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July 7, 2011 12:30 am
They appeared in comic books, military insignia, as dolls, and in advertisements but Disney’s Gremlins never appeared in an animated film. Or did they? There are still a lot of animated films made for the U.S. Army and Navy during World War II that are completely undocumented. Recently a military film collector wrote to me asking about a film he had in his collection that contained Disney animation. The film he said, Fundamental Fixed Gunnery Approaches (1943), contained a sequence of Gremlins pulling a plane away from its mission. I haven’t viewed the film myself, but I had him send me a few frame grabs so I could see what he was talking about. Take a look. What do you think? Five little Gremlins, with the letter “G” on their flight jackets, with large goggles, noses, gloves and aviator caps – similar to the Disney character designs. Could this be the only Disney animation of Dahl’s Gremlins?
Click the thumbnails below to see larger images of the film’s titles and an extreme close-up of the Gremlin frame grab.
24 Comments » posted in Disney, Gremlins 
July 5, 2011 12:05 am
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the largest silent film festival in the country, will be holding their 16th Annual Festival this July 14-17 at the historic Castro Theatre in San Francisco. This year, the SFSFF in coordination with the Walt Disney Family Museum and Pixar, will be presenting Walt Disney’s Laugh-O-Grams on Saturday, July 16th at 10:00am. Disney historians Leonard Maltin and JB Kaufman will introduce a selection of rare Laugh-O-Gram shorts from 1921–23, which have been recently preserved by The Museum of Modern Art. Several of these shorts were thought lost for many years, and thanks to animation archaeologists David Gerstein and Cole Johnson, The Museum of Modern Art restored several lost Laugh-O-Grams cartoons (Goldie Locks and The Three Bears, Jack The Giant Killer) they had long held in their archives, previously misidentified under alternate titles. In addition to the two new discoveries, newly preserved and restored prints of Little Red Riding Hood, Puss In Boots and The Four Musicians Of Bremen will be screened. Donald Sosin will provide musical accompaniment. For more background information on the discovery of these incredible finds, check David Gerstein’s blog; for tickets and additional info on the San Francisco screening, go to the San Francisco Silent Film Festival website. Disney fans – this is a must-see! 5 Comments » posted in Disney, Events, laugh-o-grams
June 22, 2011 9:47 am
An article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal deemed Cars 2 a Hit Already—in Stores. The article made it clear that the franchise earns an obscene amount of money for Pixar’s parent company, Disney, and that basically means they’re going to continue making sequels and spin-offs until the cows come home (or until kids stop buying crap related to the film, whichever comes first). Below are some of the key facts and financial figures from the WSJ piece: 52 Comments » posted in Business, Disney, Pixar, Cars 2
June 13, 2011 5:00 pm
As reported here back in February, here’s the trailer for Disney’s spin-off of Pixar’s Cars – an original direct-to-video movie called Planes: UPDATE: Disney has removed the trailer from You Tube 104 Comments » posted in DVD, Disney, Planes
June 11, 2011 1:23 am
The legendary Tyrus Wong, who art directed Bambi among countless other accomplishments and who is one hundred years young, was hanging out at Pixar yesterday. Here are some impressions of his visit as tweeted by Pixar artists:
Today, the rumor is that he’ll make an appearance at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, though they haven’t officially announced it. The museum is hosting a lecture at 3pm called “The Art of Tyrus Wong” with historian Charles Solomon, and production designers Ralph Eggleston (WALL·E, Finding Nemo) and Paul Felix (Lilo & Stitch, The Emperor’s New Groove). I imagine that’s the event Ty will appear at, but even if he doesn’t, it still sounds like a terrific presentation. I’d recommend purchasing an on-line ticket before showing up because it’s probably going to be a sell out. 7 Comments » posted in Animators, Disney, Events, Bambi, Tyrus Wong
June 8, 2011 4:37 am
If you have the slightest interest in classic Hollywood animation, do not miss this colossal 1991 interview with Fred Kopietz conducted by Michael Barrier. Fred who? Kopietz is not a household name by any stretch of the imagination, even amongst animation historians, but he was a distinguished contributor to the Golden Age of animation who worked on Flip the Frog cartoons with Ub Iwerks, Oswald cartoons with Walter Lantz, and animated for years at Disney. Barrier’s interview with him sheds light on familiar studios, artists, and cartoons from a completely fresh perspective. Kopietz is remarkably modest throughout the interview, so much so that one might not realize how respected he was by his peers. There’s a good reason that Ward Kimball used Kopietz as his right-hand man on the title song animation of The Three Caballeros. At nearly twenty thousand words, Barrier’s interview contains a veritable treasure trove of stories and insights, such as how Kopietz helped Chuck Jones get his first job in animation, wonderful descriptions of Lantz’s studio operations in the 1930s, Kopietz’s frustrations with how credit was doled out at Disney, why he refused to work with Woolie Reitherman, and his disastrous experience trying to direct Beany and Cecil for Bob Clampett. Amusingly, the interview is also peppered with Kopietz’s recollections about where various artists lived owing to the fact that he had a real estate broker’s license. (Photo: Fred Kopietz on the right, with Ward Kimball) 7 Comments » posted in Animators, Classic, Disney, Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Fred Kopietz, Ub Iwerks, Walter Lantz, Ward Kimball
June 7, 2011 11:47 am
As far as Disney fanvids go, this is one of the more intriguing. The creator, “The Pixar Princess,” created these images “to show what would’ve been if Disney held on to the rights to Oswald but kept Mickey, and Oswald starred in a few cartoons.” For all the companies that have classic cartoon characters languishing amongst their assets, Disney’s repopularization of Oswald is a textbook example of how a company can derive financial value from its vintage library of characters, even characters that are nearly ninety years old. Suffice to say, we would not be seeing this fan video if not for Disney chief Bob Iger’s canny decision to reacquire the character from NBC-Universal in 2006. 20 Comments » posted in Disney, Oswald Rabbit
May 26, 2011 4:56 am
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