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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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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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Cover art: Lady And The Tramp, Toy Story 2, Valiant, Funny Factory
Ultimate Disney has the cover art for Funny Factory with Mickey and Funny Factory with Donald, the first DVDs in a series of cartoon compilations. Similar to the Classic Cartoon… |
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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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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
…to complete the special from start to finish. While the featurette itself is interesting, I wish they could have had more interviews with the voice actors. Only Mickey Rooney (Santa… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
…adventure story devoid of any crassness or unnecessary pop culture references (though you may spot a Mickey head or two if you look!). Is This Thing Loaded? Note that the… |
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Henry Selick speaks about Moongirl and more
…Henry Selick for agreeing to and participating in this interview, his secretary Shelley Midthun, Howard Green at the Disney Studios for facilitating the interview, and fellow Animated News staffers Mickey… |
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Princess winners, and a Curious new contest!
…the start of November. To win such titles as Lilo And Stitch, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, Beverly Hills Chihuahua and a stack more, head on over to Contest Corner to submit… |
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Rudolph / Frosty / Santa Claus: The Original Christmas Classics
…being able to boast two bona fide legends such as Fred Astaire and Mickey Rooney in your cast is no mean feat, especially when Astaire’s caricatured animated persona is also… |
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The Care Bears Movie
…Mr. Cherrywood (voiced by Mickey Rooney), then arrives and agrees to tell the children a story. The story is about the Care Bears, and it starts out with Wish Bear… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez on the Walt Disney Family Museum: a flame more alive than ever
…of his artists, Fred Spencer, were members. It was a series of comics published in their newsletter featuring Mickey and other prominent Disney characters that were never re-published, most of… |
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Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, or Monte Carlo Or Bust!
…This ethos is carried over into Ron Goodwin’s bombastic musical score, full of intentional Mickey Mouseing, heroic stabs, wobbly brass for Frobe’s perpetual misfit and slinky strings for the boo-hiss… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…Mickey’s Christmas Carol to the same trick of recreating the old Scrooge story with the Looney Tunes gang, with Yosemite Sam as the miser, Porky as Cratchitt, etc. Friz Freleng’s… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…Making the connection with Disney’s earliest success – in this case Mickey’s famous whistle from Steamboat Willie, his sound debut in 1928 – shows the kind of “back to the… |
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More DVD news: CGI Tinkerbell; Hi-Def resolutions; Herbie's extras; ComicCon events
…year with DVD premiere Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas, DisneyToon Studios is {{link http://www.dvdexclusive.com/article.asp?articleID=2263&categoryID= ramping up production}} of several more CG DVDs, including an indication that the previously announced The… |
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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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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 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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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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More Disney DTV titles on the way
…are the following projects: Cinderella III, The Little Mermaid III, Brother Bear II, The Aristocats II, The Tinker Bell Movie, Mickey in Space, and The Fox and the Hound II…. |
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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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Britain’s Biggest Red Carpet Rolled Out To Celebrate The BAFTA Awards 2009
…Actor Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler, while tribute was paid to those we lost this year including Charlton Heston, Patrick McGoohan, Michael Crichton, Roy Scheider, Stan Winston, Cyd Charisse and… |
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The Small One comes to region one DVD; Muppetational releases!
…due in the third wave of the series, to be released September 27 2005. The disc will also include the classic short Pluto’s Christmas Tree and Mickey’s Christmas Carol. Transfers… |
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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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Gnomeo & Juliet
…the Epic Mickey video game, Disney Channel’s Phineas And Ferb: Across The 2nd Dimension and the latest in the Studio’s successful video premiere series, Spooky Buddies. The Main Menu is… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…actual musical cues – doesn’t fare so well. The songs are great, but the score remains Menken’s blend of musical motif and often heavy-handed “Mickey Mousing” the action. He won… |
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The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol : maxi-director Troy Quane on Sony’s mini-movie!
…a multitude of direct-to-video productions including Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas,Pocahontas II: Journey to the New World and Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas. In 1999, he left Disney… |
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Maui Film Festival Animation Report – UPDATED
…report at Animation World Network I also found out while there that famed marine life painter Wyland has completed some paintings in collaboration with Disney, featuring Mickey, Minnie, Donald and… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…of Pooh featurettes, but by now the characters were as much a part of Disney as Mickey and the gang. Finally, all three films were combined as Walt originally envisioned… |
