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Composer Toby Chu gives us an appetite for Pixar’s Bao
…have been working independently ever since. AV: How and when did you come to work on Bao? TC: Through Tom MacDougall, who is the executive vice president of music for… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…gave up their big screen ambitions. The pair had, of course, made their name in the short subject arena, winning an incredible seven Oscars for their Tom & Jerry series… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…Tom Schumacher, who is one of the smartest and most knowledgeable people working in theater right now. So, what we were able to do was have somebody at the very… |
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Ratatouille: The Adventure at Disneyland Paris: Pixar Creative Director Roger Gould talks about an “animated” attraction
…different. AV: How was the Ratatouille attraction created? RG: Six years ago, Tom Fitzgerald, the Imagineer who is the creative lead for all the Disneyland Paris resort, had this idea,… |
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The Beatrix Potter Collection
…help their younger bunny friends escape the clutches of Tommy Brock, a very hungry badger. The Tale Of Two Bad Mice And Johnny Town-Mouse ends the disc with Tom Thumb… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…these artists? SA: It was definitely a collaboration with the music department at Disney. Chris Montan, our music executive and Tom McDougall, our feature animation music executive, worked great in… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…Tom Rusch, of Silman-James Press, that I had been working on this animation book for quite some time, and would they be interested in publishing it? Tom got in touch… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…on Disc One, with a lone Audio Commentary track popping up for episode 37, Outlaw In-Laws. Directors Tom Sito, Tom Tataranowicz and storyboard artist Michael Swanigan join Mangels for a… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…played the Cratchit family. He and his little brother, Richard, also portrayed ghosts in the mini-movie. “We even put a little phony tombstone in our front yard, where Scrooge broke… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…is a much better mechanism for releasing General Zod and his two cohorts from their Phantom Zone prison than a repeat of the rocket from the end of the first… |
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Hero High: The Complete Series
…minor curiosities. Pinky And The Brain fans, however, may get a charge out of seeing a Brain prototype from creator Tom Ruegger, who wrote The Big Bang Theory, starring a… |
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Toy Story 3: Pixar writer Michael Arndt tells the story behind the story
…part) in their own voices. No one’s putting on a “funny voice” just because the character is animated. Tom Hanks, for example, voices Woody in his own natural Tom Hanks… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2
…resulting in The New Adventures Of Tom And Jerry. The CBS series featured two Tom And Jerry segments, along with a new Droopy cartoon. Producer Lou Scheimer had to voice… |
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Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume One
…mice by a cat named Mr. Jinks may resemble the premise of Hanna and Barbera’s Tom And Jerry cartoons, but Pixie And Dixie cartoons had a whole other dynamic thanks… |
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Back to business: new reviews and announcements!
…Rodney takes on Hanna-Barbera’s famed cat and mouse for Tom & Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2, a belated follow up to the original 2000 disc. Containing fourteen original animated shorts,… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…requested favorites Pirates Of Darkwater, Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space, Funky Phantom, the almost forgotten animated Addams Family and The Dukes shows and a trio of made for… |
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Popeye: A Sailor’s Story
…over by writers Tom Sims and Ralph Stein, while artwork was done by Charles H. “Doc” Winner, and later by Segar’s own assistants, Bela Zaboly and Forrest “Bud” Sagendorf. Sagendorf’s… |
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Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power
…but he continued to produce or direct a number of hugely entertaining films, including the fairytales tom thumb and The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm, which featured Puppetoon story… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys
…Boys serial. Tom Considine and Tommy Kirk appear as themselves on the Hardy Boys set and discuss the show. The show also has the standard Mickey Mouse Club features, such… |
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Winnie The Pooh’s Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall: Back to the Hundred Acre Wood
…Rabbit out in the movie. A lot of that came from our story artists, as they were writing the film. A lot of it came from casting, bringing in Tom… |
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The secrets of Walt’s Vault unlocked…!
…and it’s about time he put together this collection of stories he has gathered over the years.”–Disney Legend (2005) Tom Nabbe who was Disneyland’s original “Tom Sawyer” • “Jim’s story… |
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Presenting Felix the Cat: The Otto Mesmer Classics 1919-1924
…cartoon, even though we all know by now that Messmer did the story and animation all by himself. Feline Follies actually had as its star a cat named Master Tom,… |
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Heidi’s Song
…want to try and escape back into the country. The Sweatbox Review: Given their start in full-quality theatrical animated cartoons with MGM’s prestigious Tom & Jerry shorts, it always struck… |
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Toy Story‘s full specs and final artwork
…veteran Lee Unkrich’s feature directorial debut and the return of Pixar’s favorite composer Randy Newman, with the addition of Academy Award-winner Michael Arndt’s (Little Miss Sunshine) compelling original screenplay. Tom… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…the original airing of this show, though in recent times an attempt was made to bring him back to the television screen by Tom Kenny, who also voices the character… |
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Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!
…on screen in their own way and not crowd each other. Throw in Tom Cruise as a passionately loathsome studio boss, and Matthew McConaughey as Stiller’s agent, and Tropic Thunder… |
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The Polar Express arrives online!
…special effects filled film next November. Directed by the amazing Robert Zemeckis (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, Back To The Future), and starring Tom Hanks (the Toy Stories, Cast… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…outfit was Walt Disney Television Animation, before that unit branched out into the respectable crew that DisneyToon Studios would become, so the animation often falls pretty near the bottom of… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…weekly TV episodes. Across town, Disney’s biggest competitors didn’t fare as well. Perhaps the most fortunate were MGM’s team of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, creators of the long-running Tom… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…journey that was The Polar Express [with Tom Hanks, right], it seems exactly that what Zemeckis seems to be doing is creating features – I can’t quite call them animated… |
