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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…Tree. AV: One thing that I noticed while watching it is that it has that same quality that Al Hirschfeld said he saw in Aladdin: it all seemed to have… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…(both for Richard Williams), Aladdin, Hercules, Fantasia/2000 and Pocahontas (which he also co-directed) for Disney, and was director of animation on Looney Tunes: Back In Action at Warners. He has… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
…Little Mermaid on Broadway, Cinderella, Annie and The Music Man for ABC-TV and Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas and Hercules for Walt Disney Pictures. He’s also the composer of… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…and Aladdin. I did some visual development work on The Lion King, and then I actually left the studio at that point. AV: How did you come to direct A… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…of her experience is in opera and she’s had massive success with opera. But she did the Aladdin show at Disney’s California Adventure, which is a musical. She has several… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…on Disney’s contemporary classics including Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tarzan, and most recently the highly successful Goofy short How… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…until recently, a philosophy that the Studio upheld, breaking the rule but twice, for theatrical follow-ups to The Rescuers and Fantasia, but when Aladdin and The Lion King proved such… |
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Bolt: Mark Cotta Vaz on The Art of Bolt
…Aladdin: The Making of an Animated Film to Tracey Miller-Zarnecke’s The Art of Meet the Robinsons, most of the books aimed at promoting and explaining Disney’s animated features were mostly… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…Genie in Aladdin, both the design and voices combine perfectly to create a new living entity, and unsurprisingly much of the film’s marketing was centered around this breakout character(s). The… |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection
…at their disposal, pushing boundaries while still paying attention to details and story. Even greater heights would be reached with Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King, and… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…Dindal’s enthusiasm must have rubbed off on the co-creators of Cats Don’t Dance; the picture is fun, warm and witty. While perhaps not the knockabout hilarious comedy that was Aladdin,… |
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
…Brendan Fraser, himself no stranger to fantastical animated goings on after appearing in The Mummy films and the uproarious MonkeyBone), and then none other than Eric (Aladdin’s big blue Genie)… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…is essentially a trailer any longer! Other previews, also accessible from the Sneak Peek menu, include the Aladdin PE, The Incredibles teaser, Mickey’s Three Musketeers, the upcoming Mary Poppins SE,… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…is the fact that Eric Goldberg, the lead animator on Aladdin’s Genie, the Rhapsody In Blue segment from Fantasia/2000 and animation director on Joe Dante’s recent Looney Tunes feature, is… |
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Wizards
…to produce Disney’s Aladdin, Fantasia/2000 and Destino. Other names I recognised included Ian Miller (whose washed out, highly detailed backgrounds look odd against the simplistic character animation) and Art Vitello,… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…promoting Aladdin: Special Edition, The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, Mickey’s very-scary-looking Barbie-wannabe Twice Upon A Christmas, and, via the additional Peeks section, Mulan: Special Edition, Home On The Range,… |
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Shrek 2
…Disney films that took in the fairy-tale structured Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin, as well as the phenomenally successful Hamlet riff, The Lion King. Subject to a… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…most tightly woven in Disney films. On the visual side of things, Pocahontas marked the directorial debut of Eric Goldberg, animator of Aladdin’s Genie and later animation director on Joe… |
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Tarzan II
…the jungle by apes was a box office and critical smash hit, perhaps not on the scale of the earlier 1990s features Aladdin and The Lion King, but certainly the… |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…knockabout Warner Brothers shorts of the 1940s and 50s rather than a “grown up” Disney feature, even in the Aladdin or Hercules mould, and all the more better for it!… |
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The Reef
…wannabes that were interminable to sit through. Remember those Disney knock-offs that would appear in bargain basement bins just prior to such films as The Little Mermaid and Aladdin coming… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…They’re doing The Frog Princess as a film. John Musker and Ron Clements, who did The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, are working on that now. BG: Ahhh, interesting! AV: Yeah,… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…And The Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin) and calling them “prestigious” surely went out the window long ago. Certainly not an improvement on the Special Edition in terms of picture… |
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I Wanna Be Like You! The Jungle Book on DVD, plus SuperFriends!
…store exclusive gift set like the Lion King, Aladdin and Cinderella packages of before in my upcoming review, I must say that the supplements themselves look a lot healthier than… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…and it certainly set the pace and laid the groundwork to allow the later, almost spoof nature, of more recent Disney comedies such as Hercules, Aladdin and The Emperor’s New… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…such groundbreakers as Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. Through all these projects and developments, Pixar continued to sit out the filmmaking game as an independent, producing… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…end to them. What would have made it perfect? Adding a year’s worth of shorts to include all three of the color featurettes (Aladdin will have to wait for seconds,… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…taking turns manning it. This paid off nicely when one day John Musker (co-director of The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet, and the upcoming The… |
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Howard Ashman, and 304 Dalmatians!
…pitch, the influences of Ashman’s lyrics for Little Shop Of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin were buried deep within my soul, and I often found… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…Fu Panda is bundled with its Furious Five bonus disc packed together side-by-side, much like the Aladdin video sequels were, if anyone remembers those. A single length of shrink-wrap holds… |
