A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Norman Blackburn
Birthplace:
England, UK
Born:
April 28, 1903
Died:
February 21, 1990
Blackburn began his career as an animator for Walt Disney before moving to NBC in New York. While at NBC, he was responsible for redesigning the Howdy Doody puppet.
Animation:
1927 Alice in the Big League
1927 Alice in the Klondike
1927 Alice the Beach Nut
1927 Alice's Channel Swim
1927 Alice's Medicine Show
1927 Alice's Picnic
1927 Alice's Three Bad Eggs
1927 All Wet
1927 Great Guns
1927 Oh, Teacher!
1927 The Mechanical Cow
1927 Trolley Troubles
1928 Poor Papa
1930 Hold Anything
1930 Sinkin' in the Bathtub
1931 Ain't Nature Grand!
1931 Bosko's Fox Hunt
1931 Lady, Play Your Mandolin!
1931 Yodeling Yokels
1931 You Don't Know What You're Doin'!
1932 Bosko's Dog Race
1932 Pagan Moon
1932 Ride Him, Bosko
1933 The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
1934 The Good Scout
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.