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Dalmatians 101: “Spot”-light on songwriter Mel Leven
…you when you father came to Disney? WL: I think I was at Junior High. I was maybe twelve years old, if I remember correctly. AV: So, what was it… |
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Dalmatians 101: Lisa Davis’ “puppy love” for a dog-gone Disney classic
…had originally brought me from England. I was born in London and I grew up in showbusiness in London surrounded incidentally by one very, very famous Frenchman who I spent… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Two: Disney executive Doug Short, Giselle’s champion!
…very involved in the physical production of the movie. Both are incredibly talented in unique ways. In fact, Enchanted was one of the most complicated development projects I think I’ve… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…were a crossroad in my youth. Without those films, I would not be working in the film industry today. So, I came down and didn’t like my experience in California… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…the beginning, I enjoyed it, I thought it had a lot of promise, a lot of great potential. And it has a beautiful score to it! AV: How did you… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…know, I’ve now watched the Little Mermaid film about fifty times, I would say, and every time I watch it, I’m struck by the fact that it is virtually perfect…. |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…heard in my life. I loved it so much. I eventually wrote lyrics to it and it became my favorite tune on the album. So, I used it to open… |
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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
…I’d spent eight months animating that thing!” he would later lament. Although glimpsed at during documentaries over the years, and included in the LD set, this is the first time… |
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The Sword In The Stone: Gold Classic Collection
…book. Is This Thing Loaded? Finally The Sword In The Stone has been given the attention it deserves, and it’s in the extras department where this Gold Collection DVD impresses… |
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The Jungle Book 2
…although when “The End” appears on screen, I just hope it really is! The movie also wants to have its cake and eat it too, for even when Mowgli finally… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…redundantly. The big addition to this release is that new Merlin’s Magical Academy game, but it’s not worth it for the material that’s been dropped in its place. A multi-level… |
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Hand-drawn back at Disney, and live-action Tintin is coming!
…first optioned Georges Remi’s journalist/adventurer character just before the creator died in 1983, but negotiations broke down when Remi, whose initials run backwards gave him his pen name, found out… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…smash hit and Lantz wanted to capitalise on it, immediately shoe-horning it into the next cartoon on the roster. Clearly the inclusion was a last minute decision since the ill-fitting… |
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Spooky! Doomsday, Mickey reviews and Pixar contests!
Happy Halloween! Okay, okay…it’s not until Wednesday if you want to get technical, but I’ll bet a fair few of you spent the past weekend scared out of your wits… |
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Our extensive Sleeping Beauty review is up!
…most anticipated releases of the year, we really wanted to go in-depth on the title, and as such I think you’ll find my review is the most exhaustive you’ll find,… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…that it really became the international phenomenon we know? Lella Smith: Well, I think, my personal opinion is that it was because Walt Disney was able to imbue the characters… |
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The Art of Princess and the Frog: Down in New Orleans with author Jeff Kurtti
…input was equivalent to mine in terms of the final product. In the case of an Art Of… book, in fact, it is more important than the text, the text… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 3: The Orlando Features
…liked it. It was a very long experience for one thing. It was similar to what I did in the past in a lot of ways since it was another… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…everything to what is so accurately captured in the film. Scoring Miyazaki (7:19) is repeated on the other Ghibli DVDs in this wave, but it is still a nice interview… |
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Disney Legend Floyd Norman writes (and talks) about his Animated Life
…already had a pile of photographs I had taken during my years at Disney and Pixar. I didn’t have to interview anyone because I wrote directly from my memories at… |
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Inspiration for, and from, Up!
…22-mile crossing of the English Channel in a chair suspended under a cluster of 57 helium balloons. It’s not a house, but it’s close”. An image can be seen here:… |
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Next Pirates movie being made on a tighter budget
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is finding itself with a respectively smaller production budget than the franchise is used to, the LA Times is reporting. Although still in… |
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The Art of Toy Story 3: animation historian Charles Solomon tells about his “Favorite Toys”
…some gray hair; so do I. Their films reflect the changing perspective that age and its inevitable losses bring. If I had written a book about Toy Story in 1995,… |
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Newman gets star on Walk of Fame
…Newman’s nineteen Oscar nominations have been for his work in animated films, with his sole win coming in 2002 for the song If I Didn’t Have You from Monsters, Inc…. |
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Batman: Under The Red Hood
…off the Internet. Ink And Paint: The 1080p picture is near perfection. I could recall only one instance where I really noticed a hint of aliasing in one background. Otherwise,… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…where our studio was in Glendale, and so I bought it and brought it into my office and just had it on the wall as a reminder of just how… |
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Toy Story 3: Pixar writer Michael Arndt tells the story behind the story
…you surprised how Little Miss Sunshine took off? MA: I was endlessly surprised — that I was able to sell it; that it got made; that it got picked up… |
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Tangled : An Interview with Disney Designer Laurent Ben-Mimoun
…in London. There, I had the opportunity to work on American Tail II. It was a great experience to be a young artist in an animation studio. I learned a… |
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Young Justice
…darker themes washed from their plots in order to be kid friendly and have humorous inclination. Another cartoon that strays away from the main DC Animated Universe is called Young… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…she is a wise lady. I never met the wonderful voice actor that put so much charm and laughs in all characters in Bambi, including Thumper. RI: How was the… |
