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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…full-screen image on your television”. Looks like Disney, while not wanting to alienate the full-screen brigade, is happy to start educating people on the merits of widescreen – a good… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…up present and correct, and apart from the missing material mentioned above, fans of the Rabbit will be very happy that Roger has finally gotten the treatment he deserves. When… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
…that is worried enough to go to court to protect the copyrighted likes of Mickey and the gang seems quite happy to ransack its own vaults to continue releasing direct-to-video… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…of a triumphant all-round happy blast of emotion had the music been absent, only to kick in big-time as Spirit’s hooves hit the ground on the other side – it’d… |
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Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection
…the recording. Unhappy with circus life, little bear Bongo escapes into the countryside where he learns to fend for himself when he comes up against the threatening Lumpjaw when they… |
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Michael Giacchino: not so short on ideas for Pixar Shorts!
…us about his happy participation in One Man Band (released along with Cars in 2006) and Lifted (released last year, along with Ratatouille). Animated Views: How did you come to… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…Shrek and Ice Age managed to do this and keep the more adult fans happy (in their cases with a second disc of collectors’ features). So, although this is an… |
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The Prince Of Egypt: Signature Selection
…and 40 nights, also warrant a mention? I guess they couldn’t quite get away from producing a Disney-styled happy ending after all, but this is pretty much the film’s only… |
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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
…which were of course finally whittled down to the magnificent seven: Dopey, Sneezy, Bashful, Happy, Sleepy, Grumpy and Doc. Other names that came and went included Scrappy, Hoppy, Weepy, Snoopy,… |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…traffic patterns and poetry. It’s spontaneous, parodic, sarcastic, sassy and in-your-face. This particular song has a pre-modern melody based on the happy, propulsive swing of the two-fisted stride piano; it’s… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Composer J.A.C. Redford!
…into writing for those chase sequences and so forth. It was really a challence from that standpoint. So, I was very happy to have that challenge. AV: Thank you for… |
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Mary Poppins’ Richard M. Sherman: A Practically Perfect Songwriter!
…that, many times, we were kind of like his musical gurus! Because we did feel the way he did. Take Spoonful of Sugar. Again, we’re not saying: “hey, be happy… |
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Bolt: Mark Cotta Vaz on The Art of Bolt
…Disney animation. When the leaders of Pixar took over animation at both Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures, it had all the makings of a happy marriage, as Pixar, which pioneered… |
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Frank Walsh: Setting The World of Narnia
…A question of balancing each against the other, both having to be satisfied to achieve the brief and keep the producers happy. In the end it was for me a… |
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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…hundred of different versions of that castle. All the artists who worked on the film did their various versions of it. I was kind of happy with my version. You… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
Enchanted had a script, a champion at Disney that pushed it through a green light, and legendary composers lining up to write for the project’s damsel in distress! But what… |
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Dalmatians 101: “Spot”-light on songwriter Mel Leven
…Walt of about 15 minutes and dad had not been happy with the two versions he was going to sing, he should have another version. In that 15 minutes (in… |
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Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!
…to be a real, fun, over-the-top orchestral score. I was happy to be able to shed all the electronics and get back to my roots! AV: Speaking of roots, what… |
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Scales and Arpeggios: Richard M. Sherman and the “mewsic” of The AristoCats!
…doing beautiful business there, I’m happy to say! AV: What are your projects, now? RMS: Right now, we have actually two shows that are in the thrills of being created…. |
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Christian Renaut’s book trilogy on Walt Disney animation comes full circle
…is no iconography, but rather a wealth of information that any Disney buff will be happy to learn. So, is your computer or your mobile, or your DVD/BluRay ready? As… |
