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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…and spontaneity to the illusion. Walt strived to develop longer cartoons like the ones being made out of New York and established the Laugh-O-Gram Studio in May of 1922 with… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 3 and 4
…would have noticed that a series of re-branded Have A Laugh cartoons were actually odd variations of some of the Studio’s original cartoons. Also available online, it became clear that… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
…on some of the Studio’s original cartoons start to pop up as television program filler and online content on the Disney website under a new brand name, Have A Laugh!… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…Although O’Day only lasted one outing (what Walt could pay her wasn’t enough to sustain her family’s needs), Alice’s Egg Plant is easily one of the best of the Alice… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…riding on the back of franchised cartoon dinosaurs, and they’ve left their classic characters out to dry for far too long. Big thanks to Jerry Beck for convincing them to… |
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Paul & The Dragon: Cartoon Laugh-O-Therapy with the Film’s Creators!
…experiments to see what the effects of humor had on one’s immune system. Apparently not only does humor help us psychologically but also boosts our immune system. I also came… |
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Restoring Laugh-O-Gram Studio
A group called Thank You Walt Disney Inc. are in the final stages of fundraising in an attempt to revitalize Laugh-O-Gram, Disney’s first professional animation studio, according to the Kansas… |
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BAFTA Film Award winners announced
…Triplets Of Belleville) losing out to In This World for Best Foreign Film, and Finding Nemo losing Best Original Screenplay to The Station Agent. Jojo In The Stars won Best… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…songs? MC: They recorded them with piano on two different tracks and then they orchestrated them. I was taken into the orchestra also and they put that on two different… |
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“Laugh Wars”? Lucas adds comedy…
Robot Chicken creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich are heading to the Skywalker Ranch: after their parodies of George Lucas’ Star Wars films, the duo have been tapped to mastermind… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…none of this actually seemed to matter, and no one wrote in to complain! Season Two also saw the first expansion of family, with Wilma’s Mother Pearl Slaghoople turning up… |
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2017 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…to be handed out, but also without having to go through the lottery system like they were supposed to. On top of that, there were reports of folks managing to… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…overview of Walt’s early career, touching lightly on the Laugh-o-Grams, Oswald the Rabbit, his collaborators, and finally the birth of Mickey Mouse. While a whole feature could be enjoyably done… |
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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…Cinderella often stops off on many tangents, either to make time for the mice to retrieve something of importance from pesky housecat Lucifer or to fit in one of the… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…have the option of laughs on or off here, though oddly a handful of shows do have them. The tracks don’t really sound empty without them, since everything is so… |
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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
…going back to the studio to help out on various projects, and I guess I worked on any number of projects as a freelancer or consultant. So I find myself… |
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Archie’s Funhouse: The Complete Series
…born or the locale changed. For many series, you might be hard-pressed to pick out which season an episode belonged to, since many programs stuck to their original premises so… |
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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…I was working on a portfolio to get into the Disney Story Department. You have to do a “test” if you want to jump departments at Disney. Needless to say,… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…around the studio. So when Jeffery Katzenberg announced that the studio would be split in two to make two films simultaneously, many of the top animators wanted to work on… |
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Cars 2
…is a good one, he’s really just there to open the doors to the other vehicles ready to join the Cars team on store shelves, including the characters of the… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…create a real-life version of Challenge Of The Superfriends, creating a superhero/supervillain clash on a budget, utilizing state-of-the-art el cheapo effects, and costumes largely consisting of polyester and foam. Two… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…on Nemo’s 3D set), so they’re pretty safe bets to open the next Collection, on whatever format we’re watching our Pixar movies via in another five years or so! Is… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…blasted onto our screens in late 2001, the first of Paramount’s leaps into CGI animation. Following the success of the two safe-bet Rug-Rats movies, Paramount’s kids division Nickelodeon decided to… |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…are definitely going to appear on the DVD when that comes out around Christmastime. We were trying to figure out the other day which ones we might use. It’s hard… |
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Invader Zim: House Box Complete Set
…common occurrence in anime-themed DVDs, so it’s no wonder that Anime Works decided to include them here. All volumes also include one featurette on the second disc focusing on the… |
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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete First Season
…but I do have to admit to being astounded as well. Compared to so many other Hanna-Barbera shows still in the vaults, this one seems pretty obscure (although I understand… |
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Soul
…the presence of death in our everyday lives is at a level usually only associated with times of war. It seems fitting that on Christmas Day in the midst of… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…of music I wrote for the whole film! Because they wanted to be able to start not only animating to it, but also to get it for test screenings. So,… |
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THE 76th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS – Nemo wins, Rings is King and Krumpet amazes!
The voting is over, the numbers are in, and it’s Oscar night not only in Los Angeles’ capital of film itself, Hollywood, but the world over, with an estimated one… |
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Stay Tooned!
…along with Ray’s other animation anthologies, of which we’ll have more coming up. Speaking of which, while I’m stuck on the sofa here, I’m getting up to speed on a… |
