Anime, the Japanese term for animated films, refers to Japanese animation. Since the early 1950s, when the father of anime, Tezuka Osamu (1928–1989), created such famous series as Jungle taitei (known in the United States as "Kimba the...

Anime (アニメ, Anime?) (pronounced [anime] listen (help·info) in Japanese, but typically pronounced /ˈænɪmeɪ/ or /ˈænɪmə/ in English) is an abbreviation of the English word "animation", originating in Japan. Although the term is used in...

Animals, animated heroes roar into new TV season for children By SUSAN KING Los Angeles Times Thursday, September 14, 2000 Hollywood -- As school kids start hitting the books again, television is back in action, too, premiering its new children's...

Colour Contamination Written and directed by Louise Bagnall, Colour Contamination is a short animated film funded by the Irish Film Boards 'Short Shorts' scheme. It is the story of a clean-cut business man who is adverse to all things colourful. He enters a...

James Laurinaitis’s father, Joe Laurinaitis, worked as a pro wrestler under the name “Animal” for years. His in-ring costume included football pads adorned with metal spikes and multi-colored face-paint. His son was apparently meant to wear a helmet on Saturdays (and soon, on Sundays), hitting...

The tagline for Disney's upcoming "Enchanted" could well be the motto for the latest push in animation: "The real world and the animated world collide."Not simply colliding in the slapstick tradition of 1988's pioneering "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?," but in the more fundamental sense of...