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Happy Tree Friends Banned In Russia

HAPPY TREE FRIENDS and THE ADVENTURES OF BIG JEFF have been taken off a Russian adult animation channel after the government deemed them too violent, VARIETY reports.

Moscow-based 2X2 broadcasts mostly foreign adult-oriented animation around the clock, and shows warnings that their programming is aimed at older teenagers and adults.

An official complaint from government watchdog Rossvyazokhrankulutra that the cartoons were too cruel and violent started the situation.

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New Site For Classic Cartoons

DIC Entertainment has launched an online video channel, www.kewlcartoons.com, dedicated to new and classic cartoons for families and children.

Frederic Soulie will head the division, managing the company's network of sites.

Kewlcartoons.com features free, on-demand streaming animated television series from DIC's library of 3,000 half-hours of programming including DINO SQUAD, INSPECTOR GADGET and THE LITTLES.

The community also features chat and games, and is user-friendly for PC and Mac users.

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Climate Cartoons Wins Broadband PSA Emmy

By Rick DeMott | Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 12:00am

Project 3650, recently renamed Climate Cartoons, was honored last week by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with the Emmy Award for best National Public Service Announcements/Broadband. Directed by Mark Greene, "Big Fun with Global Warming" was co-sponsored by the Sierra Club. The cartoon features "Stinky," a "nasty little office man" who thinks global warming is "a bunch of hooey."

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3rd Lagos Comics & Cartoons Carnival (LC3)

By Guest (not verified) | Friday, November 9, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: November 9, 2007

LC3 is a unique event geared towards raising the awareness and sensitivity of the public (especially the youths) towards the vast field of cartoons, comics and animation creation and publishing while adding a boost to the nation's reading and entertainment culture.

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Random! Cartoons Screening

By Guest (not verified) | Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: May 22, 2007

Frederator Studios and Nickelodeon are hosting a screening of its shorts program, RANDOM! CARTOONS, which delivers 39 brand new, funny, creator driven, seven-minute cartoons for kids. The series features the work of dozens of creators, more than 100 voice artists and more than 300 cartoonists. The screening will feature a selection from the RANDOM! CARTOONS series, which will premiere on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons Networks later this year. The screening will be followed by a Q & A with Fred Seibert and featured shorts creators. Admission is free.

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Two Inkwell Titles Win Gold Awards at Worldfest

At the 40th Worldfest Independent Film Festival, which ran from April 20-29, 2007, two DVD titles from Inkwell Images Ink won Gold Remi Awards. BEFORE WALT, a centennial celebration of animation, won in the Cultural Category and THE LEGENDARY LAUGH-O-GRAMS FAIRY TALES, a profile on Walt Disney's Kansas City period, won in the Entertainment Category.

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Pennarelli Wins Pitch Me! at Cartoons on the Bay

Davide Rosio from Movimenti Prod. in Italy, is the winner of the Cartoons On The Bay Pitch Me! Event. He picked up his prize for pitching PENNARELLI, the project he directed with Giorgio Scorza and Davide Beltramini at the festival show on Friday, April 20, 2007, at the Augusteo Theatre.

The Pitch Me! event is for cartoonists, scriptwriters, studios, independent producers and anyone else who wants to launch a new Italian animation project.

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Animated New Yorker Cartoons Podcast On iTunes

RingTales announced the debut of a new iTunes podcast featuring animated versions of the world-famous cartoons of THE NEW YORKER magazine. Subscribers to the free advertiser-supported podcast will receive three new episodes of THE NEW YORKER "RingTales" each week. RingTales has the exclusive license to animate and distribute THE NEW YORKER's library of more than 100,000 cartoons.

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Censorship And The Hollywood Cartoon

By Guest (not verified) | Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 11:00am
Begins: February 15, 2007

CENSORSHIP AND THE HOLLYWOOD CARTOON

A look at how censors have ruined the great cartoons of Hollywood's Golden Age of Animation. The program will feature both the cut and uncut versions of one of the greatest cartoons of all time plus 12 other titles guaranteed to leave viewers with a smile on their faces.

The evening will also include Hartt's internationally acclaimed look at the films of Salvador Dali

Details:

http://www.princesscinemas.com/film/?id=754

http://www.princesscinemas.com/film/?id=755

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Fred Seibert/Frederator Breakfast Event

By Guest (not verified) | Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 11:00am
Begins: December 14, 2006

NY:MIEG (New York: Media Information Exchange Group) is a group of media (and related) professionals who meet monthly on an informal basis in Midtown Manhattan.

Our next meeting: Thurs. Dec. 14th when our special Holiday guest will be:

FRED SEIBERT President & Executive Producer Frederator Studios

- Developed the MTV brand in 1981 as founding Creative Director at MTV - Co-Founder Fred/Alan Productions and rebranded Nickelodeon and oversaw the launch of VH-1 - President of Hanna/Barbera under Turner Broadcasting System

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Cartoons on the Bay Deadline Nears!

Cartoons on the Bay 2007Salerno, Italy April 19-22, 2007Deadline: Jan. 15, 2007

Cartoons on the Bay is an international event with awards, workshops, lectures, TV and theatrical previews, and events centering on the ever-changing world of television animation. The Pulcinella Awards Competition is open to all products in animation for television and the Internet, including pilots of series. The Competition is also open to short films.

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The Rejection Collection: Not In The New Yorker Cartoons

By Guest (not verified) | Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 11:00am
Begins: October 12, 2006

In any given week, the NEW YORKER cartoon editor receives nearly 500 submissions from some of the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world. Of those 500 cartoons, no more than 20 will see print in a typical issue. Thousands upon thousands of cartoons every year are rejected as too risqu

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2nd Lagos Comics & Cartoons Carnival (LC3)

By Guest (not verified) | Thursday, September 14, 2006 at 11:00am
Begins: September 14, 2006

Lagos Comics & Cartoons Carnival or LC3 is a unique event initiated and coordinated by Evolution Media and is geared towards raising the awareness and sensitivity of the public (especially the youths) towards the vast field of cartoons and comics publishing while adding a boost to the nation

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China Bans Foreign Cartoons From Primetime

Chinas State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has issued a new notice stating that no TV stations will be allowed to broadcast foreign cartoons before 8:00 pm, starting from Sept. 1, 2006, reports various news sources. Chinas primetime programming hours are 5:00 to 8:00 pm.

The notice was not published on SARFT's website, but staff at Southwest China's Guizhou Provincial Television Station, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed to CHINA DAILY that they received it more than two months ago.

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John Kricfalusi Talks About When Cartoons Were Funny

John K.s When Cartoons Were FunnyStudio City, California, USAAugust 10, 2006

Van Eaton Galleries presents John Kricfalusi speaking on the subject "When Cartoons Were Funny." The fundraiser for the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive begins at 7:00 pm. John K. will screen some of his favorite cartoons of all-time.

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John Kricfalusi cartoon retrospective

By Guest (not verified) | Friday, July 28, 2006 at 11:00am
Begins: July 28, 2006

John Kricfalusi brings his own wbrand of cartoons to a special 2 day exhibition in San Francisco at the Castro Theatre on July 28 & 29. Fri. & Sat. evening shows at 7PM will have rare, unseen and banned cartoons for adults highlighting each of the seven deadly sins. JOhn K. will introduce each cartoon.

The Matinee on Saturday at 2PM - children's program- will be a child-safe matinee of rolicking cartoons for the children and celibate alike.

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John K Posts WB Toons Online, Starts War of Words

REN & STIMPY creator John Kricfalusi believes "Warner Bros. Cartoons hates their fans, after Warner Bros. Ent. forced YouTube to remove clips of classic Looney Tunes shorts for its website, which were posted by John K, according to the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.

On Kricfalusis blog (johnkstuff.blogspot.com), the acclaimed animator posts informative essays about his favorite cartoons, which he has posts clips from to illustrate his point.

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