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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…received a record 10. He’s also won Emmys for Eloise at Christmastime; Eloise at The Plaza and the Tiny Toon Adventures Theme Song among others. He is a board member… |
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Return To Never-Land: Pixie-Powered Edition
…Wendy), while familiar incidental voices are provided by people like Dan Castellaneta and Frank Welker. Final Cut: Directors Robin Budd and Donavan Cook (famed for delivering the very satisfying Mickey,… |
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Heidi’s Song
…Mickey Mouse Club, Zorro and especially Disneyland, the one-hour family anthology show most popularly known later as The Wonderful World Of Disney. Often these shows had special animated segments produced… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…success of Mickey Mouse is given as verification that mice have always worked well in animation (lessons not dismissed even as recently as when Disney needed to bounce back in… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…allow Mickey to do it); the opening credits to1946’s Holiday In Mexico; a swimming sequence with Tom, Jerry, and Esther Williams for 1953’s Dangerous When Wet; and an animated “Sinbad… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…own. Making return trips to Disney are voice actors Jodie Benson (Lady) and Mickey Rooney (Sparky), while Melissa Manchester (The Great Mouse Detective) and Norman Gimbel (probably best known for… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…Ichabod And Mr Toad, Peter Pan and Treasure Island among the Disney ones, and even some early Mickey and the Pirates Of The Caribbean ride get a look in (though… |
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Happy Feet Two
…1930s and 40s, it wasn’t unheard of for recording artists to dedicate songs to their favorite animated stars. Mickey Mouse benefited enormously from sheet music and radio airplay of songs… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…a girls’ tween network. There’s nothing inherently “wrong” in that – Walt’s original Mickey Mouse Club made a star of, and promoted, Annette Funicello as a starlet that went on… |
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New interview, Robinsons promising for Disney, more Treasures, Popeye is coming
…welcome. Given how he actually predates Mickey Mouse, this may be one of the most important Treasures releases yet, at least in terms of animation history. And the Disneyland set?… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…mash of Mickey and House for – what else? – Mouse MD, a perfectly “Karloff”-narrated Da Grinchy Code, Snot Pilgrim versus the Seven evil Dwarfs, Malcolm In The Middle Earth… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…from the Mickey And The Beanstalk sequence of Fun And Fancy Free, though even here they resort to none other than Joe Pesci’s shtick from Goodfellas! It just all feels… |
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The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition
…at all. The use of named actors doesn’t stop with the kids, either: while many people would put money down on knowing legendary Hollywood screen star Mickey Rooney must have… |
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Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd
…serial on Mickey Mouse Club. With such an experienced director at the helm, it’s no wonder the film’s stars come off so well. Abbott and Costello are in fine form,… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…comedies, not to mention voicing characters for Hanna-Barbera cartoons and other studios. Giant-sized Mickey Morton plays Solomon Grundy, making him the only one in the cast to be in both… |
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Disney’s 2011 animated classic cover art
…Cat song and intro • Thru the Mirror Mickey Mouse animated short (now in hi-def) • One-hour in Wonderland • An Alice Comedy: Alice’s Wonderland • Original theatrical trailers (1951… |
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New trailer for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
…live-action movie starring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel is a modern version of the story that Mickey Mouse made famous in 1940’s Fantasia. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice hits theaters next summer…. |
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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…a Mickey test. At that point she’d become so advanced that I figured it was a bit of a waste to have her help me when I figured she could… |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
…not to hit it over the head too much, because if you get too “Mickey Mousey” with it, it feels awkward and disjointed. So the challenge is: how do you… |
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Is Disney making a Magic Kingdom movie?
…theme park itself: The Magic Kingdom. The project, which would be similar in tone to movies such as Night at the Museum, would involve various beloved Disney characters, including Mickey… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
…be Judy Garland singing with her siblings the Gumm Sisters. Comics Mickey Rooney, Harpo Marx, Keaton, Leon Errol and Charley Chase provide the laughs, Andy Devine turns up as a… |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
…the big, traditional western scores of the 50s), television (Eloise at Christmastime, inspired by both Gershwin and Tchaikovsky) and concert music. Because of his impressive versatility, he’s used to sharing… |
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Warner Archive: Red Skelton Whistling Collection
…the freedom of his also kidnapped girlfriend, Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford, who had previously played a similar role opposite Mickey Rooney in his Andy Hardy series) and his radio sponsor’s… |
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Kingdom Hearts Prequel Arrives September 7
…Bret Iwan as the fourth voice of “King” Mickey Mouse-his predecessor, the late Wayne Allwine, passed away last year after the completion of his work on the previous Kingdom Hearts… |
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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…previsualize the film before shooting draws its roots back to the late 20s and the 30s in the world of Disney animation (going back as far as Mickey’s debut in… |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
…Penguin, but during his Mickey phase in the Rocky movies, plays his world domination-planning professor as a combination of Balboa’s boxing coach and, often in the same scene, as someone… |
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Giacchino to host AMPAS animation music event
…Whether serving as the soundtrack for a Mickey Mouse comedy like The Band Concert (1935), a Bugs Bunny operatic parody like What’s Opera, Doc? (1957), or the symphonic and visual… |
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Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E
…Little Toaster, and FernGully; The Last Rainforest, and created the original story for the Oscar-nominated Mickey Mouse cartoon, Runaway Brain. I was also the editor for Roy E. Disney and… |
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Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
…programming. It was a Mickey Mouse cartoon that was interrupted on British TV when World War II broke out and screens went dark (only for it to be the first… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…to make a grab for Mickey’s crown. One of the most successful animation companies to rival Disney, the Studio had given us Bugs, Daffy, Tweety and Sylvester, and the Tazmanian… |
