Nearly thirteen years have passed since the last issue of Fleischer’s Animated News, the Paramount cartoon studio’s employee newsletter, was shared on Cartoon Research (check the past posts of issues #1-7 HERE). Let’s pick up where we left off…

Charles Hastings, a former Walter Lantz animator infamous for accidentally blinding Tex Avery’s eye with a paper clip, was the cover artist of this edition (credited as “Hasty”). At the time of this issue, Hastings was an animator in the Willard Bowsky unit, but soon shifted to Dave Tendlar’s and Tom Johnson’s respective crews.

Other highlights include: gag cartoons by Sidney Pillet, Hal Seeger, and Herman Cohen; a profile on camerawoman and film editor Kitty Pfister, who was hired by the Fleischers in 1926; an article on timing by Nelly Sanborn, head of the timing department; and reviews for Myron Waldman’s latest Betty Boop, A Language All My Own (working title: A Song for Harmony), and Willard Bowsky’s latest Popeye, Dizzy Divers, that give full credit to the writers and animators.

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Thanks to Jerry Beck and Bob Jaques for these rare materials.