Top Cel 06 Mar 2013 04:18 am
Top Cel – 7
Here are all of the Top Cel issues saved by Vince Cafarelli from 1967. These were all edited by the gifted animator, Ed Smith. Top Cel, of course, was the news reader of New York’s animation guild, Local 841.
January 1967, pgs 1 & 6
Designed and drawn by Ed Smith
2 
3
Walt Disney dies.
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5
February 1967, pgs 1 & 6
Designed and drawn by I. de la Rosa
2 
3
Jack Kinney resigns from Disney.
Bob Little resigns from Paramount after 20 years.
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5
March 1967, pg 1
Designed and drawn by Frank Scioscia
2 
3
Oskar Fischinger dies.
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5
6
April 1967, pg 1
2 
3
George Germanetti dies at 58.
Bob Taylor, Dave Tendlar, Jack Schnerk & Johnny Vita leave Terrytoons.
4
May 1967, pg 1
Designed and drawn by Karl Fischer
2 
3
The Hubleys win the Oscar for “Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.”
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5
6
June 1967, pgs 1 & 6
Designed and drawn by Tom Turkoski
2 
3
Shamus Culhane resigns from Paramount
and is replaced by Ralph Bakshi.
4 
5
The Montreal Animation Exhibition opens with over
20 animation pioneers & professionals appearing.
July 1967, pgs 1 & 6
Designed and drawn by Bill Feigenbaum
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3
Jack Schnerk and Jim Tyer both leave for the West Coast.
Cosmo Anzilotti back at Paramount.
4 
5
August 1967, pgs 1 & 6
Designed by Ed Smith
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3
George Bakes, John Paratore and Clif Roberts form Poverty Pictures.
Art Babbitt represents Hanna-Barbera commercials at Montreal Expo.
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5
6
November 1967, pgs 1 & 6
Designed and drawn by Ed Smith
2 
3
Bill Peckmann back at Focus after vacation in California.
Jim Tyer and Jack Schnerk back in NY after LA trip.
Pinto Colvig dies.
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5
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7
on 06 Mar 2013 at 6:19 am 1.Yowp said …
Jim Tyer wasn’t at Hanna-Barbera very long, was he?
I’m surprised to read the Kinney story as I thought he had left Disney in the late ’50s to work on his own.
on 06 Mar 2013 at 8:53 am 2.Thad Komorowski said …
These are great! Very useful for establishing dates and ironing out timelines in the NY industry’s history. I’ve been indexing the earliest issues from the mid-40s lately. Any collection of the Top Cels in-between anywhere?
on 06 Mar 2013 at 8:25 pm 3.Nat said …
I love the drawing of the can-can dancers!