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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities

…had objected to – oh, only small things, like sound and story! Of course, Terry had the last laugh in a way, as his new company became successful throughout many…

The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition

…$19.99 Storyboard: Young pig-keeper Taran finds his small charge Hen Wen is more than he seems, when the little pig reveals the secret of the past and the future with…

A Christmas Carol

…if asked to act out a small moment will embellish it with wild subtleties that may mark him out as hammy (or “overactor” as he was hilariously called in one…

Firebreather

Made-for-TV movies are usually the trademark of the Hallmark and Lifetime channels. Usually these small screen films are about stories that made minor headlines, create heartwarming sentiment, or are semi-popular…

Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty

…to be around Boys that could come up with the witty lyric or hummable tune that stuck in your head for days on end (It’s A Small World, anyone!?). Though…

The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!

…new angle on some much-loved source material. The Blu-ray Combo release included the prerequisite DVD and a small but perfectly formed selection of extras; it would have been great if…

Yogi’s Great Escape

…1958. Having proven extremely popular there, he was spun off into his own program in 1961. By then, he had acquired a small supporting cast, including his little buddy Boo…

The Space Kidettes/Young Samson: The Complete Series

…number of oddities and surprises. One of the more obscure programs would be Space Kidettes, a show chronicling the adventures of four small children in outer space. The following year…

D23 Expo 2011: Day 2 – Frankenweenie flies Planes with Muppets

…cast of the fastest air racers around, in a comedy packed with action and adventure starring Dusty, a small town dreamer who longs to enter the most epic around-the-world air…

Real Steel

…or, well, at least a couple of beer bottles – and owes people money), whose self-assembled robot makes him small time money in the country’s latest sporting craze, a concept…

Disney songwriting legend Robert Sherman passes away

…and his poetry will live on forever. Forever his songs and his genius will bring hope, joy and love to this small, small world.” The Sherman Brothers, as they came…

Heidi’s Song

…on to phenomenal success in the television business. Walt Disney naturally seemed to own the full-length animated feature market theatrically, but despite a heavy presence on the small screen, one…

The Halloween Tree

…involving themes and questions asked on the page struggled to make it to a convincing screen adaptation. On the small screen there have been many more translations, although the lower…

Bugs Bunny Superstar

…hive of television production, creating adequate but none too special cartoons for the small screen. The most prolific unit to close was perhaps Warner Bros. Cartoons, once the small corner…

Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection

…audiences pleased with Christmas offerings since the dawn of the VHS era, with several compilation programs produced specifically for the small screen, and DVD continued that tradition with reissues of…

Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition

…being that traditional animation has, very quietly, returned to the back-burner at the Studio, perhaps playing no small part in legendary animator Glen Keane’s recent departure. More successful, ironically with…

Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition

…all, I think its fairly small and intimate story, albeit told on an epic scale, is what grabbed me. It has, in short, a lot of heart, but it otherwise…

Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition

…Frogger and others, including particular reference to the near immortal Street Fighter. However, these are just that: small, sometimes blink and you’ll miss ’em cameos, and not the co-stars Ralph’s…

Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition

…city and added touches such as actual product labels for Coca-Cola, USA Today, Kodak and other trademarks play no small part in creating an atmosphere that we can relate to…

Exclusive! Legends Of Oz producer talks franchise’s future after box office disappoints

…We’re in a big industry right now, and we’re a very small guy. A very small independent. The project is not owned by a studio. It’s owned by individuals. Hundreds…

Great songs never die: how animation students are bringing a fresh touch to Aria For A Cow

small town, and a lot of Hollywood people, actors and actresses would move to this town to kind of get away from the city and have a nice and quiet…

Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction

…rat, to be small. Because it’s always fun to be small. And we spent about a year exploring, building the entire thing as a purely physical experience, meaning gigantic sets…

Toy Story Of Terror!

…of a new owner, a young girl named Bonnie, the Toy Story Toons have rather neatly progressed the story in small increments, unlike the Cars shorts or what we have…

The Jungle Book

…even taking on The Avengers, Favreau surprised everyone by opting for a small, extremely intimate film, Chef, in which he portrayed a high-flying restaurant head that takes a hit and…

For Smurfs: The Lost Village‘s art department, it’s great to feel blue!

…made from the same model. Smurfette has her own model. Her head shape is rounder than that of the boys. She has a smaller nose, smaller hands and feet. Peyo…

Tangled: Before Ever After

…compared to the likes of The Fox And The Hound and The Black Cauldron. Previously to the Studio’s jump into afternoon programming, animation for the small screen had been handled…

A tribute to X. Atencio

…I remember one time I was down at the beach. There were some kids on a little dingy and they sang the song. That was so nice! AV: Small World…

Production Designer Carlos Zaragoza puts a smile on The Emoji Movie

…is an old gothic revival style building, made from bricks and stone; grass and trees are everywhere. It is richer in texture and small details, it looks more organic, imperfect,…

The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still

…and while the shift to smaller screens was a death blow for movie theatres, it was a boon for home audiences, with Artemis Fowl [above] leading the way as the…

Let’s jump into Hoppers with Daniel Chong and Nicole Grindle

small group of people. We would calibrate. We were, like, “Okay, I can see you’re pushing a little too far here, pull back. And here, it’s a little too controlled,…