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thebutcher-5 · 1 year

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Il re leone

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo continuato il nostro viaggio sui classici animati Disney e siamo arrivati al 31° film animato del canone ufficiale ossia Aladdin. Il protagonista della storia è un ladro che vive nella povertà e desidera una vita migliore. Un giorno incontra la principessa Jasmine, fuggita dal palazzo perché oppressa dalla vita che conduceva…

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kylesvariouslistsandstuff · 6 months

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Animation Face-Offs

I find it amusing that the first real major animated movie box office show-off is occurring some 35 years after the one that arguably started it all...

November 18, 1988... Walt Disney Feature Animation's celebrity-loaded modern musical OLIVER & COMPANY from first-time director George Scribner, and Universal's release of the Steven Spielberg/George Lucas-produced ex-Disney director Don Bluth adventure THE LAND BEFORE TIME...

This wasn't the first time two animated pictures opened next to each other.

In fall 1982, Hanna-Barbera's HEIDI'S SONG opened opposite a Looney Tunes clipshow anthology movie called 1001 RABBIT TALES. Combined, they made $5m at the domestic box office... Not great times to open an animated feature that wasn't Disney, and not that their distributors probably even cared at the time anyways.

Sometimes, there are around two animated features a month. It's not uncommon for two studios to share. Off the top of my head, you had - in November 2010 - MEGAMIND at the beginning of the month, and TANGLED before Thanksgiving. In the early summer of 2013, MONSTERS UNIVERSITY only opened about a few weeks before DESPICABLE ME 2. TROLLS and MOANA shared November 2016. Again, just random examples off the top of my head.

But usually, they're spaced out... TROLLS BAND TOGETHER and WISH are five days apart...

TROLLS 3 is projected to take in around $20-25m this weekend, which is significantly less than what TROLLS took in back in 2016, but still alright for this kind of movie. WISH is set to out-open it, with over $50m for the 5-day Thanksgiving weekend stretch. For a $200m-costing movie, it's going to need all the legs in the world to get by. TROLLS 3 will need to pull some good weight too to more than double its much more modest $95m budget. (Wild to think that $95m seems *low*... There was a time when a DreamWorks/PDI movie cost $75m... And for a good while, roughly $135m!)

I'm curious to see how each film affects one another. Families aren't made of money, and there's gotta be a kind of adult pull to really make big bucks, and I'm not sure if either of these films have that. Plus you have stuff like WONKA right around the corner... Thankfully no Marvel, Star Wars, or Avatar movie to counter with. Although, PUSS IN BOOTS Dos last year, woooooow. That cat held his own against the blue cat aliens.

But yeah, if you think about it... This is a rare head-to-head race.

One could argue we saw this in late winter of 2021 when Warner Bros. released their live-action TOM & JERRY, and then Disney Animation had RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON out a week later. But that was before vaccines got out for all age groups (they were distributed to the elderly first, I - who was 28 at the time - couldn't get my first shot until April.), and the films had simultaneous streaming debuts, so I don't really count that. Plus, Cinemark theaters refused to show RAYA over a disagreement on who got most of the earnings. (That would've been my return trip to the movies after a year-long hiatus, my return ended up being A QUIET PLACE: PART II two months later.)

It's funny how TROLLS 3 is Universal and WISH is Disney... Just like how LAND BEFORE TIME was Universal, and OLIVER was Disney.

The Disney-Universal race was successful for both. OLIVER took home $53m domestically (the $71m figure you often see comes from the film's 1996 re-release), LAND BEFORE TIME took home $48m. Worldwide is up the air, because Disney never released OLIVER's numbers, Universal reported that LAND made around $84m. Winner is unknown, but it was always assumed to be LAND. Maybe because dinosaurs are more Universal than a modern-day New York comedy? Who knows!

Perhaps greatly inspired by that double-whammy of animated hits, MGM/United Artists wanted to try that for themselves. Don Bluth split with Spielberg and Lucas due to creative disagreements during production of both LAND BEFORE TIME and his other Spielberg collab AN AMERICAN TAIL, and set up ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN with the lion. MGM/UA released ALL DOGS the same day as THE LITTLE MERMAID...

Bluth's movie got left to sink by the Ron Clements and John Musker-directed musical sleeper hit... It wasn't even close. $27m domestic vs. $84m domestic, and in addition that, MERMAID's worldwide figures put it at roughly $183m. (Again, in 1989-90, without the 1997 re-release counted.) ALL DOG's worldwide total is unknown.

This didn't entirely scare distributors away from trying again.

The fall of 1990 was originally set to see another Bluth vs. Disney face-off. If plans had held, MGM-Pathe would've released Bluth's ROCK-A-DOODLE on the same day as Disney's sequel THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER. MGM-Pathe ran into financial and legal problems, putting Bluth's film in limbo for a bit...

Instead, Warner Bros. went toe to toe with Disney, releasing an animated feature that wasn't a Looney Tunes clipshow: THE NUTCRACKER PRINCE... Suffice to say, it barely scrounged up $1m domestically, and Disney's sequel had troubles of its own, stalling at $29m domestically, $47m worldwide.

Two films fled from the autumn of 1991, as BEAUTY AND THE BEAST looked to not be a repeat of RESCUERS DOWN UNDER, but a repeat of LITTLE MERMAID and OLIVER's successes... 20th Century Fox - who had FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST - and The Samuel Goldwyn Company - who picked up ROCK-A-DOODLE - chickened, literally in the latter's case...

Only Universal had the guts to take on the beast... By releasing AN AMERICAN TAIL: FIEVEL GOES WEST the same day. The Don Bluth-less sequel made only $22m domestically, while BEAUTY AND THE BEAST made... $145m in North America alone, and blew up with $331m around the world...

After FERNGULLY and ROCK-A-DOODLE wisely fled from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, they duked it out in April 1992. DOODLE opened the first weekend of the month, with FERNGULLY following. FERNGULLY won with $24m domestically, DOODLE struggled with $11m. (It's worth noting that DOODLE first came out in the UK in August of 1991.)

Universal initially thought they'd have WE'RE BACK! A DINOSAUR'S STORY ready to compete with ALADDIN, but they likely realized that that was not a great idea... WE'RE BACK! opened over a full year after ALADDIN and still flopped hard. It opened nearby BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM, which also made a paltry amount.

From there on out, things were typically spaced out. Sometimes the smaller efforts opened close to each other.

And now here we are, Thanksgiving week of 2023... We have trolls vs. wishing stars. Universal vs. Disney. It'll be fun to watch, but I hope the two film crews of both get to put food on their tables once more.

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formerlibrarian · 8 months

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Back when I was a Librarian, we lived and breathed by the Publisher's Weekly Bestseller List. It was my responsibility to print or photocopy the list every week and update our bestseller's display. (Also to purchase extra copies of particularly popular bestsellers.)

I haven't looked at the list in YEARS. Some of these surprise me:

A new translation of The Iliad made the list?!

Ken Follett is still alive?? (I looked him up, he's only 74.)

Danielle Steel is still alive?? ( I just looked her up, she's only 76 and has been married five(!) times. To be fair, I also looked up Ken Follett, he's only been married twice.)

I see some Christmas-themed books on the list!

I see a Disney manga! (“The Battle for Pumpkin King”)

PUBLISHER WEEKLY’S BESTSELLERS LIST: October 5, 2023

HARDCOVER FICTION

1. “Fourth Wing” by Rebecca Yarros (Red Tower)

2. “The Running Grave” by Robert Galbraith (Muholland)

3. “The Armor of Light” by Ken Follett (Viking)

4. “Holly” by Stephen King (Scribner)

5. “12 Months to Live” by Patterson/Lupica (Little, Brown)

6. “Tom Lake” by Ann Patchett (Harper)

7. “The Fragile Threads of Power” by V.E. Schwab (Tor)

8. “Bright Lights, Big Christmas” by Mary Kay Andrews (St Martin’s Press)

9. “The Iliad” by Homer/Wilson (Norton)

10. “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)

11. “Vince Flynn: Code Red” by Kyle Mills (Atria)

12. “The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese (Grove)

13. “The Last Devil to Die” by Richard Osman (Viking/Dorman)

14. “Tom Clancy: Weapons Grade” by Don Bentley (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

15. “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride (Riverhead)

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HARDCOVER NON-FICTION

1. “Enough” by Cassidy Hutchinson (Simon &Schuster)

2. “Killing the Witches” by O’Reilly/Dugard (St. Martin’s Press)

3. “The Democrat Party Hates America” by Mark R. Levin (Threshold)

4. “Elon Musk” by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)

5. “Democracy Awakening” by Heather Cox Richardson (Viking)

6. “Government Gangsters” by Kash Pramod Patel (Post Hill)

7. “Failure Is Not as Option” by Patrick Hinds (BenBella Books)

8. “Thicker Than Water” by Kerry Washington (Little, Brown Spark)

9. “Astor” by Cooper/Howe (Harper)

10. “Build the Life You Want” by Brooks/Winfrey (Portfolio)

11. “Skinnytaste Simple” by Homolka/Jones (Clarkson Potter)

12. “Counting the Cost” by Jill Duggar (Gallery)

13. “The Creative Act” by Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)

14. “Outlive” by Peter Attia (Harmony)

15. “Fast Like a Girl” by Mindy Pelz (Hay House)

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MASS MARKET BESTSELLERS

1. “Undercover Operation” by Maggie K. Black (Love Inspired Suspense)

2. “Bad Luck Vampire” by Lynsay Sands (Avon)

3. “Seeking Justice” by Sharee Stover (Love Inspired Suspense)

4. “The Teacher’s Christmas Secret” by Emma Miller (Love Inspired)

5. “Rescuing the Stolen Child” by Connie Queen (Love Inspired Suspense)

6. “Tracked Through the Woods” by Laura Scott (Love Inspired Suspense)

7. “The Boys from Biloxi” by John Grisham (Vintage)

8. “Christmas Murder Cover-Up” by Shannon Redmon (Love Inspired Suspense)

9. “Pursuit at Panther Point” by Cindi Myers (Harlequin Intrigue)

10. “The Whittiers” by Danielle Steel (Dell)

11. “Trusting Her Amish Rival” by Jackie Stef (Love Inspired)

12. “Texas Scandal” by Barb Han (Harlequin Intrigue)

13. “Marked for Revenge” by Delores Fossen (Harlequin Intrigue)

14. “Hunted at Christmas” by Dana R. Lynn (Love Inspired Suspense)

15. “A Companion for Christmas” by Lee Tobin McClain (Love Inspired)

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TRADE PAPERBACK BESTSELLERS

1. “House of Sky and Breath” by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury)

2. “Things We Left Behind” by Lucy Score (Bloom)

3. “The Shadow Work Journal” by Keila Shaheen (Keila Shaheen)

4. “The Battle for Pumpkin King” by Dan Conner et al. (Disney Manga)

5. “Icebreaker” by Hannah Grace (Atria)

6. “Too Late” by Colleen Hoover (Grand Central Publishing)

7. “23 1/2 Lies” by James Patterson (Grand Central Publishing)

8. “It Starts with Us” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)

9. “Mad Honey” by Picoult/Boylan (Ballantine)

10. “Twisted Love” by Ana Huang (Bloom)

11. “Assistant to the Villain” by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Red Tower)

12. “The Housemaid’s Secret” by Freida McFadden (Mobius)

13. “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig (Penguin Books)

14. “The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, Vol. 3” by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou (Seven Seas)

15. “Dreamland” by Nicholas Sparks (Bantam Dell)

#publisher's weekly #bestseller list

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rockislandadultreads · 1 year

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Book Recommendations: Awkward Characters & Amusing Storylines

Love in Lowercase by Francesc Miralles

When Samuel, a lonely linguistics lecturer, wakes up on New Year’s Day, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing more than passive verbs and un-italicized moments - until an unexpected visitor slips into his Barcelona apartment and refuses to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a stray, brindle-furred cat, leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books, foreign films, and classical music to places he’s never been (next door) and to people he might never have met (his neighbor Titus, with whom he’s never exchanged a word). Even better, Mishima leads him back to the mysterious Gabriela, whom he thought he’d lost long before.

Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.

Meanwhile, Lincoln O'Neill can't believe this is his job now - reading other people's e-mail. When he applied to be "internet security officer," he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers - not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.

When Lincoln comes across Beth's and Jennifer's messages, he knows he should turn them in. But he can't help being entertained - and captivated - by their stories. By the time Lincoln realizes he's falling for Beth, it's way too late to introduce himself. What would he say...?

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding unnecessary human contact, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.

But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen, the three rescue one another from the lives of isolation that they had been living. Ultimately, it is Raymond’s big heart that will help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. If she does, she'll learn that she, too, is capable of finding friendship - and even love - after all.

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a “wonderful” husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks upon The Wife Project. In the orderly, evidence-based manner with which he approaches all things, Don sets out to find the perfect partner. She will be punctual and logical - most definitely not a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.

Yet Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also beguiling, fiery, intelligent - and on a quest of her own. She is looking for her biological father, a search that a certain DNA expert might be able to help her with. Don's Wife Project takes a back burner to the Father Project and an unlikely relationship blooms, forcing the scientifically minded geneticist to confront the spontaneous whirlwind that is Rosie - and the realization that love is not always what looks good on paper.

This is the first volume in the “Don Tillman” series.

#fiction #humorous fiction #Library Books #Book Recommendations #book recs #reading recommendations #Reading Recs #TBR pile #tbr #to read #Want To Read #Booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog

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gregor-samsung · 2 years

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“ Her mind drifted in and out of this, the early times, eight years ago, of the eventual extended grimness called their marriage. The day’s mail was in her lap. There were matters to attend to and there were events that crowded out such matters but she was looking past the lamp into the wall, where they seemed to be projected, the man and woman, bodies incomplete but bright and real. It was the postcard that snapped her back, on top of the cluster of bills and other mail. She glanced at the message, a standard scrawled greeting, sent by a friend staying in Rome, then looked again at the face of the card. It was a reproduction of the cover of Shelley’s poem in twelve cantos, first edition, called Revolt of Islam. Even in postcard format, it was clear that the cover was beautifully designed, with a large illustrated R that included creatural flourishes, a ram’s head and what may have been a fanciful fish with a tusk and a trunk. Revolt of Islam. The card was from the Keats-Shelley House in Piazza di Spagna and she’d understood in the first taut seconds that the card had been sent a week or two earlier. It was a matter of simple coincidence, or not so simple, that a card might arrive at this particular time bearing the title of that specific book. This was all, a lost moment on the Friday of that lifelong week, three days after the planes. “

Don DeLillo, Falling Man; 1st edition: Charles Scribner's Sons Publisher, 2007.

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 7 months

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"B. C. CASUALTIES COME HOME ABOARD HOSPITAL SHIP," Vancouver Sun. October 19, 1943. Page 1. --- These British Columbia fighting men are pictured at the rail of the hospital ship, Lady Nelson, which brought them to Canada from overseas. From the left are: Andrew Podovsky, 4262 Triumph; Ken Vertigan, 1534 Comox; Harry Trehearne, Princeton; J. Slater, Vancouver; James Kennedy, Golden; G. Bradbury, Port Coquitlam; Pat Scribner, Vancouver; Bob Gibbons, 4120 Main; James Wilkinson, 1810 Burrard; Jack Neville, Victoria; Don Nordquest, Salmon Arm; Murdock Malloy, 144 West Hastings; Thomas Burke, 3450 West Sixth.

#canada during world war 2 #vancouver #coquitlam #returned soldiers #convalescent soldiers #hospital ship #canadian army

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travsd · 10 months

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Dope on Don Marquis

Born of a July 29, midwestern humorist, poet, novelist, playwright and newspaperman Don Marquis (1878-1937). Hailing from Walnut, Illinois (two hours west of Chicago), Marquis’s career included stints at the Atlanta Journal, The New York Evening Sun, and The New York Tribune, with later contributions to Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Harper’s, Scribner’s, and Cosmopolitan. He wrote columns…

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#archy and mehitabel #author #Broadway #Don Marquis #humorist #movie #Old Soak #Shinbone Alley #writer

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ashtrayfloors · 10 months

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The first time Abby told me that she loved me, we were sitting on a big, flat, shoreline rock on Northwestern's Lake Michigan landfill. The sun was going down and the lake was flat and purplish. From a distance we must have appeared quite the picture of tranquility on that breezy, late-summer day—her young, willowly frame stretched out luxuriously between my splayed legs. She rested the back of her brown-bobbed head against my chest while I leaned back on my palms supporting both our weights. We'd been sitting there like that for quite some time, though, and my aching wrists were secretly turning to Jell-O.

—Don De Grazia, from American Skin (Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2000)

#quotations #typography #american skin #don de grazia #currently rereading #evanston #oh the lakefill #oh this book

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polecat-prod · 2 years

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Don Scribner "What Might Have Been" Lyric Video from PoleCat Prod on Vimeo.

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fitsofgloom · 4 years

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In touch with the ground

I'm on the hunt, I'm after you!

#slave girls from beyond infinity #elizabeth kaitan #cindy beal #brinke stevens #don scribner #80s babes #80s sci fi #cheesecake

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mariocki · 3 years

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Moon in Scorpio (1987)

"Don't you feel it, Linda? The vibes on this boat are terrible. My dreams were worse than ever last night. I can feel evil - it's inside me, it's inside all of us. They look up at this boat and they see a coffin; they look at that sail like a shroud!"

#moon in scorpio #slasher film #knife tw #american cinema #gary graver #Robert Aiken #britt ekland #john phillip law #william smith #Lewis Van Bergen #April Wayne #Robert Quarry #Jillian Kesner #Bruno Marcotulli #Ken Smolka #Thomas Bloom #James Booth #Donna Kei Benz #Don Scribner #fred olen ray #Ooof what a mess. There isn't a huge amount of info out there about what exactly went wrong with this film and some of it is conflicting #But for certain there were BTS shenanigans. As far as I can tell this was written as a supernatural revenge thriller with Vietnam war links #Then someone tore that up and rewrote it as a straight slasher set at sea. Then it got filmed and taken off the director to be recut and #Have new inserts. So the result is a pretty incoherent mess: the Vietnam vets are here but that plot point gets dropped entirely half way #Through. There are hints of a supernatural menace but then that too goes nowhere. Instead we get a ropey slasher with some painfuly stilted #Exposition scenes spliced in to make the whole thing a flashback (and in the process revealing who lives and who dies in the opening few #Minutes). A mess. Plus the disc contains the trailer which reveals footage and evidence of alternate scenes and completely different #Stagings for at least one of the kills. Which only raises more questions! My god what happened here. And there was i thinking the quality #Of the cast on this one meant it was probably going to be a premium horror; nope this is bargain basement offal. Still it looks good #And my mans JPL is watchable in any old tosh (handy considering most of his filmography was any old tosh)

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badmovieihave · 4 years

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Bad movie I have The Cooler 2003

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film-book · 4 years

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PROXIMITY (2020) Movie Trailer: NASA JPL Scientist Ryan Masson Struggles to Prove His Alien Abduction to the World http://filmbk.me/RTfLfL

#Movie Trailer #Christian Prentice #Christopher Murray #Darin Cooper #Don Scribner

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ramascreen · 7 years

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Here’s Creepy NEW Trailer for THE DOLL Happy #Halloween! Gravitas Ventures has unleashed this NEW trailer for #TheDollMovie This is not your mothers doll.

#Anthony Del Negro #Christopher Lenk #Don Scribner #Isabella Racco #Mindy Robinson #Ron Jeremy #The Doll #Valeria Lukyanova

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dailylooneys · 6 years

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The Bob Clampett unit (and a couple of interlopers) at the Schlesinger cartoon studio, in a photo probably taken in 1942. Phil Monroe is at top left; the others standing are, from left, Melvin "Tubby" Millar, Frank Powers, Virgil Ross, Tom McKimson, Warren Foster, Bill Melendez, Bob Clampett, unidentified, Lou Lilly, Warren Batchelder, Michael Sasanoff (leaning forward), Bob North, and I. Ellis. Kneeling, from left: Harry Barton, Don Christensen, Cornett Wood, Rod Scribner, Earl Klein, and Bob McKimson. As to why Millar and Christensen were in the photo, since they were not in Clampett's unit at the time, Clampett said the photo was not strictly a unit photo; to quote my paraphrase of what he told me in a 1979 phone conversation, "It was a case of guys coming back from lunch and someone saying, 'C'mon, get in the photo.' " Photo courtesy of Bob Clampett.

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art-ofprydain · 6 years

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transcript excerpt from the audio commentary of Don Hann's documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty:

Don Hann: Now let's hear from George Scribner, Who went on to direct Oliver & Company,

here he talks about working at the studio during The Black Cauldron.

George Scribner: There was this level of dissension and the movie that they were working on this was The Black Cauldron was not universally liked.

You go to screenings and you would be watching sequences that had very little character development. Or no one was compelling, there was no one of interest. Yet there was-- These sequences and these beats and these acts were celebrated by the directors and the producers above you.

You're at them, going, are we looking at the same movie? What are you trying to accomplish? Where's the charm? Where's the heart? Where are all the things that made Dumbo? Which, in my opinion, is one of the greatest movies ever made.

It's the simplest storyline with this enormous sense of affection and emotion. And it's this gorgeous little film. I'm like, do you guys know your legacy?

Do you know the precedents that have established that you can look back to? What are you tryin to do?

It became clear, apparently, that I suppose most of these directors were looking at "Raiders" and some of the work that Lucas and Spielberg were doing

And how can we make movies like them? Well no, the object is to make movie that are dear to your heart, that spring within you.

It was a crazy period

#behind the scenes of the black cauldron #disney #the black cauldron #prydain on film #george scribner #waking sleeping beauty #don hann #this

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