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The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons (Facts on File) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeff Lenburg
Publisher: Checkmark Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 791764
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 576
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0816038325
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.433
EAN: 9780816038329
ASIN: 0816038325
Publication Date: June 1999
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PFrom Jeff Lenburg's obsessive fascination with the subject comes this ultimate guide to cartoons. More than 2,200 cartoon entries encompass all aspects of this twentieth-century cultural phenomenon: creators, directors, production studios, voice talent, episode titles, and dates of release. With a forward by June Foray (the voice behind Granny and Rocky the Squirrel), more than 150 illustrations, and a nutshell history of American animation, this home reference details every cartoon and every cartoon character ever created.
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 Jeff Lenburg needs to do some research July 21, 2008
Koku-chan
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Encyclopedia of Animated cartoons, 2nd edition, is *full* of errors. One has to wonder where Jeff Lenburg got his information from. One can turn to practically any page and find glaring errors in both plot synopsis, voice actors and character descriptions. Such as Space Ghost being power by a magic belt, Dino-boy being sent back in time do to an explosion that killed his father(!) "Mr.Toad Hall" who is 'wrongly' accused of car thievery,Etc. The list goes on and on. However, it is a great fun for someone who's familiar with cartoons (at all)to read through and mark the errors, which are, in plentiful supply.
 MIXED May 16, 2007
Thornton Hagert (Philadelphia, PA USA)
A useful listing of US animated cartoons wth dates and credits, and with lists of individual theater cartoons. br / The original 1981 edition covered theater cartoon series, listing individual films, and was a major reference. br / This is the (1999) second edition of the 1991 expanded edition which organized the material into general categories - under theater cartoons (silent, sound and feature) and TV (specials and series) There is now much more on made-for-TV cartoons than I want, and even the cover and inside color-plates are largely TV characters. There is no attempt to list individual episodes of the TV series. br / I have a general aversion to a reference being arranged in alphabetical order. For looking up an item, that's easily covered by the index. For a reading overview, arranging chronologicaly - or by producing studio - would be more instructive. br /
 It amazed me... July 12, 2006
OAKSHAMAN (Algoma, WI United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The highest tribute that I can give to this book is that I could not find a single animated cartoon from my experience that it did not cover. I felt sure that I knew of a few obscure ones that would not be in here- and I was wrong. Moreover, I found much here that I wasn't familiar with. That absolutely amazed me. br / br /This true encyclopedia is organised into five major sections 1) silent cartoon series, 2)theatrical sound cartoon series, 3)full-length animated features, 4) animated television specials, and 5) television cartoon series. There are numerous black and white illustrations of various characters included with the text, as well as color plates in the middle of the book. I suppose considering the scope of this reference it would have been difficult to illustrate everything. Still, it would have been fantastic to have model sheets for every single entry... br / br /I have found myself getting this book down and browsing through it more times than I want to admit- while cursing the children's television "activists" that have robbed generations of the joy of experiencing many of these classics and near classics (and some of the classically bad.)
Great! July 28, 2004
H. Chen (California)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of the best books. Except one thing: mistakes and lies. Ok, what is with the mistakes in the voice-actor list? I mean: April Winchell as Sebastin the Crab? Tress Macnille as LanchPaud? Did two people do the voice of Velma? Of course not, there are some HUGE lies. But at least it was a good book. but it, just avoid the lies.
A longtime prelude to bcdb.com June 22, 2004
andy8047 (Nokomis,Florida)
If you're in search of information regarding a certain cartoon,you'll find it in this book. This book was first released in 1981,long before the debut of the Internet and The Big Cartoon Database,aka bcdb.com. This book only lists motion picture cartoons. It does not list comicstrips. Theatrical cartoons,Saturday morning television cartoons,animated features,you'll find them all.
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