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animation/coming.soon #201, from davemackey, 410 chars, Tue Apr 10 19:55:04 1990
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“False Hare,” production no. 1669, was perhaps the last Warner Bros.
cartoon. Not knowing all the production numbers of that era, this is just
a rough guesstimate, and it was undoubtedly the last-made as well as last-
released Bugs cartoon. The last WB release, “Senorella and the Glass
Huarache,” had a much lower prod. #. and can’t have been the last WB cartoon
produced.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #202, from davemackey, 299 chars, Tue Apr 10 19:57:55 1990
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Another nice little discovery was that anecdote about “Rhapsody Rabbit”
and how it related to “The Cat Concerto” winning the Oscar that same year.
I don’t know how many people realize that one Jakob Gimpel was piano
soloist on the soundtrack of both those cartoons!
–D.
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animation/coming.soon #203, from hmccracken, 228 chars, Tue Apr 10 20:18:41 1990
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Yes, it was nice to get the inside scoop on the similarities between the two
cartoons. When researching a short article I wrote abu Friz Freleng last
year, I tried to determine which was made first without success.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #204, from hmccracken, 195 chars, Tue Apr 10 20:20:28 1990
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Unless, of course, you count the Warner Bros. cartoons made by Alex
Lovy, Robert McKimson, and others in the late 1960s, or even the
recent ones, as bona-fide Warner Bros. cartoons…
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #205, from switch, 41 chars, Tue Apr 10 22:06:09 1990
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“The Dover Boys”?
YAY!
(Ecstatic) Emru
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animation/coming.soon #206, from davemackey, 192 chars, Wed Apr 11 01:29:34 1990
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That scores points with me, as “Dover Boys” has been available only as public
domain material in the past. Be nice to have a clean copy for it for a change.
–Dave.
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animation/coming.soon #207, from hmccracken, 132 chars, Wed Apr 11 20:26:27 1990
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Oddly enough, Nickelodeon played _Senorella_ tonight. Odd cartoon, and
not much of a note for a great studio to end on.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #208, from davemackey, 420 chars, Thu Apr 12 00:14:00 1990
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I went back and checked: “Senorella” was production #1606, which places it
somewhere around the 1961-1962 season (Freleng, obviously busy with the
Bugs show, handed this one off to Hawley Pratt). It obviously was a last
gasp if it was sitting around the studio for two years before seeing
daylight. By the way, that cartoon used the “spokes” opening rather than
the famous rings.
–D.
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animation/coming.soon #209, from davemackey, 300 chars, Mon Apr 16 18:46:07 1990
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TITLE: Just a reminder
:Cartoon All Stars To The Rescue:, this Saturday, April 21, 10:30 a.m.,
virtually anywhere there’s a TV set. This multi-character, multi-studio,
multi-network presentation carries with it the message of not doing
drugs. The industry can be proud.
–D.
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animation/coming.soon #210, from davemackey, 192 chars, Tue Apr 24 18:31:21 1990
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TITLE: Special
CBS will broadcast “Happy Birthday Bugs: 50 Looney Years”, the official
50th anniversary of Bugs tribute special, on Wednesday, May 9 at 8 p.m.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #211, from hmccracken, 104 chars, Tue Apr 24 18:35:16 1990
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Thanks for the info, Dave — do you know anything about the special? (New
animation, maybe?)
– Harry
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animation/coming.soon #212, from switch, 49 chars, Tue Apr 24 19:59:12 1990
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A day before my birthday! How convenient.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #213, from davemackey, 460 chars, Tue Apr 24 21:08:05 1990
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Based on the brief writeup that was in The New York Post today, I would
expect it to be much in the vein of Lorne Michaels’ Looney Tunes 50th
Anniversary Special of a few years ago. Appearing will be Milton Berle,
Pierce Brosnan, Whoopi Goldberg, John Goodman, Valerie Harper, Fred
Savage, Jane Seymour, and William Shatner. Also Mary Hart, Maury
Povich, and Bill Cosby will offer a special tribute to the late Mel Blanc.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #214, from tom.white, 58 chars, Tue Apr 24 21:26:00 1990
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Your birthday, a day before my birthday! How convenient!
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animation/coming.soon #215, from switch, 157 chars, Wed Apr 25 02:36:37 1990
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Why don’t we just have a week-long party, so the janitors can just come in
on Sunday with a flamethrower or two? That’d save them cleaning every day.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #216, from hmccracken, 206 chars, Wed Apr 25 18:21:28 1990
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Gee whiz — seems like animation conference members always have their
birthdays within days of another participant’s…as well, of course, as
nearly always being members of a set of twins. Odd!
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #217, from hmccracken, 476 chars, Wed Apr 25 18:24:32 1990
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Hmmm — I really don’t like those cartoon-related specials in which
scads of celebrities profess their love of the character in question
with barely concealed yawning indifference. (At least that Looney
Tunes special had some nifty old footage I’d never seen before.)
Maybe they should get celebs whose interest in animation is
genuine to do the show — folks like Paul McCartney, Michael
Jackson, Carol Burnett, Ray Bradbury, etc. Loni Anderson, too,
actually.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #218, from hmccracken, 181 chars, Wed Apr 25 18:25:30 1990
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TITLE: Check out next week’s issue of Time, Inc.’s vapid
new magazine _Entertainment Weekly_ for a thirty-two page supplement
celebrating Bugs Bunny’s fiftieth birthday.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #219, from hkenner, 60 chars, Wed Apr 25 18:36:47 1990
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Natch. Animation entails near-identical successive frames.
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animation/coming.soon #220, from tom.white, 286 chars, Wed Apr 25 20:28:23 1990
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And the today I found out a co-worker has the same birthday, albeit
several years prior to my debut.
My all time favorite is Texas Ranger pitcher Bobby Witt and Cincinnati
Reds minor-league pitcher Jeff Sellers (formerly of my beloved Red Sox)
and myself all have the same birth date!
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animation/coming.soon #221, from bsoron, 356 chars, Wed Apr 25 21:31:55 1990
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I agree. If CBS would like to offer tribute to Blanc, they might
be better off just showing clips of the characters he’s voiced. If
each of his characters appeared saying just one sentence, folks
watching the special would have a far better understanding of Blanc’s
talents than anything Hart, Povich, and Cosby could say (however
well-intentioned).
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animation/coming.soon #222, from hmccracken, 372 chars, Wed Apr 25 21:57:50 1990
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This problem is closely related to that of such specials usually running
tons of abrupt clips from cartoons, rather than just a few, longer ones
(or God forbid, a few *complete* cartoons) that would much better
show off the program’s subject. If you get the Disney Channel,
which is rife with clips but miserly with complete cartoons, you’ll
know what I mean.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #223, from switch, 207 chars, Wed Apr 25 23:24:50 1990
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Hmn. My only claim to fame is sharing birthdays with a few decent Warner
cartoons (according to Maltin’s _Of Mice and Magic_), Fred Astaire, and
the official completion of the intercoastal railroad.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #224, from davemackey, 305 chars, Thu Apr 26 06:35:55 1990
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I thought Billy Murray was pretty funny testifying Yosemite Sam’s on-set
(!) battles with Mr. Freleng, and the Billy Dee Williams bit about wanting
to get romantic by putting on a Carl Stalling album was pretty cool. That
special five years ago was a little twisted.
–D.
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animation/coming.soon #225, from davemackey, 275 chars, Thu Apr 26 06:38:14 1990
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Rights might have a lot to do with that philosophy in the case of the CBS
specials (as opposed to Disney). This explains why Nickelodeon can show
clips from “Porky’s Duck Hunt” but not the complete cartoon — it’s in
local syndication.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #226, from hmccracken, 535 chars, Thu Apr 26 20:57:17 1990
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TITLE: Another new animation book to watch for,
although not until late this year or early next year, is the autobiography
of Disney animator Bill Justice. Justice is most famous for his work on
Chip n’ Dale cartoons, but he worked on the early Disney features, did
some of the studio’s rare forays into stop-motion animation, and has
done a lot of work for Disneyland and Walt Disney World over the
years. The book will be published by Tomart, a small publisher which
has put out some great books on Disney collectibles.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #227, from bsoron, 265 chars, Thu Apr 26 21:11:38 1990
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In 99 percent of cases, I won’t advocate running just clips or even
edited cartoons. But I think that in this case, it would be the fastest
way to show how wide Blanc’s range was — and, with a large enough
variety in a short enough time, probably the best…
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animation/coming.soon #228, from bcapps, 74 chars, Thu Apr 26 23:06:25 1990
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Think they’ll show the “Fifty Years of Bugs Bunny in 3 1/2 Minutes?”
Bob
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animation/coming.soon #229, from bcapps, 133 chars, Thu Apr 26 23:10:12 1990
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Well, at least mine now falls sometimes on a National Holiday. It’s the
same as Martin Luther King Jr.’s, which is kinda nice.
Bob
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animation/coming.soon #230, from davemackey, 363 chars, Mon Apr 30 18:31:48 1990
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It’s in the slightly-less vapid Time Inc. periodical “Time” as well —
pretty nice section, and good information and explanation on Spielberg’s
role in the “Tiny Toon Adventures” show. The supplement, by the way, is
a distillation of the information found in the upcoming issue of “Bugs
Bunny Magazine” dealing with Bugs’ 50th.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #231, from ewhac, 598 chars, Tue May 1 04:49:58 1990
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TITLE: New Roger Rabbit Short
During the previews for Q&A, there was one for a new Roger Rabbit
short, which is to preceed Dick Tracy performances.
Roger Rabbit and Baby Herman go to the amusement park. Roger Rabbit.
Shooting galleries. Rollercoasters. You get the idea.
The most amusing shot was a shot taken at the apex of the rollercoaster,
with RR in it. Far in the background, at the bottom of the big initial drop,
is the Earth.
Jessica and Droopy are in it, too. I can’t yet tell if it will be as
overdirected as the previous one, but it should be fun to find out.
Schwab
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animation/coming.soon #232, from bcapps, 810 chars, Tue May 1 21:37:55 1990
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Be sure to check out today’s (5/1) Wall Street Journal for an article about
the licensing of Warner Bros’ Looney Tunes characters. It’s about how
they’re being pitched as “safe” spokespeople – unlike Mike Tyson & Robin
Givens (Pepsi) and Cybil Sheppard (Beef). It also identifies it as a
growing trend, what with the Peanut characters and Garfield. There is
very much a cautionary tone to the article, since it also stresses that this
is Warner Bros.’ (parent company of DC Comics, trademark holder of Batman –
last year’s media and merchandising sensation, this year’s bargain bin).
I personally hope to that they will pursue various products for spokes-
purposes (since that means we’ll see even more animation if they go the
TV route), but I also hope that is done with some degree of brevity.
Bob
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animation/coming.soon #233, from hmccracken, 338 chars, Tue May 1 22:15:20 1990
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Well, it was directed by the same guy, Rob Minkoff, so the directorial style
should be similar. They were making _Rollercoaster Rabbit_ when I
visited Disney-MGM in Orlando last September, but I saw no animation,
just bits and pieces of artwork here and there. I was impressed enough that
I’m looking forward to the short…
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #234, from davemackey, 631 chars, Thu May 3 00:11:39 1990
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TITLE: New Funtastic Elements
Is it just me, or can’t I keep track of “The Funtastic World of Hanna
Barbera” any more? I barely know what’s in the show now, and now I hear they’re
adding two new series to the Sunday morning mix: “Midnight Patrol” and
“The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda.” If I remember correctly,
they started out with Snorks, Yogi’s Treasure Hunt, Galtar, something else,
added Jonny Quest, Fantastic Max, Paddington, even tried a live-action
game show called Skedaddle — can anyone document the changes this show’s
gone through in the 5 years this has been on the air?
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #235, from hmccracken, 511 chars, Sun May 13 21:56:55 1990
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TITLE: I had wondered what had happened to _Nemo_, an
excellent magazine about comic strips, politcal cartoons, and
editorial cartoons…and now I know, sort of. Apparently owner-
ship of the magazine is being transferred from Fantagraphics
(who hasn’t published any issues in more than a year) to
Kitchen Sink Press (publishers of some excellent comic-strip
reprint books). Hope this helps get the magazine back on
track, and that its editor, the incredibly knowledgable Rick
Marschall, stays on.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #236, from switch, 160 chars, Sun May 13 22:22:51 1990
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BTW, Harry, what’s happened to Cartoon Quarterly? I remember you telling
me during a chat some time ago, but my brain seems to have lost it in the
muck.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #237, from hmccracken, 434 chars, Mon May 14 23:08:37 1990
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_Cartoon Quarterly_ is in limbo at present — it may be revived, but don’t
rush out to your newsstand just yet. It was thrown off kilter by Gladstone’s
loss of the Disney comics, which led to staff reductions. If it returns, it
may be from a different publisher. John Cawley and Jim Korkis are
brewing something different-but-related, I believe, which they’re
being a bit secretive about but which may be announced soon.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #238, from switch, 61 chars, Tue May 15 00:19:43 1990
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How many issues of CQ came out? I only got the first.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #239, from hmccracken, 48 chars, Tue May 15 18:11:28 1990
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Then you have a complete collection.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #240, from davemackey, 249 chars, Wed May 16 06:53:39 1990
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The videocassette of the “Little Mermaid” has begun hitting stores in my
area. It has been priced as low as $18.75, which might be below the
minimum retail price set by Disney. Haven’t looked at my copy yet,
though.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #241, from hmccracken, 226 chars, Wed May 16 18:58:05 1990
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Just picked up my copy at a local video store for $19.99, not counting
a three-dollar rebate that can be had by mailing proof of purchase to
Disney. Haven’t watched it yet, either — I may have comments
when I do.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #242, from hmccracken, 613 chars, Thu May 17 00:09:30 1990
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TITLE: Jones is Back
Chuck Jones has formed a new company, Chuck Jones Enterprises, to
produce full-animation projects for TV. Planned projects include
_The Short, Happy Lives of Barnaby Scratch_, about a (literal)
cat burglar; something called _The Chuck Jones Three-in-One Show_;
_Crawford_, based on his own short-lived comic strip of the 1970s;
and something called _The Earth Creatures_. Interestingly, some of
these projects were also mentioned in an article from the 1960s I
recently dug up which reported on numerous Jones projects that
were never completed. Hope things pan out this time.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #243, from hkenner, 68 chars, Thu May 17 00:55:41 1990
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Harry–
In view of my upcoming CJ book: where’s that article?
–HK
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animation/coming.soon #244, from jshook, 97 chars, Thu May 17 02:11:19 1990
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I’ve also heard that he may be doing some animated sequences for
a new PBS series on creativity.
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animation/coming.soon #245, from richard.pini, 129 chars, Thu May 17 16:35:57 1990
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Found ours at a K-Mart for $18.75, not counting the $3 rebate, Wednesday
night. At least 3 stores in one mall had copies galore.
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animation/coming.soon #246, from tom.white, 249 chars, Thu May 17 18:27:50 1990
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I recall that Jones made animated specials of two of Kipling’s
stories, Rikki-tikki-tavi and The White Seal. Both are enjoyable
in the extreme, if memory serves. Are these available on video, and
did Jones ever adapt any other of Kipling’s works?
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animation/coming.soon #247, from hmccracken, 170 chars, Thu May 17 18:35:57 1990
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If you like, Hugh, I will be glad to send you copies of both the
current article (from which I gleaned the facts on Jones’s
new projects) and the earlier one!
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #248, from hmccracken, 250 chars, Thu May 17 18:39:08 1990
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Jones made at least one other Kipling special which adapted parts of
_The Jungle Book_; if memory serves, the title owas _Mowgli’s
Brothers_ or something similar. Most if not all of Jones’s
1970s TV specials are available on videotape.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #249, from hkenner, 39 chars, Thu May 17 19:33:32 1990
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Please do. Address in my resume.
–HK
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animation/coming.soon #250, from davemackey, 700 chars, Thu May 17 23:00:50 1990
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Since we had a cable outage here due to storms, I had the opportunity
to sit down with “The Little Mermaid” tape. The same reactions I had to
the theatrical version (which, for some odd reason, I saw only once —
the first day it was released), I had watching the tape. The transfer
of the video was good, and the stereo soundtrack a joy to listen to in
headphones.
Looking at it again with a more critical eye, IMHO, the only niggling
little flaw was the discrepancies in the appearance of the freehand Ariel and
the obviously Rotoscoped sequences.
–D.
P.S. Look for a familiar Disney sound effect when the dolphins spit at
Vanessa/Ursula on the wedding ship!
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animation/coming.soon #251, from sstaton, 181 chars, Fri May 18 14:54:12 1990
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The surround sound only leaps out once…when Scuttle gets blown by the
hurricane into the sky…and right past your face. Works well. “Is this
Heaven?” “No, it’s Walt Disney…”
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animation/coming.soon #252, from davemackey, 119 chars, Fri May 18 18:20:14 1990
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Isn’t “The Chuck Jones Three-In-One Show” going to be sponsored by a certain
brand of lubricating oil? (Just asking 🙂
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animation/coming.soon #253, from davemackey, 142 chars, Fri May 18 23:33:54 1990
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That was exactly the title, Harry, and all three titles are on videocassette
from Family Home Entertainment.
–D.
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animation/coming.soon #254, from davemackey, 545 chars, Tue May 22 17:58:16 1990
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TITLE: Cartoons in theatres? Oh boy!
This is the best news I’ve heard in a while. USA TODAY reports that the
1700-screen AMC Theatres chain (second only to General Cinema in number
of screens) will begin booking a select group of 130 Warner Bros. cartoons
with most of its features. About the only films that won’t get cartoons
in front of ’em are animated features (and of course, things like DICK
TRACY which have cartoons already grafted to the head end). The fun starts
Friday at an AMC Theatre near you.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #255, from hmccracken, 221 chars, Tue May 22 18:16:30 1990
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Dynamite! Of course there are no AMC theaters in the Boston area, unless
they go under a different name locally. There *is* one on Disney World
premises, though; wonder if it will be showing Warner cartoons?
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #256, from davemackey, 318 chars, Tue May 22 22:56:21 1990
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I would have to check with my brother, who even as we speak is down in
Disney World enjoying his vacation. I think I’m gonna have to travel
myself to see Big Screen Cartoons. I know there are AMC theatres in
Philadelphia, but none around here (predominantly Loew’s and General
Cinema)
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #257, from switch, 154 chars, Wed May 23 02:03:25 1990
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Well, hell. It looks as if one of my great desires is coming true, and I
didn’t even have to lift a finger.
Now if the Rialto would just do it…
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #258, from switch, 98 chars, Wed May 23 02:04:11 1990
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TITLE: Akira
Finally got something solid; Akira will be playing in Montreal in September…
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #259, from ewhac, 50 chars, Wed May 23 03:06:48 1990
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I hope they don’t show anything made after 1962.
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animation/coming.soon #260, from davemackey, 263 chars, Wed May 23 18:25:18 1990
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I am thinking of trying to contact the theatre chain and finding out
which of the shorts are being played. I would assume that they’ll concentrate
on the 1950’s era, and I too hope they have picked the cartoons with
quality in mind.
–D.
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animation/coming.soon #261, from hmccracken, 504 chars, Wed May 23 20:20:11 1990
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It’s the same around here: Loew’s has, I believe, a 100% monopoly on theaters
within Boston city limits, and the suburbs are flecked with Loew’s, General
Cinemas, Showcae, and a few other chains. No AMCs (sniff).
The Disney World movie theater is part of the “Pleasure Island” pseudo-
nightclub complex (wonder if it was intentionally named after Pinocchio’s
Pleasure Island?). It shows movies of all ratings and studios, so I
suspect they’d have no problems with running Warner cartoons.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #262, from hmccracken, 348 chars, Thu May 24 20:16:28 1990
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Spoke today to a friend who manages a non-chain theater; he told me
that he has been unable to get Warner’s cartoons to show (he is of
course an animation fan); Warner’s says they’ve been withdrawn
from release. I told him about the AMC deal, and he speculated that
they’ve acquired exclusive theatrical rights to the Warner cartoons.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #263, from davemackey, 459 chars, Sat May 26 03:29:59 1990
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As far as I know, the deal with AMC is exclusive, since the posters say
“Exclusively at AMC Theatres.”
However…. I went to the AMC 10-plex in Morristown, and to my dismay
screened no Warner cartoons! The features I saw were “Back To The Future
Part III” and “Cadillac Man.” Though I enjoyed both films I feel a little
taken.
What features are they showing the cartoons with — “Tie Me Up! Tie
Me Down!”?!?!?!?
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #269, from grekel, 117 chars, Sun May 27 02:28:34 1990
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An ad in my local paper said AMC was showing cartoons with “selected
features.”
perhaps only Warner features. hm.
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animation/coming.soon #270, from davemackey, 319 chars, Sun May 27 09:34:26 1990
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I’m gonna try again to hit an AMC Theatre today, no mean feat since I have
to drive at least 40 miles to get to one, and report back once more.
My theory is that not all theatres have been serviced with cartoons yet.
If I don’t see any today I’ll ask the manager what’s up, Doc.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #271, from davemackey, 330 chars, Sun May 27 15:49:46 1990
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Bingo! Found a Warner Bros. cartoon in an AMC theatre. With “Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles” was playing Chuck Jones’ 1950 cartoon with the bear family,
“A Bear For Punishment.” Looks to me like AMC is using existing prints for
the campaign, since this one had a few splices and some lines in it.
–D.
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animation/coming.soon #272, from bcapps, 595 chars, Sun May 27 21:48:00 1990
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Over here in DC, I saw a strip across the top of the movie listings showing
Foghorn Leghorn approaching Bugs, Sylvester, Tasmanian Devil and Road Runner
who are facing away from the reader, and asking “What, I say, what are
y’all looking at?” To which Bugs turns around and answers “Looney Tunes,
Mac, Looney Tunes” And one of the theaters went so far as to put a blurb
in their listings stating that the shorts would be shown with all features.
And they just happen to be showing “Back to the Future III,” which my wife
and I want to see next. Wonder where I’m going tomorrow, hmm….
Bob
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animation/coming.soon #273, from davemackey, 607 chars, Sun May 27 22:38:29 1990
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There was a brief trailer of the Bugs’ 50th logo, with a voice over announcer
saying “AMC Theatres is proud to honor Bugs Bunny on his 50th anniversary…”
blah blah blah… and out comes the animated Daffy Duck (voiced by Bergman)
protesting over all the attention given Bugs. (The screen aspect ratio of the
trailer matches that of the old Warner cartoons, by the way.) I suppose
this is meant to precede the cartoons.
Without giving too much of it away, if you liked the original “Back To
The Future,” you’re certain to REALLY like the third (and final) chapter.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #274, from jporter, 324 chars, Mon May 28 00:51:23 1990
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re BFIII. Some of the best animation I have seen. Increadabel travaling
(animated) Mattes I have seen. If you thought willow was good…
By the way does anybody know who FLEA is?
( now I keep telling myself I will not fall in love with this film. I will not
…. there are other thing in life than celuloid and light)
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animation/coming.soon #275, from hmccracken, 483 chars, Mon May 28 01:16:06 1990
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Funny, I just got back from seeing Back to the Future III myself. I
hadn’t seen either of the first two parts, but I enjoyed this one.
And while they didn’t show a cartoon, they *did* show the trailer
for Gremlins II, which includes a clip from _Falling Hare_ in
black and white. That movie’s director, Joe Dante, is a cartoon
nut who’s gone as far as to give Chuck Jones a cameo in an
earlier movie; I’m sure there will be lots of cartoon references in
his new film.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #276, from davemackey, 61 chars, Tue May 29 18:20:31 1990
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That earlier movie, by the way, was the original “Gremlins.”
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animation/coming.soon #277, from hmccracken, 253 chars, Tue May 29 18:22:54 1990
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I know — matter of fact I won a Gremlins in-joke contest held by
the Boston Herald when the movie came out. Wonder if they’ll
have another one when Part II is released? Probably not — and
I’d rather be able to retire undefeated, anyway.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #279, from switch, 59 chars, Tue May 29 19:53:31 1990
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Right, there are other tjings — comics and nachos.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #280, from switch, 328 chars, Tue May 29 19:55:26 1990
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TITLE: I thought it would be a normal day…
…until I heard the news: Chuck Jones will be coming to Montreal for this
year’s Just For Laughs festival. There is normally some kind of animation
event at these festivals, and it seems this year’s will be two nights of
Warner films at the Rialto, with Chuck Jones hosting.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #281, from hmccracken, 457 chars, Tue May 29 21:05:16 1990
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Two nights? Two *different* nights? You’re in for a treat, Emru. I’ve
seen Jones’s cartoons-and-lecture show twice, and it’s fantastic. He
shows maybe twelve cartoons — both famous ones and fairly obscure
ones — and fills in the gaps with anecdotes, scholarly comments, and
witty comments on the films. Mel Blanc and Bob Clampett did similar
shows which I was fortunate enough to see before they passed away, but
Jones’s is the greatest.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #283, from davemackey, 103 chars, Tue May 29 21:41:11 1990
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Please, provide us with some dates! I’ve got vacation coming up!
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #284, from davemackey, 304 chars, Tue May 29 21:43:18 1990
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TITLE: 6/9 TV Guide…
will feature an article called “America’s New Love Affair With Cartoons,”
which will include “a sneak preview of all the new cartoons coming to TV
next season.” A teaser ad appears in the white pages of some regional editions
of the 6/2 issue.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #285, from switch, 242 chars, Tue May 29 22:54:30 1990
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I had guessed at this when Claude (at Nebula Books) said he had a secret I
would thank him for revealing, just off the wall — when it turned out I was
right, they had to peel me off the ceiling. In fact, I think I’m still in
shock…
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #286, from switch, 166 chars, Tue May 29 22:55:03 1990
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I’ll be posting all the details as I get them. I don’t even know when Just
For Laughs is this year, I’m so out of touch. I believe he should be here
in July.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #293, from jporter, 314 chars, Wed May 30 23:28:12 1990
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One of the higlights of my life was seeing Bob Clampett at the Mill Valley
Film festival. I would guess that was about 10 years ago. I still have
fond memorys of that night. Then again that was when I discovered the
Kerner Street optical company … (my have they been around that long.
I must be getting old)
-jP
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animation/coming.soon #294, from hmccracken, 545 chars, Sun Jun 3 22:27:35 1990
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TITLE: Much to my surprise,
a new animated feature film is opening in the theatres on Friday,
at least in the Boston area. _Happily Ever After_ was actually
made several years ago, by the now-defunct Filmation studio, as
part of a planned series of sequels to Disney films that began with
_Pinocchio and the ?EEmperor of the Night_. (_Happily_’s original
title was _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfelles_.)
I suspect I will be able to restran myself from rushing out to see
this movie, but if I falter, I will report on it here!
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #300, from jimomura, 160 chars, Sun Jun 10 10:45:37 1990
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I moved the thread about what movie people have seen the most to
‘inkwell’. Seems it was longer than I realized. My apologies to
those who see it twice.
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animation/coming.soon #301, from hmccracken, 340 chars, Thu Jun 14 23:25:16 1990
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TITLE: For what it’s worth…
I spoke to a friend today who’s seen both the shortly-to-be-released
Jetsons movie and a few episodes of the upcoming Warner Bros.
_Tiny Toons_ series. My friend graded the Jetstons movie at
“C+,” but says that Tiny Toons is very good and several notches
above the various Disney TV cartoon shows.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #302, from hmccracken, 353 chars, Thu Jun 14 23:27:30 1990
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This is quite odd. _Happily Ever After_ never opened, despite the
ads in the paper. At least two folks more knowledgable about the
animation business than I noted this and have no idea why it
didn’t appear. Certainly it’s the only example I know of of a film
being in the Sunday paper as opening the nxt Friday, and then
failing to do so.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #303, from hmccracken, 306 chars, Thu Jun 14 23:28:48 1990
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TITLE: Did you know…
that the Don Bluth Studios, famous for Secret of NIMH, An American
Tail, Land Before Time, and other films, is now doing commercials,
TV specials, and other miscellaneous projects, not necessarily in the
Bluth style? They’ve done a Cap’n Crunch commercial, for instance.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #304, from jimomura, 371 chars, Fri Jun 15 16:46:24 1990
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Latest Word on Akira For Canada
I called Famous Players and everything is sort of vague at this
point. Although they are looking for release around September, little
has been done. They haven’t signed up any bookings and don’t have
the prints done yet. They don’t expect to get the prints done until
after they know the bookings. So it’s sort of “wait and see.”
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animation/coming.soon #305, from davemackey, 130 chars, Fri Jun 15 20:55:55 1990
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Bluth Sullivan out in Ireland, or did they open a branch office to deal with
US ad agencies?
-_D,
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animation/coming.soon #306, from hmccracken, 89 chars, Sat Jun 16 00:11:24 1990
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They have a thriving L.A. unit now, which is doing lots of
non-feature stuff.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #307, from hmccracken, 831 chars, Sat Jun 16 00:35:42 1990
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TITLE: The second Roger Rabbit short, Roller Coaster
Rabbit, is out and available for viewing in all those theaters
that are showing Dick Tracy. I enjoyed it and would rank it
a notch or two above Tummy Trouble, the last one.
Curiously, despite all the yelling and running around during
the short, the funniest bits are the side-gags that elicit a
grin rather than a belly laugh. The climax, featuring a
terrific computer-animated roller coaster, is especially
good.
The short was in production at the Disney-MGM Theme Park
Studios in Florida when I visited it back in September, so I
have a sort of bias in favor of it, I guess. But I think I
would have enjoyed it in any event, and hope they get around
to making more Roger cartoons. By the way, Charlie Fleischer,
Roger’s voice, has a bit part in Dick Tracy.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #308, from davemackey, 90 chars, Sat Jun 16 08:49:10 1990
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I hear everyone has a bit part in Dick Tracy! Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman,
Dick Van Dyke…
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animation/coming.soon #309, from hmccracken, 340 chars, Sat Jun 16 10:28:11 1990
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Yesterday’s New York Times had a great page with pictures with
most, though not all, of the notable performers. Besides those
that you mentiond (and Pacino has a major role, not a cameo),
folks like Michael J. Polard, Catherine O’Hara, James Caan,
Paul Sorvino, Estelle Parsons, and numerous others appear. Truly
a great cast.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #310, from jshook, 226 chars, Sun Jun 17 00:55:54 1990
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I missed most of those you listed. Gee…and I really like
Catherine O’Hara.
I did spot one cameo that wasn’t there. I could have sworn
that the Welfare Lady who comes to pick up the kid was played
by Dorothy Michaels….
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animation/coming.soon #311, from hmccracken, 153 chars, Sun Jun 17 07:36:00 1990
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I like Catherine O’Hara too, but didn’t identify her except by reading
the credits. Guess she didn’t have the most visible role in the film!
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #312, from steven_edwards, 736 chars, Sat Jun 23 22:52:33 1990
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TITLE: Fantasia Returns
From a Disney employee I spoke with recently:
The word is that _Fantasia_ will be re-released to the theater circuit
soon as part of its fiftieth anniversary observation.
The _Fantasia_ soundtrack is available from Disney now (and perhaps
has been for some time), but I only saw a cassette version. If a compact
disc version is for sale, I haven’t seen it yet.
On another note, I heard a rumor that the CD version of the soundtrack
for _The Little Mermaid_ has just about sold out. Personally, I believe that
the generally excellent quality of the music in Disney full-length animation
is just as good as the animation itself. I hope that they see fit to keep
CD versions of such in print.
— Steve
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animation/coming.soon #313, from switch, 169 chars, Sun Jun 24 00:09:23 1990
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There is indeed a CD version. My library finally got it back in
last week (after nearly a year of waiting!) when I discovered my
library card had run its course.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #314, from switch, 113 chars, Sun Jun 24 00:11:06 1990
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TITLE: The Simpsons.
…are coming to Canada! CTV will start broadcasting The Simpsons
as of July 17th…
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #315, from davemackey, 158 chars, Sun Jun 24 08:24:48 1990
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Which soundtrack are we talking about? The digital soundtrack tacked
onto the 1983 reissue or the Stokowski original?
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #316, from steven_edwards, 221 chars, Sun Jun 24 09:58:03 1990
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I would assume that the digital soundtrack would be used for CD issue.
Music recorded back in 1940 is just going to have too much in the way of
reproduction error unless it has extensive digital reprocessing.
— Steve
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animation/coming.soon #317, from switch, 47 chars, Sun Jun 24 14:35:22 1990
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The one at my library is the ’83 rework.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #318, from hmccracken, 357 chars, Sun Jun 24 16:39:04 1990
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Probably so, although A) the 1940 version was conducted by
Stokowski, which certainly makes it worth listening to, and
B) it was recorded in a very early stereo proces, probably
the first movie to have been done so. In any event, I am
delighted that the new release of Fantasia to the theaters is
going to include the original, real soundtrack.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #320, from davemackey, 409 chars, Mon Jun 25 21:05:10 1990
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The reason I was asking is that when I was in college, one of my professors
was an acquaintance of Irwin Kostal, and I graduated in ’83 which was the
year of the last reissue of “Fantasia,” and this professor was telling us
how Irv Kostal (which is what he always called him) was redoing the soundtrack
giving it many plugs in his music history classes. It has stuck since.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #321, from hmccracken, 189 chars, Mon Jun 25 22:54:52 1990
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Kostal is a very competent musician who did some fine work on
_Mary Poppins_, especially. But I would have objected to
Stravinsky himself re-recording the historic soundtrack.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #322, from switch, 393 chars, Tue Jun 26 20:30:47 1990
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Got the CD (said “What the hell” and blew the fifteen bucks to join
a club — turns out the person who helped me is from a comic store
I used to frequent, and is a longtime animation fan) today — it’s
close, but not quite Stokowsky. Oh well. Can’t have everything.
Incidentally, it’s a double CD set, totalling around 104 minutes;
the numbers are CD-001 DIDX 723 and CD-001 DIDX 724.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #323, from steven_edwards, 313 chars, Thu Jun 28 12:36:44 1990
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TITLE: Computer Animation Videofest
The Computer Animation Videofest will take place in Boston,
Massachusetts at The Computer Museum from 30 Jun 1990 to 04 Jul 1990.
Computer animation from around the world. Admission charged.
The Computer Museum
300 Congress St.
11 am to 5 pm
(617) 426-2800
— Steve
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animation/coming.soon #324, from dave.f, 318 chars, Fri Jun 29 09:43:34 1990
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re:
museum and go through the “Walk Through Computer” exhibit you’ll be thrilled
to know that I recorded all the scanning electron microscope footage that they
are using on the various screens/projectors to simulate the innards of working
IC’s.
D=
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animation/coming.soon #325, from richard.pini, 364 chars, Tue Jul 3 20:24:00 1990
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Seems to me that if they can clean up the Stokowski soundtrack nicely enough
to work in today’s super-duper theater sound systems (well, I have to assume
that *some* of the hotshot screens will show it, no?) then they can clean it
up nicely enough to release on CD. I about choked when I heard the ’83
rework; compared to Stokowski’s version it was cold and dead.
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animation/coming.soon #326, from hmccracken, 597 chars, Wed Jul 4 13:03:35 1990
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Having just seen _Dick Tracy_ again, I am sorry to have to report
that Catherine O’Hara’s role is an *extremely* small one, as one
of the crooks at the big criminals’ meeting that Big Boy Caprice
holds fairly early on. I don’t believe she speaks, is spoken to,
or is referred to by name. Another interesting cameo I discovered
on second viewing is Henry Jones’s small role as the night clerk
at the hotel where Tracy is framed for murder. Jones is an
excellent (and I believe by now quite elderly) actor, whom I
at least remember best as Judge Dexter on the old _Phyllis_ TV
series.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #327, from hmccracken, 1918 chars, Sat Jul 7 19:06:27 1990
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TITLE: My biggest disappointment with _Jetsons: the Movie_ is
that it is so thoroughly aimed at a kiddie audience. The TV
ads for the film seem to suggest that it has at least some
adult appeal, but the movie is similar to the new TV Jetsons
episodes of a few years back — pleasant enough entertainment
for kids, I guess, but not much more. The movie’s plot has
George and family moving when George is named to run a
Spacely Sprockets factory which keeps getting sabotaged by some
cute, Ewok-type critters; a lot of the action revolves around
Judy Jetson (who, as voiced by Tiffany, sounds nothing like
herself). I was sad to see that the Jetsons’ dog Astro, the
only really funny character, had very little screen time.
Most of the animation varies from decent to quite good, and the
Roger Rabbit-type shading is pretty effective. (There’s also
some interesting computer animation, mostly of planets and the
Spacely factory). For some reason one of Tiffany’s songs is
performed over a rock video by another studio which looks more
like _Fantasia_ or _Yellow Submarine_ than anything else in
the film. Ultimately, what I liked about the movie was for
the most part the things about it that hewed most closely to the
original _Jetsons_ shows, especially the voice performances.
George O’Hanlon (as George Jetson) and Mel Blanc (as Mr. Spacely)
both did their last work to be released here, which gives the
movie a bittersweet edge for those who are aware of the fact.
(I suspect that at least a line or two of each character’s
dialogue was performed by imitators, a suspicion increased by
the names of Jeff Bergman and B.J. Ward in the credits, both
of who have done such imitating in the past.)
If you want a wholesome movie to take your kids to, you could
do worse than this one. But only animation or _Jetstons_
completists should really consider seeing the flick without
a kid or two along.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #328, from davemackey, 858 chars, Sat Jul 7 23:47:16 1990
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There’s precedent for the “rock video” sequence. If I remember correctly,
“The Man Called Flintstone” had such a sequence that was animated and
designed a little differently from the rest of the film for a change of
pace.
Jami Bernard, in the New York Post, reported that the late George
O’Hanlon had to have each line read to him before he recorded it, as
he was nearly blind and confined to a wheelchair when his lines were
recorded.
I haven’t seen “Jetsons” yet, and the reviews, which have ranged
from mediocre to don’t bother, are starting to scare me away a little.
I’ve also noticed that the theatres around here aren’t giving the film
nighttime showings. And you’re well aware of my seething anger (still
bubbling) over Janet Waldo not doing the voice of Judy.
Thanks for the warning, nonetheless.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #329, from hmccracken, 960 chars, Sun Jul 8 02:21:35 1990
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There is a quite-possibly apocryphal story about the ailing
Goerge O’Hanlon’s work on _Jetsons: the Movie_, which I heard
from someone who heard it from a famous young animator, that
has it that while O’Hanlon was having his lines read to him
for repeating he suddenly gasped in pain and clutched his
heart. The person doing the reading asked in alarm, “George,
what’s wrong?,” and O’Hanlon repeated, “George, what’s wrong?”
and then died.
In any event, George Jetson sounds just fine during the movie,
which is probably a tribute both to O’Hanlon and to whoever
supervised the voice readings. Bad voice direction hurts
animation so often — think of some of Mel Blanc’s later work,
or many animted soundtracks featuring famous live-action
actors. It’s nice to hear a soundtrack that’s a lot better
and livlier than you would have expected, given the circum-
stances. The person who took over for Daws Butler as Elroy
does a capable job, too.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #330, from bsoron, 144 chars, Sun Jul 8 21:47:03 1990
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Watership Down also had something of a “video” done in a completely
different style from the rest of the movie. Good chance to get popcorn.
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animation/coming.soon #331, from davemackey, 170 chars, Mon Jul 16 21:10:26 1990
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TITLE: Oh, deer…
The Disney Channel will be presenting the cable TV premiere of its
animated classic “Bambi” in December, 1990.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #332, from hmccracken, 1025 chars, Wed Jul 18 23:00:14 1990
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TITLE: I don’t know abou you folks, but I plan to make time to
see Disney’s _The Jungle Book_ now that it’s in theaters again,
even though it only seems to be playing matinees. The animation
is wonderful and the characters are excellent, enough so that
its lack of Kiplingishness is unimportant. The movie has an
extremely mellow mood that probably came from the fact that
the animators had been working so long together by the time the
film was made (1967), and with Walt’s mind on other things
the production process must have been pretty smooth and
relexaed. (Though I do find that this movie’s distinction as
the last animated film Walt personally supervised is visible
on-screen: the ones that followed were much flabbier and
self-indulgent than this film.)
All in a, I’d rank _The Jungle Book_ as the best of Disney’s
1960s features — though most people would probably place
_101 Dalmations_ above it — and I don’t really think that
any of the post-Walt features than have followed have topped
it.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #333, from jshook, 58 chars, Wed Jul 18 23:53:58 1990
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By 1967, Walt’s mind was *definitely* on other things….
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animation/coming.soon #334, from hmccracken, 391 chars, Thu Jul 19 00:22:23 1990
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Well, by ’67 his mind was probably on playing his harp and
polishing his golden wings… But the film was largely done
by time he passed away in late 1966. By then, he had been
focusing his interests on his theme parks for almost fifteen
years. It’s said he seriously considered shutting down the
animation department altogether after the pricey failure of
_Sleeping Beauty_.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #335, from richard.pini, 361 chars, Sun Jul 22 21:43:46 1990
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Subtitled: The Things One Finds…
A few years ago when we were visiting Wendy’s home back in CA, we chanced
to be going through the tank house, where lots of old stuff had been stored
and forgotten, and found a cel from ‘Jungle Book.’ Must’ve been bought out
of a Disneyland gift shop years ago before cel-mania took hold. A real cel,
too, not a recreation.
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animation/coming.soon #336, from hmccracken, 39 chars, Mon Jul 23 18:45:22 1990
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Wow! What was the cel of?
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #337, from hmccracken, 521 chars, Tue Jul 24 23:31:22 1990
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TITLE: There are a *lot* of neat animation and comics books
coming out in September. A book on the making of _Bambi_ by
Nine Old Men Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas. A book on the
music of Disney’s animated films. A biography of Walt Disney.
An English edition of the superb French book _Tom et Jerry_.
Two new Bloom County collections. A new Calvin and Hobbes one.
Not to mention paperback editions of Chuck Jones’s and Shamus
Culhane’s recent books.
I’m going to be *really* poor this Fall, I think…
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #338, from hmccracken, 195 chars, Tue Jul 24 23:32:50 1990
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And I forgot to mention that Kitchen Sink Press is doing a collection
of Al Capp’s _Fearless Fosdick_ stories, which are some of the finest
and funniest works of comic art ever done.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #339, from sharonfisher, 30 chars, Wed Jul 25 10:01:33 1990
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Two new Bloom Counties? How?
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animation/coming.soon #340, from tom.white, 60 chars, Wed Jul 25 10:49:25 1990
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Yeah, what she said. I hope they’ll be COMPLETE this time.
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animation/coming.soon #341, from bsoron, 240 chars, Wed Jul 25 19:57:36 1990
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New Bloom Country books? Printing ’em backwards? One with mustaches
drawn on everyone and the other printed in invisible ink so you haveta
rub the book with lemon juice to see ’em? Didn’t Happy Trails finish
off Bloom Country reprints?
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animation/coming.soon #342, from switch, 1524 chars, Wed Jul 25 21:41:12 1990
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TITLE: Dark Horse
_Cheval Noir_ notwithstanding, I don’t go near Dark Horse titles. Not
anything in particular against the company, but my budget’s awfully teeny.
Anyway, during my last visit to Cosmix, Sylvain stuck the latest _Dark
Horse Insider_ into my bag along with the latest _Cheval Noir_. _Insider_
is pretty fun; it spends half its time tongue-in-cheek, and is laid out like
a cross between _Spy_ and _The National Enquirer_. Anyway, my thoughts on
what’s coming up…
INDIANA JONES: What, again? Didn’t Marvel try this? Guess we’ll have
to wait and see…
HARD BOILED: I have to admit it was the headline that made me even bother
to read this… “TAX COLLECTOR KILLS 500! IRS official announcement
describes carnage as ‘an unfortunate clerical error'” I couldn’t stop
laughing. I finally read the article, which sort of illustrates what’s
going on by giving us coverage of the event as if it were real.
Apparently the IRS is now using cyborg tax collectors, and one happens to
trip out. Frank Miller writing, Geof Darrow illustrating, and Claude
Legris coloring. The first issue is due… hey, July? Where’s my copy?
PREDATORS: Aaaaaargh. This time they stop on New York. Please, God, let
it end.
DUCKMAN gets his own book, but they don’t say when. I’ve only heard of
Duckman, but a look at the two panels they show make me curious (not so
much the action, but the headline: “Another Mime Found Murdered”).
Will someone tell me the point behind ALIENS VS. PREDATOR? Pretty please?
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #343, from davemackey, 254 chars, Wed Jul 25 22:48:28 1990
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I just picked up some of Kitchen Sink’s compilations of Ernie Bushmiller’s
Nancy strip. It’s weird to read lots of that at one sitting, especially
when the stuff ranges so in age from page to page (1939 to 1979).
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #344, from hmccracken, 736 chars, Wed Jul 25 22:57:28 1990
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One’s not quite a book: it’s a 1991 “Bloom County Swimsuit Calendar.”
I’m not sure if the art in it is new or reprints. The other book
seems to be reprints from the last few years of the strip. I don’t
think that the Bloom County reprints have ever printed every single
strip in correct order, so there may be stuff in this collection
that’s previously unreprinted. But then again, the folks who reprint
_Calvin and Hobbes_ get away with publishing two series of reprints
that cover, in large part, the same territory. They’re also doing
it with _Fox Trot_: the second reprint book of that strip is just out,
and will be followed in a few months by a book which reprints it and
the first one along with some other stuff.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #345, from hmccracken, 287 chars, Wed Jul 25 22:59:07 1990
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Another book that will be out in September is one on Hank Ketcham
and Dennis the Meance, with the pretty clever title of _The
Merchant of Venice_. Ketcham at his best is a pretty spectacular
cartoonist (though an underappreciated one), so I’m looking forward
to the volume.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #346, from hmccracken, 368 chars, Wed Jul 25 23:00:57 1990
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I believe I’ve mentioned before that I am a dyed-in-the-wool _Nancy_
fanatic. I may also have expressed my favoritism for the non-Kitchen
Sink _Nancy_ collection over the KS ones, since grouping strips by
gag theme (as KS does) tends to hurt them. Kitchen Sink is going
to be coming out with a Nancy and Sluggo tie that I can hardly wait
to wear to work.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #347, from switch, 71 chars, Wed Jul 25 23:28:55 1990
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You get to wear Nancy and Sluggo ties to work? I want your job!
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #348, from jshook, 42 chars, Wed Jul 25 23:48:13 1990
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The Merchant of Venice….I don’t get it.
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animation/coming.soon #349, from hmccracken, 83 chars, Thu Jul 26 07:43:13 1990
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And no wonder you don’t — I meant to say _The Merchant of **Dennis**_.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #350, from richard.pini, 243 chars, Thu Jul 26 09:46:40 1990
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Don’t have it in front of me, but memory says it’s of two vultures (one riding
on the other’s shoulders) facing Mowgli, who is looking a little sceptical –
or some such. Haven’t yet seen the re-release, so can’t say where in the film
that is.
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animation/coming.soon #351, from richard.pini, 105 chars, Thu Jul 26 09:48:26 1990
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I saw these ties at the ABA – flourescent green, orange, and blue (not all
on the same tie, thank ghu!).
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animation/coming.soon #352, from richard.pini, 43 chars, Thu Jul 26 09:50:06 1990
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The point behind Aliens vs. Predator? Bux!
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animation/coming.soon #353, from tom.white, 430 chars, Thu Jul 26 11:35:45 1990
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Oh, a calender.
As for the duplicate reprintings of Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes —
do you really think Breathed and Watterson mind, when their books
inevitably climb into the top 10 of the Publisher’s Weekly bestseller
lists, and stay there, and stay there, and stay there….
Only Larson makes it up there with them, among authors whom illustrate
more than write text.
Okay, I suppose you could include Dr. Seuss as well.
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animation/coming.soon #354, from tom.white, 133 chars, Thu Jul 26 11:37:31 1990
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Denis Kitchen himself was wearing his Nancy tie at the Dallas Fantasy
Fair. Me, I wouldn’t wear it, but I cannot stand ties anyway.
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animation/coming.soon #355, from hmccracken, 246 chars, Thu Jul 26 18:16:00 1990
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I’m sure that Watterson and Breathed are glad to rake in the
$$$. But sometimes I wonder if double reprinting is any more
appealing a merchandising idea than the dolls and other stuff
that Watterson stoutly refuses to consider doing.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #356, from hmccracken, 267 chars, Thu Jul 26 18:18:03 1990
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I hate ties m’self and only wear them to work (where they’re
required except on Fridays), funerals, and graduation and
religious ceremonies. And when applying for jobs. I think
my Nancy tie will be appropriate for at most two of the above
activities…
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #357, from rfranzen, 180 chars, Thu Jul 26 23:36:11 1990
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I’m glad you like the Nancy strip, Harry. For me, though, I’ve tried to
read it, but the humor always seems flat. Maybe there’s something I just
don’t understand there.
Rich
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animation/coming.soon #358, from rfranzen, 540 chars, Thu Jul 26 23:43:20 1990
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If the double-reprinting is done in two formats, I don’t mind it. For
example, I have bought all of the oversize Farside books, but none of the
other (undersize?) ones. If I wanted the “latest”, I could buy the smaller
ones, but I don’t mind waiting some.
On the other hand, the Peanuts Parade series would often repeat strips and
sometimes whole sequences. This was especially prevalent with the earlier
volumes. I guess Holt Rinehart Winston figured that, since they didn’t
bother with page numbers, nobody would notice.
Rich
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animation/coming.soon #359, from jshook, 725 chars, Thu Jul 26 23:43:39 1990
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I think the Nancy comics present a very subtle form of surrealism
(at least that’s what I remember from my childhood–I haven’t
looked at a Nancy comic in about 30 years). Bushmiller’s
renderings are so bland and impersonal that the total effect is
one of hyper-banality. In a way his drawings are more like
engineering diagrams than comic strips. I think I found the
effect of all of this oddly mesmerising as a child. I certainly
can’t remember much of anything about what anyone did in those
stories. I do remember that I didn’t particularly like anyone in
any of the stories…Nancy least of all. And Aunt Fritz always seemed
to be heading out the door to go shopping before you got a chance to
get to know her….
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animation/coming.soon #360, from davemackey, 278 chars, Fri Jul 27 00:00:51 1990
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I understand that Scripps Howard has just begun what is called a “Peanuts
Collectors Series” which will hopefully encompass the whole strip,
chronologically. I saw one volume which reprinted strips from February
through July of 1970.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #361, from hmccracken, 652 chars, Fri Jul 27 00:18:39 1990
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Your analysis of _Nancy_’s appeal is a good one. I don’t find
the strip funny. I don’t find Bushmiller’s drawing especially
appealing. And the characters are certainly nothing to write
home about.
But something remains compelling about Bushmiller’s world. As
has often been pointed out, this is comics at its most primal
and unornamented: _Nancy_ is as close to a generic comic as
we’ll ever have. And there is a certain *logic* to the whole
thing that’s reassuring, somehow: it is an absolutely predictable,
consistent strip. It’s comforting — the comic-strip equivalent
of nursery food like mashed potatoes or macaroni and cheese.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #362, from tom.white, 462 chars, Fri Jul 27 01:02:09 1990
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One reviewer, in the CBG I think, pointed out that Nancy was as
minimalist as comics get — to make it any simpler, a house would
have to be replaced by the word “house” in the backgrounds.
And the quote that sticks in my head best is that other artists
don’t so much admire Bushmiller’s work as the “artistic murder he
got away with.” It was popular art in its simplest form.
I’d give Dilbert the “simplest” award these days — at least Nancy
was appealing.
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animation/coming.soon #363, from tom.white, 80 chars, Fri Jul 27 01:04:01 1990
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If double reprinting keeps the material in print, — Harry, it IS
a good thing.
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animation/coming.soon #364, from switch, 20 chars, Sat Jul 28 11:45:05 1990
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Which two? 😉
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #365, from switch, 25 chars, Sat Jul 28 11:45:43 1990
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_Aside_ from that!
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #366, from hmccracken, 817 chars, Sun Jul 29 17:28:35 1990
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TITLE: Just saw the coming attractions trailer for
_DuckTales: The Movie — Treasure of the Lost Lamp_, the first
in a series of new theatrical Disney animated features called
“Disney Movietoons.” These will be based on Disney TV cartoon
shows; based on what I saw, the animation won’t be much better
than what’s to be found in those shows. (In fact, I’ve seen
episodes of _DuckTales_ with *better* animation than the
feature seems to have.) Coupled with the upcoming release of
the full-budget Disney animated feature _The Rescuers Down Under_,
_DuckTales: the Movie_’s release gives us what is the first
year I can think of offhand in which two new Disney feature
cartoons have been released.
As a friend once commented about a different matter, “If Walt
were alive he’d be spinning in his grave.”
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #367, from davemackey, 198 chars, Sun Jul 29 18:50:31 1990
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The movie, incidentally, will be preceded by a classic Donald Duck
short subject, “Dude Duck,” so you will get your money’s worth of classic
style Disney animation.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #368, from tom.white, 58 chars, Mon Jul 30 01:46:01 1990
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It’s not the DuckTales pilot released to theaters, is it?
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animation/coming.soon #369, from hmccracken, 103 chars, Mon Jul 30 08:02:19 1990
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Nope; it’s new but typical-looking. It was produced largely
in mainland China, by the way.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #370, from mscoville, 228 chars, Tue Jul 31 22:30:53 1990
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TITLE: New, 1991 Calendar
A new 1991 calendaris being produced with Moose and Squirrel. The graphics
are excellent and there is even an interview with June Foray at the end.
It is a must for those who Love Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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animation/coming.soon #371, from mscoville, 216 chars, Tue Jul 31 22:34:18 1990
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In reading the ads in the paper it states that it is produced by Walt Disney
SA in France. Did they do the animation over there or was it produced over
there and then sent to China for the remaining animation.
Mike
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animation/coming.soon #372, from hmccracken, 293 chars, Tue Jul 31 22:45:02 1990
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My
inbetweens, ink and paint, etc. being handled in the PRC.
I’m guessing here, but I wonder if the production credit to
Walt Disney SA indicates that any profits will be funneled
directly into the Euro Disneyland project? Disney does not
have a studio in France as far as I know.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #373, from mscoville, 348 chars, Sat Aug 4 15:56:58 1990
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Disney, French Studio
I thought I read in the past year that Disney was going to open up a
studio on the continent. It was rumored to be in France. Does anybody
else know of this? With world-wide incorporations, it is impossible to
know where or for what reason the profits go. It was interesting that
this was not released by Disney,USA.
Mike
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animation/coming.soon #374, from tshim, 95 chars, Sun Aug 5 19:25:33 1990
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Hugh, Chuck Amuck was ghost-written in part — check out the last dedication
that Jones gives.
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animation/coming.soon #375, from tshim, 115 chars, Sun Aug 5 19:28:04 1990
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From what I gather, the flipbook in Chuck Amuck >was< done for the book.
(Now, what's your excuse, Harry?
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animation/coming.soon #376, from davemackey, 179 chars, Mon Aug 6 21:58:45 1990
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I very much doubt it. Jones recounted many of the anecdotes in his book at
a recent live appearance I was at, and the man writes like he talks.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #377, from tshim, 314 chars, Mon Aug 6 23:24:59 1990
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“He writes like he talks” is one of the reasons why I thought someone
may have embellished
run-on sentences, and Chuck (from interviews) doesn’t seem to be >that<
prosaic verbally (at least not to the extreme extent that the book is).
But I could be wrong. ...
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animation/coming.soon #378, from hmccracken, 812 chars, Fri Aug 10 22:34:06 1990
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TITLE: They showed a short film on Disney's upcoming
_The Rescuers Down Under_ at the San Diego Con, and I'm not
sure what to think. Looks like the thing will have an extremely
rich look, through complex use of color and lots of computer
work; both I and the friend I saw it with compared the use of
color to some Japanese animation. (As well as _Roger Rabbit_,
to which it owes its heavy use of shading.)
Maybe I'm alone on this, but the original _Rescuers_ ranks at or
near the bottom of my ranking of Disney animated features, and I
wonder if the characters have been strengthened at all for this
belated sequel. Based on what I saw, the thing could end up
being the slickest and most expensive episode of _Chip 'n
Dale's Rescue Rangers_ ever made. Or maybe something really
good. We'll see.
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #379, from richard.pini, 323 chars, Sat Aug 11 22:37:06 1990
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I finally got my very own one (the bilious green version) and proudly wore
it to a meeting with various lawyers in Beverly Hills the Friday of the
ComicCon. The office was properly amused and appalled. Then we went to luch
, er, lunch at the Cafe Rodeo on Rodeo Drive. Very chi-chi. Just the place
for such a tie... *grin*
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animation/coming.soon #380, from hmccracken, 167 chars, Sun Aug 12 02:10:38 1990
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And I got an orange one which made a fantastic splash at the office.
As I told Denis Kitchen himself, it's the most expensive tie I've
ever bought. (True!)
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #381, from hmccracken, 196 chars, Sun Aug 12 02:15:45 1990
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TITLE: Mike Jittlov fans may want to check out the Patrick
Swayze flick _Ghost_, which, besides being a pretty good
(albeit live-action) movie, has some special effects work
by Jittlov.
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #382, from davemackey, 122 chars, Mon Aug 13 06:57:04 1990
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I think all this discussion about ties belongs in a new topic: animation/
in.ties
--Dave
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animation/coming.soon #383, from hmccracken, 98 chars, Mon Aug 13 18:12:43 1990
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And the discussion of McDonalds' in /inkwell can go into the
animation/fry.ins topic...
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #384, from tshim, 364 chars, Mon Aug 13 23:47:36 1990
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I enjoyed the Rescuers (orig.) but disliked Oliver and Co.,
so chacoun son gout seems to rule here. In other words, no one
seems to agree on any of the 70's-early 80's (before Mermaid)
stuff (witness opinions on the Black Cauldron), which is probably
a statement on the overall quality of these films in the first
place, regardless of what individuals may think.
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animation/coming.soon #385, from richard.pini, 109 chars, Tue Aug 14 09:06:14 1990
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If you open up an "in.ties" topic in here, I think you are morally obligated
to include a "cravat emptor"...
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animation/coming.soon #386, from tshim, 41 chars, Fri Aug 17 00:12:59 1990
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Is there any further news on this front?
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animation/coming.soon #387, from tshim, 60 chars, Fri Aug 17 00:15:25 1990
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Will there be an English version of the French "Tex Avery"?
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animation/coming.soon #388, from hmccracken, 48 chars, Fri Aug 17 07:39:42 1990
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I've heard rumors that there will be.
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #389, from tshim, 67 chars, Fri Aug 17 23:20:30 1990
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Wasn't the spokes opening an attachment to the television package?
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animation/coming.soon #390, from tshim, 365 chars, Fri Aug 17 23:27:41 1990
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Whoops -- which Comics Scene issue had the Davis interview?
Art directed some of the funniest shorts, including two of my
favorites, Bugs's "Bowery Bugs" and Porky's "Nothin' but the
Tooth" (remember that classic logchopping sequence?).
I'm not sure whether to write away for the April or June issue.
Also: Does anyone know why Davis was canned as director?
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animation/coming.soon #391, from tshim, 132 chars, Fri Aug 17 23:29:57 1990
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McCartney? Michael Jackson? Carol Burnett? LONI ANDERSON?
Ray Bradbury I understand, but where did these other names come from?
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animation/coming.soon #392, from switch, 126 chars, Fri Aug 17 23:43:23 1990
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Loni Anderson's first career aspiration was apparently to become an
animator. (Think I read that in _Comics Scene_...)
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #393, from tshim, 168 chars, Fri Aug 17 23:55:46 1990
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And there was a live-action Tasmanian Devil in Dante's Twilight Zone
segment of the movie of the same name.
Can someone tell of some of the in-jokes in Dante's films?
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animation/coming.soon #394, from davemackey, 604 chars, Sat Aug 18 07:09:27 1990
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Yes and no. The "spokes" were first used on three Warner Bros. cartoons
in the 60's and all the DePatie-Freleng and later releases. When WB
developed the recolored Looney Tunes package, they decided not to use
the main titles, many of which had already been deleted by Guild Films
(previous distributor), and so tacked on a 1968 "W7" (Warner Bros. 7 Arts)
opening and closing. Recently the spokes were replaced with a generic
"bullseye" opening; production number 1400 gives this clip away as being
from "Deduce You Say" with the 1956 copyright blocked out and replaced
(illogically) with a 1967 notice.
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animation/coming.soon #395, from davemackey, 394 chars, Sat Aug 18 07:12:04 1990
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Budget cutbacks were the reason why. You may also notice that many of the
Davis shorts were filmed in the less-expensive Cinecolor process.
Evidently there was some reluctance on the studio's part to carry that
fourth unit.
Davis was a really good animator for Frank Tashlin in the 40's,
just after he came over from Columbia. Check out "Scrap Happy Daffy"
and "Brother Brat" for examples.
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animation/coming.soon #396, from davemackey, 345 chars, Sat Aug 18 07:14:32 1990
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Well, for starters, Michael Jackson is the Peter Pan kind of guy, so you
would figure he'd have an interest in cartoons. Loni Anderson did some
cartoon voices a while back, the TV Blondie Specials and "All Dogs Go
To Heaven" with her husband Burt Reynolds. I would suppose that McCartney
and Burnett are cartoon fans, based on Harry's comments.
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animation/coming.soon #397, from hmccracken, 553 chars, Sat Aug 18 09:43:39 1990
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McCartney and Jackson are both big cartoon fans, with large collections
of classic animation of videotape. McCartney also produced a cartoon --
the excellent _Rupert and the Frog Song_. (His wife produced another.)
If you read Jackson's slim autobiography, _Moonwalker_, you will find
many references to Walt Disney as his idol.
Carol Burnett and Loni Anderson have both been quoted as having wanted,
in their youths, to be animators for Walt Disney. Burnett has said
this *often* and hosted a Disney animation TV special a few years ago.
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #398, from tshim, 161 chars, Sat Aug 18 10:17:22 1990
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Why object to Stravinsky? Because of his notorious caustic comments?
(Actually, those comments sort of guarantee his never re-doing Stokowski;s
work ...
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animation/coming.soon #399, from tshim, 1728 chars, Sat Aug 18 10:30:05 1990
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I have to bring this up again (thanks for giving me an opening, richard
the re-recording of the Fantasia soundtrack is an excellent example of what
I call the current artificiality of soundtracks. If you hear the dialogue
and music from Golden Age animation, the stuff >sounds< like it belongs in
the cartoon and from the mouths of the characters.
These days, the voices >sound< dubbed. Pinocchio really looked like he
was singing, "I got no strings to pull me down ..." The (old) music of
Fantasia >sounded< like it was coming from the screen, and that the characters
actually >heard< it, and reacted to it. "Rabbit Season! Duck season!"
>appears< to come out of Bugs' and Daffy's throats.
Now, contrast this with
coming from the booth next door. It almost sounds too clear, and dubbed.
The 1983 soundtrack to Fantasia likewise (as richard notes) appears to
be overlayed, and outside of the music actually being tailored to the
animation this time, the music >sounds< artificial, almost like a piano
score to a silent film, nevertheless.
I just purchased "The Little Mermaid," and despite its wonderness as
an animated feature, it too has a soundtrack that sounds dubbed, both
vocally and musically. Ariel's voice comes "from the side," not from
her mouth, in spite of the best intentions of Disney's animators --
and the music again sounds off-camera, not of the movie itself.
I'm convinced this has to do with the new way music and voice is recorded
today, for better clarity and fidelity. I can't help but think (someone
prove me wrong) that previous soundtracks, with their distorted faults,
somehow seemed more "natural" and "realistic" a long time ago.
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animation/coming.soon #400, from tshim, 84 chars, Sat Aug 18 10:31:10 1990
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What exactly >are< those CD-### DIDX ### numbers? Are they akin to
ISBN or ISSN's?
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animation/coming.soon #401, from tshim, 228 chars, Sat Aug 18 10:34:12 1990
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Yes, I've noticed the strangely new Bullseye on those old shorts.
Does WB own all B/W Looney Tunes?
As for the spokes, are the ones used once for the recolored shorts
different from the ones used for the new graphical opening?
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animation/coming.soon #402, from tshim, 740 chars, Sat Aug 18 10:39:49 1990
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Davis's work for Tashlin far exceeded his square-like animation for
Freleng, especially as the 50s wore on. You can tell Davis's work
compared to Ross's like black-and-white, although Davis did great
motion-oriented (chase) animation throughout.
Strangely, under Tashlin, Davis's penchant for freeze-framing
fit to a tee -- Tashlin's use of suddenly stopping characters
to make an off-camera comment exploited this. Of course,
such Averyesque devices were on the way out by that time.
(A person most missed was Manny Perez, who did the characteristic way
Freleng characters spoke (turning head and spitting/yelling in spasms)
back in the 40s and early 50s.)
Dave, can you check out which issue of Comics Scene had the Davis interview?
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animation/coming.soon #403, from ewhac, 281 chars, Sat Aug 18 12:17:05 1990
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As a computer hacker, I'm aghast that anyone would irrevocably
alter something without making a backup, or without preserving the original
copy in some way. You don't just go around arbitrarily hacking things to
shreds without keeping the original around somewhere.
Schwab
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animation/coming.soon #404, from tshim, 298 chars, Sat Aug 18 12:20:44 1990
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You obviously don't have the mentality of a Hollywood producer (a compliment).
I'm not sure if any b/w shorts have any of their original openings; as you
probably know, many Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies before 1948 have
Blue Ribbon openings, and no other prints are available for many of them.
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animation/coming.soon #405, from hmccracken, 297 chars, Sat Aug 18 15:29:18 1990
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I think maybe I meant to say "Stokowski" instead of "Stravisnky."
Either name conveys my general feeling, though: that I'd object to
anybody tampering with the original _Fantasia_ soundtrack, be it the
guy who conducted it in the first place, or even the guy who
*composed* part of it.
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #406, from hmccracken, 615 chars, Sat Aug 18 15:34:32 1990
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Computer folk are much smarter than film folk in this respect,
Leo. In some cases, Disney will have numerous versions of a
cartoon -- think of how often hey'll recut, redub, etc.
something for TV -- but no prints of the original version.
I've heard that even Disney may not have prints of some of its
early cartoons. This merely compounds the problem of all the
old films that have been tossed out, misplaced, destroyed by
fire, or just crumbled into dust over the years (not at
Disney in specific, just in general). The standard figure is
that half of all films ever made no longer exist in any form.
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #407, from switch, 24 chars, Sat Aug 18 20:18:06 1990
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Yup. You got it.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #408, from davemackey, 237 chars, Sat Aug 18 21:04:45 1990
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You might want to try listening to the soundtrack in stereo through head
phones. I don't know if it'll enhance the big-screen feel (it feels like
I'm watching a movie on an airplane), but it sure sounds pretty good as
sound mixing goes.
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animation/coming.soon #409, from davemackey, 412 chars, Sat Aug 18 21:07:31 1990
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No, they're the same spokes, probably lifted from a 1968 Looney Tune.
In fact, the old WB-7a reissue of "Porky's Road Race" substituted
the 60's theme music for the main and end title. And yes, WB has the
rights to all black-and-white cartoons it produced. The Turner package
is the only thing that it doesn't own themselves; these were the cartoons
it sold to AAP in the 50's.
--Dave
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animation/coming.soon #410, from davemackey, 130 chars, Sat Aug 18 21:09:16 1990
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The Art Davis interview appeared in #13 of the CURRENT series of Comics
Scene (there was a series before it earlier in the 80's).
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animation/coming.soon #411, from davemackey, 577 chars, Sat Aug 18 21:12:09 1990
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The ones appearing on Nickelodeon do have the complete main and end titles
on negative, but in some cases there's no music under the titles. If you
saw any of the Film Forum's tribute showings last year, they showed some
really nice complete examples of some of the cartoons available to TV
only as recolorings, such as "Wholly Smoke" and "Porky Pig's Feat." And
there are a couple of examples on the Daffy Duck tape that Warner's
put out. You could show the black-and-white "Daffy Doc" next to the ugly
color one and there's no comparison.
--Dave
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animation/coming.soon #412, from davemackey, 624 chars, Sat Aug 18 21:15:27 1990
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Incidentally, I never reported on this because I didn't feel it
worthy of anyone's time, but Disney Channel recently produced
yet another series utilizing cannibalized animation: "DisKids."
And of course, the usual disclaimer appears at the end thanking
the Disney animators for their work, only the number of years is
now Sixty instead of 50.
I would like to think that for every film vault that's been
broken into -- witness Gleason's lost episodes of "Honeymooners"
and the seemingly lost "I Love Lucy" pilot -- there's one not yet
tapped. And that's part of the fun -- the hope that this stuff will
someday show up.
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animation/coming.soon #413, from tshim, 198 chars, Sat Aug 18 22:12:15 1990
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"Porky Pig's Feat" seems to be lucky in its existence mainly as
a black-and-white print, and relatively good ones at that.
How is it that some of the "pristine" Nickolodeon prints have no music!?
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animation/coming.soon #414, from hmccracken, 61 chars, Sat Aug 18 22:24:07 1990
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I should know this, but what's _DisKids_, exactly?
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #415, from hmccracken, 403 chars, Sat Aug 18 22:26:12 1990
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Especially since in black-and-white form _Porky Pig's Feat_ is
one of the greatest of all Warner cartoons, and in color it is
one of the worst. BTW, speaking of recolored Looney Tunes, there
was a table at the San Diego Con selling cels frm them for
firdiculously low prices -- as low as $5.00 or so. They're
so unappealing that I didn't get any, but still -- Warner's
art for five bucks!
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #416, from tshim, 147 chars, Sat Aug 18 22:50:59 1990
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Well, actually, it's Korean art (and assemblyline art at that) for $5.
(And to think real Warners cels were selling for about that a decade ago!)
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animation/coming.soon #417, from hmccracken, 172 chars, Sat Aug 18 22:54:41 1990
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I don't think *vintage* Warner's cels were selling for that, though
ones for the 70s TV shows weren't all that more expensive. Even
those are fairly pricey now.
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #418, from steven_edwards, 1405 chars, Sun Aug 19 00:41:32 1990
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Well, I have the soundtracks to _Fantasia_ and _The Little Mermaid_
on CD, and the stereo effect on both is excellent. I have played the
_Mermaid_ video on a high-end stereo VCR with video output through a 70 cm
JVC monitor and piped the audio through a Mitsubishi/EPI setup and also
through a pair of studio quality Sony headphones. I have noticed only one
minor audio flub - a brief dialog from Sebastian with him moving to the left
of the screen while his voice moves to the right.
Probably the best audio effect in _The Little Mermaid_ is the
scene where Scuttle is being blown away by the storm. If you listen
carefully, you'll hear three simultaneous effects: a doppler shift in pitch,
a matched volume shift, and motion of the voice from the right to the left
of the frame.
It may be that some VCRs cannot accurately reproduce certain audio.
I would recommend using headphones and adjusting the VCR tracking.
Incidentially, I also have the soundtrack of _Pinocchio_ as remastered
in 1983 by using pressing disks made in 1940 for 78 rpm records. While it
is only 17 minutes long (the shortest full-size CD I have), the results are
quite impressive. _Pinocchio_, like _The Little Mermaid_ 49 years later,
won the same two Oscars: best score and best song. I hope we don't have to
wait another 49 years for the next occurance.
-- Steve (who still wishes upon a star from time to time)
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animation/coming.soon #419, from tshim, 1008 chars, Sun Aug 19 14:56:50 1990
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Steven, the technology used in the present-day soundtracks are
quite impressive feats indeed, and notice I made no mention of
such niceties as Dolby Surround Stereo or VHS Hi-Fi. My observations
deal only with admittedly subjective tonal perceptions. No matter
how you cut it, the voices seem to come out of older cartoons more
realistically than in today's animation.
When I hear stuff from the 30s and 40s, regardless of what studio, I
never once lose my suspension of disbelief that the voices and music
surround the characters >in< the film. Nowadays, because of the clarity
or the recording medium, or what not, it more and more seems like the voice
is coming not from the screen, but from somewhere askance.
I'd be the first to agree with you that the effects and craftsmanship
behind the Little Mermaid soundtrack are of the utmost professionalism.
It doesn't deter me from the fact, however, that it's less Ariel that's
talking and singing than someone off-camera.
(Maybe it's just me!
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animation/coming.soon #420, from davemackey, 238 chars, Sun Aug 19 18:45:07 1990
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It’s just a show that shows small children at Disneyland commenting on
how great life is and then shows cartoons illustrating same. I think it’s
going off the air soon, anyway; I’ll know for sure when I get my
Sept-Oct programming guide.
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animation/coming.soon #421, from davemackey, 305 chars, Sun Aug 19 18:46:49 1990
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Only under the main titles and credits. They’ve probably restored those
without from alternate prints. I know there’s one on Nick they’ve had to
fake somehow. Lots of the Turner stuff seems to be rough-looking main
titles and a clean print of the cartoon itself, by the way, probably
for the same reason.
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animation/coming.soon #422, from davemackey, 145 chars, Sun Aug 19 18:48:19 1990
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I didn’t understand some of what Tashlin was trying to get across in that
cartoon until I saw a B/W print of it. That’s how bad the tracing was.
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animation/coming.soon #423, from davemackey, 861 chars, Wed Aug 22 20:47:25 1990
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My suspicion was correct. Disney Channel is retiring DisKids and
replacing it with new episodes of “Teen Win, Lose Or Draw” effective
September 10.
Other DC highlights will be the programming of “Honey, I Shrunk The
Kids” in front of which will be “Tummy Trouble” starring Roger Rabbit.
Also, Disney will begin showing the “Care Bears” animated series twice a
day beginning Monday, October 1, 1990. It also appears that “Jim Henson’s
Mother Goose Stories” is becoming the permanent occupant of that darned
Sat/Sun 8:30 time period that’s run everything from Pound Puppies to
Superman a la Fleischer.
In animation, Disney will also show “A Chipmunk Adventure,” “The
Hobbit,” and “The Return Of The King” during these two months. There’ll
also be a half-hour special on the making of “Fantasia” hosted by Michael
Tucker.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #424, from hmccracken, 166 chars, Wed Aug 22 23:51:51 1990
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Care Bears twice a day? Ooorg. Who would have thought a channel
with the name “Disney” attached to it would become a home for so
much mediocre animation?
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #425, from tshim, 105 chars, Thu Aug 23 23:44:25 1990
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I guess Disney likes being associated with a cartoon whose motto
consists of beating foes with “Caring.”
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animation/coming.soon #426, from steven_edwards, 263 chars, Fri Aug 31 02:12:25 1990
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TITLE: Unicorns, Satyrs, Centaurettes, and Dancing Hippotamuses
It’s official. I just saw an advertisement on the boob tube for
fiftieth anniversary release of _Fantasia_, complete with the original
soundtrack. “Coming Soon to a Theater Near You!”
— Steve
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animation/coming.soon #427, from switch, 124 chars, Fri Aug 31 08:17:38 1990
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It’s gonna be showing at the film festival here this week before the
general release. Hope to be able to catch it…
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #428, from hmccracken, 922 chars, Sun Sep 9 22:28:56 1990
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TITLE: Don Bluth’s next film, _Rockadoodle_, will be out sometime
this Spring (although a distributor hasn’t been located yet).
This seems to me to be good news, because it probably won’t
be up against a new Disney feature at the box office then.
_Rockadoodle_ has gone through some interesting changes: it
was originally completed not too long after _Who Framed Roger
Rabbit_’s success, and was planned to be a PG-rated film with
a sexy Jessica Rabbit-like female lead. On second thought,
they decided that the movie should be G-rated, and went back
and reanimated the character to add fig-leaf feathers to her
cleavage and derriere. They also decided that the plot was
confusing in spots, and brought in Disney vetern Phil Harris
to narrate the film. (Harris returned as the voice of Baloo
the Bear from _Jungle Book_ for the pilot of Disney’s new
series _TaleSpin_ before being replaced by another actor.)
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #429, from hmccracken, 193 chars, Sun Sep 9 22:33:41 1990
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One other _Rockadoodle_ tidbit: the new videotape release of _All
Dogs Go to Heaven_ includes a _Rockadoodle_ trailer complete with
the PG-rated version of the character I mentioned.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #430, from tshim, 175 chars, Mon Sep 10 13:09:22 1990
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Why was Harris replaced? After all (altho many say to the
detriment of some Disney features), Harris’s voice >became<
the end-all and be-all of the characters he portrayed.
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animation/coming.soon #431, from hmccracken, 101 chars, Mon Sep 10 18:27:47 1990
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I've heard that Disney wanted a more engergetic sound for
Baloo's voice, but I'm not sure.
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #432, from davemackey, 227 chars, Mon Sep 10 22:20:20 1990
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Not to mention the fact that Harris is getting on in years. But he always
had a rich, clear voice -- I point to the record he made in the 50's,
"The Thing," as one of his better examples.
--Dave
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animation/coming.soon #433, from dave.f, 263 chars, Tue Sep 11 11:01:40 1990
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Yeah, that is rather counter to the character of Balloo in JUNGLE BOOK.
He was sort of a laissez-faire kinda guy. Just want the "bare necessities".
Guess it wouldn't do for him to be going off on big adventures while
sounding like he always needed a nap.
D=
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animation/coming.soon #434, from switch, 1127 chars, Tue Sep 11 21:25:43 1990
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TITLE: AnimeCon '91
From: mk***@hp*****.COM (Mark Kobayashi)
Subject: ??? ANIMECON’91
Date: 15 Aug 90 17:52:57 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino CA
So I was down at my local comix store and came across a flyer for
ANIMECON’91 to be held at the San Jose Red Lion Hotel (in San Jose, Calif)
over the 91 Labor day weekend.
It says at the top
“Gainax, the founders of BayCon, and Studio Proteus present :
AnimeCon ’91 The Anime & Manga Convention”
The list of guests….
” Guests of Honor:
Leiji Matsumoto (Captain Harlock, Queen Millenia)
Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira)
Johji Manabe (Outlanders)
Haruhiku Mikimoto (Macross, Gunbuster)
Toshio Okada (Gunbuster)
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Wings of Oneamis, Secret of Blue Water (Nadia))
Kenichi Sonoda (Gall Force, Bubblegum Crisis)
…”
The flyer goes on to talk about Live Program Track, Film Program, Video
Program, Dealer’s room, Art Show……..
Anyone on the net working on this?
M. Kobayashi
mk***@hp*****.com
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animation/coming.soon #435, from cmattern, 269 chars, Tue Sep 11 22:44:44 1990
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Well, actually, Baloo’s still pretty much like that. He just wants to snooze
in the sun and occasionally have some fun flyin’
the _Sea Duck_ around. His boss (what’s her name again?) just keeps gettin’
on his case, tho…..
Chris
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animation/coming.soon #436, from davemackey, 234 chars, Wed Sep 12 01:31:20 1990
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And that’s Sally Struthers, making a grand return to the world of animated
voiceovers (she was the voice of Pebbles before she was Archie Bunker’s
little girl), doing the voice of the character that I can’t think of her
name, either.
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animation/coming.soon #437, from steven_edwards, 100 chars, Wed Sep 12 10:34:32 1990
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I believe the name of the proprietor of _Higher for Hire_ is
Rebecca (Becky) Cunningham. — Steve
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animation/coming.soon #438, from hmccracken, 107 chars, Wed Sep 12 22:08:53 1990
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Was she the voice of Pebbles *before* she played Gloria Bunker? I
thought that came afterwards.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #439, from davemackey, 539 chars, Thu Sep 13 01:11:41 1990
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Actually, you’re right. “All In The Family” premiered in January 1971 if
memory serves, “Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm” joined the network’s SatAM schedule
in September 1971.
I’m sure there are a few actors and actresses out there appearing
concurrently on live-action and animated series on the same network, as
Ms. Struthers did two decades (gasp) ago. A good current example is Kellie
Martin, the voice of Daphne on “A Pup Named Scooby Doo” and who plays
Becca on “Life Goes On,” which are both on ABC.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #440, from hmccracken, 1285 chars, Sun Sep 16 00:02:57 1990
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TITLE: Go see the restored _Fantasia_, everybody…
I just did, along with one of the standing room onliest crowds
I’ve seen lately (at one of Boston’s largest movie theaters).
It’s great to have the original Stokowski soundtrack back
(albeit reprocessed for stereo), and the new, restored prints
are quite intense in spots (the color in parts of the Pastoral
Symphony sequence are incredibly vivid).
_Fantasia_ itself remains a wonder, as much for being one of the
few absolutely unique motion pictures ever made as for any other
merits it has. _The Sorcerer’s Apprentice_, _Night on Bald
Mountain_, and _Dance of the Hours_ are some of the best things
Disney ever did, and much-maligned _Pastoral Symphony_ sequence
has more charms than it’s generally given credit for, as well
as some fine animation. (BTW, Disney *didn’t* take the opportunity
while restoring the film to reinsert the long-censored black
centaurs and centaurettes into that sequence.) _Snow White_,
_Pinocchio_, and _Dumbo_ are better films, and you can make the
case that _The Three Caballeros_ is a more inspired animated
interpretation of music. But that moment of epiphany that occurs
when Mickey Mouse runs up to congratulate Leopold Stokowski
kinds of sums up what makes _Fantasia_ so special.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #441, from hmccracken, 246 chars, Sun Sep 16 18:14:33 1990
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TITLE: Today’s _Boston Herald_ reports that the long-awaited
_Rocky and Bullwinkle_ videotapes from Disney Home Video will be
out beginning next February. The hold-up is due to the print
material they’re using being in poor condition.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #442, from hmccracken, 219 chars, Sun Sep 16 18:15:37 1990
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TITLE: Today’s _New York Times_ has an ad for a neat-sounding
upcoming event entitled _Bugs Bunny on Broadway_: Bugs Bunny
cartoons shown in a Broadway theater with live music by the
Warner Bros. orchestra.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #443, from davemackey, 701 chars, Tue Sep 18 17:59:10 1990
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I have a little more information. The show will be seven
or eight performances, I forget which, and will be at the
Gershwin theatre beginning October 3. Tickets are $25 or
$30 depending on the show. The commercial I saw on Ch. 4
during the “Today” show had clips from some of the more
musically-oriented WB Cartoons, including “What’s Opera,
Doc,” “Rabbit Of Seville” and “Baton Bunny.” This, I believe,
will be the core of the program, as the orchestra is being
billed as the Warner Bros. Philharmonic.
I haven’t committed yet but will probably wind up going myself,
possibly either the Wednesday or Thursday show since I’ll
be occupied elsewhere that weekend.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #444, from mscoville, 851 chars, Tue Sep 18 23:51:41 1990
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Bugs Bunny on Broadway is being presented by Warner Brothers. According to
the publicist for the show Warners has gone back and restruck new prints
for this showing. Appearing for the opening night ceremonies will be
Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng. They will just be there, they have no part
in the show.
The show is being created, conducted,and produced by George Daugherty. The
Executive Producer is Steven Goldberg. Publicity said that the music from
the old cartoons has been stripped out leaving the voice characterizations
and the Warner Bros. Symphony Orchestra will supply the music tracks…Live.
After the premiere in NYC they then plan to troupe the show. In Nov. it will
be in Toledo, Columbus & Cleveland Ohio. In January the show will be in
Detroit, Mi;Vancouver, BC;Seattle,WA;and Portland, OR. Other dates will be
announced shortly.
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animation/coming.soon #445, from davemackey, 162 chars, Wed Sep 19 07:08:46 1990
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Daugherty also has written the musical theme for the new “Merrie Melodies”
series now airing in syndication. It sounds great.
–D.
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animation/coming.soon #446, from tshim, 523 chars, Fri Sep 21 11:57:43 1990
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Bruce Broughton, whose credits include Silverado, The Boy Who Could Fly (for
my money the most uplifting theme since Williams’ Superman), and Roger Rabbit’s
“Roller Coaster Rabbit,” did the theme for Tiny Toons — another hilarious
concoction.
Broughton is a self-admmitted fan of Carl Stalling, as I’m sure Hal Willner
and George Daugherty are. And Yes, I cheered when I heard Daugherty’s wonderful
transition from “What’s Up, Doc?” to Lizst’s 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody.
What a smooth segue. worthy of the master himself!
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animation/coming.soon #447, from davemackey, 506 chars, Tue Oct 9 22:05:52 1990
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Harry and I have both seen this show, and, being purists, we found quite
a bit at fault here. Dialogue replacements, re-orchestrations (particularly
on “Rhapsody Rabbit”), video presentation where 35mm prints could have been
used, etc.
Nevertheless, the show has been held over for an additional week at the
Gershwin Theatre; this will be from October 16-21.
There was some good stuff: the Jones one-shot “High Note” and “Baton
Bunny” both worked extremely well.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #448, from hmccracken, 526 chars, Wed Oct 10 18:55:10 1990
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Actually, Dave, I don’t think I’m opposed per se to re-orchestrations, if
they’re good ones. Let’s face it: these cartoons were never meant to
be played in a Broadway theater with live accompaniment and redone sound
effects. If the re-orchstration is superior to the original, or there’s
some other reason for doing it, I can live with it. (I think that you’re
a more serious student of music for animated cartoons, though — if I
had a better ear and knew the original scores better, I might feel
differently.)
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #449, from hmccracken, 523 chars, Fri Oct 19 19:05:56 1990
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TITLE: Ted Turner is making a feature-length Tom and Jerry cartoon for
the theaters, with animation by the Film Roman studio (headed by
Phil Roman, who worked on the Chuck Jones Tom and Jerries of the
1960s). The characters will speak in the film — although not, as
has been reported, for the first time — and will apparently be
garbed in ugly 1990s-type clothes. I’ve already seen plush Toms
and Jerrys wearing such outfits for sale at a toystore — along
with some quite wonderful Droopy puppets and dolls.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #450, from mscoville, 601 chars, Fri Oct 19 23:38:00 1990
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TITLE: Allegro Non Troppo
Now that Fantasia is out and celebrating its 50th anniversary, Bruno Bozetto
is releasing his spoof of Fantasia. It will be presented at the Angelika Film
Center in New York City beginning October 19th. According to a flyer which was
sent to the film has been restored and put in stereo for the first time.
Roger Ebert calls it a treasure. The Chicago Film Festival called it”a cross
between Fantasia and Yellow Submarine with a touch of Fellini.” Has anybody
heard of this and do you have any background information, ex. when was it
originally released, etc.
mscoville
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animation/coming.soon #451, from switch, 209 chars, Sat Oct 20 00:14:58 1990
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I saw a scene from that when we were watching _Fantasia_ in my
History of Animated Film class last year, spoofing the dinosaur
march in “Rite of Spring”. Died laughing. I really have to
get that film.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #452, from jshook, 166 chars, Sat Oct 20 00:33:00 1990
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I saw this when it was first released. I would guess this was
sometime in the late ’70’s. I don’t remember very much about
it except that I did not like it at all.
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animation/coming.soon #453, from hmccracken, 92 chars, Sat Oct 20 07:50:34 1990
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I believe it was originally released, at least in this country, in 1977
or 1978.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #454, from aturn, 198 chars, Sat Oct 20 14:25:22 1990
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And T&J are going to be friends, too. Proving that they
(the story people, that is) didn’t learn a thing from the made-for-TV
cartoons of a few years back (the ones with the instrusive narrator).
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animation/coming.soon #455, from hmccracken, 969 chars, Sat Nov 10 20:29:12 1990
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TITLE: I’m working on the next issue of my animation magazine,
_Animato_, and it seems to be shaping up as spotlighting a diverse
trio of animation artists from the golden age of the art. We’ll
be cover-featuring the last interview done with Grim Natwick, the
creator of Betty Boop, before his recent death; we’ll also have an
interview with Maurice Noble, a very interesting guy who contributed
mightily to most of Chuck Jones’s best cartoons as layout artist;
and we’ll have some information on Jim Tyer, a little-known but
very intereresting animator who did some fascinating work at one
of the places you’d least expect to find it being done — the
Terrytoons studio’s Mighty Mouse and Heckle and Jeckle cartoons.
We’ll also have a lot of other stuff, including a guide to _Tiny
Toon Adventures_ by our own Dave Mackey and myself. The issue will
be out in February.
TINAROAA,JAPSA
(This is not a review or an ad, just a public service announcement.)
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #456, from davemackey, 313 chars, Sun Nov 11 08:58:07 1990
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I was a little surprised to find Jim Tyer taking a story credit on a
Paramount cartoon in 1967. He hadn’t stepped on Paramount soil since
the mid 40’s. He was also briefly affiliated with Hal Seeger’s little
studio, and I believe he also worked for Bakshi on “Fritz The Cat.”
Dave
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animation/coming.soon #457, from hmccracken, 835 chars, Sun Nov 11 19:19:58 1990
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Actually, Jim Tyer spent two short shifts at Paramount in the 1960s: one
spent working on those Snuffy Smith cartoons in 1963, and then again on
Thor cartoons for TV in 1967. Presumably, he happened to sell that one
story while working for Shamus Culhane on the Thors.
I know this not because of an abiding love for Jim Tyer or a great knowledge
of which animator was where at what time (you know far more about that than
I do, Dave), but because I happen to have on hand an extremely long and
fascinating unpublished biographical article on Tyer by Will Friedwald,
who has gone on to write for the _New York Times_ among other things.
(Actually, I have *two* Tyer articles — the other is a shorter one
by Mark Mayerson — and while I think there will be something on Tyer
In the next _Animato_, I’m not sure just what.)
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #458, from davemackey, 819 chars, Sun Nov 11 23:55:49 1990
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The 1967 cartoon to which I was referring was “Think Or Sink,” which was
a sort of a psychological piece about an elephant who either wants to learn
to swim or has to for some reason, so he goes to a psychiatrist, who tells him
if you believe you can swim, then you can swim. Eventually the principle
is applied to something as simple on walking on the earth — and they swiftly
fall through the earth.
Culhane was very definitely trying to get something a little more
challenging and unique in design on the screen, which explains why he junked
the old Paramount layout and background crew and started using guys like
Gil Miret, Howard Beckerman and Cliff Roberts to DESIGN his shorts rather than
paint the same old trees and houses, and using more unique and ambitious
stories.
Dave
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animation/coming.soon #459, from hmccracken, 3516 chars, Fri Nov 16 22:42:58 1990
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TITLE: _The Rescuers Down Under_
I like it! I *like* it! Better than _Little Mermaid_, as a matter of
fact.
Perhaps the best way to sum up what’s so wonderfully right about
Disney’s new animated feature is that, while other Disney features
of the last thirty or so years have had greater moments than anything
in this film, none of them have so clearly accomplished exactly what
the directors set out to do as this excellent film, which manages to
be both adventurous and low-key, does. _Little Mermaid_ probably
had stronger characters, but things kept happening that undercut
their strengths, and things like weak pacing and sudden disappearances
of the artists’ imagination at key points kept hurting it. _Rescuers_
has the most consistently good storytelling of any Disney feature in
eons and is wonderfully imaginative from start to finish. I love the
gustsy story structure — the title characters (Miss Bianca and
Bernard) do not show up until quite a ways into the film, and don’t
meet the Australian boy they’re rescuing until quite near the end.
And it works superbly — the parallel storylines are woven very
well.
Usually when discussing a Disney feature of recent vintage, the impulse
is to keep comparing it to other Disney features — mainly because even
at they’re best they’re usually much too conscious of past Disney
animation, and much too derivative of it. Ironically enough, this
first Disney animated sequel — of 1977’s _The Rescuers_, a film it
far surpasses — is one of the least derivative Disney films. (This
may be the one respect in which it most improves on _Little Mermaid_,
which drowned (pun intended) in Disney references. The staging is almost
always fresh and original — one of the few scenes that reminded me of an
earlier Disney moment was one with a bunch of Australian animals locked
up in a prison that was just a little bit reminiscent of a similar
scene in _Lady and the Tramp_.
And look of the film — the first done with Disney’s extremely high-tech
computerized painting system — is incredibly slick, handsome, and unusual.
On one hand, there’s a crispness to the look that’s very attractive; on
the other hand, the computer lets them do neat tricks like throwing
backgrounds out of focus and creating three-dimensional moving backgrounds.
I may regret saying this in the rush of excitement I’m obviously under-
going, but I think the computerized coloring may be the most important
technical advance in character animation since the introduction of
color itself. It really does have that profound an effect.
Is this film perfect? Not quite, I guess. There are a few scattered
moments when the computerized backgrounds are too clearly just that.
And I suspect that a lot of folks will ultimately prefer _Little Mermaid_
for its greater emotional heft. That film had something to say about
relationships between daughters and fathers that was quite striking, even
if it didn’t always say it very clearly. _Rescuers_ doesn’t have that
psychological depth — Bernard and Bianca are fairly shallow characters,
although I felt genuine delight in something that happens to them at
the film’s close.
To repeat myself once too often, I *liked* this film. When _Little
Mermaid_ came out last year, I felt a little left out because so many
of my animation-loving friends were so completely taken with it, while
I simply enjoyed it a lot. It’s nice to have had such a good
time at this film that I’m not yet quite capable of being
critical.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #460, from hmccracken, 2127 chars, Fri Nov 16 22:55:49 1990
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TITLE: Also showing with _The Rescuers Down Under_ was _The Prince and
the Pauper_, a Mickey Mouse featurette produced in Florida that somehow
is less than the sum of its parts. It does have some fine parts, principal
among them the character of the Prince (Mickey plays the Pauper; the Prince
is a guy who looks like Mickey but is far snootier and imposing than the
Mick could ever be). The contrast between Mickey and the Prince is
well dndone and funny.
Also excellent are the spectacular background paintings, which do quite
a job of making it seem as if everything is being played out on some
of the biggest sets in movie history. There’s a sense of *space*
that’s almost a little dizzying, and the paintings are definitely some
of the nicest in any recent Disney cartoon.
But still, this is only a very nice cartoon, and not a classic like
_The Brave Little Tailor_ and _Mickey and the Beanstock_, two vintage
Mickey cartoons that it very much emulates. While Mickey, Pluto,
Goofy, and Donald all look and sound like themselves, there’s a certain
flabbiness to the animation that’s disappointing. (This may come from
the assisting work being done by the neophyte artists who make up
much of the staff at Disney’s Florida studio; I’m not sure.) And much
too much of the film is made up of action sequences that are neither
well-staged or funny. There are a number of good moments, though, like
the scene near the end when Mickey stalls off the Bishop who is
desperately trying to crown him King.
But all in all, this is the animated equivalent of comfort food —
very pleasant, very familiar, and hardly a surprise to be found.
Interestingly, Janet Maslin’s review in today’s _New York Times_
praised this film for exactly these reasons, and slightly panned
_The Rescuers Down Under_ for exactly the reasons I enjoyed it.
There’s obviously no accounting for taste.
(_The Prince and the Pauper_ is followed by a brief, funny bridging
sequence between it and _The Rescuers_, and a ten minute intermission
that seemed kind of excessive coming, as it did, only twenty-three
minutes into the program.)
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #461, from hmccracken, 1142 chars, Fri Nov 16 23:01:04 1990
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TITLE: Also part of the night at the movie’s I covered in the
previous two messages was a coming attractions trailer for the
next Disney animated reissue. I was a little surprised to see them
bringing back _The Great Mouse Detective_ only a little over four
years after its first release (which I think is happening because
the supply of re-releasable Disney features is shrinking as they
release more on video); I was positively startled to see that
they’ve retitled the movie — it’s now “The Adventures of the
Great Mouse Detective.” I’m guessing that this is an attempt to
add a little oomph to what has to be the ugliest, least enticing title
of any Disney cartoon feature ever, but it just makes it even more
cumbersome and generic-sounding. I wish they
the movie had almost up until the time it was originally released —
the quite-nice _Basil of Baker Street_. I am told that this title
was scrapped back in 1986 because the film _Young Sherlock Holmes_
had just come out and not done very well, and Disney was not especially
keen on emphasizing the fact that their film was an anthropomorphized
Sherlock Holmes story.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #462, from loreli, 334 chars, Sat Nov 17 11:13:53 1990
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I thought the cover art on the Little Mermaid videocasette was
interesting. Especially the phallus.
Someone said the artist got fired for that.
True?
(If you don’t know what I’m talking about, lookie the cover art
on the LM videocassette. There, right in the middle of the
castle, is a big, yellow, veiny… well… schlong.)
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animation/coming.soon #463, from davemackey, 184 chars, Sat Nov 17 16:17:10 1990
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The details of this have been recounted on this forum before, so please
read animation/main 793 and its comments so I don’t have to type this
agin.
Dave
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animation/coming.soon #464, from elfhive, 93 chars, Sun Nov 18 12:29:20 1990
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“anthropomorphized”
Isn’t it the other way around? A “rodentifed” Sherlock Holmes story 🙂
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animation/coming.soon #465, from elfhive, 306 chars, Sun Nov 18 12:32:07 1990
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Having only seen the trailer at this point, I was struck with the
amazing similarity between the flight scene shown and the many, many
flight scenes I have seen in Miyazaki films. I wonder if this is merely
the nature of the craft or if the Disney animators have been watching
Japanese animation recently?
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animation/coming.soon #466, from hmccracken, 457 chars, Sun Nov 18 14:39:52 1990
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I am not familiar enough with Japanese animation to know for sure about
this, but the flight scenes — there is one at the start and one at the
end — do have a Japanese-animation feel to them. And while they are
very nicely done, they are not very Disneyesque in feeling — the eagle
is flying about 300 miles an hour and the kid holds on with a light grasp
on a couple of feathers, and almost surfs with the eagle as a board at
some points.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #473, from switch, 93 chars, Mon Nov 19 19:44:54 1990
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I felt the same thing! So I’m not crazy after all 😉 (Or at least in
that respect 😉
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #475, from hmccracken, 253 chars, Mon Nov 19 20:55:54 1990
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TITLE: Warner Bros. is releasing _The Nutcracker Prince_, an animated
version of the Nutcracker with Kiefer Sutherland in the title role
this week. I don’t know anything about it other than that the
trailer I saw doesn’t look too promising.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #476, from hmccracken, 808 chars, Mon Nov 19 22:12:37 1990
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TITLE: Boston BIXen, take note…
The Museum of Fine Arts is having several cartoon shows shortly. Here’s
the schedule:
Friday, Nov. 22:
6:30: Betty Boop Scandals (seven Betty Boop cartoons)
8:15: The Cartoon World of Bob Clampett, Part I
(ten Clampett cartoons)
Sunday, Nov. 25:
1:30: The Cartoon World of Bob Clampett, Part I
3:15: The Cartoon World of Bob Clampett, Part II
(eight more Clampett films)
Friday, Nov. 30:
6:30: Award-winning British Advertising Films of 1989
(Not sure if they’re all animated or not)
8:15: The Cartoon World of Bob Clampett, Part II
The above is cribbed from yesterday’s _Boston Globe_, which has a
very good article on Clampett by Betsy Sherman, who knows what she’s
talking about (unlike some _Globe_ arts writers.)
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #477, from hmccracken, 617 chars, Sun Nov 25 19:10:30 1990
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Went to part 1 of the Bob Clampett show today at the MFA, and it’s
nicely-done and worth attending. The MFA is to be commended for
hosting this traveling show, although some of their comments on
Clampett — such as that he created Porky Pig for a Warner’s “Our
Gang” cartoon and served as Tex Avery’s principal gagman — should
be taken with a grain of salt. The guy who introduced the films
even said that they had been made at Disney — he seemed to realize
that this was incorrect after saying it, but was not quite able to
correct himself by stating the studio where the cartoons were actually
made.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #478, from hmccracken, 424 chars, Mon Nov 26 22:33:26 1990
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TITLE: _Box Office Bunny_, the new Bugs Bunny short that we’ve been
waiting for for ages, has allegedly already been screened at the AMC
Century City theater in L.A., along with _Reversal of Fortune_, in
order to qualify for an Academy Award. We folks who couldn’t make
*that* screening will have to wait until next spring, when the
short will be released with a yet-to-be-announced Warner Bros.
comedy feature.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #479, from davemackey, 685 chars, Tue Nov 27 02:30:31 1990
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Well, it’s about time. Imagine that this short subject has been
spoken about for months — even the subject of a recent Jeopardy!
question — yet virtually no one’s seen it.
I don’t hold out much hope for an Oscar nomination for “Box
Office Bunny,” since the Animated Short Subject Oscar now seems
to be the domain of independent filmmakers, and remember that the
previous Warner Bros. attempts at short subject revival — “The
Duxorcist” and “Night Of The Living Duck” didn’t receive
nominations either. But I don’t think that’s going to stop Warner
from taking out “For Your Consideration” ads in Daily Variety and
Hollywood Reporter.
Dave
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animation/coming.soon #481, from hmccracken, 409 chars, Wed Nov 28 23:39:36 1990
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TITLE: Maybe this would be better placed in animation/not.coming.soon…
but _Hare in My Soup_, which is supposed to be the next Roger Rabbit
short to be produced at Disney’s Florida studios, may not be made after
all. As they did over _Rollercoaster Rabbit_, Disney and Spielberg are
having a disagreement over whether this short would be a good
addition to a Spielberg or a Disney feature film.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #483, from davemackey, 214 chars, Thu Nov 29 07:24:46 1990
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Might I recommend animation/busted.projects or
animation/pipe.dreams?
Anyway, too bad for Disney — but maybe the studio’s
resources can be better used on new projects.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #486, from switch, 118 chars, Sun Dec 2 11:05:57 1990
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TITLE: I moved…
…our Miyazaki discussion over to animation/anime. The moved
thread runs from #398 to #408.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #487, from davemackey, 415 chars, Sun Dec 30 00:28:15 1990
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TITLE: Gay Purr-ee
The UPA feature film “Gay Purr-ee” will be released on
videocassette for the first time in 1991 by Warner Home Video.
The cartoon features the voice of Judy Garland, the direction of
Abe Levitow, and a story written by Chuck and Dorothy Jones.
It is not going to be a sell-through item, listing at
$59.99, so look for this one at your rental counter.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #488, from hmccracken, 222 chars, Sun Dec 30 00:52:00 1990
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I’ve seen _Gay Purr-ee_ several times on TV, but with large chunks cut
out. I’ll have to rent the tape to see the whole thing.
One thing I’ve wondered about: why did Chuck Jones write but not
direct the film?
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #489, from davemackey, 310 chars, Sun Dec 30 09:17:57 1990
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Remember that Warner Bros. was still open at the time. Jones was
still very active with WB, but Levitow had supervised production
on the “Mr. Magoo” and “Dick Tracy” TV shorts and really wasn’t a
presence at Warner’s in the 60’s. So Levitow really had the
inside track.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #490, from hmccracken, 205 chars, Sun Dec 30 09:37:20 1990
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That’s right. In that case, I wonder what Jones was doing writing a
UPA feature film. Of course, he directed the very first UPA film many
years before; that might have something to do with it.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #491, from hmccracken, 446 chars, Sun Dec 30 09:42:29 1990
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By the way, I’ve always found _Gay Purr-ee_ to have a reasonably funny
and quite sophisticated script and nice characters designs, but sluggish
animation and pacing that keep it from being as entertaining as it might
have been. In a lot of ways it is a forerunner of the later cartoons that
Chuck Jones would be involved in but not actually direct (and I wonder
if he had anything to do at all with _Gay Purr-ee_ besides scripting it).
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #492, from davemackey, 1180 chars, Wed Jan 2 19:39:12 1991
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TITLE: The return of Casper
Casper The Friendly Ghost is the latest animated character to
attempt a comeback.
Harvey Comics and Claster Television (distributors of G.I.
Joe, et.al) have paid two British firms almost one million
dollars to restore the original Paramount cartoons and will
distribute them in syndication beginning the Fall of 1991.
The two British companies, Edit 142 and TVi, went back to
35mm negatives, color-corrected them, fixed negative scratches,
and have added (uh-oh…) new sound effects and music tracks.
Harvey Comics acquired the rights to all of Paramount’s
non-Popeye cartoons released from 1950 to 1959 (which include
Little Audrey, Herman & Katnip, and Baby Huey), and eventually
had Paramount produce a new set of Casper cartoons in the 60’s.
Until last March the rights to these shorts were held by
Worldvision Enterprises. All these cartoons will be resurrected
on the new Casper show.
Harvey also plans a new series for Wendy The Good Little
Witch, new production on Richie Rich (both characters created by
Harvey for its comics), and the possibility of a Casper feature
film exists.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #493, from davemackey, 198 chars, Sun Jan 6 01:03:36 1991
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TITLE: Beware the Ides of March…
… for that is when Walt Disney Home Video will be releasing
“DuckTales, The Movie — Legend Of The Lost Lamp” at $22.95.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #494, from kermitwoodall, 175 chars, Thu Jan 10 22:56:48 1991
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TITLE: Mighty Mouse Film?
I’ve heard that there’s supposed to be a feature film by Ralph Bakshi based
off of the New Mighty Mouse series.
Any truth to this?
Kermit Woodall
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animation/coming.soon #495, from hmccracken, 60 chars, Fri Jan 11 18:08:26 1991
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I’d heard about that in the past, but not lately.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #496, from hmccracken, 793 chars, Sun Jan 20 19:47:23 1991
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TITLE: _The Third Animation Celebration_ is a pretty good
collection of recent animated shorts (all funny, as opposed to the
Tournees of Animation, which include some serious stuff). It’s
worth seeing especially for some short cartoons by M.K. Brown
(unbilled in the program, and lifted from early _Tracey Ullman
Show_ episodes, a wonderful cartoon called _The Wiseman_ by Bill
(_Your Face_) Plympton, and the final cartoon in the program,
_Ren Hoek and Stimpy_, by John Kricfalusi. This last film is
utterly indefensible, totally odd, and very funny; it looks like
what might have resulted if Milt Gross made an educational film
for early TV at Hanna-Barbera while suffering some sort of
mental illness. Almost everything else in the _Celebration_
is at least not-bad.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #497, from steven_edwards, 165 chars, Sun Jan 20 21:00:56 1991
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TITLE: _Beauty and the Beast_
Disney has semi-officially announced November 1991 as the release
date of its next feature length animation, _Beauty and the Beast_.
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animation/coming.soon #498, from hmccracken, 142 chars, Sun Jan 20 22:33:21 1991
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…And the next one after that (in November of ’92, I suppose) is
_Aladdin_. Obviously, they’re in a classical mode at the moment.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #499, from switch, 211 chars, Mon Jan 21 19:56:47 1991
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Hmmn. I came out of the Celebration and gave it a 6. My sister
said I was being generous and gave it a 4.
Oh, well. At least I get to catch the press screening of Akira
tomorrow (about flanging time!)
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #500, from hmccracken, 102 chars, Mon Jan 21 22:06:38 1991
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Six out of ten? Aw, it was better than that. Surely you liked
_The Wiseman_…didn’t you?
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #501, from switch, 103 chars, Tue Jan 22 08:31:00 1991
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Oh, _The Wiseman_ was great (though I prefer his older stuff)
but, well, it was the high point.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #502, from hmccracken, 543 chars, Wed Jan 23 22:57:54 1991
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Plympton is in a rut, but it’s a funny one. I love the feeling in
_Wiseman_ that he’s making the whole thing up as he goes along.
And his old-fashioned drawing style, full of people who look like
characters from ads in the back of 1940s magazines, is a delight.
What did you think of _Ren Hoek and Stimpy_? I found it frightening
but funny. You kind of get the feeling that if Kricfalusi wasn’t
an animator he might be in a padded cell somewhere. Sort of like
the feeling you get watching Brother Theodore. I like it, anyway…
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #503, from switch, 276 chars, Thu Jan 24 19:52:56 1991
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I agree about Plympton, but something about Kricfalusi rubs me
the wrong way in _Ren Hoek…_. I think it’s because his takes
are over the top. I mean, when Stimpton (or is it Ren Hoek?)
freaks out he really really overdid it. It stopped being funny
partway through.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #504, from davemackey, 158 chars, Tue Jan 29 23:08:35 1991
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TITLE: BOX OFFICE BUNNY….
…will be released with “The Never Ending Story II” on February
8. Thanks, Warner Bros.!
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #505, from hmccracken, 20 chars, Wed Jan 30 02:47:29 1991
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YAAAAAAY!
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #506, from hmccracken, 274 chars, Mon Feb 4 19:22:42 1991
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TITLE: Look in April for
_Felix: the Twisted Tale of the World’s Most Famous Cat_, by John
Canemaker, which looks to be a large and handsome art book on
Felix the Cat. (I wonder if there’s enough to say about Felix to
fill a book. Guess I’ll find out in April.)
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #507, from davemackey, 823 chars, Wed Feb 6 19:15:21 1991
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Let’s see, there’s the original Messmer shorts, which themselves
speak volumes. There’s the handful of Van Beuren shorts from the
30’s. Joe Oriolo’s series from 1958-1961. The Felix feature Don
Oriolo just made. The various tie-ins and merchandising. The
stupid live-action show of about a decade ago featuring a
live-action Felix (some guy in a suit).
I think those are enough twists for anyone (it is a
“twisted” tale), but Canemaker is probably going to tell just
those aspects of Felix’s career that are worth telling. Meaning I
think he’s going to stop his comprehensive review at Van Beuren
and merely summarize everything else — though more people were
probably weaned on the “bag-of-tricks” version of Felix than the
expressive, ingenious, pantomime clown of the 20’s.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #508, from hmccracken, 209 chars, Wed Feb 6 21:42:07 1991
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Otto Messmer also did the Felix daily strip and many of the
Felix comic books, some of which were pretty good. I believe
he did these into the 1950s, long after the theatrical cartoons
had expired.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #509, from hmccracken, 140 chars, Thu Feb 7 20:14:04 1991
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The Bullwinkle tapes are actually out, after what seems like a
wait of a billion years or so. Saw them at the video store today.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #510, from hmccracken, 471 chars, Thu Feb 7 23:43:10 1991
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TITLE: Don’t forget, folks
_Box Office Bunny_, the long-awaited new Bugs Bunny cartoon,
will be out tomorrow, as an added attraction with _Neverending
Story II_. Your humble moderator will no doubt get around to
seeing it sometime this weekend (maybe tomorrow, in fact), and
will report here. Wish they’d released it with a feature I was
more interested in investing $6.50 in — I don’t *quite* have
the guts to leave the theater when the cartoon’s over…
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #511, from switch, 167 chars, Fri Feb 8 13:50:47 1991
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There are posters advertising the tapes all over the place in Montreal,
next to the posters advertising what’s happening at the Museum of Fine
Arts and whatnot.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #512, from switch, 66 chars, Fri Feb 8 13:51:04 1991
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Especially if you’ve invested in the popcorn and the drink.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #513, from hmccracken, 191 chars, Fri Feb 8 18:13:07 1991
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Emru, I will have finished my popcorn and drink by the time
the cartoon is over…maybe by the time the coming attractions
are finished. Especially if I go to the movie by myself!
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #514, from hmccracken, 1522 chars, Fri Feb 8 23:55:50 1991
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Don’t tell anybody, but when I ventured out to see _Box Office Bunny_
tonight, I left directly after the cartoon, ducked into the men’s room
for a moment (a charade), then went into another theater and saw
_L.A. Story_ (which was wonderful and full of cartoony gags).
This is undoubtedly highly illegal, and if I disappear from BIX you
know why.
_Box Office Bunny_ was quite good. Not superb, but very satisfactory.
The design was *excellent* — the best thing about the cartoon and ~rreally
up to 1950s Warner Bros. standards. (Credit Mike Giamo for this.)
The animation was very good, too — capturing the spirit of the characters
without seeming imitative of the old stuff.
The story, however, was merely okay. There were two or three hearty
laughs, but more moments that fell flat. Why were Elmer and Daffy
allied against Bugs? Seems rather out of character. And Bugs was
portrayed as the incredibly blase character he eventually became in the
late 1950s, rather than the funnier, more active Bugs of earlier days.
Jeff Bergman’s voicework was respectable but somehow lacking what-
ever it was that made Mel Blanc’s work what it was. (That’s being
really fussy — Bergman is very good. But I’m beginning to realize
that he just isn’t Mel.)
One last quibble: the credits go by much too quickly. The folks who
made this film deserve a bit more attention than that. _Box Office
Bunny_ is a solid cartoon that suggests that Darrell Van Citters could
do really wonderful things with the right script.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #515, from davemackey, 165 chars, Sat Feb 9 08:52:33 1991
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Ditto! I’m with you all the way on that. Maybe I can find a
bargain matinee some place. Or disguise myself as a 11-year-old.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #516, from davemackey, 142 chars, Sat Feb 9 10:36:14 1991
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Watch out for that bald usher with the speech impediment if you
twy something twicky like that again!
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #517, from switch, 32 chars, Sat Feb 9 12:19:12 1991
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Well yeah, so wowuld I 😉
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #518, from hmccracken, 134 chars, Sat Feb 9 13:09:25 1991
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This is the main reason, really, to go to movies with others:
when you’ve scarfed your food, you can start stealing theirs.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #519, from hmccracken, 378 chars, Sat Feb 9 13:26:28 1991
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That struck me as funny, too. Without giving away any gags,
_Box Office Bunny_ devotes a lot of time to characters sneaking
in and out of movies and trying to evade the usher. Which was
exactly what I did. Actually, I have a long history in this regard:
when I was a kid, I once went to see Richard Williams’s _Raggedy
Ann_ feature and sat through it three times.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #520, from rcrook, 203 chars, Sat Feb 9 19:38:30 1991
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NoNoNo! The real reason for going with friends is so you don’t
have to buy any food [sic] in the first place! You just convince
your friend that *they* want some, and then you “share” it!
= Argosy =
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animation/coming.soon #521, from davemackey, 345 chars, Sat Feb 9 22:05:18 1991
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My comments on the short are over in the /main section.
As for a more compatible feature, how about that new Chevy
Chase/John Candy/Dan Aykroyd film, “Nothing But Trouble”? The
trailer shows Chase missing the New Jersey Turnpike exit to the
Garden State Parkway — and I’ve done that more than once.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #522, from hmccracken, 564 chars, Mon Feb 11 21:23:46 1991
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TITLE: Universal is joining Disney, Warner’s, and Twentieth-
Century-Fox in this mini-revival of theatrical animation shorts…
but not, as you might guess, with a Woody Woodpecker cartoon
(the Walter Lantz studio having been affiliated with Universal
for something like sixty years).
The new Universal short will star (believe it or not) Baby Huey, that
unfunny but somehow sort of compelling giant baby duck from
Famous Studios cartoons and Harvey comic books. This is no doubt
a result of Universal’s recent purchase of a minority stake in
Harvey.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #523, from davemackey, 543 chars, Tue Feb 12 02:13:40 1991
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That’s a surprise! Course, Universal’s gonna have to get a studio
together, or send the work out to someone…
I found the Huey shorts to be somewhat formulaic, like a lot
of the 50’s Famous Studios work. If you’ve ever seen
Worldvision’s compilation tape of the character, you’ll see what
I mean.
I think the one person who should be most pleased about all
this is Martin Taras, the Paramount animator who created Huey and
co-wrote the story for his first short, “Quack-A Doodle-Doo”
(1949).
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #524, from mscoville, 241 chars, Tue Feb 19 23:35:25 1991
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TITLE: Dr. Seuss
Tri-Star Pictures and Lightmotive have announced a new feature, “Dr. Seuss’
Oh, The Places You’ll Go!” The film will be produced by Roland Jaffe and
Ben Myron. No release date, or production date have been slated.
mscoville
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animation/coming.soon #525, from mscoville, 563 chars, Tue Feb 19 23:41:25 1991
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TITLE: Yoram Gross
Variety this week has a feature on Yoram Gross Film Studios in Australia. At
present they are going to release an animated feature “The Magic Riddle” which
will star such fairy tale greats as Cinderella,Pinocchio, Snow White and Little
Red Riding Hood. It is being distributed worldwide by Beyond Films, Ltd. The
next product for distribution will “Blinky Bill” which will be available in
1992. Blinky is from a 1930’s classic by Dorothy Wall. They are also planning
and setting up a 24 episode TV series to go along with the movie.
mscoville
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animation/coming.soon #526, from hmccracken, 175 chars, Wed Feb 20 01:02:54 1991
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Is that a theatrical feature-length film, Mike? They’ll have
to do a *lot* of padding if that’s the case. They’ll have to
pad even if it’s a half-hour TV special.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #527, from hmccracken, 118 chars, Wed Feb 20 01:03:25 1991
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Thanks for the news of upcoming animation, Mike. A lot of this
is new to me and presumably to other BIXen.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #528, from davemackey, 1054 chars, Wed Feb 20 23:38:42 1991
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TITLE: Disney Channel doings, March and April
Noteworthy among The Disney Channel’s animation offerings over
the next two months…
“Felix The Cat: The Movie” premieres on April 11.
“The All New Adventures Of Sport Goofy,” incorporating the
1987 featurette “Sport Goofy In Soccermania,” will premiere on
April 2. (“Sport Goofy in Soccermania” was conceived by Darrell
Van Citters and reworked by Ward Kimball.)
“Darkwing Duck” premieres April 6.
Don Bluth’s “All Dogs Go To Heaven” premieres March 2, and
Disney is advising parental discretion for younger viewers.
In preparation for the premiere of “The Little Mermaid” on
June 2, Disney will rerun “The Making Of ‘The Little Mermaid'”
in April (and probably also in May).
Animated seasonal specials include “A Family Circus Easter,”
“The Easter Bunny Is Coming To Town,” “The First Easter Rabbit,”
“Easter Egg Morning” and a Passover special, “The Animated
Haggadah.” All of the Easter specials will air on Easter Sunday,
March 31.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #529, from hmccracken, 101 chars, Wed Feb 20 23:45:23 1991
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What’s so offensive about _All Dogs Go To Heaven_, other than
that it’s a terrible movie?
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #530, from davemackey, 379 chars, Thu Feb 21 00:41:16 1991
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Let me add my thanks to Mike Scoville for posting these
little tidbits. Between Mike and his showbiz trades and me and my
broadcast trades — my primary sources are “Electronic Media” and
“Broadcasting,” both of which I maintain subscriptions to thanks
to my chosen profession — I think we have the animation pipeline
quite well covered.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #531, from mscoville, 196 chars, Thu Feb 21 21:01:42 1991
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According to the full fpage ad in a trade magazine, there was no length
mentioned, but one would believe that it is full-length and not a special.
Tri-Star isn’t known for its “shorts”.mscoville
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animation/coming.soon #532, from mscoville, 420 chars, Thu Feb 21 21:06:32 1991
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“All Dogs Go To Heaven” is not as “terrible” as some of the animation that
has come out. The storyline did need tightening and work, but the animation
art was very nice. It is hoped that “Rock A Doodle” will have a better story-
line and keep up the quality of animation. In case I forgot, Rock A Doodle
will be released either this summer or in the fall. They are looking for the
proper window for release. mscoville
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animation/coming.soon #533, from hmccracken, 288 chars, Thu Feb 21 21:47:29 1991
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I hope Rockadoodle is great, but what I’ve heard doesn’t sound
promising. The plot sounds at least as weak as that of _All
Dogs_, and they’ve had a lot of trouble finding a distributor.
The film was originally in the can around the time that _The
Little Mermaid_ was released.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #534, from davemackey, 123 chars, Thu Feb 21 22:29:31 1991
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Oops. I forgot to mention “Alice In Wonderland,” which will be
appearing in April.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #535, from davemackey, 168 chars, Thu Feb 21 22:29:42 1991
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I’ve been told (never having seen the film myself) that it’s the
sequences of Hell that will probably scare the little kiddies.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #536, from hmccracken, 305 chars, Mon Feb 25 18:20:34 1991
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I’ve heard that _Rockadoodle_ still doesn’t have a 100% firm distributor,
although MGM Pathe has been claiming that right. Bluth’s next feature
after that, _The Troll In Central Park_, is due out in the Fall.
After that is _Thumbelina_ with Jodi (Little Mermaid) Benson voicing
the title role.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #537, from sje, 704 chars, Mon Feb 25 19:55:22 1991
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With _Thumbelina_, Bluth is continuing a tradition of mistranslation.
Andersen’s 1836 story about the miniature girl is actually titled “Inchelina”.
There was some confusion over the Danish words for “inch” and “thumb”; the
original text states that the girl is only an inch long.
Incidentially, _Inchelina_ was written a year before _The Little
Mermaid_. Remarking on his first nine stories published in 1835-1837,
Andersen writes:
“… of the nine stories, only _Little Ida’s Flowers_, _Inchelina_,
and _The Little Mermaid_ are [my] original fairy tales, not folk tales that
I have retold.” He goes on to remark that only _The Little Mermaid_ received
any significant public response.
— Steve
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animation/coming.soon #538, from hmccracken, 334 chars, Mon Feb 25 21:12:17 1991
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Interesting! Bluth is definitely doing some heavy-handed Disney
imitating here — doing another H.C. Andersen story with the
same actress in the title role — but I have heard, from someone
involved with the production, that it holds a lot of promise.
Wonder if anyone is thinking about animating _Little Ida’s Flowers_?
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #539, from mscoville, 401 chars, Tue Feb 26 22:12:08 1991
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TITLE: Prince Charles
Britain’s Prince Charles is co-writing a script which is an adaptation of his
>book “The Old Man of Lochnagar.” The 25 minute animated cartoon is a joint
venture between Scottish TV and S4C (Welsh commercial TV net). Siriol
Animation Studios will do the production which is due out in the “mother
country” around Christmas. Who knows if it will make it to the colony?
mscoville
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animation/coming.soon #540, from mscoville, 130 chars, Tue Feb 26 22:13:13 1991
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TITLE: Elf Quest
Rumor has it that Elf Quest may be made into a major motion picture. Does
anyone have any information?
mscoville
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animation/coming.soon #541, from hmccracken, 73 chars, Tue Feb 26 22:17:39 1991
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I wonder if he’ll get any of his relatives to provide voices?
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #542, from switch, 63 chars, Tue Feb 26 22:40:47 1991
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I would think the best bet would be to ask richard.pini.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #543, from richard.pini, 16 chars, Wed Feb 27 15:21:25 1991
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You have email.
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animation/coming.soon #544, from mscoville, 601 chars, Sat Mar 2 20:57:55 1991
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TITLE: Not soon enough..
According to Entertainment Weekly for the week of March 8, 1991 the CBS series
Family Dog will be delayed probably until the fall. It seems that the Steven
Speilberg and Tim Burton production has run into production problems with the
animation. As they noted, this is surprising since CBS did two hysterical
promos about the show during the “Grammys” last week. It is hoped that others
say the promos as they would take up a lot of space to describe. Family Dog
has great potential judging from the promos. Lets hope that they can get
their problems resolved soon. mscoville
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animation/coming.soon #545, from davemackey, 186 chars, Mon Mar 4 19:09:47 1991
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I am very sorry to hear that. I didn’t see all that much of the
Grammy awards and missed the two promos; I understand they were
quite outrageous.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #546, from hmccracken, 832 chars, Fri Mar 8 20:43:06 1991
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TITLE: _Animato_ #21
The next issue of my magazine, _Animato_, will be going to the printer
shortly for publication before the end of the month. I’m pleased to say
that we have contributions by our own Dave Mackey (an episode guide
to _Tiny Toon Adventures_ and several reviews), Emru Townsend
(a review), Hugh Kenner (a reprint of his _Art & Antiques_ piece on
Grim Natwick), and Doug Ranney (a question-and-answer column on
animation collectibles). Oh, and the cover story is the interview I did
with Chuck Jones’s designer, Maurice Noble.
This issue, unfortunately, will be my last as editor; the magazine, however,
will continue under the editorship of its publisher, Mike Ventrella
(who actually was the founding editor and did the first 14 issues before
I stepped in and did seven issues before my resignation).
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #547, from hmccracken, 546 chars, Sat Mar 9 21:11:23 1991
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TITLE: _How To Create Animation_, by Jim Korkis and John Cawley, is
out from Pioneer (Hal Schuster) Books, and it looks quite good upon
first glance. The title is something of a misnomer, I think —
the bulk of the book is made up of interviews with animation figures
of the past and present, including Bob Clampett, Jack Hannah,
Darrell Van Citters, Pete Alvarado, Scott Shaw, Don Bluth, and many
others. The illustrations are varied and interesting, too. I’ll
give a more detailed report after I’ve had a chance to read the book.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #548, from davemackey, 1031 chars, Mon Mar 11 01:50:53 1991
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“Let me embarrass this man…”
I think everyone in the animation conference will echo these
sentiments. I’ve known for several weeks of Harry’s imminent
departure, and since he asked me to keep it on the q.t., that’s
given me a little time to collect my thoughts for this tribute.
Having read “Animato!” fairly steadily since #16, which
attracted me due to my interest in “Mighty Mouse: The New
Adventures,” I can attest that under his tutelage, it has become
a much more attractive package for both writer and advertiser.
This attention to detail trickles down to reader. Each successive
issue has been an improvement over previous.
About a year ago Harry asked me to become part of the
“Animato!” family, which I happily accepted. I’ll still
be a part of that family, but it won’t be quite the same.
Let us all raise a glass in tribute to the fine job that
Harry has done with the magazine and wish him the best on his
future endeavor. As they say in Boston, “Cheers!”
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #549, from hmccracken, 584 chars, Mon Mar 11 18:46:09 1991
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Well, thank you.
After 3-1/2 years and seven issues, I’m suffering creeping burnout,
which is why I’m giving this up. Plus, I’d like to have a *little*
time for other projects, which I haven’t had. Mike Ventrella has
assured me that _Animato_ will continue on, and I look forward to
writing for it and serving as a sort of a consulting editor to whatever
extent Mike would like to have me.
I’m awfully pleased with my seven issues of _Animato_ — I say
this because A) it’s true, and B) it’s due as much or more to the
quality of the contributions as to my own work.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #550, from davemackey, 459 chars, Mon Mar 11 19:04:25 1991
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TITLE: Rosey’s out, Bronson’s in
ABC will reportedly cancel “Little Rosey,” animated version of
Roseanne Barr as a child, after this season.
In development at the network is a show that IMHO sounds a
little more appealing. Saban Productions is packaging “Perfect
Strangers” star Bronson Pinchot in an animated series tentatively
titled “Pinchot, P.I.” Pinchot’s unique voice and face seem a
natural for animation.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #551, from davemackey, 363 chars, Mon Mar 11 19:06:08 1991
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TITLE: More animated adventures of Oz
Encino, CA-based Enoki Films is readying a 52-episode adaptation
of “The Wizard Of Oz.” This is not to be confused with the show
airing presently on ABC. The show is budgeted at a mere $170,000
an episode. This show should be released to the international
market for the fall of 1992.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #552, from hmccracken, 180 chars, Mon Mar 11 20:33:58 1991
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Whew! When I read “Rosey’s out, Bronson’s in” in your heading, I
thought for one horrible moment that Charles Bronson was getting
his own Saturday morning cartoon show!
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #553, from richard.pini, 319 chars, Tue Mar 12 10:20:25 1991
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I have learned some more about this…it might make an interesting footnote
to the entire project once the lawyers get through with it. But in the mean-
time, my thanks to mscoville, and my request to all here to keep an eye out
for any other mentions of EQ in video or film or… and to pass them along
to me. Thanks!
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animation/coming.soon #554, from richard.pini, 149 chars, Tue Mar 12 10:25:00 1991
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…”suffering creeping burnout…”
Congratulations on the decision. *Now* you know why we periodically take
a year or two between Elfquest series!
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animation/coming.soon #555, from richard.pini, 78 chars, Tue Mar 12 10:26:31 1991
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LOL! Me too! (“How the heck can they translate *that*!? Deathwish Babies???”)
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animation/coming.soon #556, from hmccracken, 165 chars, Tue Mar 12 18:12:24 1991
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It wasn’t an easy decision, but it had to be made, if for no other
reason than letting me become reacquainted with the joys of a full
night’s sleep again.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #557, from rcrook, 95 chars, Tue Mar 12 21:34:56 1991
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>… adaptation of “The Wizard of Oz.”
The book, or the movie? (Just curious.)
= Argosy =
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animation/coming.soon #558, from richard.pini, 16 chars, Wed Mar 13 08:12:13 1991
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Hedonist… 😉
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animation/coming.soon #559, from davemackey, 150 chars, Wed Mar 13 19:05:23 1991
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Good Point, but I’m willing to think that the inspiration is
going to come more from the original Baum books.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #560, from davemackey, 272 chars, Fri Mar 15 00:46:55 1991
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USA TODAY reported today that “Capitol Critters” won’t show up
until at least the fall, either. Looks like TV Guide was a little
premature with its article hawking all these new shows that are
at least six months down the road now.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #561, from hmccracken, 936 chars, Sun Mar 17 19:59:56 1991
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TITLE: _Tom and Jerry_ feature
Some tidbits on the upcoming _Tom and Jerry_ theatrical feature,
which is being done for Ted Turner by the Film Roman studio
(best known for _Garfield_): the feature isn’t being done by
Hanna-Barbera because they’re at work on another feature and don’t
have the staff for two films at the same time. Film Roman is
doing the film, but may be farming work out to the Bluth studio
and/or other studios. Joe Barbera, interestingly enough, is
involved as a consultant with the film — but he’s pushing for
T&J to speak, and for some 1970s character designs of T&J to be
used. The people actually making the film want to hew more closely
to the classic characters.
Another Hanna-Barbera tidbit, one that may just be a rumor: Bill and
Joe are, if not mortal enemies, not particularly friendly, and
haven’t been since the 1950s. The only time they get together is
for publicity shots and the like.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #562, from hmccracken, 160 chars, Sun Mar 17 20:00:36 1991
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TITLE: _Mother Goose and Grimm_, the Mike Peters comic
strip, will be a Saturday-morning cartoon show for the fall,
thanks to Film Roman productions.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #563, from davemackey, 700 chars, Sun Mar 17 23:22:54 1991
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It has been said that Bill and Joe do not socialize together
outside the studio environment and their relationship is purely
business. And any business partnerships should be able
to exploit friction between the partners. So I’m not the least
bit surprised at that rumor.
But now that Bill and Joe are no longer the men in command,
I’m certain that they could bury the hatchet on business
differences and maybe even have a bite to eat with their wives
some night. (Something to think about: after their studio was
established, Bill and Joe alternated as President, and when the
studio was sold to Taft, Bill was President and remained so for
many years.)
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #564, from davemackey, 174 chars, Mon Mar 18 19:05:26 1991
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Oops! My mistake. The last line should have read that JOE was
President after the sale to Taft. Too much Green brew on St.
Pat’s day.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #565, from hmccracken, 113 chars, Mon Mar 18 19:19:24 1991
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I have heard that Joe was largely in charge of stories, and Bill
in charge of planning and production.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #566, from davemackey, 374 chars, Tue Apr 9 21:50:28 1991
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TITLE: Turner Home Video presents…
Has anyone else seen the ads that Turner Home Entertainment has
run during the TNT and TBS cartoon shows hawking the homevideo
release of “Captain Planet” with the warning “Turtles beware!”?
Cowabunga!
Turner’s also releasing its “The Wizard Of Oz” show, which
airs on ABC, on video as well.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #567, from davemackey, 247 chars, Thu Apr 11 19:28:48 1991
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TITLE: Disney Goes Warner
Among the animated features The Disney Channel will be airing in
the coming months: “The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie” and “Friz
Freleng’s Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.”
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #568, from davemackey, 542 chars, Thu Apr 18 21:03:58 1991
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TITLE: TDC features for May and June
The Disney Channel closes out the first half of the year with
an unusually lean pallette of animated offerings…
First and foremost: the premiere of “The Little Mermaid,”
May 5, and various dates throughout the two months. “The Sword In
The Stone” and the part-animated “Pete’s Dragon” also get play,
as far as Disney features go.
Other animated features on tap include “The Care Bears
Movie” (May 1 +) and “The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie” (May 11
+).
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #569, from davemackey, 142 chars, Fri Apr 19 19:03:04 1991
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Oh, and one other thing… “Peter Pan” will be premiering on The
Disney Channel sometime this Summer.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #570, from davemackey, 312 chars, Mon Apr 29 19:13:08 1991
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TITLE: “Beauty and Beast”
Disney’s Orlando animation studio, which I had the pleasure of
visiting this past week, is currently handling 600 feet of
“Beauty and The Beast,” to be released this November. The footage
times out to 6 minutes, 40 seconds of actual screen time.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #571, from hmccracken, 68 chars, Mon Apr 29 20:27:44 1991
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How did it look? I’ve heard mixed reports on this film.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #572, from davemackey, 1072 chars, Tue Apr 30 00:17:07 1991
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I didn’t see a lot of drawings or cels, but in the ersatz
non-working story room, there were a series of storyboard
drawings from a sequence of the film (perhaps that which was
being worked on) that looked pretty good.
I went back and re-read your article in Animato! #19 about
the studio and found lots of your observations about the Florida
animation operation on-target. But I found the montage of
classic moments from the Disney features a satisfying slice of
that studio’s endeavors in that genre — but it hasn’t yet been
updated to include the more modern endeavors such as “The Little
Mermaid” and “The Rescuers Down Under.”
The tour group I was with seemed to make a big deal about
the fact that one artist was taking a break with a Game Boy. One
wonders what game he was playing, since you can’t really
communicate with the artists. But one questions the man’s visual
stamina, since the last thing you want to do after straining your
eyes at a light table is strain your eyes seeing that little
Game Boy screen.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #573, from davemackey, 167 chars, Sun May 19 20:12:16 1991
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A revised version of the commercial has revealed that the “Turtles Beware”
quote is actually from a review in Advertising Age.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #574, from davemackey, 176 chars, Wed May 29 19:06:19 1991
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The latest rumor is that “Hare In My Soup” has been made and is going out on
the head end of “The Rocketeer.” Know anything about this?
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #575, from hmccracken, 152 chars, Wed May 29 22:36:20 1991
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I *think* that’s probably not true, but I’m not positive.
Were there any signs of production on the cartoon when
you were down at Disney/MGM?
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #576, from davemackey, 142 chars, Thu May 30 00:42:05 1991
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No, Harry, I didn’t see anything, and I don’t even remember where I heard the
rumor, for that matter.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #577, from bsoron, 279 chars, Thu May 30 10:57:31 1991
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TITLE: Note for Boston-area Bixen
This summer’s free Friday movies at the Hatch Shell include, on
July 26, Fantasia. Show starts at 8, but get there early. Other
stuff on the schedule of related interest: July 12, Wizard of Oz;
Aug. 23, Dick Tracy; Sept. 6, Animal Crackers.
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animation/coming.soon #578, from hmccracken, 302 chars, Mon Jun 10 19:28:58 1991
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As far as I know, the rumor is wrong and in fact Disney
has done no work at all on a new Roger Rabbit short.
This is from a friend in the animation business who
would probably know if they had — as he says, it’s
a very small business and it would be very hard to
keep such a project secret.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #579, from bcapps, 210 chars, Wed Jun 12 23:17:01 1991
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Didn’t see no rabbit on the head of the Rocketeer sneak preview this weekend, I
didn’t. No sirree. The movie was quite enjoyable! TINAR. Go see it. Make
Dave Stevens even happier than he is right now.
Bob
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animation/coming.soon #580, from davemackey, 266 chars, Sat Jun 15 16:41:29 1991
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TITLE: It logically follows…
…That the Disney Channel should announce that they’re showing “Bugs Bunny’s
3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales” sometime this summer, as they’re already
showing Bugs’ first two compilation features.
… –Dave
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animation/coming.soon #582, from switch, 2897 chars, Mon Jun 17 17:36:18 1991
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TITLE: English BGC
AnimEigo Press Release 06/04/1991
Tokyo, Japan
AnimEigo is proud to announce that we have obtained the North American
Home video rights to all 8 “BUBBLEGUM CRISIS” Original Animation Video
(OAV) episodes. Under an licensing agreement with Youmex, Inc, AnimEigo
now has the exclusive rights to produce subtitled and dubbed versions of
all 8 episodes, and release them on videotape and laserdisc for sale in
North America.
BUBBLEGUM CRISIS is a fast-paced animated science fiction series set
in the year 2032. After a devastating earthquake 7 years previously,
the city of MegaTokyo is being rebuilt, largely through the efforts
of the Genom Corporation. Genom is also the manufacturer of
“Boomers”, bio-mechanical androids used as laborers, bodyguards and
by the military.
BUBBLEGUM CRISIS centers around the KNIGHT SABERS, an all-female
vigilante group whose goal is the destruction of Genom. They are
lead by Celia Stingray, whose father invented the Bumas, and was
then murdered by Genom. Before he died, he was able to implant
in Celia his accumulated knowledge; this has allowed Celia to
create the powered “Hardsuits” that protect the Knight Sabers and
allow them to battle the Boomers.
Only the Knight Sabers know the true nature of the evil Genom
Corporation, and only they stand between it and supreme power.
BUBBLEGUM CRISIS is renowned for it’s pulse-quickening action
sequences, spectacular animation, sophisticated plot and
one of the best soundtracks in the history of Japanese Animation.
The first of the 8 episodes will be released in subtitled form on
Labor Day Weekend at the ANIMECON Animation convention and WorldCon
World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago. The other episodes
will be released at approximately one month intervals.
Although suggested retail prices for each episode have not yet
been set, we expect them to be in the $30 to $35 range, depending
on the length of each episode. In addition, the entire series
will be available on a DISCOUNT SUBSCRIPTION basis.
As with our other releases, special group purchase discounts are
available to those who place orders through their local animation
club.
AnimEigo, founded in 1989, is dedicated to the popularization of
Japanese Animation in the United States. Our first two releases,
“MADOX-01”, a science-fiction adventure, and “RIDING BEAN,” a
contemporary action-adventure, were extremely well received by
nimation fans and clubs nationwide. This enthusiastic support
enthusiasts was a key factor that enabled AnimEigo to obtain the
rights to a major series like BUBBLEGUM CRISIS.
For more information about AnimEigo, to place an order, or to
suggest an Anime title you would like to see us release, please
call (919) 799-1501 or write to the following address:
AnimEigo
P.O. Box 989
Wilmington, NC 28402
Thank you for your interest.
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animation/coming.soon #583, from adunkin, 119 chars, Tue Jun 18 21:04:47 1991
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I wonder why all Japanese Science Fiction epics have to do with after the
destruction of Tokyo? 🙂
— Alan Dunkin
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animation/coming.soon #584, from davemackey, 1239 chars, Thu Aug 8 19:37:19 1991
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TITLE: Coming in television
This week’s issue of “Electronic Media” has a massive section on the
resurgence in children’s television. The boom is best put into perspective by
Phil “Film” Roman, who says, “You couldn’t tell there’s a recession by
looking at the animation business.” Most studios have seen agressive
personnel expansion in the last several years.
Some of the projects heretofore unreported on the drawing boards around
Hollywood:
Hanna-Barbera is working on some new Scooby Doo specials, and a
halloween special. For the November 1992 sweeps, NBC will air a two-hour
Flintstones movie.
“Video Power” will be back for a second season, but with no animated
elements. The show is going to a live action format.
Fox this year will have 200 5-minute interstitial programs called “The
Adventures of Dynamo Duck,” using trained animals to tell a story not unlike
the old “Lancelot Link” show. These will pop up this fall between Fox’s SatAM
shows.
And Universal Cartoon Studios has two forthcoming projects: three
prime-time specials based on characters from Berke Breathed’s defunct “Bloom
County” comic strip, and for Showtime, “Shelley Duvall’s Bedtime Stories.”
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #585, from davemackey, 951 chars, Thu Aug 15 19:40:00 1991
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In an article in this week’s issue of EM, plans of DIC Enterprises are
revealed as follows: a miniseries with George Lucas called “The Defenders of
Dynatron City,” several musical series including “The Mozart Band” (teenage
versions of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and Chopin) and “Johnny And The Rock
Babies” (based on French rocker Johnny Halliday); and adaptations of the
films “Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves” and “Terminator 2: Judgement Day”
which DIC head Andy Heyward refers to as a “kinder, gentler Terminator.” (?)
Not everyone is thrilled at DIC’s production schedule. Action for
Children’s Television founder/president Peggy Charren notes that “DIC makes a
lot of money from children but doesn’t give them a very exciting quality of
animation in return. I think it’s unfortunate that so much programing is
animated by DIC. When the same company does too many cartoons, they all tend
to look alike.”
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #586, from paulr, 63 chars, Thu Aug 15 23:17:57 1991
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Boy- that Peggy CHarren person sounds like a real snob.
-Paul
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animation/coming.soon #587, from hmccracken, 137 chars, Fri Aug 16 09:21:52 1991
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DIC also treats its employees poorly; I don’t think it’s a company
that’s doing anybody much good — except for its investors.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #588, from sje, 651 chars, Sat Aug 31 17:13:56 1991
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TITLE: _Beauty and the Beast_ Reference
The current issue of _People_ (NO I DON’T BUY IT BUT I DO LOOK AT THE
COVER FROM TIME TO TIME) magazine has a brief reference to the upcoming Disney
film _Beauty and the Beast_. The issue dated 02 Sep 1991 has a small color
clip of both Belle and the Beast on the cover. Another very small B/W clip
of Belle appears on page 34 with a short blurb attached. Voice credits given:
Teapot Angela Lansbury
Candlestick Jerry Orbach
Mantel Clock David Ogden Stiers
I believe the cover clip is the first public display of the Beast; I
had thought he would stay under wraps for another month or so. — Steve
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animation/coming.soon #589, from hmccracken, 219 chars, Sat Aug 31 20:21:10 1991
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Look for the next issue _Animato_ magazine, which is supposed to
ship sometime before _Beauty and the Beast_ is released in
November, for an interview with one of the directors and
other information on _B&B_.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #590, from davemackey, 754 chars, Sun Sep 8 20:15:20 1991
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Maybe so, but I think her finest hour as head of ACT (she’s been doing this
since I think the early 1970’s) was her crackdown on the toy-driven animated
series of the mid-80’s. If not for her, we’d still be stuck in the
“Transformers” mentality of animation creation: the cartoon as means to an
end (a commercial for toys) rather than an end in itself (entertainment).
But if you want to complain about cartoons looking alike, I point to
Filmation in the 70’s, where animation sequences were reused from show to
show (particularly the Archie musical sequences which popped up again on “The
Hardy Boys”). And they seemed to use the same voices over and over again
(Jane Webb, Dal McKennon, Larry Storch, etc.)
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #591, from davemackey, 236 chars, Sun Sep 8 20:15:30 1991
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In those “Dynamo Duck” bumpers now airing on Fox, it has been revealed that
Homer Simpson himself, Dan Castalanetta, does the voice of Dynamo Duck. They
don’t look too bad, pretty clever in fact.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #592, from hmccracken, 245 chars, Sun Sep 8 20:34:36 1991
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By the way, ACT has also recently been complaining about
Disney’s _Darkwing Duck_ — seems the toys showed up in
stores before the series started, which ACT interprets as
meaning that the show is a half-hour commercial for the toys.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #593, from paulr, 387 chars, Sun Sep 8 23:29:47 1991
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ACT and I seem to disagree a lot. Kid’s aren’t stupid, and my boy, at 4,
recognized the Transfomers, GoBots, GI Joe, and such as merely animated
toy commercials. (Even though there were some fun spots in them at times.)
😉
If they wanna tangle with Disney, they are welcome to. I expect them to go
home with a rolled up sock in their mouths, or at least a very bad taste.
-Paul
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animation/coming.soon #595, from davemackey, 161 chars, Mon Sep 9 01:37:30 1991
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I guess you’re right: I was in the Disney Store yesterday and found myself
face to face with stuffed DD’s. Lots of them.
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #596, from hmccracken, 303 chars, Wed Sep 11 22:22:13 1991
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TITLE: Chuck Jones is a Busy Man
Upcoming Chuck Jones projects include _Termite Terrace_, a
feature film loosely based on Jones’s experiences at
Warner Bros., to be directed by Jones cultist Joe Dante
with animated segments by Jones; and two books, one about
animals and one about Mark Twain.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #597, from hmccracken, 648 chars, Thu Sep 12 09:16:13 1991
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TITLE: _The Raymond Scott Project_…
is the title of an upcoming album from Stash Records, collecting
the work of the composer whose music gained immortality because
Warner Bros. Cartoons composer Carl Stalling was so fond of
incorporating it into his scores. (See Steve Schneider’s _That’s
All Folks_ for more information on Scott.)
Amazingly, Scott is alive and apparently reasonably well, and
will get to appreciate this re-awakening of interest in his
work, unlike Stalling, who was long gone by the time the
_Carl Stalling Project_ CD was released. Scott was even still
composing until recently, and has dabbled in MIDI (!) music.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #598, from hmccracken, 512 chars, Sat Oct 19 09:49:33 1991
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TITLE: _Beauty and the Beast_
Disney’s new animated feature, _Beauty and the Beast_, which will
open in theatres on November 22nd, will be previewed tonight at
a special showing in Los Angeles for members of the Motion Picture
Academy and of the various animation unions. (I don’t think
we have any members here who fall into either of those two
categories, but you never know.) Everything I’ve heard about _B&B_
so far sounds promisings, and I’m looking forward to catching the
film in a month or so.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #599, from mscoville, 226 chars, Sat Oct 19 22:23:21 1991
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Heard through the grapevine that “Beauty and the Beast” will have a southern
California premiere on November 15th. No word about an earlier opening in the
New York area. National openings are still set for the 22nd. mscoville
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animation/coming.soon #600, from hmccracken, 1072 chars, Thu Oct 31 09:37:22 1991
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TITLE: _Bugs Bunny’s Lunar Tunes_…
is the title of a half-hour animated special which has been
made for airing on CBS, although no broadcast date has been
set yet. I was fortunate enough to get an advance viewing
of the show during my recent west coast trip, and it’s quite
good. Like most of the Warner Bros. TV specials of recent
vintage, this one is a compilation: the plot has Bugs
Bunny being put on trial by the Martians, and most of the
old clips are scenes from classic cartoons with Chuck
Jones’s “Marvin Martian” character (they’re shown as
evidence against Bugs).
The special, directed in New York by the talented Nancy
Beiman, has a funny script, and Bugs is a more active
character than he has been in most of his recent
appearances. The animation is a bit uneven (Bugs and
the other characters look a little different from scene
to scene), and the pacing is too fast. I’d rank the
special slightly below the Warner’s _Overtures to
Disaster_ special which aired earlier this year —
but it’s still enjoyable. Catch it when it shows
up on CBS.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #601, from paulr, 57 chars, Thu Oct 31 10:20:04 1991
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::drool:: Time to buy a Super HQ tape for that one. 🙂
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animation/coming.soon #602, from hmccracken, 706 chars, Sun Nov 17 19:51:57 1991
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TITLE: New Warner’s Cartoons Coming
Warner Bros. has completed work on several animated projects which
should reach theaters and TV screens soon. Besides the previously-
discussed _Lunar Tunes_, they include _Bugs Bunny’s Creature
Features_, a compilation special made up of the _Night of the Living
Duck_ and _Duxorcist_ shorts of a few years ago, plus _Invasion of
the Bunnysnatchers_, a new short directed by Darrell Van Citters
(_Box Office Bunny_) which may also be released to theaters.
Also ready for theatrical showings is _Blooper Bunny_, a short
which purports to go behind the scenes of Bugs Bunny’s 51st 1/2
Birthday Special. This one also features computer animation by
Bill Kroyer.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #603, from rkocyan, 123 chars, Tue Jan 14 23:45:34 1992
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oo.
o).
“Call waiting” sucks!
Another movie with satellite (sp?) defenses is Iczer-3. If not juse
(just) for a moment.
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animation/coming.soon #604, from switch, 9809 chars, Tue Mar 17 17:59:28 1992
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Article: 17465 of rec.arts.anime
Subject: Long Awaited Anime Announcement
From: sh****@su***.EDU (Mike M. Tatsugawa)
Date: 25 Feb 92 11:43:28 PST
Organization: Anime Expo ’92
Announcing:
Anime Expo ’92
San Jose Red Lion Inn
July 3-6, 1992
Japanese Guests of Honor:
Haruhiko Mikimoto Creator, Macross, Gunbuster, Macross II, High Speed Jecy
Minoru Takanashi Producer, Macross II, Gunbuster, Guyver
Yoshiyuki Tomino Creator, Mobile Suit Gundam
Author, MS Gundam, Zeta Gundam, Double Zeta, novels
and Char’s Counterattack.
Confirmed American Guests:
Ben Dunn Artist, Ninja High School
Ken Iyadomi Executive Producer, L.A. Hero
Trish Ledoux Translator, Gunbuster: Editor, Animag
Luke Menichelli Editor, Animenominous!
Robert Napton Associate Producer, U.S. Renditions
John O’Donnell President, U.S. Manga Corps
Claude Pelletier Publisher, Ianus Publications (Protoculture Addicts)
Dave Riddick Associate Producer, U.S. Renditions
Fred Schodt Author, Manga! Manga!: Translator, Gundam Novels
Jeff Thompson Editor, Animenominous!: U.S. Manga Corps
Robert Woodhead President & Founder, Animeigo
Steve Wang Director, Guyver: Costume, Batman Returns, Predator, Guyver:
Voice Actor Macross II
Toshi Yoshida Translator, Gunbuster: Editor, Animag
And a few surprises…
Memberships
Until April 1: $35
Until June 1: $40
No memberships accepted between June 1 and July 4th.
At-Con Memberships: $45
One-Days: $25/day
Dealers’ Tables are $150 for the first table, $225 for additional
table.
Room Rates are:
Single: $62/night
Double: $69/night
Triple: $75/night
Quad: $81/night
The hotel number is (408)-453-4000.
For a fee, the hotel will hook up your VCR to the TV set.
To make travel arrangements, American Airlines is the official
carrier of the convention. For discounted flights (from 5%-40%), call
Ladera Travel at (213)-772-1511. These flights will ALWAYS be cheaper
than the cheapest American Airlines flight that you can book through a
travel agent.
All rates and information posted today are subject to change.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: What kind of panels will Anime Expo have?
Macross II Panel
Guyver Panel
Live Action <=> Animation Panel
Subbing vs. Dubbing Revisited (Will Macek be vindicated?)
Other topics will be decided on later in the year. If you have
any ideas on what you’d like to hear please write to:
ok*****@ra***.com
RE: Panel Topics
Remember, the convention is here for the fans, not the other way
around, so tell us what you want to hear!
Q: What will be in the Art Show/Auction?
We will have two rooms to display all of the contributions to the art
show. We also intend to have a charity auction to benefit the victims
of the Berkeley Hills fire and various international charities. All
individuals interested in contributing items to the art show should send
a letter to our address to the attention of the art show coordinator.
We have yet to select one.
Q: What will you guys be showing?
For obvious reasons, I can’t advertise what will be shown at the con.
What I can say is that the largest collection of subtitled anime in
the country will probably be brought together at the con.
US Renditions will also be bringing all of the dubbed anime that they’ve
done. This includes Macross II, Guyver, Orguss, Gunbusters 1-2, Black
Magic M-66, Dangaioh, and Appleseed. Streamline has confirmed that they
will probably be bringing their 35 mm Akira, Lensman, Robot Carnival,
and I think their Twilight of the Cockroackes. Robert Woodhead and
AnimEigo will hopefully be showing their Bubble Gum Crisis and Crash
subbed as well as Riding Bean and Madox 01. But, our film track may
be so packed that we may not have the time to show them. For more info,
you’ll have to wait until the Progress Reports.
Video submissions and questions should be directed to:
Albert Wang (Video Programming Director)
wa**@oc*.edu
Q: What else will there be?
There will be an Anime Game Show with categories for each of the
special guests attending.
There will also be a masqurade, and a costume competition.
There will also be a Meet the Guests reception where eveyone can meet
their favorite animation figure.
There should be two banquets for everyone to relax and meet
people. (This will cost extra)
There will be a gaming area for regular D&D but also with anime related
roll playing games. There will even be a gaming competition. (This
will be announced in PR #1)
If there are things you guys want, write to:
sh****@su***.edu
RE: Program Activities
Q: What will be the attendance?
Official estimated attendance at AnimeCon ’91 was 2,000. This year, with
better publicity, Anime Expo ’92 is shooting for 2,500. If the rush for
memberships becomes too strong, we may have to put a cap on convention
membership at 3,000. We’re the only international Japanese animation
convention, and our memberships reflect it.
Q: What about the Dealers’ Room?
The dealers’ room is 7,500 square feet, or 3/4 of the main ballroom.
With the dealers’ table requests that we’ve received from everywher,
it seems obvious that This means that you will be able to find things
at Anime Expo you’ve never seen before and may never see again (unless
you go to Japan). One precaution though. The Convention will
be cracking down on illegal sales merchandise. Not only is it likely
that the designers and owners of the characters and movies will be
there, but we’re trying to get the message to Japanese wholesalers and
retailers that there is a market in the U.S. This policy will protect
both you the consumers and the legitimate owners of the goods. On the
other hand, what you do with your TV set in your room is your
business.
Q. What should I do if I want to volunteer?
Volunteers are recommended to buy memberships at the cheapest
rate possible ASAP. This way they qualify for any promotions that we
may be holding. Later, we will send out info on how to sign up.
If you are still interested, then you will receive forms and will report
to the con to work. We will provide crash space and food (staff and
gofers get meager (i.e. one meal a day) amounts of food to sustain
themselves for four days). At the end of the con, turn in your gofer
timecards and your membership money will be refunded. We will not be
taking volunteer sign-ups at the convention, so prospective
volunteers, get your money in!
To sign up or get more details, write to:
Robert Loo (Volunteer Coordinator)
rz***@ju**.com
(Note that the “rzl” has an “l” as in Loo, not a “1”.
Q: What will be in the Progress Reports and when is it due out?
The Progress Reports will have info on all of the above mentioned topics
volunteer registration info, and flight and hotel registration information.
PR #1 should be coming out in late March. The final Progress
Report will be mailed out in the beginning of May with all the final
details on the con. Progress Reports will be mailed out until we run
out of them. They will be printed based upon the current numbers of
members registered.
Terry Yeung (Pre-Convention Registration Supervisor)
te****@oc*.edu
Q: What is this I’ve heard about The Anime Reference Guide?
Last year, Cal-Animage (Berkeley) cranked out their newest publication,
The Anime Reference Guide. It had about 75 synopses, a four color Nadia
original by Sadamoto and a one color Noriko original by Mikimoto on
the back. It ran 112 pages and was complimentary to all
attendees and associate members. They are currently on sale through
Nikaku and Books Nippon. We intend to do a new one this year, but we
have not decided if we will simply change the cover and recycle it or
put in the effort to create a new book.
What about AnimeCon ’92? What happened?
The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation is a non-profit
corporation separate from AnimeCon Corp. Although much of the staff
from AnimeCon ’91 is working on Anime Expo, we are different
conventions sponsored by different corporations. We are currently
negotiating to have the checks and assets owned and paid to AnimeCon
Corp. transfered to the SPJA. If you receive Progress Report #1, you
have a membership to Anime Expo ’92. If not, please write to us. We
will post on Usenet if the checks have been transferred. If you have
written a new check to us and we have the AnimeCon Corp. checks transfered
to us, we will refund one of the checks to you. If you decide to follow
this course of action, write the check in the amount that you paid for your
original membership. We will work on an honor system.
Please forward this to all Bulletin Boards
Electronic Mail Inquiries can be sent to:
sh****@su***.edu
or
mt***@oc*.edu
Membership applications, fliers and Progress Report Supplements will be
available via anonymous ftp at a yet to be disclosed site..
Memberships and all mail correspondace should be sent to:
Anime Expo
2425 B Channing
Suite 684
Brk, CA
94704
All checks should be made payable to:
The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Mike Tatsugawa, AKA shogun: The busiest anime fan in the world
Projects/Addresses:
CEO for The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation:
A Non-Profit Corp dedicated to the development of anime fandom and industry
Anime Expo ’92: 2425 B Channing, Suite 684, Brk, CA 94704
American Animation Foundation: 2425 B Channing, Suite 656, Brk, CA 94704
Cal-Animage Founder: #300 Eschelmann Hall, U.C. Berkeley, CA 94720
Home: 796 Font Blvd., Suite 1504, S.F., CA 94132
mt***@oc*.edu sh****@su***.edu sh****@sf**.edu
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animation/coming.soon #605, from switch, 320 chars, Mon Mar 23 21:51:20 1992
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TITLE: New USMC releases
US Manga Corps have announced that they have acquired the rights
to all three acts to _Area 88_, and all four "episodes" of Rumiko
Takahashi's _Rumic World_ series (_Firetripper_, _Super Gal_,
_Laughing Target_, and _Mermaid of the Forest_.) Prices and release
dates remain unnanounced.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #606, from switch, 11945 chars, Fri May 22 10:28:15 1992
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Article: 22246 of rec.arts.anime
From: sh****@su***.EDU (Mike M. Tatsugawa)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime,alt.fandom.cons,soc.culture.japan,alt.manga
Subject: Anime Expo Update May 1992
Date: 5 May 92 18:54:48 GMT
Organization: The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
General Info:
Anime Expo ’92
San Jose Red Lion Inn
July 3-6, 1992
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New Info: New Guest of Honor
New Membership Deadlines
Anime Industry Awards
New Travel Info
New Live Programming Info
Art Show
Video and Movie Premiers
Anime Reference Guide
PR #1 Mailed Out
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Japanese Guests of Honor:
Haruhiko Mikimoto Creator, Macross, Gunbuster, Macross II, High Speed Jecy
Minoru Takanashi Producer, Macross II, Gunbuster, Guyver
Buichi Terasawa Creator, Bat, Gokuu, Cobra and Kabuto
Yoshiyuki Tomino Creator, Mobile Suit Gundam
Author, MS Gundam, Zeta Gundam, Double Zeta, novels
and Char’s Counterattack.
Confirmed American Guests:
Ben Dunn Artist, Ninja High School
Ken Iyadomi Executive Producer, L.A. Hero
Trish Ledoux Translator, Gunbuster: Editor, Animag
Luke Menichelli Editor, Animenominous!
Robert Napton Associate Producer, U.S. Renditions
John O’Donnell President, U.S. Manga Corps
Claude Pelletier Publisher, Ianus Publications (Protoculture Addicts)
Dave Riddick Associate Producer, U.S. Renditions
Fred Schodt Author, Manga! Manga!: Translator, Gundam Novels
Jeff Thompson Editor, Animenominous!: U.S. Manga Corps
Robert Woodhead President & Founder, Animeigo
Steve Wang Director, Guyver: Costume, Batman Returns, Predator, Guyver:
Voice Actor Macross II
Toshi Yoshida Translator, Gunbuster: Editor, Animag
And a few surprises…
Memberships
Until April 22: $35
Until June 15: $40
No memberships accepted between June 15 and July 4th.
At-Con Memberships: $45
One-Days: $25/day
Dealers’ Tables are $150 for the first table,
$225 each for additional table.
Room Rates are:
Single: $62/night
Double: $69/night
Triple: $75/night
Quad: $81/night
The hotel number is (408)-453-4000.
For a fee, the hotel will hook up your VCR to the TV set.
*Warning* Last year the Red Lion Inn was booked up two months before
the convention. Going on the same timetable, that means thay the Red
Lion will probably be full by May. Perhaps earlier if a larger crowd
shows up this year. Please book your rooms early.
We have already confirmed that the hotel is half full.
When the Red Lion fills up, the San Jose Hyatt will act as the
overflow hotel.
To make travel arrangements, American Airlines is the official
carrier of the convention. For discounted flights (from 5%-40%), call
Ladera Travel at (213)-772-1511. These flights will ALWAYS be cheaper
than the cheapest American Airlines flight that you can book through a
travel agent.
Ladera is also negotiating a large package deal for foreign flights,
so make sure that you contact them for more info if you’re flying from
outside of North America.
All rates and information posted today are subject to change.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: What kind of panels will Anime Expo have?
Macross II Panel
Guyver Panel
Live Action <=> Animation Panel
Subbing vs. Dubbing Revisited (Will Macek be vindicated?)
Anime & Mythology
Fanzines
Making Anime
Focus: Gundam MkII
Anime BBS
Fan Clubs
Manga Workshop
Other topics will be decided on later in the year. If you have
any ideas on what you’d like to hear please write to:
ok*****@ra***.com
RE: Panel Topics
Remember, the convention is here for the fans, not the other way
around, so tell us what you want to hear!
Q: What will be in the Art Show/Auction?
We will have two rooms to display all of the contributions to the art
show. We also intend to have a charity auction to benefit the victims
of the Berkeley Hills fire and various international charities. All
individuals interested in contributing items to the art show should send
a letter to our address to the attention of the art show coordinator.
Confirmed items are cels from Macross II, Dangaioh, Kabuto and Giant Robo.
Terasawa has also confirmed that he will be bringing some limited
edition prints to donate to the art auction. We are still looking for
experienced staff for the art show. Please mail if interested. The
official sponsor of the art show is the American Animation Foundation.
Correspondence regarding submissions and staffing should be sent to:
The American Animation Foundation
2425 B Channing, Suite 656
Brk, CA 94704
Q: What will you guys be showing?
For obvious reasons, I can’t advertise what will be shown at the con.
What I can say is that the largest collection of subtitled anime in
the country will probably be brought together at the con.
US Renditions will also be bringing all of the subbed and dubbed anime
that they’ve done. This includes Macross II, Guyver, Orguss, Gunbusters
1-2, Black Magic M-66, Dangaioh, and Appleseed. Robert Woodhead
and AnimEigo will be showing their Bubble Gum Crisis and Crash
subbed as well as Riding Bean and Madox 01. But, our video track may
be so packed that we may not have the time to show them. For more info,
you’ll have to wait until the Progress Reports.
There will also be numerous film and video premiers. Titles like
Macross II (dubbed), Kabuto, Dangioh 3 & 4 (subbed) and numerous other
titles will make their first appearances before the American public.
Video submissions and questions should be directed to:
Albert Wang (Video Programming Director)
wa**@oc*.edu
Q: What else will there be?
We will be starting a new tradition of giving awards to the anime
industry for excellence in anime. The categories will be listed in PR
#2 and nominations will be accepted after PR #2 and the actual voting will
take place at the convention. The two main awards will be for best
video on 1992 and the Voter’s choice of best Expo premier.
There will be an Anime Game Show.
There will also be a masquerade, and a costume competition.
There will also be a Meet the Guests reception where eveyone can meet
their favorite animation figure.
There should be two banquets for everyone to relax and meet
people. (This will cost extra)
There will be a gaming area for regular D&D but also with anime related
roll playing games. There will even be a gaming competition. (This
will be announced in PR #2)
If there are things you guys want, write to:
sh****@su***.edu
RE: Program Activities
Q: What will be the attendance?
Official estimated attendance at AnimeCon ’91 was 2,000. This year, with
better publicity, Anime Expo ’92 is shooting for 2,500. If the rush for
memberships becomes too strong, we may have to put a cap on convention
membership at 3,000. We’re the largest international Japanese animation
convention, and the diversity of our memberships reflects it.
Q: What about the Dealers’ Room?
The dealers’ room is 7,500 square feet, or 3/4 of the main ballroom.
With the dealers’ table requests that we’ve received from everywhere,
it seems obvious that This means that you will be able to find things
at Anime Expo you’ve never seen before and may never see again (unless
you go to Japan). One precaution though. The Convention will
be cracking down on illegal sales merchandise. Not only is it likely
that the designers and owners of the characters and movies will be
there, but we’re trying to get the message to Japanese wholesalers and
retailers that there is a market in the U.S. This policy will protect
both you the consumers and the legitimate owners of the goods. On the
other hand, what you do with your TV set in your room is your
business.
Q. What should I do if I want to volunteer?
Volunteers are recommended to buy memberships at the cheapest
rate possible ASAP. This way they qualify for any promotions that we
may be holding. Later, we will send out info on how to sign up.
If you are still interested, then you will receive forms and will report
to the con to work. We will provide crash space and food (staff and
gofers get meager (i.e. one meal a day) amounts of food to sustain
themselves for four days). At the end of the con, turn in your gofer
timecards and your membership money will be refunded. We will not be
taking volunteer sign-ups at the convention, so prospective
volunteers, get your money in!
To sign up or get more details, write to:
Robert Loo (Volunteer Coordinator)
rz***@ju**.com
(Note that the “rzl” has an “l” as in Loo, not a “1”.
Q: What will be in the Progress Reports and when is it due out?
The Progress Reports will have info on all of the above mentioned topics
volunteer registration info, and flight and hotel registration information.
PR #1 should be in the mail. The final Progress
Report will be mailed out in late May with all the final
details on the con. Progress Reports will be mailed out until we run
out of them.
Inquiries about lost PR’s should be sent to:
Terry Yeung (Pre-Convention Registration Supervisor)
te****@oc*.edu
Q: What is this I’ve heard about The Anime Reference Guide?
Last year, Cal-Animage (Berkeley) cranked out their newest publication,
The Anime Reference Guide. It had about 75 synopses, a four color Nadia
original by Sadamoto and a one color Noriko original by Mikimoto on
the back. It ran 112 pages and was complimentary to all
attendees and associate members. They are currently on sale through
Nikaku and Books Nippon. We intend to do a new one this year, but we
need submissions by talented writers. The cover this year will
probably be an original Mikimoto drawing from Macross II.
What about AnimeCon ’92? What happened?
The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation is a non-profit
corporation separate from AnimeCon Corp. Although much of the staff
from AnimeCon ’91 is working on Anime Expo, we are different
conventions sponsored by different corporations.
If you receive Progress Report #1, you have a membership to Anime Expo ’92.
If not, please write to us. If you have
written a check to us and we have the AnimeCon Corp. checks transfered
to us, we will refund one of the checks to you. If you decide to follow
this course of action, write the check in the amount that you paid for your
original membership. We will work on an honors system.
Please forward this to all Bulletin Boards
Electronic Mail Inquiries can be sent to:
sh****@su***.edu
or
mt***@oc*.edu
Membership applications, Pagemaker 4.0 flier versions, postscript
versionts of fliers and Progress Report Supplements are
available via anonymous ftp at piggy.ucsb.edu, ocf.berkeley.edu and
groupw.cns.vt.edu
Memberships and all mail correspondence should be sent to:
Anime Expo
c/o The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
2425 B Channing, Suite 684
Brk, CA 94704
All checks should be made payable to:
The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Mike Tatsugawa, AKA shogun: The busiest anime fan in the world
Projects/Addresses:
CEO for The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation:
A Non-Profit Corp dedicated to the development of anime fandom and industry
Anime Expo ’92: 2425 B Channing, Suite 684, Brk, CA 94704
American Animation Foundation: 2425 B Channing, Suite 656, Brk, CA 94704
Cal-Animage Founder: #300 Eschelmann Hall, U.C. Berkeley, CA 94720
Home: 796 Font Blvd., Suite 1504, S.F., CA 94132
mt***@oc*.edu sh****@su***.edu sh****@sf**.edu
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animation/coming.soon #607, from switch, 295 chars, Sat May 23 09:28:11 1992
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TITLE: Little Nemo
According to Enrique Conty on Usenet, _Nemo_ trailers have started
appearing on the E! channel; apparently the movie will be coming
to theaters this August. Hopefully it will enjoy a more extended
run that _Rover Dangerfield_; I'd like to catch this on the big
screen.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #608, from hmccracken, 505 chars, Sat May 23 11:28:24 1992
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Well, _Rover_ got no release at all in the U.S. except for a few
test screenings, so _Nemo_ won't have to work hard to beat it.
As a fan of Winsor McCay's great comic strip, I don't think _Little
Nemo_ the film (which has been in the works for a decade or more)
looks like a very promising adaptation. I've heard that the producers,
Japan's TMS, labored long and hard to make the film look like a 1950s
Disney animated feature -- which is a far cry from the Art Nouveau
world of McCay's strip.
-- Harry
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animation/coming.soon #609, from switch, 349 chars, Mon May 25 10:47:30 1992
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In terms of character design, it does look like a 50s Disney feature.
Some characters look like they came straight out of McCay's strip,
but not enough. I finally got around to watching the whole thing
two weeks ago, and it certainly is enjoyable to watch, if you're
(a) not expecting a McCay production, and (b) fast-forward past
the songs.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #610, from switch, 2371 chars, Sun Jun 7 03:10:39 1992
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Article: 5454 of rec.arts.animation
From: ve***@wa*****.edu (Joe C Solinsky)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Disneyana Convention
Date: 6 May 92 18:33:21 GMT
It is obvious from my response levels that this needs to be posted.
Disneyana Convention
P.O. Box 10,000
Lake Buena Vista
Florida 32830-1000
Phone (407)560-7232
Dear Disneyana Enthusiast:
Have you ever thought about Disney and Disneyana? Well, if you have,
you may be interested in learning more about one of our most exciting
new projects.
Premiering September 24, 1992, The Walt Disney Company will host the
first Disney-sponsored Disneyana Convention at the Contemporary
Resort Hotel at Walt Disney World.
It is a three-day event featuring Disney Celevbrity Speakers, Disney
Animators, a Collectibles Sale with International Artists, a
Disneyana Auction and Fair, and a trade show and sale of independent
Disneyana collectors. There will be a special event showcasing our
Disney Synergy Groups, to provide information regarding the future of
Disney products and entertainment.
There will be backstage tours by the Disney Seminar Group and a final
night banquet filled with *Disney Magic* and feature a themed show
called *The Best of Disney*.
If you would be interested in learning more about this event, please
contact the Merchandise Special Events office at (407) 560-7232, or
Disneyana Convention
P. O. Box 10,000
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
******
Okay, five kind words to the first person who can guess how many
times the word Disney was included in the reading in some way, and
how many Unecessary CaPiTaLiZaTiOnS and *BOLD-FACED WORDS* were put
in.
Personally, I do not think I will be able to make it to the
convention, but I have a feeling that someone in the group may show
an interest. Did everyone else get this, or was it just me?
The note paper was truly bitchin’. It had a huge Mickey Mouse face
crammed in diagonally, in a faint yellow. I have also been getting a
listing of the shows at the Disneyland Disney Art Gallery (I think I
am getting the hang of their style) above the Pirates of the
Carribbean in Disney’s New Orlean’s Square. BTW in the bottom of the
page, there is a little Copyright symbol followed by DISNEY. Like
people are really gonna steal ‘the mouse’ if they haven’t already.
-Joe Solinsky
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animation/coming.soon #611, from elfhive, 191 chars, Sun Jun 7 12:26:21 1992
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I didn’t notice anything about registration fees. Given the cost of
Disney World and the Disney Hotels, how much more are they adding
to get in? This sounds like a real expensive three days.
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animation/coming.soon #612, from hmccracken, 136 chars, Sun Jun 7 18:17:12 1992
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Fortunately, there are inexpensive accomodations outside the park.
Every hotel save one within the premises is fairly pricey.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #613, from switch, 136 chars, Sun Jun 7 21:46:25 1992
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Good question; unfortunately, my Usenet feed is nonexistent, since
rn is giving me hassles (to any UNIX gurus out there — HELP!)
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #616, from switch, 122 chars, Mon Jun 8 00:04:16 1992
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TITLE: The UNIX thread…
…has been moved to /inkwell, where we can hopefully figure all
this out. Thanks, guys.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #617, from elfhive, 148 chars, Mon Jun 8 00:07:43 1992
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If you stay outside the park do they charge you to get to the hotel. As I
recall one day entry to either EPCOT or Disney World is in the $30 range.
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animation/coming.soon #618, from hmccracken, 261 chars, Mon Jun 8 09:29:22 1992
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You can get into the Contemporary Hotel, where the convention
is being held, for free. (Well, there may be a parking charge.)
However, I doubt that many folks who go will resist spending
several days in the theme parks, which can add up very quickly.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #619, from elfhive, 310 chars, Mon Jun 8 23:34:32 1992
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Put it together with the World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando
over the labor day weekend and you have a real budget buster 🙂
I’ve chosen AnimeExpo ’92 as the main pilgrimage this year, but I
may add the World Fantasy Convention in Atlanta over Halloween
Weekend before all is said and done this year.
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animation/coming.soon #620, from switch, 134 chars, Fri Aug 21 22:10:23 1992
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TITLE: Rescuers on LD
_The Rescuers_ will be released on laserdisc, on September 18. I haven’t
got a price for it, I’m afraid.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #621, from switch, 2767 chars, Mon Aug 24 21:38:10 1992
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Article 3589 in rec.arts.disney:
From: snopes%cl****@st***.com (snopes)
Subject: Mickey Mouse Box Set
Date: 19 Aug 92 04:54:08 GMT
Organization: Just put everything on the floor; I can find it.
Lines: 39
MICKEY MOUSE BOX SET: Seventy-eight classic songs from the rich legacy of Walt
Disney have been collected on the three-CD box set “The Music Of Disney: A
Legacy In Song”, due in stores September 29. For the first time ever, the
Disney musical archives have been tapped to collect songs from cartoons, films,
television programs, and the theme parks, including six previously unreleased
recordings.
Those half dozen new tracks include Angela Lansbury’s demo track for
“Nobody’s Problems” from the film “Bedknobs and Broomsticks”; Sean Connery’s
demo of “Pretty Irish Girl,” re-recorded by a vocalist for the film “Darby
O’Gill And The Little People”; two original cast recordings, “I’m Late” and
“Unbirthday Song” from “Alice In Wonderland”; “You Belong To My Heart” from
“Three Caballeros”; and the theme from the television show “The Wonderful World
of Disney”.
An additional 14 tracks long out-of-print are presented in their original
song format, including two hits by Annette Funicello, “The Strummin’ Song” and
“Mr. Piano Man”. The three discs are intelligently broken into distinct time
periods and musical sources. Disc one covers music from Disney’s animated
features from 1928-1963, opening with “Turkey In The Straw” from the very first
Mickey Mouse cartoon “Steamboat Willie”. Disc two covers the animated films
from 1964-1991, up to and including songs from “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty
And The Beast”. Disc three offers highlights from Disney’s many live action
films, television programs (including four tracks from “The Mickey Mouse Club”)
and theme parks.
Each track is reproduced in its original mono or stereo format from the
master tapes. “The Music Of Disney” comes with a lavish 60-page full-color
booklet, penned by Disney researcher David Fisher, which explores the history
of these songs through text, photographs, and interviews with the songwriters
and composers.
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| WARNING |
| This signature under pressure. Do not use or store near heat or open flame.|
| Do not puncture or incinerate container. Exposure to temperatures above |
| 130F may cause bursting. |
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| David Mikkelson Digital Equipment Corporation, Culver City, CA USA |
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animation/coming.soon #622, from davemackey, 274 chars, Fri Sep 18 09:26:42 1992
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TITLE: New WB store in NJ
Oh boy! Warner Bros. is opening another one of its Studio Stores
in Woodbridge, NJ, tomorrow! Your favorite Looney Tunes pals will
be on hand for the grand opening.
This is the first WBSS to open in New Jersey.
Dave
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animation/coming.soon #623, from switch, 9703 chars, Thu Oct 29 20:58:24 1992
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Article: 16570 of rec.arts.anime
From: sh****@su***.EDU (Mike M. Tatsugawa)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Anime Expo General Information (October)
Date: 1 Oct 92 08:05:36 GMT
Organization: The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
General Info:
Anime Expo ’93
Oakland Convention Center/Parc Oakland Hotel
July 2-4, 1993
Japanese Guests of Honor:
To be announced
Confirmed American Guests:
To be announced
Memberships
Until January 1: $30
Until March 1: $35
Until June 1: $40
No memberships accepted between June 15 and July 4th.
At-Con Memberships: $45
One-Days: $25/day
Dealers’ Tables are $125 each, no maximum.
Room Rates are:
Single: $62/night
Double: $69/night
Triple: $75/night
Quad: $81/night
The hotel number is (510)-451-4000.
*Warning* Last year the Red Lion Inn was booked up two months before
the convention. Going on the same timetable, that means thay the Parc
Oakland will probably be full by May. Perhaps earlier if a larger crowd
shows up this year. Please book your rooms early.
If the Parc Oakland is full, the Washington Inn will act as the
overflow hotel.
Parking rates are still in negotiation with the hotel. There are lots
surrounding the Oakland Convention Center, however, the convention
parking costs .60 per hour. We are currently trying to negotiate the
price down so that hotel guests will receive validation. There is
also a covered parking garage being built across the street. It will
be completed by Expo, but the rates are still unknown. Finally, there
is a parking garage about 8 blocks from the convention center which
costs $3.50 per day, is in a safe neighborhood and has security and is
locked at night.
To make travel arrangements, United Airlines is the official
carrier of the convention. For discounted flights (from 5%-40%), call
Ladera Travel at (213)-772-1511. These flights will ALWAYS be cheaper
than the cheapest United Airlines flight that you can book through a
travel agent.
Ladera is also negotiating a large package deal for foreign flights,
so make sure that you contact them for more info if you’re flying from
outside of North America.
All rates and information posted today are subject to change.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: What kind of panels will Anime Expo have?
We will be giving each major anime and manga company one panel to show
off all of their new products and do a Q&A with the audience so that
they can receive input on their work. We hope that this panel
fascilitates better understanding among fans and professionals in the
anime and manga industry. The second key feature of our panels is
that we will be doing focuses on each of our GoH’s. One new feature
will be the “fan-made panels”. If 10 fans want to put on a panel and
can take care of the logistics, we will provide the forum and the
equipment for it, just contact us in advance so that we can put it in
our schedule.
Remember, the convention is here for the fans, not the other way
around, so tell us what you want to hear!
Q: What will be in the Art Show/Auction?
The art show has grown, and we are moving the art show to a 5,000
square foot area this year. It will include the usual art show flats,
but will also have space for 3-D models as well. We are looking at
holding modeling workshops and fans interested in having the art show
do a lot of focuses on models should let us know. We will also have
the usual artist’s ghetto and will be taking reservations. Please mail if
interested. The official sponsor of the art show is the American
Animation Foundation. Correspondence regarding submissions and staffing
should be sent to:
The American Animation Foundation
2425 B Channing, Suite 656
Brk, CA 94704
Q: What will you guys be showing?
For obvious reasons, we can’t advertise what will be shown at the con.
What I can say is that the largest collection of subtitled anime in
the country will probably be brought together at the con.
We are hoping that U.S. Renditions, AnimEigo, Streamline and U.S.
Manga Corps will share their wealth of animation with us for showing
at the Expo. If they do, expect a jam-packed weekend of non-stop
anime. For more info, you’ll have to wait until the Progress Reports.
There will also be numerous film and video premiers. Titles will be
listed in the upcoming progress reports.
Video submissions and questions should be directed to:
Albert Wang (Video Programming Supervisor)
wa**@oc*.edu
Q: What else will there be?
We will be continuing the tradition of giving awards to the anime
industry for excellence in anime. The categories will be listed in PR
#1 and the actual voting will take place at the convention. The two
main awards will be for best video on 1992 and the Voter’s choice of
best Expo premier.
There will also be a masquerade, and a costume competition.
We are looking at experimenting with a dance this year.
There will also be a Meet the Guests reception where eveyone can meet
their favorite animation figure.
There should be a brunch banquet for fans to relax and meet
the GoH’s. (This will cost extra)
There will be a gaming area for regular D&D but also with anime related
roll playing games. There will hopefully be a gaming competition. (This
will be announced in PR #2)
If there are things you guys want, write to:
ts**@oc*.edu
RE: Program Activities
Q: What will be the attendance?
Official estimated attendance at Anime Expo ’91 was more than 1,700.
This year, with better publicity, BART access, and a year’s worth of
momentum, Anime Expo ’93 is shooting for 2,000 to 2,500. If the rush for
memberships becomes too strong, we may have to put a cap on convention
membership at 3,000. We’re the largest international Japanese animation
convention, and the diversity of our memberships reflects it.
Q: What about the Dealers’ Room?
The dealers’ room will be 10,000 square feet this year, twice the size
of the dealers’ room at Anime Expo ’92. With the dealers’ table requests
that we’ve received from everywhere, it seems obvious you will be able to
find things at Anime Expo you’ve never seen before and may never see again
(unless you go to Japan). One precaution though. The Convention will
be cracking down on illegal sales merchandise. Not only is it likely
that the designers and owners of the characters and movies will be
there, but we’re trying to get the message to Japanese wholesalers and
retailers that there is a market in the U.S. This policy will protect
both you the consumers and the legitimate owners of the goods.
If you are interested in tables, they cost $125 each. No maximum
on the numbers of tables.
Q. What should I do if I want to volunteer?
Volunteers are recommended to buy memberships at the cheapest
rate possible ASAP. This way they qualify for any promotions that we
may be holding. Later, we will send out info on how to sign up.
If you are still interested, then you will receive forms and will report
to the con to work. We will provide crash space and food (staff and
gofers get meager (i.e. two meals a day) amounts of food to sustain
themselves for three days). At the end of the con, turn in your gofer
timecards and your membership money will be refunded. We will not be
taking volunteer sign-ups at the convention, so prospective
volunteers, get your money in!
To sign up or get more details, write to:
Danielle Scott (Volunteer Coordinator)
ds****@sa*****.us
Q: What will be in the Progress Reports and when is it due out?
The Progress Reports will have info on all of the above mentioned topics
volunteer registration info, and flight and hotel registration information.
PR #1 should be mailed out in January. The final Progress
Report will be mailed out in late May with all the final
details on the con. Progress Reports will be mailed out until we run
out of them.
Inquiries about lost PR’s should be sent to:
Terry Yeung (Registration Supervisor)
te****@oc*.edu
Q: What is this I’ve heard about The Anime Reference Guide?
Every year, Cal-Animage (Berkeley) cranked out their newest publication,
The Anime Reference Guide. We intend to continue this tradition with
the assistance of the people at TASS. Past cover art has been done by
Mikimoto and Sadamoto. It runs 112 pages and is complimentary to all
attendees and associate members. They are also currently on sale through
Nikaku and Books Nippon. We intend to do a new one this year, but we
need submissions by talented writers.
Please forward this to all Bulletin Boards
Electronic Mail Inquiries can be sent to:
sh****@su***.edu
or
mt***@oc*.edu
Membership applications, Pagemaker 4.0 flier versions, postscript
versions of fliers and Progress Report Supplements will be made
available via anonymous ftp at piggy.ucsb.edu, ocf.berkeley.edu and
groupw.cns.vt.edu as soon as we can download the files.
Memberships and all mail correspondence should be sent to:
Anime Expo
c/o The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
2425 B Channing, Suite 684
Brk, CA 94704
All checks should be made payable to:
The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Mike Tatsugawa, AKA shogun: The busiest anime fan in the world
Projects/Addresses:
Publicity Coordinator for Anime Expo ’93
A Non-Profit Corp dedicated to the development of anime fandom and industry
Anime Expo ’92: 2425 B Channing, Suite 684, Brk, CA 94704
mt***@oc*.edu sh****@su***.edu
“I feel so impotent when Madoka is like that” – Kyosuke (KOR 5)
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animation/coming.soon #624, from switch, 4109 chars, Thu Oct 29 20:59:12 1992
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Article: 1099 of alt.manga
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime,alt.fandom.cons,alt.manga
From: ha*****@ra***.net (Mike Harlock)
Subject: Anime America press release
Followup-To: rec.arts.anime (NOT POSTER!!!!!!)
Keywords: anime america convention
Organization: a2i network
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1992 01:40:15 GMT
Announcing the ultimate anime and manga event!
Anime America is coming to the Westin Hotel/Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA from June 25-28, 1993. This
not-to-be-missed event for all fans of anime and manga will
feature a large dealers’ room, a 16mm and 35mm film room, three
24-hour anime video channels, artists’ autographs, artists’
panels and much, much more!
Confirmed Guests (In Alphabetical Order):
Matthew Anacleto
Founder of Animag and V-Max
L. Lois Buhalis
Letterer and Artist for Studio Proteus
Robert DeJesus
Artist for Antarctic Press
Doug Dlin
Editor for Antarctic Press
Colleen Doran
Creator of A Distant Soil
Artist for Sandman and Hellraiser
Jo Duffy
Creator of Nestrobber
Artist for Batman and Katsuhiro Otomo’s Memories
Ben Dunn
Creator of Ninja High School
Founder of Antarctic Press
Tom Orzechowski
Letterer for Marvel Comics
Rick Sternbach
Senior Illustrator for Star Trek TNG
Adam Warren
Artist for the Dirty Pair Comics
Accommodations and Room Rates
Anime America’s hotel is the newly renovated Westin Hotel in Santa Clara,
CA. located off Highways 101 and 237. The Westin is connected to
the Santa Clara Convention Center and next to Great America theme
park the Santa Clara Golf and Tennis Courts and the Santa Clara
Light Rail System which has access to the San Jose International
Airport and downtown San Jose. AA Room rates per night are:
Single Occupancy $69.00
Double Occupancy $69.00
Triple Occupancy $69.00
Quad Occupancy $69.00
All reservations must be made by May 27, 1993. Please write or
call:
The Westin Hotel Santa Clara
5101 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
(408) 986-0700
Please mention Anime America for the special AA convention rate.
Membership rates:
——$25.00 till 1-15-93
——$30.00 till 3-15-93
——$35.00 till 6-1-93
——$45.00 at the door
——$20.00 for a “one day”
——$15.00 supporting member
mail-in memberships must be postmarked by 6-1-93
Dealers’ Room
Anime America will feature a large dealers’ room devoted
primarily to anime and manga. Tables are $120 apiece and come
with 2 memberships each. Limit of 5 tables per dealer.
AATV
AATV will feature three 24-hour anime TV channels. Tracks 1 and 2
will feature all of your favorite anime, movies, OAV’s and TV
shows. In addition to anime, Track 3 will periodically provide
con scheduling information and broadcasts of panels and special
events.
Film Track
Anime America will feature a 16mm and 35mm film room. For anime
on the big screen, this is the place to be!
Art Show
A 4 ft by 4 ft half panel is $12.50. More than 6 half panels,
please send inquiries to the Art Show Coordinator. Table space
is 4 ft by 16 in.; panel rate is $10.00. For further info, please
write to the AA address c/o Art Show Coordinator.
Additional Events
Anime America will also have banquets with our guests, arcade and
RPG games, and much more!
Anime America invites fans from around the world. For further
information, write or call:
Anime America
298 4th Avenue, Suite 472
San Francisco, CA 94118
Voice Mail: (415) 241-8823
Please do not Email me regarding questions/comments about the convention.
I will not respond or forward any mail concerning thus.
There will be an official mail account in the near future, but in the mean time,
please use the above address and phone #. Thank you.
—
_____________________________________________________________________________
| ha*****@ra***.net (Mike “Harlock” Massee)| Arcadian Productions Subtitling |
|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Graphics/Titles // |
| Head Guru, Foothill A.N.I.M.E. Club | Conventions Amiga! \\// |
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animation/coming.soon #625, from switch, 1872 chars, Sat Jan 30 21:37:03 1993
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From: dp******@vt***.edu (Daniel Pawtowski)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.announce
Subject: Free Animation Film Festival
Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:26:04 -0500
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On the weekend of Febuary 20, 1993, the Animation Society of Virginia
Tech, VTAS, will present AnimeFest X. This will be a 30-hour, weekend long
FREE Anime showing on the campus of Virginia Tech university.
All programs will be shown on the giant projection TV in the
Hancock Hall auditorium, complete with 900 watts of sound.
Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia (like you couldn’t
guess from the name), about 30 miles southwest of Roanoke along I-81.
While the schedule has not yet been set, we can promise a wide variety of
subbtitled and English material. The prime feature will be the British
claymation film “Truckers”, based on the Terry Pratchett novel of the
same name (also the author of the “Diskworld” series, and “The Color of
Magic”). We are quite certain that this film has never before been shown
in the United States, so it promises to be quite a premire!
Other Animation films (mostly Japanese in origin)lineup include
the Ranma movie (subtitled in English), Women Warriors Effi and Jiri
(also subtitled), Samauri Pizza Cats (English), Mamono Hunter Yohko
(subtitled), Supernatural Beast City (subbed), the completed Aeon Flux #1,
and The Wind is Called Amnesia (subtitled).
For more information, send email to VT**@vt***.edu, or snailmail
to VTAS, P.O. Box 10143, Blacksburg, VA, 24062-0413, or log on to the
VTCOSY conferencing BBS (telent to vtcbx.cc.vt.edu to reach the
VT CBX network, then type CALL VTCOSY). A complete schedule
for AnimeFest X will be posted when available.
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animation/coming.soon #626, from switch, 3096 chars, Sun Feb 14 19:43:01 1993
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From: da****@po*****.edu (Daniel Pawtowski)
Subject: Free Animation Film Festival Schedule
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On the weekend of Febuary 20, 1993, the Animation Society of Virginia
Tech, VTAS, will present AnimeFest X. This will be a 30-hour, weekend long
FREE Anime showing on the campus of Virginia Tech university.
All programs will be shown on the giant projection TV in the
Hancock Hall auditorium, complete with 900 watts of sound.
Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia, approx. 30 miles
southwest of Roanoke along I-81.
One of the prime features of AnimeFest 10 will be the British
claymation film “Truckers”, based on the Terry Pratchett novel of
the same name (also the author of the “Diskworld” series). We
are quite certain that this film has never before been shown in
the United States, so it promises to be quite a premire! Many
of the other films are Japanese in origin, with English
subtitles.
The current schedule for AnimeFest X is as follows:
Saturday Feb 20, 1993
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9:00am Danger Mouse (E)
9:30am Dragonball Movie(J)
11:00am Kiki’s Delivery Service (S)
12:45pm Samurai Pizza Cats (E)
1:00pm Lupin III: Fuma’s Secret Plot (S*)
1:30pm Appleseed (S)
3:40pm Truckers (E)
5:30pm Dirty Pair: Project Eden (S)
7:00pm Fish Police (E)
7:30pm DINNER – GO EAT AND CALL HOME!
8:00pm Samurai Pizza Cats (E)
8:30pm Ranma 1/2 Movie (S)
9:30pm The Wind is Named Amnesia (S*)
11:15pm Women Warriors Effie & Jiri (S*)
Sunday Feb 21, 1993
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Midnite Silent Mobius (S*)
1:00am Super Natural Beast City (S)
2:45am Mamono Hunter Yohko (S)
3:30am Baoh (S*)
4:15am City Hunter Movie (S*)
6:00am Video Girl Ai #1-3(S*)
7:30am Goku (S*)
8:20am Aeon Flux (E)
9:00am 3×3 Eyes #4 (S*)
9:30am Assemble Insert (S)
10:30am SD Gundum (J)
11:00am Gundum 0083 #1-2 (S*)
Noon Windaria, Legend of Famous Battle (S*)
1:30pm Orange Road OVA (S)
2:00pm Record of the Lodoss Wars #11-13 (S*)
3:30pm Luna Varga (J)
4:30pm Quantum Leap (**) OR Legend of Arslan (S*)
Key:
(J) Japanese
(E) English
(S) Japanese with English subtitles.
(S*) Japanese, probably with English subtitles. More data will
be posted when available.
(**) This is the Quantum Leap episode where Sam becomes a toon. It’s being
done by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira). If we can show this, we will.
For more information, send email to VT**@vt***.edu, or snailmail
to VTAS, P.O. Box 10143, Blacksburg, VA, 24062-0413, or log on to the
VTCOSY conferencing BBS (telent to vtcbx.cc.vt.edu to reach the
VT CBX network, then type CALL VTCOSY). A complete schedule
for AnimeFest X will be posted when available.
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animation/coming.soon #627, from switch, 3185 chars, Fri Feb 19 00:50:27 1993
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From: Matt Pyson <MR****@ps***.edu>
Message-ID: <93****************@ps***.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: PSSFS 2nd Japanese Animation Festival
Distribution: pa
Organization: Pennsylvania State University Science Fiction Society
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Hit “n” now if you don’t want to read the club announcement!
The anime-infiltrated Penn State Science Fiction Society will be having its
second Japanese Animation Festival on Saturday, February 20th. The show will
feature some of the subtitled shows that are available out there from AnimEigo,
U.S. Manga Corps, and Streamline Pictures. It starts at noon and will last
until eight in the evening.
Schedule:
12:00pm — MACROSS, Episodes 1 & 2 Subtitled (Streamline)
The original show that ROBOTECH was partly composed of. See the
episodes un-cut and un-dubbed!
1:00pm — BUBBLEGUM CRISIS, Episodes 2 & 3 Subtitled (AnimEigo)
The conclusion of the story from Episode 1 (which we showed last
semester). The Knight Sabers delve deeper into the sinister plots of
the Genom Corporation and their ultra-powerful combat androids, the
Boomers.
2:00pm — DOMINION, Parts 1 & 2 Subtitled (U.S. Manga Corps)
The pollution-filled world of the future is so plagued by criminals
that the police have a special division of tanks to combat them. New
recruit Leona Ozaki runs afoul of the motley Tank Police’s most
elusive adversary: Buaku and his two lieutenants, the catlike Puma
sisters.
3:30pm — VAMPIRE PRINCESS MIYU, Parts 1-4 (AnimEigo)
A vampire tale set in contemporary Japan. Himiko, a travelling
Spiritualist, is drawn into a world where a young girl is a vampire
with a mysterious mission and a shadowy past.
5:30pm — URUSEI YATSURA, Episodes 1 & 2 (AnimEigo)
Ataru Moroboshi is the luckless, lecherous teenager selected to save
the Earth from the invading tiger-striped Oni. He brightens up when
he discovers that all he has to do is catch their leader’s beautiful
daughter, Lum, in a game of tag. Sounds easy, right? Wrong.
6:30pm — GALL FORCE: ETERNAL STORY (U.S. Manga Corps)
The centuries-old interstellar war between the humanoid, all-female
Solenoids, and the formless, inhuman Paranoids may draw to a close
with the annihilation of both sides, unless some way can be found
to resolve the conflict.
Location:
The showing will be held in the Reading Room of the Hetzel Union Building on
Pollock Road, University Park Campus in State College PA. (Just go to the
geographic center of Pennsylvania, look for Penn State, ask where the HUB is,
and the Reading Room is right next to the TV Lounge.)
All are welcome to attend, the show is free, and there will even be some
brochures available to the first people to show up. 🙂
—
| Matt Pyson | “Dad, I have something to tell you…” |
| Internet: mr****@ps***.edu | “Yes, Ranma, what is it?” |
| BITNET: MRP105 AT PSUVM | “Umm… I’m pregnant with Akane’s baby.” |
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animation/coming.soon #628, from switch, 1105 chars, Mon Feb 22 19:28:28 1993
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Subject: Anime Expo Area #3 Announcement
Message-ID: <19*******************@ni*.net>
From: sh****@su***.EDU (Mike M. Tatsugawa)
Date: 21 Feb 93 22:10:48 PST
Organization: The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
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Aside from being America’s largest anime and manga convention and
being the only convention in the U.S. focusing on modeling,
Anime Expo is pleased to announced its third area of empahasis
for its 1993 convention: computer animation and games
Attending this year’s convention will be representatives from:
PIXAR: (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Tin Toy)
Xaos Inc: (Lawnmower Man)
NeXT Computers
Cambridge Animation
Megatech Software (Cobra Mission, They will also be premiering
two new games at Expo.)
Confirmations by several other companies are still pending and
will be posted soon.
—
Mike Tatsugawa, AKA shogun: The busiest anime fan in the world!
President, SPJA: 2425 B Channing, Suite 684, Brk, CA 94704
Publicity Coordinator, Anime Expo ’93
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animation/coming.soon #629, from switch, 1636 chars, Mon May 3 12:27:03 1993
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From: an**@ra***.net (Anime America)
Subject: ANIME AMERICA ANNOUNCES MIYAZAKI FILM FESTIVAL
Message-ID: <C6********@ra***.net>
Keywords: anime america miyazaki film festival
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ANIME AMERICA ANNOUNCES MIYAZAKI FILM FESTIVAL
In honor of Mr. Hayao Miyazaki, the top animation producer in Japan today,
Anime America will hold a Miyazaki film festival at the June 25-27,1993
convention. The films PORCO ROSSO, WITCH’S DELIVERY SERVICE and MY NEIGHBOR
TOTORO will be shown from 35 mm prints. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO is a special showing
of a new English dub version completed under the supervision of Tokuma Shoten,
Japan and distributed in the U.S. by Troma, Inc.
For more information on Anime America, please write or call:
Anime America
298 4th Avenue, Suite 472
San Francisco, CA 94118
Voice Mail: (415) 241-8823
Fax: (408) 748-9620
Anime America in Japan
Fax/English voice message: (0468) 21-1910 ext. 2034
Japanese voice message: (044) 833-4879
—
_____________________________________________________________________
Jim Freeman – an**@ra***.net (Official Anime America Email Account)
Anime America – June 25-27, 1993, at the Westin Hotel and Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, Ca. Email for info file.
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animation/coming.soon #630, from switch, 2797 chars, Tue May 18 01:50:04 1993
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From: di**@cy******.us
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: CVI Expo Press Release
Date: Sat, 15 May 93 14:54:11 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations
AUTODESK, INC. AND COGSWELL POLYTECHNICAL COLLEGE TO SPONSOR
“COMPUTER AND VIDEO IMAGING EXPO ’93”
Autodesk, Inc., Sausalito, California, and Cogswell Polytechnical College,
Cupertino, California, will join hands in sponsoring the first computer and
video imaging exposition ever held in Northern California, Saturday, June 19,
on the Cogswell campus.
“Computer and Video Imaging Expo ’93” will feature educational seminars
and vendor showcases on animation, virtual reality, imaging, scriptwriting,
storyboarding, game production, film/broadcast graphics, 3D modeling,
interactive media, and more.
Expo visitors can learn how to use sophisticated software to produce high
quality renderings and animations. They can also get a glimpse of leading
edge interactive software.
Cogswell College is a 106 year old private college accredited by the
Senior Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The
college offers engineering degrees as well as the only Bachelor of Arts in
Computer and Video Imaging in the United States, a degree program involving
integrated media such as computer graphics, animation, sound design, and video
production.
“Cosponsoring events like this is part of Autodesk’s continuing effort to
form mutually beneficial relationships with educational institutions, like
Cogswell College and industry,” stated Roger Payne, Director of University
Programs at Autodesk. “People who are interested in the latest in multimedia
technology will find the Expo offers them a unique opportunity to see it all
under one roof.”
“Cooperation such as this offers networking and educational opportunities
for students,” said Vijay Patel, Chair of Cogswell’s Computer and Video
Imaging Department.
Both agree this exposition will have the highest level of presentors, such
as Iain McCaig a storyboard artist and concept director for Terminator II, as
well as vendors such as Wavefront, Matrox, Viewpoint Engineering Graphics,
Xaos, Fractal Design, PixoArts, and more.
Autodesk will be on hand to demonstrate 3D Studio ™, Animator Pro, and
Cyberspace Developer’s Kit Software. Autodesk is a registered trademark of
Autodesk, Inc. 3D Studio, Animator Pro, and Cyberspace Developer’s Kit are
trademarks of Autodesk, Inc.
/Contact: Paul A. Schreivogel/Tim Harrington, Public Relations
408 252 5550
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| H E \ Y B E R |/ E N [ di**@cy******.us ]
The CyberDen – Public Access Waffle Usenet System – 415/472-5527
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animation/coming.soon #631, from switch, 3310 chars, Tue May 18 21:01:47 1993
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From: a2*@ni****.nl (Richard Vermaas)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Anime convention in Florida!
Keywords: convention, d-cubed, florida
Date: 25 Apr 93 21:28:11 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Hello folks,
Morgan Hollinger has no access to Usenet so I am posting this for him.
Morgan’s email address is included below so I would appreciate it if
you mailed him if you have any questions.
Richard Vermaas
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June 5-6, 1993
Pensacola, FL
(A production of Allied Gaming Interests, Inc.)
D-Cubed 93 will have a 48-hour Japanese Animation festival featuring the most
popular videos, some public titles and advanced screenings of several
to-be-released movies. The festival will be held in the Pensacola Civic Center
with several hotels within walking distance.
Currently sceduled showings are:
Explorer Woman Ray (1 & 2) MD Geist
Grave of the Fireflies Rumik World: Firetripper
3×3 Eyes Rumik World: Supergal
AD Police Venus Wars
Bayscape 2042 Odin
Bubblegum Crisis (1-8) Genesis Survivor Gaiarth
Bubblegum Crash (1-3) Lupin III
Devil Hunter Yohko Madox-01
Fist of the North Star Nadia (1-13)
Crystal Triangle Kimagure Orange Road (1-4)
Dog Soldier Kimagure Orange Road (movie)
Dominion (1-4) Project A-ko
Gallforce – Eternal Story Riding Bean
And still others are in the works!!!
Special guests of D-cubed receive free passes to the 48-hour festival.
Attendance:
Current cost for 1-day/2-day passes are $10/$15
Fees for 1-day and 2-day passes will increase to $12/$20 After May 5, 1993
Special guests of D-cubed receive free passes to the 48-hour festival.
Hotel Information:
Special room rates are available for D-Cubed 93 guests: $39 a night
(2 occupancy). At last check there was a limited space available so make
your reservations NOW to ensure a room.
Seville Inn: 1-800-277-7275 (Group #2910)
Days Inn: 1-800-325-2525 (D-Cubed 93 Special)
For more information:
E-mail: mh******@co***.edu
Phone: (904) 944-9627
Postal Mail: AGI, Inc.
P.O. Box 37186
Pensacola, Fl 32526-0186
We would like to thank the following companies for making this festival
possible: U.S. Manga Corporation, AnimEigo, StreamLine, AD Vision, Camelot
Music (via Cordova Mall location) and Paul Rigsby.
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animation/coming.soon #632, from switch, 2678 chars, Sun May 23 21:08:46 1993
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TITLE: More Anime America stuff
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
From: an**@ra***.net (Anime America)
Subject: ANIME AMERICA and ANIMEIGO announce cell deal
Keywords: anime america animego miyazaki cell deal
Organization: a2i network
Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 05:56:22 GMT
ANIME AMERICA AND ANIMEIGO ANNOUNCE A SPECIAL OFFER
TO ALL ANIME AMERICA ATTENDEES
GET PAID UP TO $100 TO WATCH A MOVIE YOU’D PAY $100 TO WATCH!
To celebrate the ANIME AMERICA MIYAZAKI FILM FESTIVAL, ANIMEIGO
will make genuine production cels from MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO, KIKI’S
DELIVERY SERVICE and PORCO ROSSO available at special discounts.
If you come to ANIME AMERICA and watch one of Mr. Miyazaki’s films,
you will have the opportunity to obtain an original Studio Ghibli
production cel for as little as FIFTEEN DOLLARS! That’s right! 15
American Dollars!
Here is how it works: Attend the convention, and go watch one
of the Master’s films. On your way out, pick up one of the special
stickers that will be provided and stick it on your badge.
Then go to the AnimEigo booth and pick out a Miyazaki cel. AnimEigo
will give you a 20% discount on the first cel you buy, with a minimum
discount of $5 and a maximum discount of $100. As AnimEigo has cels
starting at only $20, this means you can get a genuine Miyazaki
cel for only $15!
And what will $15 buy you? How about a small but perfect cel of
the Crimson Pig himself? Or one of his plane? They also have other
grades of cels from Porco Rosso, Kiki’s Delivery Service and
Tonari no Totoro ranging from $20 up to their spectacular “Ones they
really don’t want to sell” portfolio.
Supplies are limited, and it’s first come, first served! So if
you want to find the perfect cel at a better than perfect price,
you’d better attend the ANIME AMERICA PREMIERE of KURENAI NO BUTA!
Please contact:
Anime America
298 4th Avenue, Suite 472
San Francisco, CA 94118
Voice mail: (415) 241-8823
Fax: (408) 748-9620
EMAIL: an**@ra***.net
ANONYMOUS FTP: rahul.net /pub/anam/
FINGER: an**@ra***.net
For hotel reservations (call as soon as possible):
The Westin Hotel Santa Clara
5101 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Ph: (408) 986-0700
Anime America is sponsored by the Foundation for Animation and Comics
Education, a non-profit California corporation.
—
_____________________________________________________________________
Jim Freeman – an**@ra***.net (Official Anime America Email Account)
Anime America – June 25-27, 1993, at the Westin Hotel and Santa Clara
Convention Center in Santa Clara, Ca. Email for info file.
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animation/coming.soon #633, from switch, 18759 chars, Mon Jun 14 21:34:27 1993
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From: atarv%tr************@VT***.EDU (Computer Graphics Conference)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Untitled
Date: 10 Jun 1993 17:59:44 -0400
Organization: VA Tech News/Mail Gateway
First Bilkent Computer Graphics Conference
on
Advanced Techniques in Animation, Rendering, and Visualization
ATARV-93
organized by
Bilkent University
and
The TUSEP Program of the Scientific and Technical
Research Council of Turkey
(TUBITAK)
in association with
IEEE
Turkey Section
July 12-14, 1993
Ankara
TURKEY
FINAL PROGRAM
************************
Sponsoring and Cooperating Organizations:
* TUBITAK (Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey)
* Bilkent University
* IEEE Computer Society, Turkey
* IBM SEMEA S.p.A.
* Koc-Unisys Bilgisayar Sistemleri A.S.
* ELTEK Electronics Technology Co.
* GANTEK Computer Consultance, Service, Trade Inc.
* The British Council
* I-BIMSA International Business Information and Management Systems
(A joint venture of IBM and Sabanci Holding)
* Thomson-CSF
Conference Chairman:
Bulent Ozguc (Bilkent University, TR)
Program Committee:
Varol Akman (chair, Bilkent University, TR)
Cevdet Aykanat (Bilkent University, TR)
Rae Earnshaw (University of Leeds, UK)
Bianca Falcidieno (Istituto per la Matematica Applicata, IT)
Alain Fournier (University of British Columbia, CA)
Michel Gangnet (Digital Equipment Corporation, FR)
Les Piegl (University of South Florida, USA)
Fatih Ulupinar (Bilkent University, TR)
Scott Whitman (David Sarnoff Research Center, USA)
Andrew Witkin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Local Organizing Committee:
Fatih Ulupinar (chair)
Gozde Bozdagi
Tolga Capin
Bilge Erkan
Ugur Gudukbay
Veysi Isler
Sebnem Leylak
Mujdat Pakkan
M. Ulku Sencan
Cemil S. Turun
Conference Secretary:
Tahsin M. Kurc (Bilkent University, TR)
GENERAL INFORMATION
*************************
Advanced Techniques in Animation, Rendering, and Visualization Conference
is the first scientific computer graphics meeting in Turkey. It will be
held in Ankara, on July 12 — 14, 1993, on the premises of Bilkent University,
the only private university in Turkey. High quality research papers will be
presented in the areas of
* Modeling for animation and rendering
* Parallel algorithms and architectures
* New trends in radiosity and ray-tracing
* Scientific visualization
* Current trends in animation
Conference sessions will include invited talks by
Norman Badler (University of Pensylvania, USA)
Alain Fournier (University of British Columbia, CA)
Kees van Overveld (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)
Derek Paddon (Bristol University, UK)
Thierry Priol (IRISA – INRIA, FR)
Scott Whitman (David Sarnoff Research Center, USA)
Andrew Witkin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Bilkent University offers assorted computing facilities as well as lecture
halls equipped with audiovisual equipment. Conference proceedings will be
published by an international publisher.
REGISTRATION
*******************
Please fill in the attached registration form and mail to:
Tahsin M. Kurc,
ATARV-93 Conference Secretary,
Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science,
Bilkent University,
06533 Bilkent, Ankara, TURKEY
Registration fee, in US dollars, includes the proceedings, conference
cocktail and banquet, coffee/tea service, and access to some of the events
that will take place during the conference. The conference fees are:
Delegates $175.00
Authors $150.00
Students $100.00
(ACM and IEEE members: Deduct $25.00 from the above fees.)
TRANSPORTATION
**********************
Turkish Airlines (THY) and other international companies such as Delta,
Lufthansa, Air France, and SwissAir have direct flights from USA and many
countries in Europe to Ankara. An alternative would be to fly to Istanbul
and then take a domestic flight from Istanbul to Ankara. For flight schedules,
please check with a travel agency.
A taxi trip from the airport to the city costs approximately $10–15, and
from the airport to the campus costs approximately $15–20. Shuttle services
of Turkish Airlines are available between the airport and the city for
less than $5.
WEATHER
*************
The climate is typically continental. In summer it is quite hot, with
little rainfall or humidity, but with cool nights. The average temperature
for Ankara in July is 23 C.
ACCOMMODATION
********************
Hotel and various other accommodations are available on campus. Hotel Bilkent
Ankara (neighboring the Bilkent Campus) has special rates for the conference.
The price for room and breakfast at this four star international hotel (for
the conference members and only during 11 — 15 July 1993) will be:
Single room/day $30.00
Double room/day $40.00
Half board and full board supplements are available at modest prices. For
those wishing to stay downtown, Ankara has a wide selection of international
and local hotels. Round trip transportation between city and campus is
available at no cost and at a regular schedule. For those staying on campus
or at Hotel Bilkent Ankara, transportation to downtown Ankara will also be
provided. The bus schedules will be available at the registration desk during
the conference.
LOCAL ATTRACTIONS
************************
Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, lies in the center of Anatolia. Its history
goes back to the Bronze Age, Hittite civilization. After the control of various
civilizations including Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Galatians, Romans,
Byzantines, Seljuks, and Ottomans, finally in 1923 it was declared as the
capital of the new Turkish Republic. Today, besides the old town with its
citadel, Ankara is a modern city representing the Turkish Republic.
Ankara has assorted places of interest. Places of historical importance are the
Ankara Citadel, the Temple of Augustus, the Roman Baths, and the Column of
Julian. There are important museums with precious historical and cultural
pieces: The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, the Ethnographical Museum, the
Painting and Sculpture Museum, the Museum of the Republic, and Ataturk’s
Mausoleum.
To the south of Ankara is Lake Golbasi, a popular place to visit for the
attractive scenery, and the fine restaurants on the lakeside. Other attractive
natural sites, especially for those who enjoy mountain air, are the Beynam
Forest and Elmadag Mountain.
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
***********************
There will be a welcome cocktail and a reception in Bilkent University. Also
there will be excursions to the local historical and natural sites in and
around Ankara. The tours are listed below. Please indicate, in the registration
form, the tour you wish to take.
[Tour A] Ankara city tour: This is a half day tour to important historical
and touristic places in Ankara: The Museum of Anatolian
Civilizations, the Temple of Augustus, The Column of Julian,
Ataturk’s Mausoleum, Old Parliament Building. This tour costs
$25 per person.
[Tour B] Tour to Gordion: This is a daily tour. It costs $60 per person
(including the lunch). This historical site is of interest for the
tumulus of King Midas.
[Tour C] Tour to Hattusas: This is a daily tour. It costs $75 per person
(including the lunch). Hattusas was the capital of the Hittite
empire and is famous for its ancient relief carvings.
[Tour D] Tour to Cappadocia: This is a two-day tour. It costs $130 per
person including full pension accommodation in Hotel Dedeman
(a five star international hotel), travel expenses, guide services,
and entrance fees to historical sites. Cappadocia is famous for
its astonishing natural scenery and historical places such as
early Christian churches and underground cities.
In addition to daily tours, for those who wish to stay longer and visit other
sites of Turkey, tours can be arranged. Please indicate in the registration
form to get more information.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
*****************************
July 12, Monday
7.45 – 8.45 am Breakfast
9.00 – 10.30 am Registration
10.30 am OPENING Session
10.30 am Opening Remarks
Prof. B. Ozguc, Conference Chairman
Prof. M. Baray, Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Bilkent University
Prof. M. Coruh, Rector, Bilkent University
11.00 am Invited Talk
“Near Real-Time Body Awareness”
Norman I. Badler,
Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
(Joint work with X. Zhao)
11.45 am Invited Talk
“From Bump Maps to Local Illumination Models”
Alain Fournier,
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of British Columbia, CANADA.
12.30 am – 1.30 pm Lunch
2.00 pm VISUALIZATION Session
2.00 pm Invited Talk
“An Overview of Parallel Scientific Visualization”
Scott Whitman,
David Sarnoff Research Center, U.S.A.
2.45 pm Contributed Papers
“A Numerical Visual Environment: Reference Models, Methods, and Tools”
R. M. Spitaleri,
Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Rome, ITALY.
3.15 – 3.45 pm Coffee Break
“Scientific Visualization Challenges in Three Dimensional Relativistic
Jet Simulation”
C. Duncan and P. A. Hughes,
Bowling Green State University and University of Michigan, U.S.A.
“Application of Rapid Hierarchical Radiosity to Participating Media”
N. Bhate,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of South Florida, U.S.A.
7.00 pm Conference Cocktail
July 13, Tuesday
7.45 – 8.45 am Breakfast
9.00 am PARALLEL ALGORITHMS AND ARCHITECTURES Session
9.00 am Invited Talk
“Parallel Radiosity Using a Shared Virtual Memory”
Thierry Priol,
IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes Cedex, FRANCE.
(Joint work with K. Bouatouch and D. Menard)
9.45 am Contributed Papers
“A Parallel Implementation of a Ray Tracer on a Shared Memory Multiprocessor”
E. Camahort, G. Quintana, R. Vivo, and A. M. Vidal,
Departamento de Sistemas Informaticos y Computacion,
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, SPAIN.
“An Efficient Parallel Spatial Subdivision Algorithm for Parallel Ray Tracing
Complex Scenes”
V. Isler, C. Aykanat, and B. Ozguc,
Dept. of Computer Eng. and Information Science, Bilkent University, TURKEY.
10.45 – 11.15 am Coffee Break
“PROOF II: A Scalable Architecture for Future High-performance Graphics
Systems”
W. Strasser and A. Schilling,
Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut fur Informatik,
Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen, GERMANY.
“Chiron: A System for Parallel Program Performance Visualization”
H. A. Goosen, A. R. Karlin, and D. Cheriton,
Computer Science Dept., Stanford University and DEC SRC, U.S.A.
12.30 – 1.30 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Invited Talk
“Multiprocessor Models for the Radiosity Method”
Derek Paddon,
Computer Science Dept., Bristol University, U.K.
2.45 pm Invited Talk
“Interactive Simulation: Physics as a User Interface”
Andrew Witkin,
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
3.30 pm — onwards Free time
8.00 pm Reception
July 14, Wednesday
7.45 – 8.45 am Breakfast
9.00 am ANIMATION Session
9.00 am Invited Talk
“The Application of Relaxation and Optimisation Methods in Computer Aided
Geometric Design”
C.W.A.M. van Overveld,
Dept. of Mathematics and Computing Science,
Eindhoven University of Technology, THE NETHERLANDS.
9.45 am Contributed Papers
“Animation of Deformable Models”
U. Gudukbay and B. Ozguc,
Dept. of Computer Eng. and Information Science, Bilkent University, TURKEY.
10.15 – 10.45 am Coffee Break
“Mechanical Systems Motion Control for Computer Animation”
Ch. Lecerf, B. Arnaldi, and G. Hegron,
IRISA/INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes Cedex, FRANCE.
“Generalized Morphing Operations over Implicitly Represented Shapes”
E. Akleman,
Computer Science and Engineering Dept., Yildiz Technical University, TURKEY.
12.00 – 1.30 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Contributed Papers
“Adaptive Texture Mapping Pipeline”
Y. Kamen,
Sun Microsystems Computer Corp., Mountain View, U.S.A.
“Modelling Rodin’s Thinker: A Case Study Combining PHIGS and Ray-tracing”
G. Williams, A. Murta, and T. Howard,
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
“A File Format for Interchange of Realistic Scene Descriptions”
P. Guitton and C. Schlick,
LaBRI, Talence, FRANCE.
*******************************************************************************
Following is a latex version of the registration form, You may take a latex
output of this form and send it to the address given for registration. If you
do not have a latex output facility, you can get a printed form of the
program as a booklet if you send your address.
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ATARV-93 \\
REGISTRATION FORM
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Please return this form as soon as possible to the address below:
{\bf
Tahsin M. Kur\c{c}, \\
ATARV-93 Conference Secretary, \\
Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science, \\
Bilkent University, \\
06533 Bilkent, Ankara, TURKEY \\
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LAST~NAME~:…………………………………………… \\
FIRST~NAME~:…………………………………………. \\
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ORGANIZATION~:……………………………………. \\
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FAX~:………………………………………………………. \\
TELEX~:………………………………………………….. \\
EMAIL~:…………………………………………………… \\
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{\bf Registration Fee (in US Dollars):}
(Please mark the appropriate boxes)
{\bf IEEE/ACM Member} \\
( \ ) IEEE \ \ \ ( \ ) ACM \\ \\
Membership No: …………………………….. \\ \\
(Please include proof of membership with this form.) \\ \\
\begin{tabular}{lr}
( \ ) Delegate \ \ \ & \$150.00 \\
( \ ) Author \ \ \ & \$125.00 \\
( \ ) Student \ \ \ & \$\hspace*{1ex}75.00
\end{tabular}
{\bf Non-member} \\ \\
\begin{tabular}{ll}
( \ ) Delegate \ \ \ & \$175.00 \\
( \ ) Author \ \ \ & \$150.00 \\
( \ ) Student \ \ \ & \$100.00
\end{tabular}
{\bf ( \ )} {\bf Payment by Credit Card}
VISA ( \ ) \ \ \ \ \ \ MASTERCARD/EUROCARD ( \ ) \\ \\
EXPIRATION DATE: …../….. \\
Card Number: \\ \\
………………………………………………………..
If the payment is to be made by credit card, my signature below
will be considered to have been made on the applicable credit card
bill form for the indicated amount below:
Registration Fee: …………………………. \\
Transaction Date
(Day/Month/Year) : …../…../….. \\ \\
Authorized Signature: \\ \\
\newpage
\vspace*{-1ex}
{\bf ( \ )} {\bf Payment by Bank Transfer}
Payments can also be made by a bank transfer to: \\
\hspace*{4ex} {\bf Mr. Fatih Ulup{\i}nar \\
\hspace*{4ex} Yap{\i} ve Kredi Bankas{\i}, BILKENT Branch, \\
\hspace*{4ex} Ankara, Turkey \\
\hspace*{8ex} Account Number: 3000370-7} \\
%{\bf Mr. Fatih Ulup{\i}nar, Account Number: 3000370-7} at YAPI VE KREDI
%BANKASI, BILKENT BRANCH, ANKARA, TURKEY
in {\bf US Dollars} and {\bf exclusive of any bank charges}.
Please consider this option only when the option “Payment by Credit Card”
is not available. ({\bf Please do not send personal checks
under any circumstances.}) \\
{\bf Please provide a copy of your remittance along with this form.}
{\bf Hotel Reservation} (only for Hotel Bilkent): \\ \\
\begin{tabular}{ll}
( \ ) Single room & \$30.00 \\
( \ ) Double room & \$40.00
\end{tabular}
\baselineskip 3.6ex
{\bf Date of Arrival at Ankara} \\
~Date: …../…../…..
{\bf Date of Departure from Ankara} \\
~Date: …../…../…..
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{\bf Tours:} (Please mark the tour you want to take ) \\
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( \ ) {\bf Tour A} {\it Ankara city tour} \\
Number of Persons:…………… \\
( \ ) {\bf Tour B} {\it Tour to Gordion} \\
Number of Persons:…………… \\
( \ ) {\bf Tour C} {\it Tour to Hattusas} \\
Number of Persons:…………… \\
( \ ) {\bf Tour D} {\it Tour to Cappadocia} \\
Number of Persons:……………
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Please, do not send any payment for the tours now. Payments will be
received at the reception desk.
%If you want to stay longer in Turkey and
If you are interested in visits to other sites of Turkey, please mark below: \\
{\bf ( \ )} Yes, I would like to have more information.
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animation/coming.soon #634, from switch, 4069 chars, Fri Jun 18 20:54:51 1993
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Some stuff I picked up from a local online zine (pardon the offbeat
formatting; I’m not able to retype it.)
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ALIENS vs. PREDATORS
____________________________________
____________________________________
The offbeat Darkhorse Comics company
is producing this animated tale
based on the sucessfull comic of
the same name. 20th Century Fox
will be handling distribution..
S P I D E R M A N
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
(Now Casting!)
Brad Pit
Tom Cruise
Keanu Reaves
Kiefer Sutherland
Are The Top Contenders!
BLANKMAN
========
(Release pending)
Damon Wayans stars
in this comic hero
spoof.
BLONDIE
^^^^^^^
(Summer release slated)
Based on the life of Dagwood
Bumstead, the beloved daily
comic strip character.
BLACK PANTHER
————-
(filming soon)
Wesley Snipes is pencilled in to star as the
African prince T’Challa comic book hero.
Columbia Pictures distributing.
ANNIE & THE CASTLE OF TERROR
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
(Summer release)
Ray Stark is producing this
long-awaited (?) sequel.
A Columbia Pictures film.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
ROBOCOP 3
/////////
The Animated Series. 22 1 Hour episodes of the Animated Robocop series
have been created, scheduled to air early 1994 on the heels of ROBOCOP 3
the Movie. The series was produced by Toronto’s Skyvision entertainment
in association with Orion Pictures. Look for Robocop 3 in Theatres this
fall, Rip Torn will co-star.
THE MASK
“”””””””
(in development)
Darkhorse Comics,
in association
with Largo
Entertainment.
CONCRETE
“”””””””
(in development)
Darkorse Comics,
in association
with Largo
Entertainment.
Decoder |__:__| by MICHAEL X.MAELSTROM & M.C CLEAN HORACE
——- [_____]
C == Cancel [_____] ??????????????????????????????????
F == Filming [_____] W. A. I. T. S T A T E
H == on Hold [_____] ??????????????????????????????????
W == Wait for[_____]
Release [_____] What’s filming, on hold, delayed, or cancelled.
/ _[_____]_ __________________________________________
/ / _____ \ / / |
/ [ |11:59| ] /PLASTIC MAN: Spielberg’s Amblin Co. /*H|
/ [ |_____| ] /SPIDERMAN: James Cameron to Direct / *H|
/ \_________/ /HIGHLANDER III: Lambert says he will. / *H|
/ [_____] /MR.MAGOO: Another Amblin toon project. / *H|
\ [_____] /THE AVENGERS: Studio 86’d M.Gibson idea./ *C|
\ [__o__] /THE PHANTOM: Robert Evans producing. / *F|
\ [__o__] /CASPER,THE FRIENDLY GHOST: Amblin toon. / *F|
\ [__o__] /THE GREEN HORNET: Eddie Murphy wants in./ *H/
/ [__o__] /________________________________________/ /
/ [__o__] \SGT.ROCK: Schwarzenegger now starring. \ *H/
/ [__o__] \THE MEN IN BLACK: Rogue CIA operatives. \ *H/
(Filming [__o__] \THE FANTASTIC FOUR: Constantin Films. \ *H/
Complete. [_____] \HERCULES: From DARKMAN’S Sam Raimi. \*H/
\___/ \________________________________________\/
Film options picked up on these Marvel —> DAREDEVIL
Comics characters. —> DR.STRANGE
—> THE INCREDIBLE HULK
Head honcho Stan Lee assures all that —> X-MEN
Marvel will exercise a more “hands on” —> GHOST RIDER
approach to ensure a better product, —> THOR
and avoid miscues like “The Punisher”. —> BLADE,THE VAMPIRE HUNTER
TV series to Big-Screen translations —> BEVERLY HILLBILLIES (shooting)
are the latest fad in Hollywood. These —> GILLIGAN’S ISLAND
are in development. —> BRADY BUNCH
—> F-TROOP
—> MY FAVORITE MARTIAN
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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 12:51:37 PDT
Location: new york city, new york
ACategory: national
Slugword: mtv
Priority: regular
Format: regular
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Codes: yboernx., yev.rny., yfcnrnx., xxxxxxxx
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Geffen Pictures and MTV Productions said Tuesday
they have agreed to develop and produce a feature film, marking MTV’s
first venture into moviemaking.
MTV, a unit of New York-based Viacom International Inc., and Geffen
Pictures said they will jointly develop “Joe’s Apartment,” MTV’s live-
action and animated short about a young man’s efforts to cope with a big
city and a tiny apartment full of talking cockroaches.
MTV will supervise the development of the script, to be written by
John Payson, who wrote and directed the short.
Geffen Pictures and Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. will fund
development and production of the film and Warner will distribute it.
The “Joe’s Apartment” short received an Ace Award, a Houston World
Festival Award, a Best Short Film award at the Annecy International
Festival of Animation and Best Comedy award at the Banff Television
Festival.
David Geffen, the record mogul who head Geffen Pictures, said “We’re
extremely excited about ‘Joe’s Apartment’ and also welcome the
association with MTV, which has proven itself to be a productive source
of new talexploring ways to expand its
cable networks, which include MTV, VH-1, Showtime and Nickelodeon. About
a month ago, it announced a major market test along with American
Telephone & Telegraph Co. of interactive TV technology in Castro Valley,
Calif.
Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom and owner of about three-quarters
of Viacom, has been given high marks from analysts for MTV’s ability to
attract young viewers since he acquired Viacom in 1986.
Viacom posted its first quarter in the black since the acquisition
during the 1992 first quarter and has been profitable since.
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animation/coming.soon #636, from elfhive, 68 chars, Wed Jul 7 23:10:31 1993
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Sounds like somebody watched Japan’s “Twilight of the Cockroaches.”
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animation/coming.soon #637, from switch, 87 chars, Thu Jul 8 08:55:10 1993
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My thoughts exactly. I saw an episode of “Joe’s Apartment” last fall–
not bad.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #638, from switch, 154 chars, Sun Jul 18 21:40:11 1993
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TITLE: New translated anime
Streamline’s going to be releasing the _Crying Freeman_ videos
at an unspecified date.
(Brevity is the soul of wit…)
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #639, from switch, 4102 chars, Mon Jul 26 21:55:34 1993
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~From: da****@po*****.edu (Daniel Pawtowski)
~Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime.info
~Subject: KatsuCon Ichi: East Coast Anime Con
~Date: 14 Jul 93 20:28:23 GMT
~Sender: pe***@ga*****.edu
Organization: Trapped in Blacksburg, VA
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Status: O
KatsuCon Ichi
The First (announced) East Coast
Anime Convention
February 17 – 19, 1995
at the
Holiday Inn Executive Center
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Confirmed Guests
_Danny Fahs_
Artist for Antarctic Press’ “Stellar Losers” and Zetraman Returns”
_C. Sue Shambaugh_
Fan translator, AnimEigo translator
Other Guests to be announced
KastuCon is the first announced Science-Fiction convention on the U.S.
East Coast to be completely dedicated to the fans of Japanese Animation,
or “Anime”.
Scheduled events include:
Anime-related Panels
Dealers Room
Variety Show
Amateur Film Fest
Art Show
Modeling Contest
A Fri and Sat Dance
Costume Show
An Anime-based Live Action Role Playing Game
and (of course) LOTS of Anime!!!
_Memberships_ _Hotel room rates_
$22 until June 30, 1994 $59 per night, per room.
(Make sure to mention KatsuCon when
making your room reservations)
_Exhibitors Tables_
$50 per table (1st & 2nd tables include one
membership each. 4 table limit)
_Hotel Information_
Holiday Inn Executive Center
5655 Greenwich Road
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462
(804) 499-4400
1-800-HOLIDAY
The hotel is centrally located in the Tidewater area of Virginia, near
Newport News and Virginia Beach.
Directions:
>From I-64 East, take Exit 264-B (Newtown Road) then the South Newtown Road
exit. At the light go straight onto Greenwich Road. The hotel is located on the
right.
Free parking for registered hotel guests on the premises for cars and busses.
The hotel will provide shuttle service to and from Norfolk International
Airport.
The KatsuCon staff invites everyone to come and join us for a weekend
of Ani-mania. To register and receive more information on KatsuCon Ichi,
please fill out the following questionaire and mail it to:
Katsu Productions
PO Box 11582
Blacksburg, Virginia 24062-1582
Email address: ka*******@po*****.edu
BBS: SkyNET BBS (703) 552-3308 (operational Aug. 1993)
MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: Katsu Productions
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| Name:______________________________________________ |
| |
| Address:___________________________________________ |
| |
|City:______________State:_____Zip:__________Age:_____ |
| |
| 1. Are you a member of any Anime/Manga clubs? |
| If Yes, which? (please use full names) |
| |
| 2. Are you a student? |
| |
| 3. Would you interested in volunteering at the Con? |
| If so, in what capacity? |
| |
| 4. Have you attended other Anime related conventions?|
| |
| 5. Would you be interested in playing in a anime |
| based Live Action Role Playing Game? |
| |
| 6. Given that God is infinite, and that the universe |
| is also infinite, would you like a toasted tea |
| cake? |
| |
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animation/coming.soon #640, from switch, 2031 chars, Mon Jul 26 21:58:28 1993
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~From: MR****@ps***.edu (“Matt Pyson” )
~Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime.info
~Subject: [Con Announcement] OTAKON ’94
~Date: 22 Jul 93 19:44:57 GMT
~Sender: pe***@ga*****.edu
~Reply-To: MR****@ps***.edu (“Matt Pyson” )
Followup-To: rec.arts.anime
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The Central Pennsylvania Anime Front proudly presents…
OTAKON ’94
Convention of Otaku Generation
Central PA’s Japanese Animation Convention
July 29-31, 1994
at the Days Inn Penn State; State College, PA
With Comic Artist Guest of Honor —
Robert DeJesus — Artist with Antarctic Press (Ninja High School,
Small Body NHS, etc.)
Other confirmed guests include —
~~~~~~~~~
Lorraine Savage — Editor of “The Rose” and founder of Anime Hasshin
Steve Pearl — r.a.a’s very own Usenet expert
Sue Shambaugh — Fan and professional translator
(Additional guests and companies as they are confirmed)
Con features to include —
2 Video Theatres
2 Tracks of Panel Programming
Dealer’s Room (NO Video Pirates!)
Art Show + Auction
Music Video Contest (write/e-mail for more info)
Game Show
Registration Information —
$18 — Postmarked by Oct. 31, 1993
$21 — Postmarked by May 31, 1994
$25 — At the door
$15 — One-day, at the door
For more information, contact —
OTAKON ’94 Planning Committee
c/o Bill Johnston
661-A Waupelani Drive
State College, PA 16801-4317
or send e-mail to wj******@ny*.edu
(Will be unable to reply to e-mail for the next couple of weeks)
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Edited by Steve Pearl- Moderator, rec.arts.anime.info
Email submissions to re*****************@uu***.net and questions to
re*****************@uu***.net.
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animation/coming.soon #641, from switch, 1575 chars, Sun Aug 8 18:57:39 1993
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TITLE: Winsor McCay on laser
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
From: rj*@cb****.com (robert.j.fredette)
Subject: Winsor McCay
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 16:24:21 GMT
Keywords: LD
For those wishing to know and who do not get Sight & Sound’s Laser Flash,
LUMIVISION is releasing a LD entitled “ANIMATION LEGEND:WINSOR MCCAY”. It is
a color and b&w CAV LD (59.95) 100 min long transferred from 35mm archival
prints. It contains a 1911, hand colored print of “LITTLE NEMO”, 1912’s
“HOW A MOSQUITO OPERATES”, 1914’s “GERTIE THE DINOSAUR” and 1918’s “SINKING OF
THE LUSITANIA”. The disc also includes rare clips from “GERTIE ON TOUR”,
“THE CENTAURS” and “FLIP’S CIRCUS”. Liner notes by John Canemaker a McCay
authority and animation historian and an article by Louise Beaudet a archive
animation curator will be included along with comments from producer Albert
Miller about the transfer. Music is scored by R. Miller and all transferring
was done at proper speed and is window framed at 1.33:1.
No e-mail please ’cause thats not me above, this is me below.
********************************************************************************
I STILL AM JMF | Many thanks to RJF for making his
AT&T NETWORK SYS still on loan to BTL | account available to me from time
in user’s hell or is it, a user from | to time. AT&T mvrocket!mvjf4
hell, or is it a hell of a user?????? | Joe Fedenyszen 508-960-4553
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animation/coming.soon #642, from switch, 231 chars, Sun Aug 29 22:16:09 1993
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TITLE: Av Evening With Billy West
Billy West will be making an appearance at Miami University on October 6.
He’ll be at the Multi-Purpose Room (Shriver Center) at 7:30 pm.
(Whoops — that should be Miami U. Oxford of Ohio.)
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #643, from switch, 1112 chars, Sat Sep 4 19:05:31 1993
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From: dj*****@ra****.edu (Douglas Jacobs)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: [Meeting] Animania September Meeting!!!
Date: 3 Sep 1993 21:53:02 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
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Animania, The University of Michigan’s Japanese Animation Film Society,
will be holding its annual fall meeting spectacular this September 18th
on the Ann Arbor campus of UofM. For this meeting, we have reserved a
full theater to handle an anticipated audience of 350+ people.
Our line-up includes:
Sonoda’s RIDING BEAN
Miyazaki’s LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY
Shirow’s M66: BLACK MAGIC
Mikimoto’s MACROSS, DO YOU REMEMBER LOVE?
As well as numerous shorts including,
The Opening Animation of AnimeExpo ’93!
Animania, is a not-for profit student organization nearly 6 years in the
making. In addition to our monthly club screenings, Animania publishes a
30+ page magazine.
For more information contact:
an******@um.edu
OR
call (313)-663-5356
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animation/coming.soon #644, from switch, 12906 chars, Mon Sep 27 08:36:19 1993
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~From: sh****@su***.EDU (Mike M. Tatsugawa)
~Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime.info
~Subject: [Convention] Anime Expo September Info
~Date: 10 Sep 93 16:56:09 GMT
~Sender: pe***@ro*****.edu
~Reply-To: sh****@su***.EDU (Mike M. Tatsugawa)
Followup-To: rec.arts.anime
Organization: The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
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* PLEASE NOTE THE SEPTEMBER 15TH MEMBERSHIP AND DEALER DEADLINES *
General Info
Anime Expo ’94
Anaheim Marriott/Anaheim Convention Center
July 1-3, 1994
“Welcome to the Wonderful World of Animation”
Guests of Honor:
Scott Frazier:
First Foreigner to ever work production in Japan.
First Foreigner ever to be a directors’ assistant in Japan.
First non-Japanese to ever teach Japanese animation as a professional
teacher.
First Foreigner to ever teach or work at an animation school in Japan
First Foreigner to build his/her own Japanese animation studio.
Built Kitty Animation Bangkok, TAO (Animation Studio in Bangkok)
Cel Checker: Bubblegum Crash 1-3, Totoi, Mikan, Jyuushin Raiger
Painter: Shurato, Starship Troopers, Orange Road TV series
Background: Darkwing Duck, Moldiver
Layouts: Cindarella Express
In Between: Bubblegum Crash, Patlabot #4, #6, Majo No Takuubin
In Between Check: Licca, Bubblegum Crash!, Totoi
Production: Locke the Superman, Bubblegum Crash!, Koiko No Mainichi
Color Coordination: Kujakuo 2, Booken Shite Mo Ii Goro
Camera: Ranma 1/2 #2, Patlabor #7, Mukashii Banashi
Character Designer for TEMCO World Cup Soccer
Hiroyuki Kitazume:
Character Designer & Animation Director:
Z Gundam (Some), ZZ Gundam, Char’s Counterattack, Megazone 23 Part III,
Digital Devil Story, Dragon Century, His Name is Gold, Moldiver,
Gairath 1,2,3, Starlight Angel (Robot Carnival), Legaciam,
Scramble Wars (some characters)
Director:
ZZ Gundam (some episodes), Starlight Angel (Robot Carnival), Legaciam
Mr. Kitazume also has 14 works due for release in 1993.
Haruhiko Mikimoto:
Character Designs: Macross (AKA Robotech), Macross II, High Speed
Jecy, Eve from Megazone 23, Gunbuster 1,2,3 Gundam 0080
Other Guests of Honor to be announced
Special Thanks to:
Bandai, Kitty Animation, L.A. Hero, Mikado, Pioneer, Tokuma Shoten,
U.S. Manga Corps, U.S. Renditions, Viz Communications
Anime Expo will be focusing on three important areas this year:
Japanese Animation and Manga:
Our track record speaks for itself. We will be the largest convention
with a focus on Japanese animation and manga in the United States.
Modeling:
We will continue with our tradition of having modeling contests and
displays.
Computer Animation:
In order to bridge the gap between the different cultures of the
world, Anime Expo will feature American Computer Animation at our convention
as equal partners to their Japanese counterparts.
Memberships
Until September 15: $25
Until Januray 15: $30
Until March 15: $35
Until June 1: $40
No memberships accepted between June 15 and July 1st.
At-Con Memberships: $45
One-Days: $25/day (Can only be purchased AT the Expo)
Associate Memberships $15 (Assoc Memberships outside of NA cost $20)
Dealers’ Tables
Until September 15: $150 each
After September 15: $200 each
Each table includes one complimentary membership plus one additional
one for assistants. Each dealers table will be 8 x 10 feet. No limit
on tables.
Room Rates are:
To be announced
The hotel number is (714)-750-8000. Remember to mention Anime Expo to
get the discount rates.
If the Anaheim Marriott is full, the Inn at the Park will act as the
overflow hotel.
Parking rates are still under negotiation.
To make travel arrangements, United Airlines is the official carrier
of the convention. For flights, call Ladera Travel at (213)-772-1511.
Their toll free number for those outside of California is (800) 624-6679
We recommend that fans take advantage of the 5-40% discounts
guaranteed by United Airlines to all Expo attendees or use SouthWest
Airlines’ “Friends Fly Free” Program.
Ladera travel can also book your rooms, rent your cars and take care
of any other travel arrangements.
Ladera is also negotiating a large package deal for foreign flights,
so make sure that you contact them for more info if you’re flying from
outside of North America. It looks like discount flights will also be
arranged with United Airlines. Please call Ladera Travel for more
info.
All rates and information posted today are subject to change.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: What kind of panels will Anime Expo have?
We will try to give each major attending company one panel to show
off all of their new products and do a Q&A with the audience so that
they can receive input on their work. We hope that this panel
fascilitates better understanding among fans and professionals in the
anime and manga industry. The second key feature of our panels is
that we will be doing focuses on each of our GoH’s. One new feature
will be the “fan-made panels”. If 10 fans want to put on a panel and
can take care of the logistics, we will provide the forum and the
equipment for it, just contact us in advance so that we can put it in
our schedule.
Remember, the convention is here for the fans, not the other way
around, so tell us what you want to hear!
To accomodate the large number of attendees this year, we are looking
at holding our programming tracks in the 25,000 square foot Marriott Grand
Hall.
Q: What will be in the Art Show/Auction?
It will include the usual art show flats, but will also have space for
3-D models as well. We are looking at holding modeling workshops and
fans interested in having the art show do a lot of focuses on models
should let us know. One key workshop that we will be holding is a cel
workshop featuring Scott Frazier, the only foreigner to teach anime in
Japan and also the author of a textbook on anime used by many of the
animation schools in Japan. We will also have the usual artist’s ghetto
and will be taking reservations. Please mail if interested.
Correspondence regarding submissions and staffing should be sent to:
John Yung (Art Show Supervisor)
ar*@an********.org
Q: What will you guys be showing?
We will also be running from four to five video programming tracks
with one information channel.
For obvious reasons, we can’t advertise what will be shown at the con.
What I can say is that the largest collection of subtitled anime in
the country will probably be brought together at the con.
We are hoping that U.S. Renditions, AnimEigo, Streamline and U.S.
Manga Corps will share their wealth of animation with us for showing
at the Expo. U.S. Renditions and U.S. Manga Corps have already
confirmed their participation, and according to John O’Donnell, “USMC
will exhibit its current lineup of releases, its hottest premiers for
the fall of 1994 and its best sellers of the past.” Expect a jam-packed
weekend of non-stop anime. For more specific info, you’ll have to wait until
the Progress Reports.
There will also be numerous film and video premiers. Titles will be
listed in the upcoming progress reports.
Video submissions and questions should be directed to:
Patrick Lee (Video Programming Coordinator)
vi***@an********.org
Q: What else will there be?
We will be continuing the tradition of giving awards to the anime
industry for excellence in anime. The categories will be listed in PR
#1 and the actual voting will take place at the convention. The two
main awards will be for best video on 1993 and the Voter’s choice of
best Expo premier.
There will also be a masquerade/costume competition and karaoke.
their favorite animation figure.
There SHOULD be a brunch banquet for fans to relax and meet the GoH’s.
(This will cost extra) Final word on the banquet will be in PR #2.
There will be a gaming area for regular D&D but also with anime related
roll playing games. There will hopefully be a gaming competition. (This
will be announced in PR #2) Seventh Street Games, however has indicated
that they will be active at Expo and we are investigating the
possibility of a tournament.
If there are things you guys want, write to:
Albert Wang
li**@an********.org
RE: Program Activities
Q: What will be the attendance?
Official estimated attendance at Anime Expo ’93 was more than 1,800.
This year, with better publicity, and a year’s worth of momentum, Anime
Expo ’94 is shooting for 2,500 to 4,000. If the rush for memberships
becomes too strong, we may have to put a cap on convention
membership at 5,000. We’re the largest international Japanese animation
convention, and the diversity of our memberships reflects it.
Q: What about the Dealers’ Room?
Most of the dealers from last year will be attending, and we expect a lot
of new additions to the family. We have created a 16,000 quare foot Dealers’
Hall and have set aside more than 100 booths. We expect Anime Expo to
have the most dealers in anime history. With the dealers’ table requests
that we’ve received from everywhere, it seems obvious you will be able to
find things at Anime Expo you’ve never seen before and may never see again
(unless you go to Japan). One precaution though. The Convention will be
cracking down on illegal sales merchandise. Not only is it likely that
the designers and owners of the characters and movies will be
there, but we’re trying to get the message to Japanese wholesalers and
retailers that there is a market in the U.S. This policy will protect
both you the consumers and the legitimate owners of the goods.
If you are interested in tables, they cost $150 each until September
15th, they will cost $200 each after the September deadline. No maximum
on the numbers of tables. Each dealers’ booth comes with two
complimentary memberships, one membership for the dealer and one
additional membership for dealers’ assistants.
Q. What should I do if I want to volunteer?
Volunteers are recommended to buy memberships at the cheapest
rate possible ASAP. This way they qualify for any promotions that we
may be holding. Later, we will send out info on how to sign up.
If you are still interested, then you will receive forms and will report
to the con to work. We will provide crash space and food (staff and
gofers get meager (i.e. two meals a day) amounts of food to sustain
themselves for three days). At the end of the con, turn in your gofer
timecards and your membership money will be refunded. We will not be
taking volunteer sign-ups at the convention, so prospective
volunters, get your money in!
To sign up or get more details, write to:
Brian Bikowicz & Scott Lampman (Volunteer Coordinator)
go***@an********.org
Q: What will be in the Progress Reports and when is it due out?
The Progress Reports will have info on all of the above mentioned topics
volunteer registration info, and flight and hotel registration information.
PR #1 and PR #2 have been mailed out. Progress Reports will be mailed out
until we run out of them.
Inquiries about lost PR’s should be sent to:
Terry Yeung (Registration Supervisor)
re*@an********.org
Q: What is this I’ve heard about The Anime Reference Guide?
Every year, Cal-Animage (Berkeley) cranks out their publication,
The Anime Reference Guide. We intend to continue this tradition with
the assistance of the people at TASS and a dynamic new group called
Yonin Gumi. This year’s book should feature a completely new
generation of synopses and a new cover. Past cover art has been done by
Mikimoto and Sadamoto. It runs 112 pages and is complimentary to all
attendees and associate members. They are also currently on sale through
Nikaku and Books Nippon. We intend to do a new one this year, but we
need submissions by talented writers.
Inquiries can be sent to Charles McCarter and Stanley Lew (ARG Copy Editors)
ar*@an********.org
Please forward this to all Bulletin Boards
Electronic Mail Inquiries can be sent to:
Mike Tatsugawa (Anime Expo Publicity Coordinator)
sh****@su***.edu
or
sh****@sp**.com
To receive a copy of our most up-to-date posts, mail to
in**@an********.org and one will be automatically E-mailed to you.
Memberships and all mail correspondence should be sent to:
Anime Expo
c/o The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
2425 B Channing, Suite 684
Brk, CA 94704
All checks should be made payable to:
The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation
or
Anime Expo
—
Mike Tatsugawa, AKA shogun: The busiest anime fan in the world!
President, SPJA: 2425 B Channing, Suite 684, Brk, CA 94704
Publicity Coordinator, Anime Expo ’94
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Edited by Steve Pearl- Moderator, rec.arts.anime.info
Email submissions to an********@re***.edu and questions about the
newsgroup to an****************@re***.edu
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animation/coming.soon #645, from switch, 2462 chars, Fri Oct 8 21:57:19 1993
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The 5th Annual Conference of the Society for Animation Studies will be
held November 26-28 at the West Surrey College of Art and Design in
Farnham, West Surrey, England.
Here’s a list of the papers being presented:
THE FIFTH CONFERENCE OF THE
SOCIETY FOR ANIMATION STUDIES
26 November 1993
SESSION 1
La Rosa Di Bagdad: The First Full Length Italian Animated Feature
Film – Giannalberto Bendazzi, Italy
The Thief of Buena Vista: Disney’s ALADDIN and the Orientalism
Debate – Leslie Shaman, UK
Allah v. Disney in the South China Sea – Emmett Winn, US, and
Timothy R. White, Singapore
SESSION 2
Beauty and Bestiality – Dan McLaughlin, US
Francis Bacon and Walt Disney Revisited – Simon Pummell, UK
Body Consciousness in the Films of Jan Svankmajer – Paul Wells,
UK
SESSION 3
Old Techniques in New Technologies – Edwin Charles, Belgium
Processed by Cinecolor: The Use of the Colour Process in
Animation – Jere Guldin, US
Zoetrope: History and Uses – Richard J. Leskosky, US
27 November 1993
SESSION 4
The Many Incarnations of Two American Superheroes – Suzanne H.
Williams, US
Chuck Jones/MGM, Kevin O’Brien, US
Felix the Cat as Chaplin’s Cartoon Persona – Paul Russ, US
Tom Death and Jerry Saviour: Chuck Jones’ Haunted Mouse and the
Harrowing of Hell – Hart Wegner, US
Sniffles – The Mouse that Chuck Built – David Williams, UK
SESSION 5
Computer Animation: Second Order Realism and Post-Modern
Aesthetics – Andy Darley, UK
Visual Technology and the Poetics of Knowledge – Richard Wright,
UK
SESSION 6
Science, Technology, History and Philosophy Made Easy and
Accessible – Pat Kirkham, UK
The End in Sight: Historical Narrative in Animation and
Posthistoire – Roger Noake, UK
The Missing UPA Films: Cartoons and Modern Art – Kenneth
O’Connell, US
Eisenstein, Stokes, and Disney: Animation and the Omnipotence of
Thought – Mike O’Pray, UK
28 September 1993
SESSION 7
Gustaf Tenggren and European Influences on Early Disney Feature
Animation – Robin Allan, UK
Animating for the Enemy: Animated Films in Holland, 1940-45 –
Egbert Barten, Netherlands
THE NEW SPIRIT – Income Taxes: Donald Duck, Persuasion, and World
War II – Trischa Knapp, US
“The Idea”: Bartosch, 1932 – William Moritz, US
For more info, contact:
Dr. Timothy R. White
Dept. of English Lang & Lit, Natl Univ of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511
phone (65) 772-3936 fax (65) 773-2981 e-mail el****@le****.sg
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animation/coming.soon #646, from switch, 7818 chars, Wed Oct 27 07:47:07 1993
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TITLE: Otakon ’94
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1993 01:05:17 EDT
From: The Fool Eternal <CM****@ps***.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: (con:) Otakon ’94
Though the West Coast be the home and hearth of American Otakudom…
Though the community would revolve around the West and devil take the
Eastmost…
Though every Fan in essence stands alone in a sea of Mundane reality …
THE OTAKU WILL SURVIVE!
Greetings, Eastern fandom, and know that you are not alone in your dreams and
your Anime! We of the Central Pennsylvania Anime Front have come together
to advance an honorable cause: Anime in the East. We join together with our
brethren of New Jersey and our comrades in the Dominion of Virgina to bring you
a season of convention and conference, of congregation and unity.
The Central Pennsylvania Anime Front is proud to announce…
OTAKON ’94: Convention of Otaku Generation
Come to meet your friends, come to meet your brothers and sisters in anime,
come to meet total strangers, come to party, come to raise hell in this, our
sleepy little corner of Otakudom!
July 29th – 31st 1994
At the Days Inn Penn State, State College, PA
Featuring Comic Artist Guest of Honor
Robert DeJesus
Artist of Small-Bodied Ninja High School fame
Other Industry and Fandom guests currently include…
Lorraine Savage – Editor of _The Rose_ and founder of Anime Hasshin
Steve Pearl – rec.arts.anime’s keeper of the FAQ
Sue Shambaugh – Fan/Professional Translator
Jay Harvey – Co-Founder of the Akron Animation Association
Dave Fleming – Translator and Fan-Subtitling veteran
(Additional guests and copanies as they are confirmed)
Con Features
Anime Video Theatres
Panel Programming
Dealer’s Room
Art Show and Auction
Music Video Contest
Special Events
and much more!
Registration Information
$18 – postmarked by November 30, 1993
$21 – postmarked by May 31, 1994
$25 – at the door
$15 – one-day at the door
OTAKON ’94 Registration phone: (814) 867-3478
c/o Bill Johnston e-mail: CM****@ps***.edu
661A Waupelani Drive
State College, PA 16801
VIDEO PROGRAMMING –
As a primarily video-oriented convention, OTAKON ’94 will be running
two seperate tracks of video programming in theatre-style video rooms,
featuring the best and latest in commercial and fan-subtitled anime.
Just the thing if your between panels, or just want to relax and check
out that new OAV. OTAKON ’94 plans to premiere some NEW, NEVER-BEFORE
SUBTITLED ANIME at the con, so don’t miss it.
PANEL PROGRAMMING –
The heart and soul of any convention is in its panelling, and OTAKON
promises to be no different. Panel topics range from Learning Japanese
to Fan-Subtitling. Meet representatives of the leading anime companies
in America. Talk with guests about translations or online news services
Argue with your fellow fan over which is better: Maison Ikkoku of Orange
Road, or discuss the significance of the Macross Valkyrie transformation
At OTAKON, there’ll be a panel for YOU.
MUSIC VIDEO CONTEST –
OTAKON ’94 will be holding a fan music video contest, with the winner
to be determined by convention attendees. Entries will be shown
throughout the video program all weekend, with voting to end on Sunday.
Prizes will be awarded to the top finishers and all entrants will
receive a compilation tape of all entries. Check the “Music Video
Contest” box for more information and an entry form will be sent to you
with your registration confirmation.
DEALERS ROOM –
The OTAKON ’94 dealers room promises to house some of the best in
anime merchandise available today, from LDs to CDs to posters, cels,
art books, laminates, manga and more. Dealers tables are approx. 6×2.5′
and include 2 “dealer” memberships. Check the “Dealer” box for more inf
ART SHOW AND AUCTION –
Artists: Looking for someplace to showcase your art (and maybe make
Well, the OTAKON ’94 art show is looking for a few good artists. There
is a 10% commision on sales, and a $10 hanging fee which counts towards
commission. Art will be sold at auction on Sunday (unless its display-
only of course). Check the “Artist” box for more information.
HOTEL INFORMATION –
OTAKON ’94 will be held at the beautiful Days Inn Penn State, 240
South Pugh St., State College, PA. The Days Inn features dining on
premises, an indoor swimming pool, and is just about perfect for a con
our size. Convention room rates are not firm yet, but are guaranteed to
be a flat rate of $62 per night OR LESS. Call 1-800-325-3535 for
reservations. Mention OTAKON ’94 to get the discount rate.
A NOTE ON PARTIES…
If you plan to hold a room party, please request a “party” or “loud”
room when you make your reservations. The hotel reserves the right to
remove guests who disturb others, so do yourself a favor and get a
“wild-party-authorized” room.
WEAPONS POLICY
Costuming is allowed, and in fact encouraged, at OTAKON ’94.
However, in respect for the other hotel guests, a “non-realistic”
weapons policy will be in effect. Basically, if it looks like a real
weapon, it is NOT allowed. If on the other hand it looks like a
giant pink cartoon bazooka with tentacles, fine. Con staff and the
hotel reserve the right to judge whether a weapon is “realistic” or not.
WHERE THE HECK IS STATE COLLEGE, PA?
State College is located at PA’s geographic center. It’s only a few
miles off I-80 (coming from NY/NJ) OR route 22/220 (coming from
Pittsburgh and west) OR it’s right on route 322/76/83 (from Baltimore,
Philadelphia, or south)
VOLUNTEERING –
And now for a shameless paraphrasing from the AnimeCon91 Progress
Report 🙂 :
Want to be a part of OTAKON ’94 from the inside? Be an OTAKON
gofer. If you don’t know what a gofer is, basically it’s a person who
would assist the con staff doing such things as monitoring parts of the
program, helping with registration, relaying messages, etc. All you
need to do is give us 12 hours of your time at the con.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
Well, for selling yourself for the sake of OTAKON, we’ll provide
“gofer crash space” (a room where the gofers can sleep, so you don’t nee
to pay for a hotel room–don’t expect a lot of privacy though), food
throughout the weekend, and you’ll have your registration fee returned
at the end of your “shift” (all the more money to spend in the dealers
room 🙂 ).
If you’re interested in gofering at OTAKON ’94, check the box marked
“Volunteering” on the registration form. There IS a limit to the number
gofers we can take, so it’s on a first-come, first-served basis. Also,
please note that checking the box does NOT require you to gofer at the
con, it just indicates you interest to do so.
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OTAKON ’94 ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM
– print then fill this out and mail it to the address above
Name___________________________________________
Address________________________________________
________________________________________
________________________________________
Phone__________________________________________
e-mail address_________________________________
Please fill out the above information and send it,
along with a check or money order to:
OTAKON ’94 Registration
c/o Bill Johnston
661-A Waupelani Drive
State College, PA 16801
Registration rates are as follows:
$18 by November 30, 1993
$21 by May 31, 1994
Please indicate if you would like more information about:
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animation/coming.soon #647, from switch, 466 chars, Mon Nov 15 23:33:49 1993
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TITLE: Wings of Honneamise coming to North America!
_Wings of Honneamise_, the anime film that everyone should see regardless of
their feelings towards Japanese animation, has been picked up by LA Heroes for
video release, and possibly theatrical as well. They will be releasing it in
both subtitled and dubbed formats. No firm dates yet.
One of the best animated films ever made; and the director was 24 — my age —
when it came out. He makes me sick 😉
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #648, from switch, 580 chars, Fri Dec 3 20:32:03 1993
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TITLE: Medicine Wheel Animation Festival
The Fifth Annual Medicine Wheel Animation Festival is looking for independent,
non-commercial animation from any year, to be shown at theaters and
universities across North America. This is open to American and Canadian
filmmakers.
Deadline: Postmarked January 29, 1994
Submit Films To: Medicine Wheel Animation Festival
PO Box 1088
Groton, MA 01450-3088
Format: 16 mm
Fee: $10, includes return postage and critique of film
Send: SASE #10 envelope for information and application to address above.
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animation/coming.soon #649, from switch, 320 chars, Fri Dec 3 23:56:14 1993
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TITLE: Anime conventions updates
Since the information for AnimExpo, Otakon, Chibicon, et al are updated on a
regular basi, it gets kind of absurd to post the new info here every couple
of weeks. I’ll be putting the info into /listings instead. As usual, new
and updated files will be posted in /about.listings.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #650, from switch, 57 chars, Sat Dec 4 00:10:08 1993
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Oh, yes — the person to contact is Amanda Barrow.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #651, from davemackey, 530 chars, Thu Dec 16 10:59:51 1993
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TITLE: “Izzy” animated? He will be
You could say that there is now an Official Animated Cartoon Studio Of The
1996 Summer Olympics. It’s Film Roman, who have signed a contract to animate
the games’ mascot, who is now known as “Izzy” after being initially
christened “Whatzit” (or something to that effect). Film Roman, of course,
also animates “Garfield”, “The Simpsons” and “Cro”.
One wonders if Izzy will be officially known as I., as in Freleng,
Sparber, Ellis, and Klein. 😉
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #652, from davemackey, 248 chars, Sat Dec 18 09:13:29 1993
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TITLE: Looking for Dr. Seuss
A little early to plan for it, but TNT is going to air a retrospective
special on the life of Theodor Seuss Geisel in November, 1994. The TNT
Original is titled “In Search Of Dr. Seuss.”
–Dave
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animation/coming.soon #653, from mlavi, 1585 chars, Fri Mar 25 01:50:23 1994
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TITLE: John Kricfalusi appearances
I walked into the Americal Royal Arts gallery/showroom for animation
purchase just over a week ago. This was spurred by a recent trip to
DisneyWorld in Florida where I saw Disney animators in action on the
MGM/Disney Studios tour. Previously, I’d only seen cels at Warner
Brothers Stores.
After striking up a conversation and getting on the mailing list, I
got a call last weekend from the store telling me that Ren and Stimpy’s
creator, John Kricfalusi, will be appearing in-store to demo some new
cels he has released (yup, plugging and signing) as well as talk about
his upcoming project with two of his characters: George Liquor and Jimmy,
the Hapless Boy.
Where? When?
Saturday, April 9, 1994 at American Royal Arts from 11am-3pm ET.
(166 Newbury Street, phone 617-424-0640) in Boston, Massachusetts.
I’d attend it myself, but I’ll be representing my company at the Boston
Computer Society’s MegaMeeting/show. So I’m sending my friends and I thought
it’d do good to spread the word.
John’s also going to be on Long Island, NY the next day at the other ARA
store: Sunday, April 10 ’94 from 11am-5pm ET @ 473 Old Country Road, Westbury.
(Right across from Fortunoffs, phone 516-997-2220 for info.)
I’ll now post this in the appropriate Usenet newsgroups, but you got this
first. Mention me as a reference if Agnes at the Boston store inquires.
–Mark Lavi
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animation/coming.soon #654, from hmccracken, 24 chars, Fri Mar 25 09:20:43 1994
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Thanks, Mark!
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #655, from hmccracken, 650 chars, Thu Apr 21 23:03:26 1994
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TITLE: Chuck Jones Enters Cyberspace
Time Warner NewMedia, the CD ROM publishing division of Time Warner, has
announced a CD ROM edition of Prokofiev’s _Peter and the Wolf_. Animation
for the disc will be provided by Chuck Jones; conductor George Daugherty
(Jones’s collaborator on _Bugs Bunny on Broadway_) is supervising the
whole project. Kirstie Alley will provide narration.
The disc will be out in time for next Christmas, and a coffee-table
book containing the artwork is also planned. _Peter and the Wolf_
was animated at least once before — it was part of Disney’s mid-1940s
feature _Make Mine Music_ (or was it _Melody Time_?).
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #656, from hmccracken, 781 chars, Tue Aug 2 18:33:27 1994
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TITLE: Chuck Jones Tries to Top Himself
I’ve heard news, over on another on-line service that shall remain
nameless, that Chuck Jones is working on _What’s Opera, Doc? Part II_.
I can’t say that the prospect of a sequel to one of Jones’s greatest
cartoons — heck, one of the great short comedies of all time —
fills me with unalloyed pleasure, but if anyone should get the chance
to make it, he should. (Maurice Noble, his great designer and the man
behind _What’s Opera, Doc?_’s unique look, will also work on the sequel,
apparently.)
_What’s Opera, Doc? Part II_ will be a follow-up to _Chariots of Fur_,
the new Road Runner cartoon that was the first project at the latest
incarnation of the Warner Cartoon studio. Numerous other films are said
to be in the works.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #657, from linkster, 60 chars, Tue Aug 2 20:40:39 1994
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Yes! Prolly my favorite Short. I can’t wait.
LInk
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animation/coming.soon #658, from switch, 45 chars, Wed Aug 3 08:51:52 1994
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Urgh. Sequels always make me nervous.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #659, from hmccracken, 1564 chars, Fri Oct 28 14:26:18 1994
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TITLE: Moxy Returns
It’s not every day that this conference gets a sneak preview of an
upcoming TV show, but the Cartoon Network was kind enough to send me
an advance copy of the first new episode of _The Moxy Show_’s second
season. Formerly _The Moxy Pirate Show_, the program uses a new
real-time computer animation technique that’s part cartoon and part
puppetry to bring to life a dog named Moxy, voiced by Bob Goldthwait.
The new _Moxy_ show is a revamping of the premise in several ways.
First, Moxy is now joined by a flea — named Flea — who’s voiced by
magician/computer columnist Penn Jillette. Secondly, the new format
has Moxy and Flea appearing in bridging sequences between three classic
cartoons based on similiar themes.
Technically, Moxy and Flear are remarkable creations. Since their movements
are performed by real live actors and then converted into computer
animation, they move with great fluidity. The sequences are also well-
designed and a lot of fun to look at.
Unfortunately, they’re only modestly funny. Bob Goldthwait and Penn
Jillette both specialize in delvering their lines at the top of their
lungs, and there’s very little subtlety or restraint to be found in
the bridging sequences. As comic characters, they’ve got more in common
with the Three Stooges than with Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck.
Still, _The Moxy Show_ is worth taking a look at. The premiere episode
includes three cartoons based around TV-related themes. (Just for fun,
does anyone have any guesses about what these three 1950s and 1960s
shorts are?)
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #660, from switch, 71 chars, Sat Oct 29 21:09:27 1994
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Television of Tomorrow and Cellbound immediately come to mind…
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #661, from hmccracken, 118 chars, Sat Oct 29 21:52:46 1994
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Right — Those were both on the show, along with an Augie Doggie cartoon
entitled _Tee Vee or Not Tee Vee_.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #662, from hmccracken, 197 chars, Sun Oct 30 23:57:55 1994
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TITLE: Hakuna Matata, Video Fans
I haven’t seen any official announcement on this, but word on the Internet
is that _The Lion King_ will be released on videotape on February 25th, 1995.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #663, from elfhive, 130 chars, Mon Oct 31 19:17:38 1994
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Harry, did you hear the cover version of Hakuna Matata by the political
satire group, Capitol Steps? It’s called “Kahuna Paneta.”
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animation/coming.soon #664, from hmccracken, 170 chars, Mon Oct 31 20:30:59 1994
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I haven’t, but I love the Capitol Steps. Their number on Euro Disney
is hysterical, and I’d run the lyrics here except I don’t want to
violate their copyright.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #665, from elfhive, 49 chars, Tue Nov 1 21:42:39 1994
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Maybe you could just hum a few bars for us then?
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animation/coming.soon #666, from hmccracken, 636 chars, Tue Dec 13 18:52:32 1994
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TITLE: _Richie Rich_
Just saw my first ad for _Richie Rich_, the big-time Macaulay Culkin movie
based on the Poor Little Rich Kid who has starred in umpteen Harvey
comic books since the 1950s. (Even if you’re not interested in Richie,
you need to see this movie: It will be preceded by _Chariots of Fur_,
Chuck Jones’s first new theatrical Road Runner cartoon in thirty years.)
Judging from the ad, the Richie movie is a rather loose adaptation
of the comic book. It shows Richie/Macaulay riding in a limo along
with a multi-ethnic bunch of pals. I don’t think the Richie of the comics
even *knew* anyone who wasn’t white…
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #667, from hmccracken, 1916 chars, Thu Jan 19 22:00:58 1995
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TITLE: _World Premiere Toons_
The Cartoon Network was kind enough to send me a tape of two of
its new _World Premiere Toons_ — cartoon shorts, produced by
Hanna-Barbera, that are intended to revive the practices used to
create the great cartoons of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Each
cartoon is produced as a stand-alone effort (rather than a single
show in a 65-episode series), and the directors are given a fair
amount of artistic autonomy.
Of the two cartoons I saw, I preferred Craig McCracken’s _Meat
Fuzzy Lumkins_ (and I think I would even if he didn’t have such
a snappy name). This short involves the Powerpuff Girls, a trio
of tots who seem to spend most of their time either saving the
world or attending preschool. Fuzzy Lumkins is a gorilla-like
creature who invents a ray gun that can turn anything, including
people, into slabs of meat; the Powerpuff Girls eventually are
able to turn the tables on him.
_Fuzzy Lumkins_ isn’t all that funny, but the concept and character
designs are nicely offbeat. This McCracken fellow bears watching.
The other cartoon I got to preview was Pat Ventura’s _Short Orders_,
starring Yuckie Duck. Yuckie is your basic generic cartoon duck, and the
cartoon is an extremely loosely-structured series of gross-out restaurant
gags. It’s a typical _Ren and Stimpy_-style short, and the nicest thing
about it is its attractive color styling.
I’d say more about these shorts, but I don’t want to spoil them for those
who are lucky enough to get the Cartoon Network. (A group, unfortunately,
that doesn’t include me.) Even though I didn’t fall in love with either of
these cartoons, I’m enthusiastic about the premise behind the World
Premiere Toons, and eager to see the work of the other directors who are
working on films for the series, who include both some young turks and
veterans like Ralph Bakshi, not to mention Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera
themselves.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #668, from hmccracken, 481 chars, Fri Jan 27 16:50:04 1995
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TITLE: _Runaway Brain_…
…is the title of a Mickey Mouse cartoon that’s apparently in the
works at Disney. At least the Magic of Disney Animation studio tour
at Disney-MGM in Florida had several pieces of artwork on display
from it, amidst all the _Pocohontas_ and _Fantasia Continued_
material. The Mickey art looked great — and like a conscious effort
to return to the more adventuresome Mickey of the 1930s. He wears
his red, buttoned shorts in this cartoon, to.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #669, from hmccracken, 4666 chars, Mon Feb 6 22:14:22 1995
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TITLE: What’s Heading For the Silver Screen?
_The Hollywood Reporter_ has published its annual animation issue, and as
usual, one of the highlights is the list of animated feature films that
are in the works. Here’s what the magazine says we can look forward to
seeing:
_The Goofy Movie_ (Disney, April ’95): Goofy’s fist feature-length film;
produced largely in Disney’s Paris studio.
_The Hunchback of Notre Dame_ (Disney, 1996): The latest Disney adaptation
of a literary classic, with voices by Demi Moore, Tom Hulce, and Kevin Kline.
_Pocahontas_ (Disney, June ’95): Disney’s politically-correct historical
fable, with voices by Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Russell Means, and David
Ogden Stiers. Songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.
_Toy Story_ (Disney, Thanksgiving ’95): The most promising-sounding of
Disney’s projects as far as I’m concerned — a computer-animated film
directed by John (_Luxo Jr._) Lasseter, with voices by Tom Hanks, Tim
Allen, Don Rickels, Wallace Shawn, and Annie Potts, and music by Randy
Newman. The story of what toys (including Mr. Potatohead and other
playtime celebrities) do when their owners aren’t around.
_James and the Giant Peach_ (Disney, 1996): Roald Dahl’s classic tale
becomes a stop-motion cartoon by Tim Burton, Henry Selick, and the other
folks who brought you _The Nightmare Before Christmas_. I have a
inclination to dislike this film that will be hard to overcome, because
Dahl’s book was being read to my kindergarten class in 1970 when I fell
off a chair and split my head open, requiring multiple stitches.
_The Pebble and the Penguin_ (MGM, March ’95): Don Bluth’s latest, the
talke of a shy, romantic penguin voiced by Martin Short. The ubiquitous
Tim Curry also provides a voice, as does Jim Belushi. Songs by Barry Manilow.
_Gumby: The Movie_ (Arrow, Spring ’95): Art Clokey’s plasticine hero
returns, in a story involving the attempt of Gumby and his band, the
Clayboys, to save local farms. Dal McKennon returns as Gumby’s voice.
_Balto_ (Amblimation/Universal, Thanksgiving ’95): The true tale of a sled
dog in 1925 Alaska, brought to you by the folks responsible for _American
Tail II_ and _We’re Back_. Voices by Bob Hoskins, Phil Collins, and
Jennifer Blanc (any relation?); music (one song) by Neil Diamond and
Carole Bayer-Sager.
_All Dogs Go to Heaven II_ (MGM, Christmas ’95): A sequel to Don Bluth’s
lacklustre 1989 film; Charlie Sheen and Ernest Borgnine replace Burt
Reynolds and Vic Tayback as the voices of the two starring canines. Bebe
Neuwirth, Sheena Easton, Dom Deluise, and George Hearn also provide
voices. Music by Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann.
_Feathertop_ (Nest, Fall 1996): Richard Rich, the ex-Disneyite behind _The
Swan Princess_, returns with a Nathanial Hawthorne yarn about a scarecrow
who comes to life.
_The Thief and the Cobbler_ (Mirimax, ???): Richard Williams’ life-work,
thirty years in the making, will be released by Mirimax (a Disney
subsidiary) at an unspecified date. The film was taken over by Williams’
creditors and finished and recut by others; only Vincent Price’s voice
remains from the original soundtrack.
_The Mighty Kong_ (Hemdale, Christmas ’95 or Easter ’96): An animated
remake of the 1933 monster movie classic with a softer, more kid-oriented
approach; songs by Richard and Robert Sherman (_Mary Poppins_, _The Jungle
Book_).
_The Thief of Always_ (Nelvana/Paramount, late 1996): The story of a boy
who discovers a place where all the holidays of the world take place,
based on a book by Clive Barker. Music by Jerry Goldsmith.
_Cats Don’t Dance_ (Turner, early 1997): Natalie Cole, Kathy Najimy, Ed
Asner, Don Knotts, and others provide voices for a musical story of a cat
in 1939 Hollywood. Choreography by Gene Kelly; music by Randy Newman.
_Trumpet of the Swan_ (Nelvana, ???): An adaptation of E.B. White’s last
children’s book, about a mute swan and a boy.
_Cats_ (Universal/Amblimation, ???): Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical
blockbuster, based on T.S. Eliot, becomes a cartoon with a screenplay by
Tom Stoppard.
_The Nightingale_ (Columbia, ???): Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s
fairytale, which I believe Disney considered animating in the 1940s.
_Hercules_ (Disney, ???): Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, the
guys behind _Aladdin_ and _The Little Mermaid_.
_The Legend of Fa Mulah_ (Disney,???): The first cartoon feature produced
entirely at Disney’s Florida studio, this film tells the story of a brave
Chinese woman who disguises herself as a man and goes off to war to save
her father.
*whew*… If even half these films make it to theaters, it’s going to be
an eventful two or three years.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #670, from hmccracken, 2287 chars, Mon Feb 6 22:31:41 1995
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TITLE: And there’s more…
_The Hollywood Reporter_ also reported on some animated TV series in the works:
_The Critic_ (Fox): New episodes of Film Roman’s animated sitcom will return to
prime-time TV in March 1995.
_Life With Louie_ (Fox): Stand-up comedian Louie Anderson inspires this
new series, animated by Hyperion. It may be either a SatAM or prime-time
show for Fall ’95.
_The Tweety and Sylvester Mysteries_ (WB): The new WB network’s kids’
schedule will premiere this Fall with a new series starring Friz Freleng’s
classic cat-and-canary team.
_Freakazoid_ (WB): Steven Spielberg is the producer of this
comedy/superhero show for Fall ’95.
_What a Mess_ (ABC): A comedy series about a bumbling puppy, based on
Frank Muir’s books, this DIC series will premiere for Fall ’95.
_The Mask_ (CBS): Film Roman is turning Jim Carrey’s superhero spoof
(based on a comic book) into a Saturday-morning series for the Fall.
_Felix the Cat_ (CBS): Film Roman is also busy with a big-budget series
for the Fall based on Otto Messmer’s classic feline. It will apparently
draw more inspiration from the 1960s TV cartoons than the original silent
Felixes, however.
_Aon Flux_ (MTV): Peter Chung’s science-fiction shorts from _Liquid
Television_ become a full-fledged series this Summer.
_Happily Ever After_ (HBO): Multicultural fairy tales, such as an
African-American _Jack and the Beanstalk_, from Hyperion.
_Izzy_ specials (???): Film Roman is making at least two specials starring
the mascot of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics for airing on a network TBD.
_Simba, The King Lion_(???): I had to stare at the ad for this Italian
production for thirty seconds before I was sure it was a Disney rip-off
and not the real thing. The company apparently specializes in knocking off
Disney: it also offers series based on _The Jungle Book_, _Cinderella_,
and _Snow White_.
_Budgie the Little Helicopter_ (???): Westinghouse Broadcasting
International is doing 26 eleven-minute cartoons based on the kids’ books
by the Duchess of York.
_Bananas in Pajamas_ (???): I don’t know anything about this 40-episode
series from Sachs Family Entertainment, but I like the title.
_Blinky Bill_ (???): Another Sachs Family Entertainment series, based on a
classic Australian series of picture books.
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animation/coming.soon #671, from elfhive, 225 chars, Mon Feb 13 21:51:15 1995
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Re: _Simba, The King Lion_ if this is a Disney rip-off of Lion King, think
about how the Japanese are going to feel about it in relationship to
Tezuka’s _The Jungle Emperor_ (also known as _Kimba, The White Lion_ in the
US.
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animation/coming.soon #672, from hmccracken, 245 chars, Sat Mar 25 16:18:32 1995
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TITLE: The Frog and the Bat
As we’ve discussed here before, Chuck Jones is working on a sequel to
_One Froggy Evening_. Rumor has it that Warner Bros. intends to release
that cartoon with _Batman Forever_, which is due out this Summer.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #673, from hmccracken, 500 chars, Tue Apr 11 15:00:42 1995
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TITLE: The Panther’s Back
Don Bluth’s latest film, the oft-delayed _The Penguin and the Pebble_,
will be released this Friday. Judging from Bluth’s recent work, there’s
no reason to be too excited by this development — but I am kind of
interested in the fact that the film will be accompanied by _Driving
Mr. Pink_, a new Pink Panther cartoon short. The PP cartoon, which co-stars
a character called Voodoo Man, is the first new theatrical PP short in
something like fifteen or more years.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #674, from hmccracken, 276 chars, Thu Apr 20 22:46:02 1995
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TITLE: Disney Doings
Disney has acquired the rights to do an animated feature based on
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ _Tarzan_. Sounds like fun to me! The
company is also getting ready to do a computerized restoration
of 1959’s _Sleeping Beauty_, for release later this year.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #675, from hmccracken, 545 chars, Fri Apr 21 22:16:54 1995
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TITLE: Boo!
Here in San Francisco, buses and bus shelters are plastered
with billboard for _Casper_, the upcoming live-action/animation
movie about the friendly ghost. The movie was written by
Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver, known to animation fans as
writers for _Tiny Toon Adventures_ and _Animaniacs_
(Steven Spielberg, producer of those shows, is the executive
producer of _Casper_.)
The billboards don’t credit Casper’s creator, which is just
as well — a remarkable number of persons have tried to claim
credit for that honor.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #676, from switch, 207 chars, Fri Apr 21 22:43:31 1995
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There was a display of _Tarzan_ concept arwork at Ottawa ’94. I can’t wait.
Disney also had the rights to _Princess of Mars_, but that fell through after
the script was completed. Anybody know why?
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #677, from hmccracken, 817 chars, Sun Apr 30 20:37:44 1995
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TITLE: Go, Go Gumby
If you happen to be in Dallas in mid-May, you’ll have the opportunity to
se _Gumby 1_, the first theatrical featuring starring Gumby, the little
green man made of clay (not to mention his pony pal, Pokey). According to
an entertaining article in last Friday’s _San Francisco Chronicle_, the
film involves Gumby forming a rock band to earn money for local farmers, a
plot by the evil Blockheads to kidnap Gumby’s dog, and a dual aboard a
spaceship.
As always, Gumby’s adventures are piloted by his creator, Art Clokey.
Clokey, a resident of Sausalito, is a dedicated spirtualist, and the
film is dedicated to his guru, Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Veteran Jefferson
Starship guitarist Craig Chaquico is th ereal-life musician who performs
Gumby’s guitar playing in the film’s musical sequences.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #678, from hmccracken, 470 chars, Tue May 16 23:22:21 1995
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TITLE: Caroline in the City…
is the name of a (non-animated) sitcom which NBC will introduce
in the fall, concerning the adventures of a New York City cartoonist
whose strip mirrors her real life.
Caroline will be played by one of my favorite actresses, Lea Thompson,
who actually has a lot of experience playing cartoon characters:
She was Dennis the Menace’s mother in the recent film, as well as
Beverly Switzler in the infamous _Howard the Duck_ movie.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #679, from hmccracken, 287 chars, Thu May 25 02:20:00 1995
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TITLE: _Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist_…
…is the name of a new series on the Comedy Central cable network,
which begins May 28th. It appears to be done in very limited,
possibly computer-generated animation, and doesn’t look too
promising, judging from the ads I’ve seen.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #680, from hmccracken, 1312 chars, Sat Aug 5 16:21:34 1995
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TITLE: Mickey’s Back
Mickey Mouse may just have acquired a television network, but he’s
not giving up his career as an actor. In fact, later this month,
he’ll appear in his first theatrical short in forty years. (That’s
what Disney is calling it — apparently the more recent _Mickey’s
Christmas Carol_ and _Prince and the Pauper_ don’t count as shorts,
since they were around a half-hour in length.)
_Runaway Brain_, which I saw clips from at the San Diego Con last
week, is an attempt to return to the adventuresome Mickey of the 1930s,
rather than the blander, safer character of recent decades. (He even
wears his red, white-buttoned pants and goes shirtless, just like
the early Mickey did.) The tale involves Mickey trying to earn some
quick cash by getting involved in an experiment performed by a mad
doctor monkey (voiced by _Frasier_’s Kelsey Grammer); the upshot is
that Mickey’s personality gets transferred with that of
perennial villain Pete.
Based on the scenes I saw, _Runaway Brain_ will be a good-looking return
to form for Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto. It was developed in the U.S. but
animated mostly in Disney’s Paris facility, and will premiere with
Disney’s live-action _A Kid in King Arthur’s Court_ before going into
wider release along with a variety of live-action features.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #681, from hmccracken, 715 chars, Sat Aug 5 16:24:42 1995
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TITLE: Felix is Back, Too
At San Diego, I also saw some scenes from CBS’s upcoming _Felix the
Cat_ Saturday-morning series. This show, produced by Film Roman, also
tries to return its star to the glory of his earliest appearances
(as opposed to the better-remembered Felix of those crummy TV cartoons
of the late 1950s). The artists behind the new Felix show intend to
do away with scripts and stories as such and do stream-of-consciousness
gags baded around a general theme — much as many early cartoons did.
I don’t know if it will work, but it’s a fairly bold experiment.
They’ve also made the wise decision to hire Milton Knight, a young
cartoonist with a 1930s-ish style, to direct several segments.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #682, from hmccracken, 205 chars, Mon Nov 6 00:50:45 1995
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TITLE: Toys Ahead
_Toy Story_, the first completely computer-generated animated
feature film, debuts on November 22nd. For a preview, check
out this site on the World Wide Web: www.toystory.com.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #683, from hkenner, 111 chars, Mon Nov 6 13:19:03 1995
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The trailer I saw 2 days ago presented snippets of ceaseless noise
and movement-for-the-sake-of-movement.
–HK
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animation/coming.soon #684, from hmccracken, 297 chars, Mon Nov 6 21:08:59 1995
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Oh-oh. Of course, *most* movie trailers are like that these days.
I’m hopeful about _Toy Story_, because its director, John Lasseter,
has been responsible for some of the best short computer-animated
films ever made. And he’s never favored movement-for-the-sake-of
-movement in the past.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #685, from peabo, 402 chars, Mon Nov 6 23:20:42 1995
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Lassiter was terrific even before he started using computers. Several years
ago, one of his pencil test shorts (might even have been called “Pencil Test”)
was in one of the roving animation festivals. You’d remember it, it was set
in a lamp shop after the owners had gone home, and involves the misadventures
of several of the lamps. (I wonder if he was thinking of that when he did
“Luxo”?)
peter
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animation/coming.soon #686, from hmccracken, 206 chars, Tue Nov 7 01:23:51 1995
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That was _Lady and the Lamp_, one of two early Lasseter films to
win the Student Academy Award. And Lasseter is a self professed lamp
fanatic, as he told me when I interviewed him a few years ago.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #687, from nicolas, 331 chars, Tue Nov 7 02:25:09 1995
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> You’d remember it, it was set
>in a lamp shop after the owners had gone home, and involves the
>misadventures
>of several of the lamps. (I wonder if he was thinking of that when he did
>”Luxo”?)
>
Or the one with the little red bicycle.
—
Nico Veenkamp Cybrarian at large
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animation/coming.soon #688, from peabo, 193 chars, Tue Nov 7 13:03:37 1995
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You can buy a videotape from Pixar of four short animations: “Luxo (, Jr?)”,
“Tin Toy”, “Red’s Dream” (which you mentioned), and “Knick-Knack”. Costs
about $25 if I remember correctly.
peter
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animation/coming.soon #689, from nicolas, 415 chars, Wed Nov 8 02:00:11 1995
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Thanks for the info. It’s a bit of a problem for me to order this tape
because I don’t have a VCR that can playback NTSC tapes. Lucky for me our
national TV-station did a program a while ago on computer animation and
showed three of the four animation shorts you mentioned So I was able to
tape them. They left out Tin Toy.
—
Nico Veenkamp Cybrarian at large
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animation/coming.soon #690, from switch, 900 chars, Sun Dec 10 23:21:24 1995
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TITLE: By the way…
I saw the trailer for Hunchback of Notre Dame, and, well… um.
It’s just so strange. The opening is appropriately dark and gothic, the
cathedral looks wonderfully dark, and then Quasimodo swings around and
starts singing.
The look is about right. Quasimodo is appropriately deformed (he’s very close
to the design I saw at Ottawa ’94), Esmeralda is amazingly gorgeous, and the
religious guy — Pheobus? It’s been a while — is incredibly daunting. There
are three comic relief gargoyles, who look well-animated but totally
unnecessary.
I really don’t know what to think. Hunchback could have easily been a good
dramatic film, from the looks of it. But it seems to slavishly adhere to the
Disney formula, despite its seeming inappropriateness. I’m not looking forward
to this.
Shortly after, I saw the trailer for Muppet Treasure Island. Now *that* looks
good.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #691, from lkaplan, 262 chars, Mon Dec 11 10:50:29 1995
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Re: By the way…
>Shortly after, I saw the trailer for Muppet Treasure Island. Now *that*
>looks good.
That’s the Henson production, isn’t it? I wonder what happened with the
lawsuit filed by Hormel, concerning the evil boar god being named “Sp’am”
…
-Len
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animation/coming.soon #692, from grekel, 143 chars, Mon Dec 11 21:20:07 1995
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It was ruled that the use of “Sp’am” by the Henson people was NOT
infringing on Hormel’s famous meat food product. It should be
in the film.
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animation/coming.soon #693, from hmccracken, 136 chars, Mon Dec 11 23:16:04 1995
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Well, that’s good to hear. Serves Hormel right for not having
a sense of humor.
I can’t wait to see _Muppet Treasure Island_.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #694, from ddsnell, 838 chars, Tue Dec 12 01:36:25 1995
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[switch on 10-Dec-1995]
RE: Trailer to “Hunchback…”
| It’s just so strange. The opening is appropriately dark and gothic, the
| cathedral looks wonderfully dark, and then Quasimodo swings around and
| starts singing.
(The religious guy’s name is Frollo, I think. I know he’s voiced
by Tony Jay. Phoebus is the blond guy that Esmeralda was swinging the
sword at. (I think.))
My reaction was much the same as yours. The cathedral is
stunning, Esmeralda is beautiful, and Frollo (?) is downright grim.
But… a singing Quasimodo??? Huh? _Disney_ doing _The Hunchback of
Notre Dame_? This sounds like an excursion into High Weirdness to me.
I suppose I’ll go see it; once, anyway. But I just don’t know quite how
to take the whole idea…
–dds (Well, everybody keeps saying Disney has to drop the formula…)
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animation/coming.soon #695, from lkaplan, 278 chars, Tue Dec 12 13:28:23 1995
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Great! Thanks for the info – I’m really looking forward to the movie.
Hormel’s legal dept. should get a sense of humor – and realize that it
really _is_ free advertising, anyway. I wonder if they tried to sue the BBC
when the Monty Python “Spam” sketch was broadcast …
-Len
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animation/coming.soon #696, from switch, 162 chars, Tue Dec 12 20:42:53 1995
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Yup, Frollo. It clicked two days afterward.
Wow, if Tony Jay is voicing him, I *gotta* see it.
I’m still cringing at the thought of Quasimodo crooning.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #697, from switch, 204 chars, Tue Dec 12 22:37:24 1995
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TITLE: Asterix
Diamond Comics is making Celebrity Home Video’s Asterix tapes (Asterix in
Britain and Asterix Versus Caesar) available to comics stores soon. Has
anyone seen these English editions?
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #698, from mikebryant, 149 chars, Tue Dec 12 22:40:28 1995
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Another bit of strangeness. Isn’t Quasimodo supposed to be deaf?
(from the ringing of the bells) I’d imagine it might affect his singing
career…
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animation/coming.soon #699, from switch, 27 chars, Tue Dec 12 23:08:04 1995
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My thoughts exactly.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #700, from hmccracken, 690 chars, Tue Dec 19 22:54:50 1995
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Speaking of the Muppets, the current issue of _Variety_ is
a special Muppets tribute that’s chock full of articles on
Jim Henson’s characters — including lots of news about
upcoming projects. (Besides _Muppet Treasure Island_, the
studio is working on a new Muppet series for ABC and more
movies.)
The only sad thing is that Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear, two
of the greatest Muppets, are apparently in semi-retirement
these days — their puppeteer, Frank Oz, is busy with his
career as a live-action director and doesn’t have much time
for puppetry. That’s really sad — he’s a fine director,
but he’s one of the greatest puppeteers of all time and
his talents are sorely missed.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #701, from pwirtz, 213 chars, Fri Jan 19 11:20:05 1996
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>Well, that’s good to hear. Serves Hormel right for not having
>a sense of humor.
>
They could rename him Mel Hor.
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SCOUG (Southern Calif OS/2 Users Group)
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animation/coming.soon #702, from lkaplan, 307 chars, Fri Jan 19 15:44:01 1996
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TITLE: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Watch for this one – according to the January 14 _London Times_, it will be
shown on the BBC some time in 1998. Apparently there is some controversy
already, WRT things being updated to some extent.
(w/moderator’s permission, I’ll type in the article – let me know)
-Len
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animation/coming.soon #703, from switch, 1270 chars, Fri Jun 14 23:08:08 1996
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 06:11:55 -0400
From: nausicaa <na******@CA***.UK>
Subject: 1997 European Anime Convention
To: Multiple recipients of list NAUSICAA <NA******@BR*****.EDU>
A bit of a delay in announcing this, but here goes….
Con-T and the London Anime Club is proud to present:
Shinnenkai – The 1997 European Anime Convention.
On the 3rd-5th January 1997 at the Radisson-Edwardian Hotel, Bath Road,
Heathrow.
Guests:
Adam Warren (Confirmed)
Torren Smith (Confirmed)
Helen McCarthy (Confirmed)
Kosuke Fujishima (Not-Confirmed)
Go Nagai (Not-Confirmed)
Izumi Matsumoto (Not-Confirmed)
Features:
4 Video rooms (possibly more!)
Full Internet connection and coverage.
Anime and Manga based console games (Sony)
Channel 4 film crew.
(and of particular interest to this mailing list)
Miyazaki Review
The 5th of January is Miyazaki-sensei’s birthday. To celebrate we will be
showing a whole range of Miyazaki films. From his early works, right up to his
latest masterpieces. Hopefully we will be getting the Nausicaa sub back from
Japan to show. *And* if we can swing it with Tokuma Shoten, a few extra bits!!
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Further info available from dr****@ca***.uk
Regards,
David (Dragon) Cotterill
President: London Anime Club.
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animation/coming.soon #704, from hmccracken, 874 chars, Sat Jul 6 21:13:33 1996
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TITLE: What’s in the works at Dreamworks?
Last Sunday’s _New York Times_ magazine has a n article on Jeffrey
Katzenberg, former Disney animation mastermind and current member
of the trio that formed Dreamworks SKG, the much-publicized new
movie studio. Katzenberg is spending much of his time these days
on two big-budget animted features: _Prince of Egypt_ (due in
1998) and _El Dorado: The City of Gold_ (due sometime after that).
Dreamworks has managed to lure several of Disney’s star animators, and has
driven up the going rate for animation talent dramatically; it’s also
hired most of the folks responsible for the music in recent Disney
cartoons, including Elton John, Tim Rice, Hans Zimmer, and Stephen
Schwartz. You’ve got to think that if any studio can finally produce
animated features that compete with Disney at the boxoffice, it will be
this one.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #705, from elfhive, 632 chars, Sun Jul 7 21:52:03 1996
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I always thought that Don Bluth’s first solo effort, The Secret of NIMH,
was as good as anything that Disney had done to that point (well, let me
except Fantasia). I also thought that it was a commercial success, so I
could never figure out why they seemingly swerved off the track with
subsequent productions that didn’t have the charm of NIMH?
I’m actually kind of appalled that people think they have to throw
megabucks at productions and produce imitative product to compete with
Disney. Clearly Miyazaki in Japan competes quite nicely with Disney’s
work and in fact provides far more substantive films from his Studio
Ghibli.
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animation/coming.soon #706, from hmccracken, 730 chars, Mon Jul 8 11:37:47 1996
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One of the sad things about Bluth is that his first feature was by far his best.
I suspect that’s because he started with a strong story (the novel _Mrs. Frisby
and the Rats of NIMH_). Most or all of his later films have been original
tales, and the best of these — _An American Tail_ and _Land Beofre Time_ —
were made in conjunction with two not-so-shabby storytellers: Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
Unfortunately, the more control Don Bluth has over his film’s stories, the less impressive they are.
As for _The Secret of NIMH_’s box-office success: I believe it did not do well at all upon its initial
release. Of course, showings on TV and videotape sales may have eventually allowed it to turn a profit.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #707, from elfhive, 649 chars, Mon Jul 8 18:49:58 1996
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Well, Disney has certainly stuck to using first-rate source material even if
they do stray pretty far afield from it. NIMH was a great story and, since
I wasn’t in the US when it was released, I have to go with your knowledge
of its box-office success (or lack of). It seems a pity that the public
doesn’t really support this kind of production and comes out in droves for
stuff like Independence Day, which, like Twister and Jurassic Park, is
pretty much about spending $7.5 to see a half hour of SGI renderings.
It all seemed somehow more satisfying when you knew Ray Harryhausen had
spent months trying to get it to seem lifelike on screen 🙂
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animation/coming.soon #708, from peabo, 264 chars, Tue Jul 9 00:12:55 1996
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What kind of megabuckitis can compete with “Independence Day” which is
complete moronic psuedo-science with some rather anemic special effects
(I thought).
There is always a place for thoughtful artistic effort, even it it doesn’t
charm the bean counters.
peter
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animation/coming.soon #709, from peabo, 38 chars, Tue Jul 9 00:14:34 1996
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(First time I saw NIMH was on cable.)
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animation/coming.soon #710, from switch, 424 chars, Sat Jul 13 09:58:24 1996
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I believe this comes from the belief that if you want to sway people from
Disney in animated box office, you must do so by out-Disneying Disney. This
means more epic scale, more music, more of the same — but, supposedly, better.
Of course, we know that’s not necessary. I’ve often wondered what would have
happened if Laputa had been released with celebrity voice actors and a
Disney-like promotion and release.
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #711, from hmccracken, 1122 chars, Sun Aug 4 00:12:52 1996
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TITLE: 1,001 Warner characters
Back in the old days of Warner Bros. cartoons, the studio, quite
intentionally, rarely made films that featured more than two characters —
the fewer the characters, the cheaper the film.
How things have changed. _Space Jam_, the big-budget cartoon/live-action
film that will star the Warner characters and Michael Jordan !(), will
star dozens of Warner creations. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and
Porky Pig will appear, of course, as will the Coyote and Roadrunner,
Sylvester and Tweety, Marvin Martian, the Tasmanian Devil, and Foghorn
Leghorn. But the movie will also have moments with Warner characters who
appeared in just a few films, or only one — characters including the
Three Bears, Michigan J. Frog, Charlie Dog, Sniffles, Beaky Buzzard, the
Goofy Gophers, Bobo the Elephant, Spike and Chester, Sam Sheep-dog, Marc
Antony and Pussyfoot, and many, many others.
_Space Jam_, which involves an intergalactic basketball game, will
hit theaters late this year. It’s the first all-new, feature-length film to
star the Warner characters — let’s hope for the best.
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #712, from switch, 1962 chars, Mon Aug 12 06:36:22 1996
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TITLE: YTV fall schedule
For our other Canuck members (and those sufficiently close to the border),
here’s YTV’s cartoon schedule, as of today.
5:00 AM Muppet Babies (Mon-Sun)
6:30 AM Maya the Bee (Mon-Fri)
7:00 AM Rupert (Mon-Fri); COPS (Sat); Dino Babies (Sun)
7:30 AM Woody Woodpecker (Mon-Fri); Dragon Flyz (Sat)
8:00 AM Dragon Ball (Sat); Madeline (Sun)
8:30 AM Sailor Moon (Sat)
9:00 AM Hello Kitty (Fri); Spider-Man (Sat); Dragon Flyz (Sun)
9:30 AM Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (Sat); Sky Dancers (Sun)
10:00 AM Keroppi and Friends (Fri); What-A-Mess (Sun)
10:30 AM X-Men (Sat); Eek! the Cat (Sun)
11:00 AM T.B.A. (Sat); Bump in the Night (Sun)
11:30 AM What-A-Mess (Sat); Stickin’ Around (Sun)
12:00 PM Sailor Moon (Mon-Sat); ReBoot (Sun)
2:30 PM Dog City (Mon, Wed, Fri)
3:00 PM T.B.A. (Sat)
3:30 PM T.B.A. (Sat)
4:00 PM T.B.A. (Mon-Fri); Woody Woodpecker (Sat)
4:30 PM Spider-Man (Mon-Thu); Mr. Magoo (Fri); Yogi Bear (Sat);
Pink Panther (Sun)
5:00 PM Jonny Quest (Mon-Thu); What-A-Mess (Fri); T.B.A. (Sat);
Pink Panther (Sun)
5:30 PM T.B.A. (Mon-Thu); Bump in the Night (Fri); Spider-Man (Sat);
Garfield (Sun)
6:00 PM Casper (Mon); Stickin’ Around (Tue); T.B.A. (Wed);
Rupert (Thu); T.B.A. (Fri)
6:30 PM Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (Mon); Earthworm Jim (Tue);
What-A-Mess (Wed); T.B.A. (Thu); Dragon Ball (Fri);
Flash Gordon (Sat)
7:00 PM ReBoot (Mon); Bump in the Night (Tue); Stickin’ Around (Thu);
Sailor Moon (Fri); T.B.A. (Sat)
7:30 PM T.B.A. (Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat)
8:00 PM Flash Gordon (Fri)
8:30 PM T.B.A. (Fri)
9:00 PM ReBoot (Fri)
9:30 PM T.B.A. (Tue, Thu, Fri)
10:30 PM Dragon Ball (Sat); Captain Power (Sun)
11:00 PM Sailor Moon (Sat)
11:30 PM Spider-Man [Classic] (Fri); Insektors (Sat)
12:00 AM T.B.A. (Mon-Sat)
12:30 AM T.B.A. (Mon-Sat)
1:30 AM Rocky & Bullwinkle (Mon-Thu)
2:00 AM (X-Men (Mon-Sun)
2:30 AM Samurai Pizza Cats (Mon-Sun)
Emru
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animation/coming.soon #713, from hmccracken, 410 chars, Mon Jan 6 23:27:38 1997
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TITLE: George, George, George of the Jungle
As reported here awhile ago, Disney is going to release a
live-action film based on Jay Ward’s classic _George of the
Jungle_ cartoons of the 1960s. The film, due this summer, stars
Brendan Fraser, and the coming-attractions trailer, at least,
is quite funny — and is built, of course, around George’s
classic theme song.
“Watch out for that treeeeeee!”
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #714, from jdow, 107 chars, Fri Feb 7 22:31:09 1997
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Who plays whom? Arnie’s a little old to play George but the thought came to
mind almost immediately.
{O.O}
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animation/coming.soon #715, from hmccracken, 258 chars, Sun Feb 9 21:51:10 1997
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George is played by Brendan Fraser, who may not be very muscular,
but is an established expert at playing dimwitted characters
in _Encino Man_ and other films. No word on the casting
of Shep (George’s elephant), Ape (his ape), or Ursula (his
mate).
— Harry
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animation/coming.soon #716, from jdow, 35 chars, Mon Feb 10 01:43:21 1997
This is a comment to message 715.
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Ursula…. Madonna?
{O,o}
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animation/coming.soon #717, from switch, 3051 chars, Tue May 20 19:54:01 1997
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TITLE: MASTERS OF ANIMATION FESTIVAL JULY 4-7, 1997
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 11:43:43 -0700
From: norman hill <sc*****@ix.com>
To: em**@CA*.ORG
Subject: MASTERS OF ANIMATION FESTIVAL JULY 4-7, 1997
HERE IS SOME EXCITING INFORMATION WE THOUGHT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN.
FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE CONTACT:
NORMAN HILL
PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR
SCARECROW VIDEO
PHONE: 206.522.5901
fax: 206.522.5229
email sc*****@ix.com
SCARECROW VIDEO, in conjunction with
THE SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, MICROSOFT, and ANIMATION, USA present:
MASTERS OF ANIMATION
Seattle’s First Ever Animation Seminar
WHEN: JULY 4-7, 1997 FRIDAY-MONDAY 12:00 PM-12:00 AM
PLACE:SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, 100 University, Seattle WA 98101-2902
Phone: (206) 654.3100.
PURPOSE: To create the first forum in Seattle where both audiences and
animators come together and discuss the history and future of both
commercial and artistic approaches to animation.
EVENT: Four day seminar on animation, featuring a cross section from
both the commercial and the art fiields aimed at exploring the format of
animation. In two hour time blocks, animators will be screening
selections of their work, discussing their stylistic approaches to
animation, and answer any questions the audiences may have to the
materials presented.
Animators attending include:
Mr. Chuck Jones- director-Warner Brothers; Martin Rosen
director-Watership Down/The Plague Dogs,USA; Mamoru Oshii-director-
Ghost in the Shell, Japan; Toshihiko Nishikubo-animation director-Ghost
in the Shell, Japan; Mr. Ishikawa, President-Production I.G.-manga
animation, Japan (unconfirmed); Ray Harryhausen-stop motion director,
England; Rene Laloux-director-Fantastic Planet/Light Years, France;
Berry Purves; animation director-Mars Attack; England, Marv Newland,
director-The Rocketship International, Canada; Henry Selick,
director-The Nightmare Before Christmas/James and the Giant Peach/USA;
Jack Stokes-animation director-Yellow Submarine, England; Mark
Gustafson- animator, Will Vinton Studios, USA; Stephen Holman- animator-
Nickelodeon-Life with Loopy, USA; Craig Bartlett-animator-
Nickelodeon-Ren and Stimpy/Hey Arnold, USA; Igor Kovilov-Klasky Csupo
Studios- director-Rug Rats/Real Monsters, USA; Gerald
Potterton-diretor-Heavy Metal/Canada; Bill
Plympton-director-Plymptoons/The Tune, USA; David Silverman
director/producer-The Simpsons, USA; Bruce Bickford-animator-Frank Zappa
films/videos/The Amazing Mr. Bickford, USA, Jim Blashfield director
music videos/animation- Blashfield Studios, USA; Rose Bond-animator-USA;
Joan Gratz-animator, USA; Ruth Hayes-animator, USA, Mark Mothersbaugh
(DEVO) -Music for animation/motion pictures, USA.
SPONSORED BY:SCARECROW VIDEO, MICROSOFT, ANIMATION USA, and THE SEATTLE
ART MUSEUM.
TICKET PRICES: Prices will vary per event.
TICKET AVAILABLITY:Tickets will be available June 1, 1997 through:
Scarecrow Video
5030 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: (206) 524.8554. Outside of Washington 1 (800) 700.8554.
e-mail address: http://www.film.com/video/scarecrow
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animation/coming.soon #718, from jgoddin, 69 chars, Tue May 20 23:57:18 1997
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TITLE: Spawn
now on HBO Friday nights. At least on cable in Phoenix.
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animation/coming.soon #719, from jgoddin, 206 chars, Thu May 29 02:52:48 1997
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TITLE: Batman animation directly to video
Another Mr. Freeze but animated instead of live action. It is supposed
to be released directly to video this summer. Name is currently _Sub
Zero_ (without Arnold).
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animation/coming.soon #720, from hmccracken, 134 chars, Thu Nov 6 20:47:03 1997
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TITLE: See animation/best.of.net…
for information on a new Chuck Jones cartoon that’s opening in
theaters later this month.
– Harry