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Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts: 1920s-1960s
…set narrated by Sterling Holloway (Winnie The Pooh’s voice). We then settle in for a long run of Specials from the 1950s. Kicking off the decade is The Brave Engineer… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…their films. New scenery appears over the course of the stories, brought by the spirits of the forest, inviting the audience in to discover new worlds as though they themselves… |
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Into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Studio Cast Recording with Music Supervisor Michael Kosarin and Orchestrator Michael Starobin
…then hearing this, the depth of the score, just starting with Bells Of Notre Dame and going in to the Latin music, and something like Out There which is I… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…football cartoon follows, then the rather amorous old maid returns for the fun western spoof The Pony Express. Flip reverts to boyhood in The Music Lesson, then becomes a babysitter… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…the design of the beasts themselves? ML: We had Shiyoon Kim as Designer of the beasts. All the beasts coming out of one person’s imagination gives them a certain DNA… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 1
…Beast. In the background, there is an image of another off-model Magneto. I do not understand the reason behind the off-model characters, but some of the designs look nothing like… |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…unwavering love and support for the series was quite infectious, making it one of the year’s best. Speaking of Comic Con, a favorite moment of mine from the event was… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…of the pitfalls of the visual effect world is that the animator is not regarded as highly as one working for the feature animation studios. Disney of course was once… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…would eventually produce or direct such film classics as The Time Machine, The War Of The Words, Destination Moon, and The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm; but the first… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…had been behind the Sprang-evoking segment of the Legends Of The Dark Knight episode of Batman: TAS, it all fell into place. This would be a show that celebrated the… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…be one of the most popular and memorable cartoons to come out of the 80s. The Secret Of The Sword (the first five episodes of the series) begins with Adam,… |
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Comic-Con@Home 2021 Coverage
…The hosts of The 4:30 Movie podcast return to Comic-Con (virtually, at least) as they curate an all-new theme week of the greatest movies of 1981 in the tradition of… |
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Composer Michael Kramer on He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…processed it. But the other side of the tribe theme is the idea of family. The fun part of that theme was finding a way to marry the idea of… |
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Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow
…making of this film, and looking at the premise of this one-of-a-kind enterprise. Now we get into full production, with the team facing new challenges. “I wanted this production to… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…I reintroduce it. There are other examples throughout the film. And as far as my own themes for the score, there’s The Kingdom Of Rosas, which is the theme at… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…it one of the most beautiful of the Puppetoons, replete with crystalline imagery, a castle in the clouds, and other fairy tale wonder, set to the music of Tchaikovsky’s The… |
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For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!
…a “brave little tailor” scene with a Smurf for the study of the animation style. AV: Do the characteristics of the “School of Marcinelle” (Peyo’s style, part of one of… |
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Let’s jump into Hoppers with Daniel Chong and Nicole Grindle
…the predominant animated form. But, like Nicole said, the thing that people bring out when people think of Pixar is, they’re not thinking about technology. They’re thinking about the story,… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…was. The scores are on a scale of to 10, with being the worst of the worst, and 10 the best of the best. Those scores are saved for the… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…the Star Wars saga. At the beginning of the season, the Galactic Republic is in the middle of the war with the Separatists (the Confederation of Independent Systems) which is… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…have been able to tell this story, in depth and the way I wanted to tell it from the start: through the testimonies of the artists themselves and of the… |
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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…on their own. AV: The choice of the “pipa god” as one of the main characters shows the importance of music in the movie. PK: He was in the script… |
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“It’s been Dave Metzger all along” – the art of arranging WandaVision theme songs
…And then there’s “We Got Something Cooking”, the theme song for the third episode. DM: To me, it was always The Partridge Family, and also The Brady Bunch. It’s a… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…feature format, such as with The Proud Family Movie and, even making it to the theatrical big screen, Recess and the hysterical Teacher’s Pet. These movie editions are often how… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…the French Disney subsidiary in the tremendously bureaucratic Archives Of Paris, I was able for the first time to establish the date of the foundation of the Disney office in… |
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Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie
…CZ: The stories of the main characters, Gene (the emoji) and Alex (the human), run in parallel. They are influencing each other and at the same time they belong to… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…reminding us of the strange, the unique and the downright bizarre by way of occasional new TV shows and the ongoing success of the Odditorium museum attractions. The Disc: The… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…of the film. So, I worked with them as well, making sure that I really extracted all the ideas that they had in their head and then help visually translate… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…a happy balance with how they behave. AV: Speaking of performance, how did you manage the different designs of the characters? PB: I think it’s one of the very remarkable… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…doing in these kind of immersive lands is plunging the guests fully into the worlds of these films, and so, taking inspiration from these movies, to do what we all… |
