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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…a remake of the black and white short Mickey’s Pal Pluto, though it did win an Oscar for Pluto in 1941 and marked one of the few occasions when Pluto’s… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…with a couple of kittens in them, particularly the first, the often seen and over-recycled Lend A Paw. This is itself a remake of a black and white short, Mickey’s… |
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Tom And Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol.1
…whoever can catch Jerry, as a way of earning their keep, can stay. In Neapolitan Mouse (1954), Tom and Jerry voyage to Naples and meet Topo, a mouse who is… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2
…2000 release Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases. The original release featured fourteen shorts totaling 101 minutes of classic chases with the cat and mouse duo. Sure, one of those cartoons… |
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The Wild
…four-page insert announces Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Saves Santa, The Fox And The Hound 2 and Disney GameWorld DVDs alongside The Wild’s 20 index chapter stops. Ink And Paint: Also released… |
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Review: Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas
Coming Soon reviews Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas, the computer animated sequel to 1999’s Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas. Giving the film a score of 8/10 and its extras a… |
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2016 CTN Animation Expo Exclusive
…and Stitch, Mama Odie in The Princess and the Frog, Tigger in Winnie the Pooh, and Mickey Mouse in a number of projects, just to name a few. Deja conducted… |
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Happy 75th Birthday, Mickey!
On the evening of November 18th 1928, a showbiz legend was born – Mickey Mouse flashed across the screen of the Colony Theater in NYC and danced and sung his… |
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Russell Schroeder has retrieved Disney’s Lost Chords!
…house. That design later became the basics for Mickey’s House that was built so that guests could actually walk through it and see Mickey’s living quarters. One of the other… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…More Time which includes some terrific perspective animation and an obvious Mickey Mouse gag (although all cartoon mice for any studio looked much the same around this time). Most interesting… |
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Spider-Mouse: the ultimate character crossover team-up as Disney buys Marvel!
…Mickey’s pocket, much in the same way that Pixar’s culture has been preserved. It’s a terrific announcement as far as I am concerned, and filled with much potential and possibilities… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…seemed poetically sweet that the state of the art WALL-E was released 80 years to the day Mickey Mouse first graced the silver screen. Read the full WALL-E Animated View… |
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New 2D shorts star the Mouse
…esthetic for the Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts reaches back almost 80 years and borrows reverentially from the bold style of his 1930s design, but not before adding a few contemporary… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…film, however, as even then the idea of a cat and mouse battle was a bit stale. However, “Jasper” the cat and the unnamed mouse of the film did have… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #77: The Great Mouse Detective – Sit, Toby
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! The Rotoscopers discuss the first film in their ‘Mice & Rats’ podcast series, Disney’s 1986 The Great Mouse Detective. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV6036961062.mp3 Highlights: • Nerdy Couch Discussion:… |
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Disney to produce Jungle Junction, also Clubhouse, Tigger & Pooh get third seasons
…report, third-season greenlights to CG shows Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and My Friends Tigger & Pooh have also been given as Disney Channel has ordered an addition 35 episodes of both…. |
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Mickey's Musketeers on the big screen!
Donovan Cook, director of this August’s DVD premiere Mickey, Donald And Goofy: The Three Musketeers, has written to us with some good news for “hardcore Mickey” and “old-school Disney animation”… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #83: Mickey’s Christmas Carol – They’re Just Actors
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! For the annual Christmas episode of the Animation Addicts Podcast, the Rotoscopers review the 1983 short Mickey’s Christmas Carol. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV5779926499.mp3 • Main Discussion: Mickey’s Christmas… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…Studio had been in production on a Mickey Mouse vehicle The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, designed to bring a little lustre back to the Studio’s star character, whose popularity was on the… |
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Spooky! Doomsday, Mickey reviews and Pixar contests!
…a review of an older Disney title, Mickey’s House Of Villains, the 2002 compilation that sees the rogues’ gallery of badduns taking over ToonTown’s House Of Mouse nightclub. This was… |
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O Mickey, What Art Thou? Cultural Icon, Perennial Entertainer, or Both?
Animation Blast recently posted a link to a New York Times article online in which the future of Mickey Mouse is discussed. While Mickey is certainly an enduring cultural and… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…animated shorts seen in theaters and on The Mickey Mouse Club. For the third of Pinocchio‘s most recent videodisc releases, my big question simply remains: where are these cartoons? One… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!
…students’ films. Hired at Walt Disney Feature Animation in the summer of 1981 as an inbetweener on Mickey’s Christmas Carol after only two years at CalArts, David worked with top… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…and many of its basic scenes will be familiar to those with the second Mickey Mouse In Black And White collection, where the short When The Cat’s Away plays as… |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection
…(1977), The Fox And The Hound (1981) and Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983). The eventual “shake up” of The Black Cauldron (1985) set the Studio on a new course to try… |
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Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat
…in the Roaring Twenties. Felix was a marketing phenomenon years before Mickey Mouse made the scene, and for a time was the most popular cartoon character in the world. And,… |
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The secrets of Walt’s Vault unlocked…!
…actor named Joe Twerp performed the voice of Mickey Mouse for the episodes of the Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air radio series because Walt was too busy completing Snow… |
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46th Annual Annie Awards nominations announced
…Music in an Animated Television / Broadcast Production • Back to the Moon Google Spotlight Stories, Google Doodles, Nexus Studios Nominees: Mathieu Alvado • Disney Mickey Mouse Disney Television Animation… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete First Season
…program in 1955 can not be emphasized enough. Apart from changing the face of movie merchandising (although Disney had almost invented such things, with Mickey Mouse trinkets in the 1920s… |
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Annie’s award best of 2013 animation
…three awards, for Animated Effects, Character Design, and Character Animation. On the TV side, Disney’s Mickey Mouse won three awards for Character Design, Music, and Editorial. The full list of… |