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Sister Act‘s music supervisor Michael Kosarin takes us to Heaven!
…will very often write the intro that you hear going into the song out of the dialogue, and then the interstitial music in the middle of a dialogue, and then… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2
…following the popularity of the unrelated 1984 Bill Murray movie of the same name. This time, the show had the sons of the original ghostbusters teamed with the same gorilla,… |
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Cinderella: Platinum Edition
…just as it should be— the pacing, the design, the songs, and the story itself come off as prototypical for this type of filmmaking. The Disney artists were at the… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…of the musical numbers. The DVD does do one major thing right. The DVD preserves the movie’s original runtime of 86 minutes, in contrast to the 79-minute cut shown previously… |
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Dinosaurs: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…at all; instead, the style of the writing is one of directness, befitting the primal nature of the show. The writers never shied away from making their points with a… |
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Superman – Doomsday
…topper. The Superman titles began publication again with Reign Of The Supermen, for my money the most exciting part of the whole epic. Each of the four Superman books told… |
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The Archie Show: The Complete Series
…the look of the characters has been updated, and the props seen in the strip have been changed to reflect the times. But at its core, the line of comics… |
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TaleSpin: Volume 2
…in the air and on the ground. The Sweatbox Review: Of all the Disney Afternoon shows that premiered in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there are two that stand… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Documentary)
…for “children”) was one of the greatest merchandizing endeavors in the history of comic strips. The 1930s Golden Age of newspaper comics had seen phenomenal popularity of strips like Dick… |
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Tinker Bell
…To Pixie Hollow (6:10), Tinker Bell narrates a series of explanations about how the society of Pixie Hollow works, the features of the locales there, and the roles of each… |
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The Best of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…the He-Man characters. The back of these cards provide a brief bio for the artists. Of course, the meat of the special features is contained in the two new documentaries… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Animated Series
…of the game, but little of the game was actually used in the show. One of the major differences between the game and the show was the role-playing aspect. While… |
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Raketu CEO Greg Parker on John K. collaboration
…of John K., these humorous and imaginative encounters explain the benefits of Raketu. The exciting marketing move is the brainchild of Greg Parker, CEO and Founder of Raketu Communications, Inc…. |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…of animating. Then, it was another half-year of posting, which means editing and sound. Then, another year of all the mumbo jumbo of trying to sell the film and then… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…of renting them because they can squeeze one more showing of the feature in per day. That’s why they all died in the first place. First the block booking was… |
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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…record funny dialogue lines for both of the characters. So I gave the tracks out to everyone and part of the finishing was that once the students finished the test… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…discovered that people were using the notes to teach their college animation courses, posting them on the net, and plagiarizing them wholesale while claiming them as their own. My wife… |
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Dalmatians 101: Marc’s wife Alice Davis talks about her Legendary husband
…also the first time that they were printing the artists’ work right on the cells through Xerox. And the animators were pleased with it because for the first time they… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…a great deal on the emotional center of the film. I also concentrated on the relationships between Ariel and her sisters, the creation of Benjamin and his relationship with Marina… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Composer J.A.C. Redford!
…how and where to use the themes. JACR: The choice of where to use the themes in the score was mine. That one of the things I look for in… |
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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
…epic re-telling of the story of Moses. When Steven Spielberg asked Jeffrey Katzenberg what made a great animated motion picture, the ex-Disney exec mentioned the grand themes of a powerful… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…as The Magic Sword, Quest For Camelot failed to set the box-office alight on either side of the Atlantic. One of my bugbears in the way the film was promoted… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…own door – a door that resides in the absolutely huge warehouse storage of Monsters Inc… The Sweatbox Review: The third in the trio of this year’s nominations for the… |
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Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, A Life In Animation
…the Jones-directed The Grinch. Much of the animation is completed, although some music and dialog is missing. The clip condenses the first half of the story down adequately for the… |
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Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
…the backgrounds are extremely lavish, and there are moments of great animation. An experiment to meld the best of the western artists with Japanese animators, Little Nemo has an odd… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…is the inclusion of the three full-length Maroon Cartoons (accessible from the Acme menu) that were produced as “mini-sequels” after the huge success of the feature in theaters (and to… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…time to just over an hour! Very reminiscent of the later “Specials” that the Studio would produce (many of these, such as Mickey And The Beanstalk, Bongo, The Wind In… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…rich and deep full animation and employing all the tricks of the trade at their disposal. At the other end of the spectrum is the TV division, which produce the… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…standards (witness the attempt to imitate their classic Baloo The Bear in The Jungle Book with the faded impression of the same character in the recent sequel). The “Doctor Frankenollie”… |
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The Lion King 1½
…video and DVD (the previous release, The Return Of Jafar was composed of the first five episodes of the Aladdin spin-off TV show, though Simba’s Pride was designed as a… |
