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Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat
…morals. He died in February 1933 of alcoholism and pneumonia, at the age of 48. In the aftermath of Sullivan’s death, his lawyer Kopp had to detangle the question of… |
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The Best of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…the He-Man characters. The back of these cards provide a brief bio for the artists. Of course, the meat of the special features is contained in the two new documentaries… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald Volume Four
…Disney and the many innovations they were implementing at the time – including Stereophonic sound. They also discuss the character of the Ranger and the voice work of Bill Thompson…. |
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Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword
…and the rest of the Mystery, Inc. gang travel to Japan for their latest adventure. There, they explore the delicate relationship between modern Japanese culture and ancient Japan. The Sweatbox… |
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Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies
…we signed the contract. They brought me to the studio and up to the third floor, where his office was. That was where we had the ceremony of signing the… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…for the voice box of the toy, that kind of thing. They were considering them. But I can’t remember all the names of the people who were considered. AV: Not… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…about the archives is, the Animation Research Library – is they kept all the cleanup drawings. So all the scenes are there in their cleaned up stage but they didn’t… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…discovered that people were using the notes to teach their college animation courses, posting them on the net, and plagiarizing them wholesale while claiming them as their own. My wife… |
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Scales and Arpeggios: Richard M. Sherman and the “mewsic” of The AristoCats!
…of Mary Poppins, Winnie the Pooh, The Jungle Book, The Sword in the Stone, It’s A Small World and The AristoCats have in common? They – along with many, many… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…their old material and they would send us photocopies of animation material when they could. So, most of the time, we would have copies of them with their model sheets… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…of the dragon, the shape of the eyes and the shape of the eyelids and the eyeball itself were taken directly from her. It was the one element that Kevin… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…Towers and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, all Oscar winners for their innovative effects work. In fact, the Michigan native enrolled in the University of Arizona… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…on the evil side…so I’m assuming having Oogie was there to expand things, but to also take the edge off of Jack. HS: Oogie started out as the size of… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…How did the wider aspect ratio of the film influence the day to day workflow compared to the workflow of many of the standard ratio movies before then? BM: It… |
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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
…The Making Of The Classic Film. Although the DVD loses these physical extras, the DVD retains much of the content, including the fully animated sequence of the Dwarfs slurping their… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…as The Magic Sword, Quest For Camelot failed to set the box-office alight on either side of the Atlantic. One of my bugbears in the way the film was promoted… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…own door – a door that resides in the absolutely huge warehouse storage of Monsters Inc… The Sweatbox Review: The third in the trio of this year’s nominations for the… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…situations along the way, until they meet again the Cavalry colonel, who has been pursuing them… The Sweatbox Review: DreamWorks’ Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron was a strange experience for… |
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The Rescuers
…in the mouse world (the Mickey Mouse watch used as a clock on the wall of the Rescue Aid Society, which resides in the basement of the United Nations, for… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…time to just over an hour! Very reminiscent of the later “Specials” that the Studio would produce (many of these, such as Mickey And The Beanstalk, Bongo, The Wind In… |
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The Lion King 1½
…video and DVD (the previous release, The Return Of Jafar was composed of the first five episodes of the Aladdin spin-off TV show, though Simba’s Pride was designed as a… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…accompany Kenai and Koda on their quest, and I shuddered at the thought of the old comedy shtick playing throughout the rest of the movie. However, they come and go,… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…musical theme, the rating of the film based on Baker’s appearance, how the use of the Triplets’ choice of instruments came about, and the film’s sound design. Combined, these clips… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…in the number of jokey – and some unexpected – references to the Mouse’s past. The script is great, mixing good, bright Disney storytelling with the offbeat sensibilities of the… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…the top of the disc. Based on one of PL Travers’ Poppins stories from the book Mary Poppins Opens The Door, the short tells of a washed-up King (voiced by… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…creation of the music and there again is a generous amount of behind-the-scenes footage (including the duo working on the deleted song In The Middle Of The River) and singer… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…version of the story, the work of the layout boys, pencil test footage, original recordings sessions and footage of the legendary Frank Thomas and Milt Kahl in action, animating their… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…the past. The in-vogue genre of live-action filmmaking at the time was the fantasy epic, with blockbusters such as Conan, Krull, Clash Of The Titans, Legend and the like competing… |
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Classic Filmation Giveaway – Winner Announced!
…also includes the theatrical feature film BraveStarr: The Legend! Read the Animated View here! EXTRA! The Best Of BraveStarr made our Best Of 2007 picks! THE SMALL PRINT: Winning names… |
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Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: Special Edition
…in the linking material – the creation of a “second” Cinderella storybook filled with the mice’s recollections of when Cinders helped them out in the past. Cue the three flashback… |
