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) ...

A 30-minute Saturday morning cartoon show debuted Sept. 25, 1965, on ABC, and “The Beatles” became an instant hit. Reportedly the first time an animated series portrayed real, living people, “The ...

Even Beatles completists sometimes have a blind spot when it comes to the band’s eponymous cartoon, which ran on ABC for four years — starting exactly 50 years ago, on September 25th, 1965. If you ...

Long before reality TV blurred the lines between celebrity and character, Saturday morning cartoons were already doing it—with ink, paint and a heavy dose of bubblegum pop. Throughout the 1960s and ...

Campbell would eventually direct nine episodes of the animated Beatles series, which was a huge success for ABC and ran for four years from 1965 to 1969. But Campbell never got to meet The Beatles ...

Ron Campbell animated your childhood. As an animator and storyboard artist working in the golden age of Saturday-morning cartoons, he’s worked on everything from Scooby-Doo and The Smurfs to Rugrats.

LONDON, March 20, 2012 — The Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been digitally restored for DVD and Blu-ray release on May 28 (May 29 in North America). The film’s ...

The Beatles cast a long, fab shadow over many a career. In almost every interview he’s done, director Richard Lester says that no matter what films he’s done throughout his career, he will go into the ...

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This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In what must be the most talked-about licensing of a song in television ...

Pioneering animator Ron Campbell — who worked with The Beatles — will be a guest at Bucktown Center for the Arts (225 E. 2nd St., Davenport) today and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. A 75-year-old ...