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Once Upon A Dream: Sara Duran-Singer on Sleeping Beauty‘s Restoration

…foot in the future, a philosophy that extends to its rich legacy. This is an important aspect that the Studio has always been acutely aware of: the need, for a…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 3 1941-1943

…end of two eras. The Fleischer brothers were ousted from their own studio in 1942 after their two attempts at producing features ended up putting the studio too far into…

Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh

…film directors. At the time Dr Syn donned his terrifying Scarecrow mask, James Neilson had shot three pictures for the studio, including two that featured Walt’s leading faces: Fred MacMurray…

Please welcome Glago's Guest

…Florida Studio. After completing his work on Mulan, he relocated to the California Studio where he pitched the idea and wrote the story that became The Emperor’s New Groove. Chris…

Gulliver’s Travels

…public’s fears over Pearl Harbor and flopped, Paramount choosing to oust the brothers from their Studio and dedicate it to producing cheaper looking shorts under the Famous Studios banner, before…

Pete’s Dragon: High-Flying Edition

Disney (1977), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (August 18, 2009), 1 disc, 129 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 ratio, Dolby Digital, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: An orphan boy hopes to…

Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume One

…hard to disagree that Huckleberry Hound was a huge breakthrough for Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera on their way to becoming cartoon titans. After the MGM cartoon studio abruptly closed…

Space Sentinels & The Freedom Force: The Complete Series

…very proud that he kept the work in the States, even though it was probably a factor that helped to lead to the studio’s closure in the 1980s. If only…

Popeye: A Sailor’s Story

…unmistakably unique and winning. More Cartoons And Other Appearances The Fleischer brothers were removed from their own studio when Paramount took it over in 1942, but the studio was renamed…

2006: A Year In Review

…growing presence of foreign films in the American market, as well as the rising number of foreign studios investing in animation. Many of the major animation studios from around the…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald Volume Four

…represented a new era for the Walt Disney Studios. In 1950, Disney released Cinderella, their first studio feature length cartoon since Bambi in 1942 (not including the compilation films). The…

Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT

…to base its profile around movies like Turtles. This is the studio that won’t give you that cute and cuddly morality tale, where four outsider animals go on a road…

Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up

…scratch dialogue is, but it’s just when people around the studio kind of record lines to see if a scene is going to work at all before we go to…

Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more

…Any thoughts on your time at Disney in the late 1970s/early 80s? HS: While the studio was stagnating a bit then, I received incredible help in learning to animate and…

How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!

…I worked at a studio called Hyperion Animation where I did various things: animating, storyboarding and directing some television animation. Then I came to Disney in 1995 to work on…

Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!

…wasn’t my choice to record outside of the US. That was the Studio’s. But in London, Abbey Road is the most wonderful studio. I just adore that studio! AV: Return…

Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E

Art Of… books on Pixar films have become a tradition. A way for the studio that created the first entirely CG animated feature in history to recall that their films…

Bolt: Mark Cotta Vaz on The Art of Bolt

…needed. For Bolt, Renato Lattanzi was my studio contact, and he did a great job in arranging several visits to the studio, securing interviews, and generally juggling all the connections…

Peter de Sève: the time of his life designing A Bug’s Life

…So, I was able to move from one studio to the next, as I am now. I have a strong relationship with Blue Sky Studios and designed all the characters…

Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition

Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios (November 2 2001), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (September 17 2002), 2 discs, 93 mins plus supplements, 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround EX, Rated…

The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three

…money for the same old product twice. Now that Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera had left to begin their prolific television output, the Studio decided a cheap way of continuing…

Looney Tunes: Back In Action

…Opening at the famed Warner Brothers Studio, we find Daffy Duck pushing himself for a major role in Bugs Bunny’s latest movie (ironically enough, Back In Action does end up…

Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios

…first disc also houses some neat background information on Ivo and the Caprino Studios, the history of the film, and the “before and after” restorations, as well as a generic…

Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition

…he was able to build the fabled Hyperion Avenue studio, which brother Roy suggested be re-named The Walt Disney Studio, and land a further deal with Universal to produce cartoons…

Shrek The Third

Studio’s latest film, Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie, employing the same typewriter cue from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil that Pixar’s WALL-E has been using in their trailers. As is DWs tradition, a…

Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death

…reader will be able to approximate the way I reacted to A Matter Of Loaf And Death. Famously debuting in director Park’s film school graduation piece, celebrated stop-motion studio Aardman…

Popeye (live-action movie)

…that. Paramount thought that teaming up with another studio would be the answer and a suitable candidate, due to their knowledge of animation, was The Walt Disney Studio. Quite how…

The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics

…New Adventures Of Superman is the story behind the launch of the Filmation studio, the guys who jumped into the Saturday morning cartoon arena and grew to rival television giants…

Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities

Various production studios (1931-1971), Thunderbean/Mackinac Media (May 2 2006), single disc, 108 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $14.95 Storyboard: A…

Meet The Robinsons

Walt Disney Animation Studios (March 30 2007), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (October 23 2007), single disc, 94 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail:…