‘We Wanted To Keep Him Familiar’: Rob LaDuca On Adapting Mickey For A New Generation Of Clubhousers
Disney TV legend Rob LaDuca ('Aladdin the Animated Series,' 'Timon & Pumba') on adapting 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse' for a new generation.
Disney TV legend Rob LaDuca ('Aladdin the Animated Series,' 'Timon & Pumba') on adapting 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse' for a new generation.
Mickey has unwittingly landed himself in the middle of a corporate battle.
'Steamboat Willie' has been in the public domain for fewer than 48 hours, but Mickey projects are popping up all over the internet.
Disney's 'Steamboat Willie' and A.A. Milne's 'The House at Pooh Corner' turn 95 in 2024.
Mickey, Donald, Buzz, Woody, and even Snow White have announced Oscar winners over the years.
The company's first animated feature, "The Great Wolf Pack," will be released in summer 2022.
Mickey Mouse is getting a museum retrospective for his 90th birthday.
The obesity epidemic takes its toll on cartoon characters in a new book and exhibition.
Steve Hulett recounts his experiences working on "Oliver & Company" and the unexpected tragedy that happened during its production.
Michael Eisner lounged his six-foot-four frame in a conference room chair. He was wearing jeans and sweatshirt, but why not? It was a Saturday morning.
When the Disney strike of 1982 ended and the story artists returned to their respective work spaces in the animation building, "Basil of Baker Street" was still running along two sets of tracks. There were storyboards filled with gags and character bits, and boards filled with plot points.
Steve Hulett on everything from "Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore" to "Katy Caterpillar."
Here's a heartwarming moment of corporate cooperation as cartoon characters owned by four different entertainment conglomerates—Mickey Mouse (Disney), Bugs Bunny (Warner Bros.), Scrat (20th Century Fox), and SpongeBob (Viacom)—team up to beat the living crap out of a real-life human being.
"Basil of Baker Street" by novelist Eve Titus was an illustrated children's book centered on a mouse who fancied himself an ace detective. The mouse resided (naturally enough) inside the walls of 31 Baker Street in London, home of a human-sized ace detective, the name of whom escapes me.
Steve Hulett recounts his role in the the confusing and chaotic production of Disney's most un-Disney-like feature, "The Black Cauldron."
Don Bluth and his troops were gone, but the studio still had an animated movie to get out. Art Stevens, now lead director, was slowly pulling the picture together with the animators and layout artists who remained loyal to the Mouse. But the animation department was still in flux.
I was back in Don Duckwall's office, exchanging insincere smiles with him. I had been on "The Fox and the Hound" with Larry, Woolie, and everybody else for half a year. But now Don wanted me to go on another assignment.
Disney's head animation writer in 1977 was cartoon veteran Larry Clemmons, who had first been hired at the studio in 1930. At the time of his hiring, he was a Yale graduate with a degree in architecture, but an Ivy League education was of little value in 1930 when the economy was collapsing...and few buildings were being erected.
A look at animation history via Cartoon Brew's archives.
A second season of Mickey Mouse shorts will begin airing April 11th at 9pm (ET/PT) on the Disney Channel. Each new short will be available the day after its cable premiere on WATCH Disney Channel, Disney.com, iTunes, and YouTube.