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Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat
…number of projects for the studio, including some Chaplins, and a two-reeler that accompanied Universal’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The Messmer-Sullivan teaming would break up for a bit, though,… |
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Director Torill Kove on The Danish Poet
…challenge in working on the short? TK: I think probably the biggest challenge was at the very end, in the editing, because I hadn’t planned the film well enough with… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spot”-light on songwriter Mel Leven
…the Air Force, and then they traveled around the country. Even though they did that he was always writing. One day my Mom said: “why don’t we quit this job,… |
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The Sword In The Stone: Gold Classic Collection
…fun too! In the Bonus Features section you’ll find The Sword In The Stone Scrapbook, a collection of concept, production and still art from the making of the movie. The… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…and wants to help the Unicorn. Their journey takes them to King Haggard’s cursed castle – where they have heard that the monstrous Red Bull keeps guard over all the… |
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300: 2-disc Widescreen Edition
…more than anything to delve into the making of 300. Running almost 40 minutes combined, I presume these three-to-four minute clips were originally made to promote the shoot on the… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…“lightning sketches”, with Walt’s own hand drawing the action. Most of the humor deals with corruption in the law and ladies fashions, and the film is the source for the… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…rough edged animation approach and the angular, block-colored backgrounds created for the film. The Xerox process also contributed heavily to the free-wheeling, loose feel of The Jungle Book (making the… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…stage and was walking out behind the black curtain that shielded the likes of them from the likes of us. The Comic-Con people were professional in their people-barrier approach to… |
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Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition
…there? It’s the extra “Of The” that kills it dead, and as we shall see, there’s not much of a “kingdom” in play in the film anyway, the word evoking… |
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The Transformers: Season Two, Volume One (25th Anniversary Edition)
…Storyboard: The second season of The Transformers continues the success of the show’s inaugural season with new episodes featuring the continuing battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons. The season’s… |
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Merry Madagascar
…characters after the dreadful Shrek The Third. So why not do it again? That’s the basic premise behind Merry Madagascar, the latest addition to the franchise that has already seen… |
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Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power
…book on working with Pal, and The Power was a project that received an interesting treatment, with the director not totally happy with the end result or the way the… |
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Warner Archive: The Green Slime
…the film is going (even after the hilarious “asteroid”, which basically resembles a meatball…ahh the Italian connection again!) is when the opening song (yes, there’s a theme song!) starts to… |
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Firebreather
…intelligent monsters that seek that total destruction of humankind. Sixteen years prior to the film’s opening, the Kaiju attacked led by their 120 foot tall king, Belloc who stopped the… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…mediator between the two and making a firm choice in backing Blu-ray all the way. Disney was another big proponent of the BD format from the beginning, releasing their prestigious… |
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Tales From Earthsea
…is suggested that the kingdom’s numerous problems and the bad omens being seen are signs of nature being out of balance. And then, the king’s son, who we had been… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…Studio and the remainder of the series being completed without them. Better to marvel at the nine Fleischer Studios cartoons themselves: Superman/The Mad Scientist, The Mechanical Monsters, Billion Dollar Limited,… |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
…but also lots of crude, badly drawn cartoons. The sound era brought the magic of Disney, and the brilliance of the Fleischers. And somewhere in there … there was Paul… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…they were published over time, meaning that no one ages, the characters themselves and the situations they find themselves in are as fantastical as they come! So it’s a brave… |
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2012 Annie Award nominations announced
The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations today for its 40th Annual Annie Awards recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation. The nominees for Best Animated Features… |
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Cook to voice Planes’ Dusty
…Hall (King of the Hill, The Simpsons), the film is about a plane who dreams of competing as an air racer despite his unfortunate fear of heights. “Dane Cook brings… |
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Howl’s Moving Castle
…the upcoming Blu-ray release of The Little Mermaid, the theatrical release of Monsters University, and the direct-to-video Iron Man/Hulk: Heroes United. Further Sneak Peeks from the menu offer ads for… |
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Annie Award nominees for 2013 films revealed
ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominations for the 41st Annual Annie Awards, which recognize the year’s best in animation. Frozen and Monsters University lead the field with 10 nominations each. The… |
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The Puppetoon Movie
…And The Magic Lamp, The Magic Atlas, Jasper And The Haunted House, The Philips Broadcast Of 1938, and The Ship Of The Ether. There are several little masterpieces in there,… |
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Arthur Rankin Jr. of Rankin/Bass Productions passes away
…its “sequel” The Return of the King in 1980. But one of their most popular hits came in the 80s, when Thundercats debuted in 1985. It lasted more than 100… |
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Strange Magic
…their lap. Based on the fact that it was given the January spot on their calendar, only announced three months before it was released, and was put out under the… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!
…stage musical. The Prince of Egypt would gross a worldwide tally of $219 million against a budget of $70 million, making it the most successful non-Disney animated feature at the… |
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Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music
…the 1930s, the Silly Symphonies laid forgotten for years. Some of them had a second showing in the ’60s on an occasional episode of Walt’s TV show, The Wonderful World… |
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Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
…films based within their popular worlds. Kingsglaive marks the third attempt at creating a feature-length film and is set within the world of the upcoming Final Fantasy XV. The kingdom… |
