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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…done before. AV: The plot has been under a lot of secrecy, and you probably just told us more just now than anyone did for a long time! Why was… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…the drawings were going to be large enough to really hold up, and everyone did a magnificent job. I’m so proud of everyone’s work on it and hopefully despite the… |
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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…working on our own project (still upcoming at the time of this piece) and we bumped into Don and told him about The Chestnut Tree and asked him over to… |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…stupid! What the hell happens to him as he gets older? Does he look like a real fish? Does he just get longer? One of those executive ideas that just… |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
…wanted some sort of old-fashioned kind of typical French-sounding song for this one section of the film and I really felt that we should do something different, something special to… |
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Dalmatians 101: Marc’s wife Alice Davis talks about her Legendary husband
…When an old man holds on the back of it.” He would watch people going down the street and when he got home he would do some drawings in his… |
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Dalmatians 101: Lisa Davis’ “puppy love” for a dog-gone Disney classic
…in England? LD: Well, when I was 6 years old, I started working in England in the movies, and when I was about 12, I made a picture for a… |
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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…you’ve been helping preserve after his death? DG: When Jack died, I was at the time sort of 18 years old, and a young man chasing about doing things as… |
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Frank Walsh: Setting The World of Narnia
…castle for instance, rejected or refined. A large model had been started, and the process was just at the threshold of having to be realised in concept form so they… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…whom music is more of an essential inspiration than a mere accompaniment. Very often, we are told about artists’ influences, and all the more when it’s about a director who… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…tales composed on those sheets. After many years of writing scripts (and untold millions of rejection slips) I finally got an agent and sold something. I can’t believe how long… |
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Mary Poppins’ Richard M. Sherman: A Practically Perfect Songwriter!
…household, but brings the whole family together in the process. With its revolutionary blend of live action and pioneering Disney animation, Mary Poppins became an instant hit and was nominated… |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection
…was old enough to see in the theater. When the sequel was announced, I just couldn’t wait! Originally pitched as a low-budget movie, the Disney Studio was trying to keep… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…fairy-tales of old. The stylised art does include a great attention to detail, but the rather vertical angular design does not sit pretty with the horizontal widescreen approach, and the… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…The Old Grey Hare, My Favorite Duck and Clampett’s hysterical Hare-Raising Hare. The archive footage looks fairly clean for its age and format, and there’s a lot of fun to… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…to “clean up” the picture, and everything looks bold and strong. Although a (terrible) pan-and-scan 1.33:1 edition is being sold separately, you really owe it to yourself to see this… |
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Mickey Mouse: The Black And White Years
…are told have been recreated as was originally intended, are strong and bold, but for me have lost a little of their vibrancy. Of course it’s back down to personal… |
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Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
…Disney’s original Nine Old Men: Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas and Ken Anderson, and The Lion King’s Roger Allers is credited as an animator. Two other Disney stalwarts, the Sherman Brothers,… |
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The DisneyLand Anthology
…features two more shows: Along The Oregon Trail (a history of the old West with host Fess Parker) features the pre-production of the Disney feature Westward Ho The Wagons, while… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…“too difficult”! The Studio takeover of 1984 put the film on hold for another couple of years until it resurfaced under the guidance of new Mouse chiefs Michael Eisner and… |
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The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection
…legend of Ichabod Crane (recently retold in much more horrific style by Tim Burton), telling the tale with his inimitable bouncy and boomy vocals. Crosby has a couple of good… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…Grant. Based on a short story by children’s authors Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, Walt considered producing Dumbo as a featurette, before Huemer and Grant’s treatment persuaded him otherwise. During… |
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Walt: The Man Behind The Myth
…comments from important faces from Disney history, including four of the Nine Old Men. Joining Marc Davis and Ward Kimball (in their last major interviews) are Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas,… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…a desperate bid to create company synergy. Hey, both stories featured talking animals in the wild, right? Both had a stampede sequence? Music and songs from older British rockers? Check!… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…out the cast is Robert Guillaume, who here seems to have lost his hold on Rafiki and plays him straight as an old fool rather than the mystical eccentric that… |
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Mulan II
…seemed to be more than a little over saturated. Scratch Tracks: Presented in good old Dolby Digital 5.1, the mix is as lively as the film’s narrative will allow. There’s… |
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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…this feel a lot more subtly and effortlessly than current Bond composer David Arnold does with his sometimes sledgehammer approach. Staying with the sound, and here we get an ensemble… |
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Tarzan II
…and runs away, where he finds the mysterious, and supposedly evil Zugor, who unsurprisingly turns out to be simply a warm old grump. But when a dissident group of gorillas,… |
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Flushed Away
…good old fashioned orchestral score instead of a sourced music track, and the big British landmarks seen in the opening credits provides the authenticity in the setting (funny that a… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…scenario before, most notably with The Emperor’s New Groove, but Prinze (doing his best Bruce Willis it seems) and his flatly scripted lines just can’t hold the attention, leaving more… |
