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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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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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Mickey Mouse: The Black And White Years
…seen on those originally broadcast films. Although the picture suffered from the odd scratch and pop, what did strike me was the quality of the color, and the depth of… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…are separated from the circus and find themselves lost in the big city. Through teamwork and courage they must help themselves and try to return to the circus. Okay, so… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver And Co, and The Little Mermaid (the rest, as they say, is history), while the live-action studios armed themselves with action and comic book movies… |
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The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)
…though they realize from the outset that those captors will chase them and want bring them back. During the pursuit, the dogs likewise only carry out their confused actions with… |
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Father Of The Pride: The Complete Series
…as Siegfried & Roy themselves, saving the show from the brink. Their crazy, random inserts are as aloof and mysterious as the real-life duo, and the obscurity of the language,… |
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The Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…the characters their way, but they also had to infuse them with movements that would work on the screen and allow them to animate under the time and budget constraints…. |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…the work of his theme park Imagineers, at the time they were creating a flurry of legendary attractions such as Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion and the permanent… |
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Cultoons! Volume 2: Animated Education
…Blind Mice and Jack And Jill, all running exactly 1:20 each. There’s not much to say about these, since they all follow the same format: a narrated version of the… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…and not long after the films’ original release. The tracks sound “authentic” in that their appealingly crackly sound matches the print-worn look of the visuals, and Pointer’s reconstructions have again… |
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Shrek The Third
…the crew have making these movies (even if the material doesn’t quite warrant the raucous laughter it elicits), and how much the artists throw themselves into selling each moment. The… |
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DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
…wanted more of the same, and The Superman/Aquaman Adventure Hour teamed two of their bigger titles (when there’s trouble under the sea, the Atlantian crime fighter Aquaman took action), also… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…sprouting up in the 1980s, the studio found much of their guaranteed work going elsewhere. They attempted a return to theatrical material with the actually fairly impressive Pinocchio And The… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…series order), and The Malevolent Mummy/The Bird-Men From Lost Valley (the first again featuring some nicely detailed backgrounds and demonstrating how serious the show could be, the second going for… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…Discounting the featurette Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree and the animated sequence from Mary Poppins, it was a full four and a half years between the release of… |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…very cleverly sets up the dynamics of all the characters, and their world, most importantly inviting the viewer to join them for the adventure ahead. Each line of the song,… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…into a hotel near the airport, and got settled in for the night. Everybody’s favorite domehead. And R2D2. [Sorry Rand! – Ben] The Show The Expo was held on the… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…in which Steff is transformed into stone and the Freak must travel the world to find the Vorn, the only creature that can turn her back. The Island Of Dr…. |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 4
…original 1.33:1 television aspect ration. The directors and animators of the show had a unique look that the used and they featured the use of close-ups and zoom in many… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…the animals at the premiere. The way that the song is carried out in the film is incredible and one of the biggest highlights of the film comes when Darla… |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume One
…world for the aliens. The Flash helps the Super Friends move the Earth back, and the team once again decides to help out the poor alien folk. The Androids –… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…it’s Wizards, The Lord Of The Rings and the director’s next film, Fire And Ice, for which Bakshi seems most remembered, their “far off land” settings certainly helping place them… |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…in the series are generally lacking subtitles and all use the same themed main menu, occasionally they surprise with an added trailer here and there. Such is the case with… |
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The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
…Watership Down, much of Richard Williams’ work, such as the MC Escher-like and flat perspective backgrounds of The Thief And The Cobbler, and some dream/premonition sequences that recall The Little… |
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He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special
…over the world. He quickly summons Hordak and Skeletor and tells them to capture the children and bring them back to him in exchange for a handsome reward. The two… |
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Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
…big Golden Age names, most prominently Batman, Wonder Woman and a number of their sidekicks and villains, and the debut on radio of The Adventures Of Superman and the Fleischer… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…to see them, and to judge for myself whether or not they deserved their reputations. With Disney’s DVD release of Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind in 2005, I… |
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Thor: Tales of Asgard
…still require their help. Thor and his band of loyal companions venture to Yodenheim, the land of the ice giants, in search of the Lost Sword of Surtur. The sword… |
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Tom And Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 2
…Jerry cartoons made by Hanna/Barbera/MGM both from 1950 on the DVD: Tom And Jerry In the Hollywood Bowl and Saturday Evening Puss. The first takes Tom and Jerry from their… |


