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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Q&A with Disney director George Scribner
…behind-the-scenes stories, including anecdotes on the original director of The Lion King, Oliver And Company and the theme park rides he has been a part of creating, including Mickey’s Philharmagic…. |
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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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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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Disney Characters Get the Paris Treatment
Remember a few months ago when images of Minnie, Mickey, Goofy, and Donald appeared on the Internet in haute coutre fashion with thinner character designs? Controversary has, of course, sprung… |
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Disney opera opens
…of a world without death, now grappling with mortality… It does what opera does best by making the larger-than-life creator of Mickey Mouse an imperfect life-size, ultimately earning our wonderment”…. |
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The Stooge confirmed as a development proposal
It appears Mickey Mouse and Roger Rabbit are indeed teaming up, at least for a development proposal. On Sunday, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? author Gary K. Wolf, under pen name… |
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Never before seen sketches by Walt
…their red carpet strut. Corny? Yes! But a good excuse to post some never before seen sketches by Walt Disney that were used in the 1933 short Mickey’s Gala Premier…. |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #32: Mulan – Yodeling Huns
…battle on the mountain, very Star Wars, Chinese-made rope, “apparently there’s a hidden Mickey…”, Animation Law #2: Disney women must not have short rule, “It’s ok to cross dress”, Jafar… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #34: Toy Story 2 – British Invasion
…new Mickey Mouse shorts, Rumplestilkskin (The Name Game) animated film by Disney? • Nerdy Couch Discussion: Pixar sequels. • Beyond the trailer, Toy Story 3 filled with holocaust references? •… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…then it’s all Disney’s fault for stretching out the franchise), plus previews for Epic Mickey: The Power Of Two, Mulan, SuperBuddies, Return To Never-Land, the next, untitled Tinker Bell outing… |
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APRIL FOOLS STORY: Disney decides to put iconic characters in Star Wars
…the entire franchise in traditional animation, casting the Mouse and friends in the titular roles. Goofy’s son, Max, will play Luke Skywalker; Goofy is Darth Vader; Mickey is Han Solo,… |
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Favorite Mousketeer Annette Funicello Dies
…auditions. After two callbacks, she earned a permanent position in The Mickey Mouse Club, where she performed in the opening and closing numbers. After her stint in the club that… |
