…is the fact that Eric Goldberg, the lead animator on Aladdin’s Genie, the Rhapsody In Blue segment from Fantasia/2000 and animation director on Joe Dante’s recent Looney Tunes feature, is…

…written by Joe Lubin for the 1950s Clark Gable/Doris Day comedy of the same name, and this funked up version does the business, though I kept thinking of Parker Posey’s…

…interviews, we hear from such noted animation historians and filmmakers as John Culhane, Charles Solomon, Don Hahn, John Lasseter, Andreas Deja, Joe Grant, and Mel Shaw, among others, on what…

…Lion as its cue, Luca looks like a dead ringer for one of Ray Harryhausen’s creatures, and is Crazy Joe a nod to The Incredible Mr Limpet’s Crusty the Crab?)….

…most tightly woven in Disney films. On the visual side of things, Pocahontas marked the directorial debut of Eric Goldberg, animator of Aladdin’s Genie and later animation director on Joe…

…shades have a vibrancy about them that almost glows. As a final touching thought, the movie is dedicated towards the end of the credits to legendary animation storyman Joe Grant,…

…For The First Time!, which plays with added tongue in cheek thanks to guest stars Severn Darden and Joe E Ross. Darden, a veteran of the Second City cast, popped…

…Joe Dante’s Small Soldiers. That the story is awfully basic, capricious stuff doesn’t really help either, being some mumbo-jumbo about the Autobots and the Decepticons – two opposing tribes of…

…and who started with Bill and Joe on Ruff And Reddy and often provided voices for many primary characters, including being in the unique position to have voiced Dr Quest…

…(with Joe Shuster) Joel Siegel and DC Comics/TimeWarner, leading to an odd length of around 14 minutes per episode. However, the lack of Superboy, who may yet turn up in…

…1954 when MGM shut shop. His stable mates Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera moved immediately into limited animation for television, but Avery wasn’t so lucky, only stopping with Lantz for…

…to create a true legend, the mighty title character in 1933’s King Kong, before practically re-making that picture in the guise of Mighty Joe Young in 1950, on which a…

…and Robin Williams are Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg (who considers One Froggy Evening the “Citizen Kane of animated shorts”), John Lasseter and Simpsons creator Matt Groening. The documentary…

…proceedings: a total 180 degree turn into uncharted waters comes halfway through with the introduction of some comedy penguins, in particular a Joe Pesci-type wiseguy, that doesn’t exactly unbalance the…

…which is just what it seems (though it runs over five minutes!), with announcer Joe Leahy and the crew (Rich Arons, Paul Rugg, John McCann and Tom Ruegger) reminiscing over…

…set comes with two inserts. The first one is an advertisement for G.I. Joe Season 1.1 on one side and an advertisement for Transformers graphic novels on the other. The…

…and the jack-in-the-box. The animation of “Carnival of the Animals, Finale” was the idea of Joe Grant, who had worked on the original Fantasia. He had the idea of the…

…editing team at Hanna-Barbera team, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears moved into the writing department of that Studio, and are now rightfully credited as the creators of Scooby-Doo among their…