The deal that put the Beatles into the movies called for them to make three films for United Artists. But after the commercial and critical success of A Hard Day's Night in 1964 and the ...

WASHINGTON — Ron Campbell’s animation career was in full swing in 1964, with cartoon credits including Beetle Bailey and Krazy Kat, when the phone rang in the middle of the night. “It was (producer) ...

Robert Balser, who served as the animation director for The Beatles' film Yellow Submarine and on the Saturday morning Jackson Five cartoons of the early 1970s, has died. He was 88. By Mike Barnes ...

It's been a colorful and zany ride for animator Ron Campbell. And we don't just mean his trip aboard the Beatles' psychedelic cartoon classic “Yellow Submarine.” The 73-year-old native Australian has ...

Ron Campbell is also known for Saturday morning cartoon classics. If you’ve seen “Scooby-Doo,” “The Flintstones” or “The Jetsons,” you’ve seen the work of Ron Campbell. If you’ve spent hours ...

When artist Ron Campbell was contacted in 1964 by King Features producer Al Brodax to direct an animated cartoon show about The Beatles, he said, “Insects make terrible characters for children’s ...

The Beatles’ innovative 1968 animated film “Yellow Submarine” will return to theaters this summer in a new 4K restoration created to mark the movie’s 50 th anniversary. The theatrical run begins July ...

The 1968 animated odyssey arrives on DVD and Blu-ray after a frame-by-frame restoration by Apple Records. By Todd Gilchrist Beatles Yellow Submarine Poster Art - P 2012 Almost 45 years after it ...

I grew up in a Beatles family. My Dad was at their first American press conference in 1964. He and my mother loved their music, the only rock band they liked, as did my older brothers and sister, who ...

There aren’t a lot of people who are handed the key to one of music’s most beloved properties and told, essentially, to go have fun with it. But that’s pretty much what happened to audio engineer ...

Robert Balser, an animator who co-directed the cartoon sequences of the Beatles‘ 1968 musical fantasy film Yellow Submarine, passed away January 4th at a Los Angeles hospital following complications ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There aren't a lot of people who are handed the key to one of music's most beloved properties and told, essentially, to go have fun with ...