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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…in a huff. He got into politics . . . AN: Was that back in the late seventies? AD: Milt left in ’76. When he finished Medusa on Rescuers it… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!
…her? She was very much reminiscent of The Rescuers‘ Penny, wasn’t she? DP: Jenny was not at all difficult to animate. And, yes, she was rather “Pennyesque” in appearance now… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…the audience the emotion that you’re trying to communicate.” One of the first scenes I animated was Penny in The Rescuers. I had so many drawings and poses. Ollie took… |
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Director George Scribner: Happy as a King with Prince and the Pauper!
…Pluto and Minnie – could do. Once Rescuers Down Under was greenlit and moved forward, my understanding was that Jeffrey Katzenberg wanted to release it with something else, just to… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…Oliver & Company, taken in at the same theater that I’d seen each feature since The Rescuers onwards. While some of the other films remain slightly foggy memories, Oliver &… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…The Pooh and The Rescuers, which became the highest grossing animated film at that time. Poor Robin doesn’t usually get the respect he deserves, but this new edition should hopefully… |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
…1945, Bruce Broughton has distinguished himself in animation music scoring (The Rescuers Down Under, Tiny Toons Adventures, with a clear and knowing nod to Carl Stalling’s style), live-action (Silverado, evoking… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…he left kind of in a huff. He got into politics… AV: Was that back in the late seventies? AD: Milt left in ’76. When he finished Medusa on Rescuers,… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…would also add that when she was working under him animating on The Rescuers, he designed Madame Medusa almost entirely on his second wife. I managed to be the last… |
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Animation legend Dale Baer passes away at 70
…and Miss Bianca in The Rescuers, Adult Simba in The Lion King, and Doctor Doppler in Treasure Planet. He would also provide animation on several Peanuts television specials such as… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…Disney animators worked on scenes sent from Disney’s main animation studio in Burbank, starting with The Rescuers Down Under (1990). Roy Disney officiates the opening of Walt Disney Feature Animation… |
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Home On The Range
…promos and Blu-ray previews for the Cinderella Diamond Edition, Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure, Tinker Bell’s Secret Of The Wings, the Pocahontas and The Rescuers 2-Movie Collections, The… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…Blu-ray previews for the Cinderella Diamond Edition, Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure, Tinker Bell’s Secret Of The Wings, the Pocahontas and The Rescuers 2-Movie Collections, The Tigger Movie,… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…to The Lion King. Could it be that, although they had previously released a theatrical follow-up (and counted in the main canon of “classics”), The Rescuers Down Under, that Studio… |
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Frozen II
…60 years there was only one: The Rescuers Down Under in 1990. (An odd choice that’d I’d love to learn the reasoning behind!) Even with sequels becoming de rigueur for… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…animated movies since The Rescuers Down Under (of course, that depends on whether or not you count Fantasia 2000 and 2011’s barely talked about Winnie The Pooh as “sequels,” which… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez celebrates the art of Disney’s mid-century era
…Rescuers, The Black Cauldron, etc.) and especially the careers of Ken Anderson and Mel Shaw, my two favorite Disney artists. And I am starting to write Volume 6 (the 1990s… |
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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…promote Cinderella’s Diamond Edition, Finding Nemo’s 3D return to theaters, Tinker Bell’s Secret Of The Wings, Disneynature’s Chimpanzee, The AristoCats, The Rescuers 2-Movie Collection and Planes. Case Study: Making The… |
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Wart, Robin, Oliver and more Pan come to Disney Blu-ray
…Cox (Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest, The Rescuers Down Under) Release Date: August 6, 2013 (Direct Pre-book: 6/11; Distributor Pre-book: 6/25) Packaging: 2-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (BD + DVD) Ratings:… |
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Pete’s Dragon
…be able to fly, here Elliot soars with Pete above the trees, in an otherwise conventional moment that reminded me of Cody’s flight with the golden eagle in The Rescuers… |
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Disney announces Wreck-It Ralph sequel coming March 9, 2018; Gigantic delayed to November 21, 2018
…films from WDAS, along with The Rescuers Down Under, Fantasia 2000, and Winnie the Pooh. Based on an image released with the announcement, it looks like this sequel might be… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…it all.” In fact, for years, the studio abstained from making feature-length sequels to any of its animated classics, with the exception of The Rescuers Down Under in 1990. But… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…opening it looks like we’re in for a very decent, secondary-level Studio clean-up that suited The Rescuers perfectly. HOWEVER, be aware that someone seems to have hit the DVNR button… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…twenty years and beyond. Mermaid’s triumph was followed in 1990 by the slight blip of The Rescuers Down Under, a sequel to the Studio’s previous biggest grosser and a vastly… |
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Frozen: The Poster Collection
…Cinderella – comes along and nothing less than a full blown theatrical sequel – only the Studio’s third officially (counting The Rescuers Down Under and Fantasia 2000, though of course… |
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Disney Director of Development Maggie Malone on The Art of Wreck-It Ralph
…Director of the movie? MM: Mike Gabriel is a director in his own right, having co-directed The Rescuers Down Under and Pocahontas, along with an amazing short film of his… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…all once intended to have the kind of nice, clean but filmic representations that the likes of The Rescuers and The Fox And The Hound had, before that nasty DVNR… |
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Jobs, Clark, Keane among new Disney Legends
…animator in 1974, he has animated classic Disney characters such as Penny in The Rescuers, Elliott in Pete’s Dragon, Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective, the Beast in Beauty and… |
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Independents going \\Thru the Moebius Strip\\
…search for him through a myriad number of planets, filled with wondrous sights and often gigantic beings”. Screenwriter James Cox previously worked on \\Oliver & Company\\, \\ The Rescuers Down… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…exciting is a booklet promoting upcoming HD titles, including a couple of personal favorites due to come to disc in a The Rescuers: 2-Movie Collection. A separately sold edition, which… |
