The Pixar Story on TV tonight!
The television broadcast premiere of Leslie Iwerks documentary, The Pixar Story, will be on the STARZ cable channel tonight at 10pm …
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Popular Science on Fantasia Sound
Charles Shopsin has posted a January 1941 article from Popular Science about Disney’s pioneering sound processes for Fantasia on his …
Brad Bird on Ollie Johnston
Ollie Johnston’s cameo in Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant We asked Brad Bird, Oscar-winning director of Ratatouille and The Incredibles, if …
The Disney Company on Ollie Johnston
(Above: Milt Kahl, Marc Davis, Frank Thomas and Walt Disney flank seated Ollie Johnston) Howard Green just sent over the official …
John Canemaker on Ollie Johnston
Oscar winning animator, animation historian and author of Disney’s Nine Old Men, John Canemaker sent in this tribute to Ollie …
Ollie Johnston 1912-2008
The end of an era. The last of the Nine Old Men, Ollie Johnston, passed away today in Sequim, Washington at the age of 95. Jenny …
Mouse Heaven
Here is a rarely seen film by Kenneth Anger (best known for the book Hollywood Babylon and his landmark avant-garde film, Scorpio …
Disney’s Gettin’ Lazy
Disney’s reuse of past animation is nothing new. But seeing these sequences in motion, one scene followed by its subsequent reuse, is …
Disney/Pixar to release 10 features through 2012
Earlier today, Disney and Pixar announced their theatrical line-up through 2012. This is the lengthy press release with story details and …
Visit Pixar for $14,700!
How much is it worth to you to visit Pixar? What if we threw in tickets to the world premiere of Wall*E, a tour of Disney Studios Studios …
Bob Thomas’s The Art of Animation
Michael Sporn has been scanning some beautiful photos and artwork from Bob Thomas’s classic long out-of-print 1958 book about Disney …
Pixar art exhibit at L.A. Auto Museum
Starting this Saturday the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles (at Fairfax and Wilshire) will be hosting an Art of Cars Exhibition. …
Classic Disney Art Returns to the US
The NY Times reports that Disney is having returned to them over 250 pieces of original classic artwork, most of it from Sleeping Beauty. …
Get Well Soon, Jim Korkis
Animation historian Jim Korkis had a series of three small strokes last week. The strokes were in a portion of the brain that control …
Frank & Artie
What’s wrong with the following sentence in this Andreas Deja interview: “I got to know, not only Marc Davis, but Frank Thomas, Artie …
Disney Auction
I alert you to this Disney auction, not because I know Brew readers are financially well off and can afford these vintage cels (several …
Family Circus 3/13/08
Wink-wink, nudge-nudge… An in-joke in today’s Family Circus. The strip’s creator, Bil Keane, is Glen Keane’s father. Jeffy (aka Jeff …
101 Farting Dalmatians?
An animator/director friend, who asked to remain anonymous, emailed me with a bizarre observation: that Disney is adding fart gags to …
Donald Duck Taverne
Places I’d like to visit (number 1 in a series): Tony Medeiros from Sandbox World sent in this photo: I thought I would share with …
A Touching Winnie the Pooh Segment
In the video below, Disney’s version of Winnie the Pooh teaches kids that, “There are certain private places on your body that nobody is …
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