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Michael Giacchino: not so short on ideas for Pixar Shorts!
…We met once and then he had kept in touch with me and knew what I was doing and then years later, when he got the chance to direct the… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…Man Ray, the photographer, and Marcel Duchamp [right], the abstract artist. As you know, they were friends and they enjoyed playing chess. So, we kind of channeled them into this… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter One: Screenwriter Bill Kelly, the one that started it all!
…ended up. It was essentially the same set-up in Andalasia, the same main character story between Robert and Giselle. The journey and dynamics, the collision between fairytale romance and modern… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…from there. AV: How were the storylines and the book of the show developed? GS: Well, at the time, there was a different director and a different book writer. There… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…Pooh and Tigger Too. Following this, he worked on storyboards and title designs for The Rescuers and The Fox and the Hound, before directing the Oscar-nominated Mickey’s Christmas Carol in… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…until recently, a philosophy that the Studio upheld, breaking the rule but twice, for theatrical follow-ups to The Rescuers and Fantasia, but when Aladdin and The Lion King proved such… |
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Mary Poppins’ Richard M. Sherman: A Practically Perfect Songwriter!
…Sugar became Mary Poppins’ theme, The Life I Lead Mr. Banks’ theme and Sister Sufragettes Mrs Banks’ theme. It is the cooperation of the music director and ourselves and Walt… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…for a reason, they’re great because they’re fantastic, because these artists are really accomplished. They won Grammies and they have enormous appeal. And they’re good and they’re only gonna add… |
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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
…and beauty to the lyrics of Pocahontas and raw emotion to The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. This time he was also composing the music for the songs, but the task… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…the world’s parents, rendering the mom-and-dad free kids more than willing and able to pursue their wildest dreams! Trouble is, they all find out soon enough that there are some… |
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The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection
…the takeover attempt of the Disney Studios in 1984. The company fought back, securing the services and installing Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg to run the rejuvenated Studio. Katzenberg and… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…the new generation of artists found their solid ground, allowing them to flourish over the next decade with The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King…. |
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Mad Monster Party
…that Frankenstein intends to hand the keys only to his nerdy nephew Felix. The movie then follows the attempts by the monsters and their beautiful accomplice Francesca (voiced by the… |
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The Incredible Mr Limpet
…what they come up with and how they make it work, but for the time being, the original is more than adequate. Even in these uncertain times, The Incredible Mr… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…clip shows the only surviving live-action footage filmed specifically for the movie, featuring the Prince’s fight with the Maleficent Dragon, and some interaction between the Queen and one of the… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…Tricks Of Our Trade and The Plausible Impossible. Introductions by Disney fan and historian Leonard Maltin (instrumental in pushing the Treasures series forward) set up the discs and place the… |
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The Dad Behind The Myth: An Interview With Walt Disney’s Daughter Diane
…down for their [Walt and Lilly’s] anniversary party the night before the opening of DisneyLand. They had it on the big Mark Twain riverboat with all their friends, and it… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…Steven Spielberg “updating” the classic characters and reinventing them as the “next generation”. To be honest, against the earlier, wackier Looney Tunes and the later, even more wackier Animaniacs, Pinky… |
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The DisneyLand Anthology
…color in the mid-1980s, although it may have been the result of the colorization process. The prints used are fine, and comparable to the episodes found on the Behind The… |
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The Sword In The Stone: Gold Classic Collection
…time Walt’s preoccupation with DisneyLand (the park and the show), big live-action features such as Mary Poppins, and the EPCOT park project meant that he spent less and less time… |
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The Rescuers
…the pure excitement and suspense of the ride through the swamp with Evinrude, and Bianca’s own rescue from the water. There are some cost cuts that will stand out to… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…is recycled from Hatch Up Your Troubles (1949) in the remake cartoon The Egg And Jerry, and although the backgrounds now have the rough-edged 50s look and the character lines… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…of the live-action Studio tour film The Reluctant Dragon. Disney later aped the style themselves, in the theatrical Special Pigs Is Pigs. The animation style was simpler, but the characters… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One
…the print for the documentary, but they still come across as having all of their energy. The film covers everything, from the early cartoons, and their developing of the boys’… |
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Cool World
…cartoons of the time. Although Roger Rabbit sparked the toon boom, it was the critical and commercial success of Beauty And The Beast and The Lion King that really put… |
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The Lion King 1½
…on the entire Lion King Trilogy, and the graphics and audio reproduce the well-known Millionaire feeling well. Selections are chosen by the player on their remote, and on the whole… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…The AristoCats. The music is as infectious as any in the McCartney canon, and guaranteed you’ll be humming the Tropic Island Hum by the end of the end credits! Finally,… |
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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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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…well as next generation Disney creators Andreas Deja and Don Hahn as they explain how the film touched them and continues to inspire, and there is archive footage and stills… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…disc also includes the customary “before and after” examples of the restoration work gone into the films and the widescreen remastering, and the difference between the clips does show what… |
