transport me there. It never worked. There had to be some better way.

[frogmarch]

8. Great! Thanks. :-)

I'm going to watch it now.

I love Carl Sagan.

[sarge43]

9. The whole episode "Blues for a Red Planet" is terrific.

I believe it won a Peabody.

[frogmarch]

10. Thanks again. I will

watch it (it's on You Tube?) and then send the link to my kids. My 9-year-old grandson will like John Carter too.

[sarge43]

11. I'm sure it's on YouTube; however, Hulu has the complete series as does Netflix streamed

If you haven't seen the series, you really need to. Yeah, yeah some of the science is out of date, but the poetry alone is worth it -- singing whales, dancing Greeks and whirling galaxies while Sagan undertones "These are some of the things hydrogen atoms do, given 15 billion years of evolution."

[YankeyMCC]

12. What a fantastic speaker he was