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Welcome to my blog Dr. Grob’s animation review!

In this blog I’m trying to post a review on every single animation film I own, whether they are long or short, commercial or independent, well-known or obscure, old or new. This blog therefore will not be topical, but should grow into a reference site to everyone interested in animation film.

I’m an animation buff myself, and I feel a good review site on animation films is still lacking. Reviews are mostly about feature films and/or DVDs only, and animated shorts are often overlooked, especially independent ones.

I’m mainly interested in the history of animation, so I’ll try to put the films I’m reviewing into a historical context, and I’ll try to make cross-links between animation films.

This blog now features over 1000 reviews, but I’m planning to expand this site with many, many more. So please keep checking this site out in the near future.

Being Dutch, English is not my native language. If you discover a linguistic error, please feel free to correct me.

I hope you’ll enjoy this site and that you’ll return to it often. If you like my site, please consider linking to it.

+Gijs Grob

The header is a still from the Academy Award-winning Walt Disney cartoon Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953)

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June 17, 2016 at 15:45

ham

hello .

this is Likely a Estonia – or other east europe – animation that was made in 80s can you help to find name of it?

name of this animation TV series that was made in 70s or 80s ?

thanks

June 17, 2016 at 17:01

Gijs Grob

Unfortunately I have no idea what this is…

February 23, 2016 at 13:26

Lúthien

hi, just a quick question: I wanted to add a comment to ‘Pluto’s Blue Note’ (https://drgrobsanimationreview.com/2012/10/01/plutos-blue-note/#comment-1175) but can’t figure out how to do that. In some other posts there is a comment box below, but not in all, it seems?

February 23, 2016 at 13:39

Gijs Grob

This is an old post. Because of the enormous amount of spam old posts receive I had to put a max number of days on the possibility of commenting on posts. After 1100 days it’s no longer possible.

February 23, 2016 at 13:41

Gijs Grob

I’ve just raised the bar a little. Now it should be possible for you to react.

February 22, 2016 at 17:09

Lúthien

Great site, I love it! It already pointed me to films I never saw as yet.
Being a great admirer of the work of Norman McLaren, I could not resist searching for a review but didn’t find any. Could I herewith gently invite you to have a look at his work? Almost all his films (and many others) can be viewed for free on the National Film Board of Canada’s website: https://www.nfb.ca/search#?queryString=McLaren&index=0
I especially love “Begone Dull Care” (abstract motion created by painting directly on film) “La poulette grise” (an evolving pastel drawing) “Le Merle” (paper cut-out) – though they’re all fascinating, if only for the amazing array of animation techniques that he explored since the 1930’s.

February 22, 2016 at 17:40

Gijs Grob

Dear Lúthien,

Thank you for your compliments! I have the complete Norman McLaren films on DVD, but I have only just started watching and reviewing his films, and none of these reviews have been published here, yet. This is the case with ca. 80 % of the animation films I own at the moment, so there’s still a lot of work to do 🙂

February 22, 2016 at 18:15

Lúthien

Thanks for your quick answer .. 80%! Wow, that figure both scares (because of the workload that I can imagine all too well) and delights me (given how much more surprises and discoveries loom behind the horizon) 🙂

January 13, 2016 at 18:10

Ross Care

Hi Again – One of my Disney articles (the Bambi score) reprinted on Mike Sporn’s blog. You may have seen it?

http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=2748

I liinked your Gallopin’ Gaucho review on my Facebook page and quoted the review.

January 13, 2016 at 18:25

Gijs Grob

Thanks for your posting, and for the link! I hadn’t seen it yet. I’m curious to read more of your articles. The Cartoon Music Book, for example, is on my wishlist.

January 13, 2016 at 03:13

Ross Care

Excellent blog! Love your comments on the early Disney shorts, some of my favorites.

January 13, 2016 at 17:58

Gijs Grob

Thank you for your compliment. There will be more reviews of early Disney shorts later this year, so stay tuned!

October 12, 2015 at 23:32

sippy van akker

Still impressed with this massive and ever growing body of work. Keep up the good animation work!

September 21, 2015 at 01:36

Ross

Like the header from Toot, Whistle. One of my favorites. I’m working on a bio of Wilfred Jackson whose name I coincidentally see to the left of this box. 🙂

September 21, 2015 at 10:25

Gijs Grob

Wow, I’d love to read that!

November 17, 2014 at 23:08

mauro40

Hi my name is mauro and i appreciate your site very much because it is about ‘old’ animation less politically correct than today. I would ask a question about a cartoon that i ‘ve seen several years ago with a little mouse that by a potion goes faster but it was not jerry or gonzales it is a sort of competitor of them that ‘plays’ for tom or duffy duck or… and little mouse panted at last…it was very well done so i think about chuck jones or quimby or jannabarbera first period. o hope in some help. Many thanks in advance , mauro. mau_ro40@hotmail.com

August 14, 2013 at 17:51

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