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Top Cat: The Complete Series
…TV show after The Flintstones. You might say The Jetsons— but you’d be wrong. Jonny Quest? Nope. The honor goes to Hanna-Barbera’s Top Cat (or, as it was known when… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…Cinderella III apparently takes place before II if one goes on what happened in that collection of stories. Also frustrating is the animation, which is by turns perfectly fluid and… |
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Enrico Casarosa on storyboarding Ratatouille
…when the baby goes home with the humans. I did a lot of work with the baby, a lot of gags, the big snowball gag, which is mine. When an… |
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The Reef
…noted nods – intended or not – to The Incredible Mr Limpet and The Little Mermaid. However, most bizarrely, and against better judgement, I just didn’t find The Reef to… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…rating. Their War: the robots, production design and digital effects puts the spotlight on the movie’s giant computer generated stars themselves. Rise Of The Robots (13:40) goes back pre-film to… |
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The Tick Vs. Season One
…cleverness of writing goes beyond the schtick, producing stories that one can enjoy while guffawing at the ridiculousness of the characters. I’m not saying that the show deserved a Nobel… |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume One
…problem in The Monster Of Dr. Droid. The Wonder Twins teach a lesson to Vandals. The team goes to the undersea world of Oceana and fights itself in Super Friends… |
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When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Making of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio
…help him be aware of the necessity of being a good boy. When Pinocchio goes and looks for his father, it is from a totally different perspective; Pinocchio is not… |
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Hanna-Barbera, The Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age To Meddling Kids
…other soundtrack and original song or story records featuring the early H-B stars, including the original tale Quick Draw McGraw: The Treasure of Sarah’s Mattress. Ehrbar then goes on to… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…and probably had some light under-drawing with a pencil. I have found that the key to creating good and expressive boards is to draw quickly and with emotion. It goes… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…years later in Alice in Wonderland, a clock in Strasbourg that made its way to Disneyland, and on it goes. This long trip was truly a turning point in his… |
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Scales and Arpeggios: Richard M. Sherman and the “mewsic” of The AristoCats!
…ringing from your chest and not your nose”! Animated Views: Mr. Sherman, thank you so much for this interview! Richard M. Sherman: Well, I’m glad to be able to do… |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
…film like that and go: “oh, there should be nothing but accordion and jazz violin and jazz guitar, and then it’ll be good”. The film goes much deeper than that,… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…has been built to look like a spaceship or something, a capsule, unbreakable and clean. In five years, there will be a fly that goes into the light fixture and… |
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Aladdin: Platinum Edition
…Iago goes into the lamp and is guided by the voice of the lamp. The “3 Wishes Game: Your Fortune Revealed” is a strange game where Iago narrates the action… |
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Happily N’Ever After
A fairy tale goes bad. An unlikely hero emerges. Classic characters from different stories join forces. And we discover things aren’t exactly as we assumed “once upon a time”. All… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…WB animation producer Scott Jeralds and Shaw again reminiscing on the role Mrs Flintstone and Mrs Rubble played in the program, with Iwao Takamoto describing the subtleties in personality and… |
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Docter talks Inside Out
…what exactly goes on in her mind as she goes about her life. “One story is hard enough. This is two stories that need to talk to each other.” As… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…arms of the angel statue in a graveyard and goes on to sing a song there while the camera continuously circles him. The opening song of the film This is… |
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The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!
…of impending doom. But whereas Wise’s film remains faithfully realistic (for the time) to its ideas, Scott Derrickson’s reimagining goes for all the over the top blockbuster thrills we’ve come… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…though, because those that know me as a painter barely know that I am a writer. Around my hometown, I’m just a dorky dad that’s good at removing stink bugs… |
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The Animatrix
…phone goes off and someone tells him to run because they have found him. Outside, the agents are beginning to enter the school to apprehend the young boy. What is… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…spirits pays dividends when they wish to have some acorns sprout, and more importantly later on when Mei goes missing while trying to walk all the way to the hospital… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…I utilize the melody in the chorus, a descending scale from This Is The Thanks I Get?! I wanted to use that element when the character goes crazier and crazier…. |
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Bolt
…a real life underdog when a location break-out goes wrong and he’s left to fend for himself in the real world, without any of the super powers his possesses on… |
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Son Of Batman
…still be trained under the moral guidance of Batman. That moral code is put to the test when Damian goes after his grandfather’s killer: Slade Wilson, a.k.a. Deathstroke. The Sweatbox… |
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He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe: Volume Three
…can together repel the return of King Hiss and his Snake Men. This “truce” goes about as well as could be expected, allowing Kobra Khan and Rattlor to travel to… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season
…in Vault Of Bones we see her come to terms with her apparent evilness; later, she is tricked by Finn, in the status quo-changing Frost & Fire, then goes up… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…“a light comedy where the comic lead is traumatized into becoming a mute by watching his mother die in the first act, and then goes on an unrelated carefree adventure… |
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Phineas And Ferb Star Wars
…of each episode, the boys’ pet platypus Perry goes on secret missions as “Agent P,” and battles the dastardly Dr. Doofenshmirtz. When Agent P’s efforts foil Doof at the end… |
