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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Two-Disc Special Edition)
…girl arrives with a message from Yoda and the Jedi Council. This is when we are introduced to Ahsoka Tano, a fourteen-year-old Togruta Jedi-in-training who tells them about the kidnapping…. |
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Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword
…that Scooby-Doo himself is at the heart of this age-old dilemma. When Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Premiered in 1969, the gang was still using flashlights and notepads to solve their… |
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Kellyann Lamb, Scott Gagner on A World of Barriers
…things we were inspired by, as far as old, scratchy films. We actually wanted to have something that was a little bit off-center, a little off-kilter especially for the Adobe… |
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Michael Giacchino: not so short on ideas for Pixar Shorts!
…old Goofy shorts sounded. It was a way to go back and look at into the archives, look at the old scores, the original scores, all this material and really… |
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Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!
…me up saying: “I think that you would be perfect. We need a song that sort of describes the emotional transformation of this 12-year old girl in the movie. Why… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…the release of Walt Disney’s 1959 animated classic on DVD and Blu-ray, Burny Mattinson remembers working with the man himself. With the inevitable passing of all the Nine Old Men,… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…exciting one? VN: The most exciting was probably the scene in EVE Vigil where WALL•E and Eve are on the bench watching the sunset, and he’s trying to hold her… |
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The One That Started It All… The Making Of Snow White
…commented that the film, although lauded in Hollywood as a masterpiece, never did turn out quite as good as Walt told it! Most of the staff continued to work on… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition
…Mono, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Once upon a long time ago, in a far off castle, there lived a beautiful, but ice cold Queen. Asking her Magic Mirror each… |
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Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection
…And Trees to The Old Mill in 1937. The Package possibilities resurfaced when Walt saw the potential in combining relatively cheaper new animated sequences within a themed feature-length movie. The… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…years. The final straw was when he was told on The Rescuers (another mouse picture!) not to bother filling in the whites on a character’s eyes. The Disney team carried… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…Duck shows us how he was animated for the cartoon Old MacDonald Duck, which was later released in the same year. Benchley continues his impromptu visit by stopping off at… |
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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…idea. Then-Disney honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg told them that no one would pay to see another Treasure Island story, especially one told in outer space, and the pair were put to… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…to their old ways. After a couple of attempts, a T&J cartoon finally won an Academy Award with Yankee Doodle Mouse. This print comes from a reissue later in that… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…relation to Baby Weems?) appealed to older audiences. Apart from early political commentary shorts (one of which was directed by Chuck Jones), the majority of UPA’s output was distributed by… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…but rather an alternate cut, with a different introduction and closing (featuring Paul sifting through an old store room and coming across the Rupert book). That opening has been kept… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…Old Summertime and is full of true sentiment for that bygone era throughout. Look out for other Disney names in the advertisements on display, an idea that was carried over… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…Professor, who fills their heads with wondrous tales of far way lands. On this cold day, Lucy, the youngest of the four children, finds herself hiding in an old wardrobe… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…which the player must pick from the varied selection in Uncle Albert’s room in order to help the old boy down. Answer wrongly, and it’s up to the ceiling, and… |
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Shark Tale
…a rip-off of the old Reluctant Dragon story, Shark Tale finds young fish Oscar (voiced by Will Smith) deep in dept. The party amphibian likes to show off and spread… |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…Kronk’s life and attempts to make a wacky comeback by using her old henchman to fool the locals into investing in her (very suspect) youth potion. Naturally, Kronk’s good side… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…an age to play and don’t hold much interest for us older folk. In this case, I would extend that to the target audience too, and I really can’t imagine… |
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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home – Winners Announced!
…social attitudes of the day. Businessman Harry Boyle owns a restaurant supply company and has a son, 22 year-old college dropout Chet, and a daughter Alice, a rather robust 16-year-old… |
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The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2
…and Volume 2 each sold separately Storyboard: Two volumes of Casper the Friendly Ghost’s best, totalling 24 animated shorts across the two individual discs. The Sweatbox Review: Quite how or… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…a last-minute switch saw the Legacy line shelved and the second wave’s titles – including the much trumpeted return of Oswald to the Disney fold – incorporated into this latest… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
…with hopefully the shorter second season arriving in a single edition at a future date. Disc One’s assembling of shows (highlighted episodes in bold) begins with Animaniacs! – nope, not… |
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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…this week by DWs honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg that the pair are to split. This not only proves the old adage that “there’s no smoke without fire”, but that the bottom… |
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The pirate movie that's no crime…
…was pure adventure of a gloriously old-fashioned time, with strong hints of Walt’s own Treasure Island, Swiss Family Robinson and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, brought bang up to date… |
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American Legends (featuring John Henry)
…Animators were told to be bold with their drawings, and clean up artists had to be reminded not to make the lines too smooth! The original, complete film opens with… |
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Ben's shamelessly blatant Film Festival event plug…
…left and even then mostly full of TV work rather than the major film productions of old. As a founding member of Elstree Screen Heritage, we’re endeavoring to keep track… |


