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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection

Rescuers are aimed at the animation in the film. Although a smash hit, The Rescuers was produced on an extremely tight budget, something that might have damaged the timeless nature…

The Rescuers

…can finally add The Rescuers to our region one collections, but don’t start the celebrations just yet… As mentioned above, The Rescuers is often overlooked, both by fans and by…

The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection

…This sequel to Disney’s 1977 animated hit The Rescuers follows the adventures of Cody, a young boy in the Australian Outback, and begins with his daring rescue of a great…

Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton

With The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under recently debuting on Blu-ray high-definition for the first time, composer Bruce Broughton revisits the sequel’s adventurous music!…

Rescuers, Rescuers Down Under voice actor Bernard Fox passes away
Expanded Rescuers Down Under soundtrack announced
Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition

Rescuers Down Under as a double-bill set. With animation from the newly trained artists overseen by the legendary Woolie Reitherman, The Rescuers proved that the art form was in good…

Didier Ghez uncovers the hidden art of Disney’s early renaissance

…Book, The Aristocats, Robin Hood and The Rescuers, the book is not only one of the most beautiful ones of the series, but also – through Didier’s in-depth research, vivid…

Frank And Ollie: Special Edition

…and Mowgli, and Bernard from The Rescuers, describing how Frank’s use of motion brings life to the characters. In the same manner, Glen On Ollie (5:33) has Keane examining the…

Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two

…each classic cartoon is resurrected here, but with Mickey in Cratchit’s guise. Mickey’s Christmas Carol originally played on a double-bill with the 1983 re-issue of Disney’s The Rescuers. When it…

Last remaining of the Nine Old Men, legendary animator Ollie Johnston dies at 95

…Jungle Book, Robin Hood, The Rescuers, and The Fox And The Hound. In addition to his achievements as an animator and directing animator, Johnston (in collaboration with his lifelong friend…

The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition

…the more mature streak that had begun with The Rescuers and would continue through The Fox And The Hound. However, it was a casualty of many different factors from the…

The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition

…The Rescuers, a massive commercial hit that set the animation unit back on track and, until only recently, spawned the department’s only animated feature sequel. The Rescuers had proven to…

Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King

…known as the Disney Renaissance. The following year, Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel’s The Rescuers Down Under became Walt Disney Animation Studios’ first feature sequel. The film was a financially…

Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson

…years. The veteran Disney filmmaker had previously worked on such classics as Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book and The Rescuers. He…

Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan

…process. So, here we go then, on a ride through Tony’s impressive journey in the realm of animation, from his debut at Disney on The Rescuers Down Under to his…

The AristoCats: Special Edition

…is Eva Gabor, who would go on to play the same kind of role in The Rescuers, and there are others – including the ever dependable Sterling Holloway – who…

Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection

…Gabriel (The Rescuers Down Under, Lorenzo), there is little of the lively energy in the animation that usually personifies Goldberg’s (or Gabriel’s, for that matter) work. Everything, like the performances…

Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection

…had also been taken with The Rescuers Down Under in the early 1990s, and although the film remains a favorite with its audience, it struggled to match the success of…

The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 1: It All Started With A…Mermaid!

…AV: The Rescuers Down Under marked a big change in your career. MH: Yes. At that point, I decided to take a move to Florida with the Florida studio, but…

Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty

…Of Winnie The Pooh and the record setting The Rescuers to the darker realism of The Fox And The Hound and the supernatural fantasy The Black Cauldron, a watershed moment…

The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition

…were taking on other projects: Pete’s Dragon, The Rescuers (then the Studio’s biggest grosser) and the film that would break from the usual formula to add a little extra edge,…

Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure

…to watch with my full attention (I’m not counting The Rescuers Down Under among these spin-offs, as that was an official Feature Animation theatrical film), hit some kind of positive…

Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams

…with animated fare such as The Lord Of The Rings, The Last Unicorn and Fire And Ice, with even Disney’s offerings of The Rescuers, The Fox And The Hound and…

The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!

…Arietty kept the Studio Ghibli titles rolling along, and The Rescuers/The Rescuers Down Under 2-Movie Collection brought back two of the Studio’s most underrated animated features in wonderfully filmic presentations…

Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers

…wasn’t a feature, it did receive top billing over a re-issue of The Rescuers. Almost ten years later, Mickey, Donald and Goofy were pressed into action again for another roughly…

Twenty Questions with the AV Staff

…the moment Superman dons the costume and flies towards the camera for the first time! BEN: The Rescuers, at the Studio 70 cinema, opposite Elstree Studios, in 1977, while my…

Disney teases upcoming Blu-ray slate

…package releases of Pocahontas / Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World and The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under due out Summer 2012. The Aristocats is scheduled to see…

Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition

…Disney practically came into effect during The Rescuers, and The Fox And The Hound was the hybrid that attempted to show what the new artists could do, The Black Cauldron…

Frank Thomas has passed away…

…White and Bambi, up through The Rescuers, he helped to shape the characters, performances and movies that Disney produced and that are loved all around the world. He was a…