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Sunday Cartoon: Chilly Willy, I’m Cold

Here’s an animated short with a title that seems almost obligatory today. Walter Lantz’s Chilly Willy was another of his popular characters (Lantz also having created the more famous Woody Woodpecker). From 1954, I’m Cold was the second cartoon in the Chilly Willy series. The legendary animator Tex Avery’s the director of this short, featuring…

What Might Mars Have Been Like?

NASA scientists have tried to imagine how that planet might have looked when it once had flowing water (as they believe it did): In a dramatic new video out of the NASA Goddard Conceptual Image Lab, animators conceive of what Mars may have looked like when its atmosphere and surface temperature allowed for water. The…