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O Mickey, What Art Thou? Cultural Icon, Perennial Entertainer, or Both?
Animation Blast recently posted a link to a New York Times article online in which the future of Mickey Mouse is discussed. While Mickey is certainly an enduring cultural and… |
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The secrets of Walt’s Vault unlocked…!
…actor named Joe Twerp performed the voice of Mickey Mouse for the episodes of the Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air radio series because Walt was too busy completing Snow… |
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46th Annual Annie Awards nominations announced
…Music in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production • Back to the Moon Google Spotlight Stories, Google Doodles, Nexus Studios Nominees: Mathieu Alvado • Disney Mickey Mouse Disney Television Animation… |
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Annie’s award best of 2013 animation
…three awards, for Animated Effects, Character Design, and Character Animation. On the TV side, Disney’s Mickey Mouse won three awards for Character Design, Music, and Editorial. The full list of… |
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Mickey In Living Color Volume 2 details
…a look at what to expect from Mickey Mouse In Living Color Volume 2, one of this year’s 2-disc packages in the lavish Walt Disney Treasures DVD line, due May… |
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Farfur Mouse Club
Reuters/Yahoo! News writes that despite a Palestinian government request to shelve the program, Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV still scheduled Tomorrow’s Pioneers to air today. The show features a Mickey Mouse lookalike… |
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Mighty Mouse movie back in development
According to the LA Times, a Mighty Mouse movie is once again in the works at Paramount, though the studio is still looking for a writer and director for the… |
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Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson
…career in animation is highlighted by helming the Academy Award-nominated 1983 animated featurette Mickey’s Christmas Carol, which returned Mickey Mouse to the big screen for the first time in 30… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies
…his very first Mickey Mouse cartoons, perfected that use in the Silly Symphonies cartoons, and later translated that same music to feature films beginning with Snow White and the Seven… |
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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
…pleasure to work with great artists on both side: Despereaux productions and Framestore productions. AV: From Mickey Mouse to Fievel, cinema is full of plenty of mice – without forgetting… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: Volume Six
…Direct-to-Video films of the cat and mouse duo since The Magic Ring was released in 2001. After that, two more films were released before production began on a new series… |
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The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!
…talks to George Scribner, this time about his Mickey Mouse featurette The Prince And The Pauper, just out on its own for the first time on DVD. I remember vividly… |
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Press Release For Delayed Treasures DVDs
…“Victory Through Air Power,” collected together for the first time. “Mickey Mouse In Living Color (Volume Two)” features rare and never-before-seen Mickey Mouse animation. It is a continuation of the… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…wrote a book and directed a feature-length documentary on her grandfather, The Hand Behind The Mouse, which finally gave Iwerks the public credit he deserved. Soon afterwards, Frank Thomas’ son… |
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New interview, Robinsons promising for Disney, more Treasures, Popeye is coming
…welcome. Given how he actually predates Mickey Mouse, this may be one of the most important Treasures releases yet, at least in terms of animation history. And the Disneyland set?… |
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Bedtime Stories
…certainly not Mickey Mouse’s cup of tea (not that he let us forget that in interviews during the film’s shoot). But again, being trapped in a PG-rated family comedy has… |
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DuckTales: Volume 2
…from the House Of Mouse. As discussed in our review of the first volume of DuckTales, the show was a homage to the wonderful comic book work of “Unca Carl”,… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…which I was very eager to look at. Imagine my disappointment, then, when the stated “DVD-Rom Features” folder wasn’t anywhere to be found on the DVD! Case Study: Though this… |
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Dumbo DVD
A trailer included on the upcoming Funny Factory DVDs starring Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse indicates that a special edition DVD of Dumbo is coming sometime in 2006 but does… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…Helene Stanley appeared on the Mickey Mouse Club TV series, on “Guest Start Day”. This full sequence is shown in the next video clip, with Helene interacting with the Mouseketeers… |
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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…both the motion picture and this DVD incarnation. Directors John Musker and Ron Clements had been trying to get their epic retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island-in-space mounted at… |
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New Lion King 1½ DVD Review, and "Sneak Peek" Captures
…positive Lion King 1½ DVD review, and captures from the disc’s previews of The Lion King II:Simba’s Pride, Aladdin, and The Three Musketeers, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy…. |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck and Pluto, alongside the pick of other series from their vaults. Warners were not that quick to jump on the same bandwagon, but when they… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…the Mouse was releasing afternoon TV cartoons of their prize-winning movies: Aladdin, Adventures of the Little Mermaid, Hercules, and Timon and Pumbaa. Beauty and the Beast was missing from this… |
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Happy Feet Two
…these discs have! A Blu-ray and DVD combo pack (a movie-only DVD, movie-only Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D combo edition with everything in are also available), the menus here look like… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…and a Harmon-Ising Mickey Mouse-clone cartoon from 1931 respectively, and there’s the animated title sequence from Schlesinger’s live-action picture Haunted Gold, but the best is saved for last. In his… |
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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
…Does Moses” as the Mouse House’s new main rival DreamWorks takes on the biblical story of Exodus, with Moses facing up to his adopted brother Rameses to flight for the… |
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The Essential Bugs Bunny
…lists of shorts that collectors already had vastly outweighed the fresh to DVD offerings and, worse still, the cartoons were cropped to create a widescreen framing. Now, it’s true that… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…want it in Betacam and DVD. Plus, they want you to do the DVD menus and the poster. Then, we did the promotional art and all the advertising stuff. So,… |
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Tom & Jerry Tales: Volume 2
…1 DVD and offers 12 animated shorts including Fire Breathing Tomcat, Medieval Menace, The Itch, Digital Dilemma, Hi Robot, Tomcat Jetpack, Piranha Be Loved (By You), Spook House Mouse, Abracadumb,… |
