Awesome series of blog posts on Boing Boing by Stephen Worth, the Director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, a museum, library and digital archive devoted to the use of professional artists andstudents.
And this one might be the most awesome of them all : This freakin’ 8 year old makes Beyonce look like a tired old nag! When I share great old stuff with young people, inevitably someone in the crowd will pipe up with “How come only old stuff is good? New stuff is good too!” Well, it may be true that there is great new art being made here and there, but this kind of talent and artistry isn’t as common, and it isn’t in the mainstream media the way it was in the 30s, 40s and 50s. Case in point: Shirley Temple. Here’s a little kid whose dancing is just as good, if not better than anything on “Dancing With The Stars”. Buddy Ebsen just plain kicks ass in this clip and even he is hard pressed to keep up!
Adventure 09: Buddy And Shirley At The Codfish Ball Boing Boing
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