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Roger the Lucky Rabbit – Who Framed Roger Rabbit review
Brian Sibley reviews the Disney-Speilberg smash-hit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Roger Rabbit is an anarchist. Probably because he’s a Toon and comes from Toontown, where all the tedious restraints of real life – from gravity to commonsense – are non-existent, … Continue reading
Roger the Lucky Rabbit – Who Framed Roger Rabbit review – Page 2
More significantly – since it is the probable reason for Roger’s success – this experiment in combining film techniques is founded in a stylishly funny conceit. Toons, it seems, are not drawn characters who owe their existence to some pencil-pushing … Continue reading
Roger the Lucky Rabbit – Who Framed Roger Rabbit review – Page 3
The script by Jeffery Price and Peter Seaman (from Gary K Woolf s book Who Censored Roger Rabbit?) is crammed with gags, puns and movie land references: ‘Is that a rabbit in your pocket?’ asks Eddie’s girlfriend, Dolores, ‘Or are … Continue reading
The Best of British Animation programme
The Best of British Animation programme was part of the London Film Festival held at the National Film Theatre during November 1987. David Jefferson reports. The LFF is a non-competitive event but there is a tradition of holding other award … Continue reading
Snow White – Behind the Magic Mirror – Page 4
Used on the water rippling effects in the wishing well sequence of the film, the Multiplane camera required three technicians to operate it. The reason being that it stretched to the top of a high ceilinged room in the camera … Continue reading
Make Mine Music – Disney film review
Robin Allan gives his reassessment of a rarely shown Disney feature length cartoon that is out on video. It is forty years since the release in 1946 of Disney’s animated feature Make Mine Music. Most of it is forgotten, or … Continue reading
Make Mine Music – Disney film review – Page 2
The four shorts that make up Saludos Amigos (1943) do not reflect much of this new mood, though the freedom of styling in the Brazilian sequence Aquarela do Brasil hints at the imaginative use of animation in The Three Caballeros … Continue reading
Make Mine Music – Disney film review – Page 3
Without You follows. This piece was the least popular item with critics. Virginia Wright in the Los Angeles Daily News called it “completely uninspired” and David Rider thought it “glutinous.” With music by Osvaldo Farres and English lyrics by Ray … Continue reading
Make Mine Music – Disney film review – Page 4
Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet must surely be one of the few Disney films with a violent urban background behind its story of two hats in love. It is a fascinating example of magazine art, opening on a moonlit … Continue reading
The Masters of Animation collection
John Halas talks about an exciting new series of programmes which form a world-wide survey of animation. Interview by David Jefferson. The idea for an animation show reel of the world-wide industry was first put forward at a board meeting … Continue reading