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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…
…not only brand new information in the text but also hundreds of never-seen-before visual documents. Eighty per cent of the more than 400 visual documents displayed in the book are… |
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The Jungle Book
When The Jungle Book opens, it presents a sort of hand-drawn animated version of the current Walt Disney Pictures logo. While it does look rather odd, it can also be… |
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Jungle Book DVD Clips
…Jungle Book: The Jungle Book: 40th Anniversary Platinum Edition Bonus Clip – “Inspired†Disney animators show how The Jungle Book directly inspired characters and animation techniques from recent Disney classics…. |
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My Life With Charlie Brown
My Life With Charlie Brown By Charles M. Schulz Edited and Introduction by M. Thomas Inge University Press Of Mississippi April 1, 2010 Hardcover, 144 pages $25.00 One tragedy of… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…that? WJ: It was amazing! There were several organizations like First Book and Reading Is Fundamental. First Book by themselves got five million books into the hands of kids and… |
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Enrico Casarosa’s The Venice Chronicles
…and the comic book artist. And they happen to be reunited in one beautiful creation: a book called The Venice Chronicles, telling of his first big journey back to Italy… |
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The secrets of Walt’s Vault unlocked…!
…All of these questions and many, many more are answered in the comprehensive research Jim did for this book. How is this book different from other Disney books? Each chapter… |
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George Of The Jungle: The Complete Original Series
…lout of a jungle hero, an all-American racecar driver, and a super-powered poultry person make up one of Saturday morning’s all-time great shows. The Sweatbox Review: I always think that… |
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The Art of Princess and the Frog: Down in New Orleans with author Jeff Kurtti
Whether you’re a Disney oriented book reader or a DVD/Blu-ray buff, you can’t have missed Jeff Kurtti. A renowned Disney historian, he’s the author of more than 20 books, notably… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…It’s often remarked that Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book were among the last films to carry Walt Disney’s thumbprints on them, but the truth is that Poppins was released… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…rough edged animation approach and the angular, block-colored backgrounds created for the film. The Xerox process also contributed heavily to the free-wheeling, loose feel of The Jungle Book (making the… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…the book that’s not in the notes? EG: There is quite a lot of new material in the book that has been especially created for it, including new subjects like… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…illustrator and author Charlie Mackesy began his career as a cartoonist for The Spectator, before becoming a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. His award-winning work has featured in books,… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…They feel there would be no sales. It’s not worth $25,000 per cartoon to restore each cartoon and release a set of 60 or 90 cartoons. That’s cost prohibitive. They’re… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…(voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid and author of the book’s foreword), Lea Salonga (the singing voice behind two Princesses, Jasmine and Mulan), and composer Alan Menken. The book… |
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The Astro Boy Essays
…Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), considered to be the “God of Manga”, has earned the title due to the massive output of comics he drew (estimated to be around 150,000 pages) in… |
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Tarzan II
…a Jungle Book 2 or Lady And The Tramp II, this latest cash-in only presents a limited number of limited supplements. Going the FastPlay route, which turns interactive DVDs back… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…you might think. We’ve worked all over town. We did write a draft of Jungle Book 2 a long time ago, but no big secrets. AV: What was the story… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…history, not to mention fun and highly entertaining! It’s often remarked that Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book were among the last films to carry Walt Disney’s thumbprints on them,… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…look and it became a Studio trademark – I think it is what actually gives Dalmatians and the later Winnie The Pooh and Jungle Book their relentless, infectious energy, though… |
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Russell Schroeder has retrieved Disney’s Lost Chords!
…different books your wrote before Disney’s Lost Chords? RS: I actually started writing for Disney books on a freelance basis before I joined the art department. I wrote and laid… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…these books (except Jimmy Johnson’s) will be released by Theme Park Press. There are a few more book projects on my list but it is still a little early to… |
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Rumble in the Jungle!
Those of you hunting around the site late last night might have caught me posting that The Jungle Book review, but here’s an official reminder: it’s up now! I’ve already… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…the snake from The Jungle Book, while the other voices (made up from a wide spectrum of creeds and colors) just work in a way that no other feature can… |
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The Art Of Pixar – The Complete Color Scripts And Select Art From 25 Years Of Animation: an Interview with author Amid Amidi
Amid Amidi is an author, historian, and consultant, with numerous books to his credit. He’s the author of a Chronicle Books coffeetable book celebrating the 25th anniversary of Pixar that… |
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The Animated Seuss
…adapted a late Seuss-written book, Daisy-Head Mayzie, in 1995. The special came out ahead of the book itself, a book that was not illustrated by Seuss. Nevertheless, the special was… |
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X-Men ’92 Vol. 0: Warzones!
…animated series was reborn in the from of a new comic book series titled X-Men ’92. Vol. 0: Warzones! collects the initial eight issue run of the series. For several… |
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Bolt: Mark Cotta Vaz on The Art of Bolt
…of” book? MCV: A “making of” book details all aspects of the making of a film, from pre-production and principal photography through post-production. An “art of” book features the conceptual… |
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The Jungle Book at the El Capitan
Gearing up for the 40th Anniversary Platinum Edition DVD of Disney’s The Jungle Book (release date: October 2), Animation World Network reports that the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Blvd…. |
