Animation Anecdotes #371
“According to a report from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, ‘Old Joe’ (the camel representing Camel cigarettes) is as recognizable to six year olds as Mickey Mouse.”
Category Archives: ANIMATION ANECDOTES
Animation Anecdotes #370
Gary K. Wolf told a reporter that he sold the movie rights to Who P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit, the sequel novel to his previous book, to Walt Disney Studios.
Animation Anecdotes #369
In 1991 over 3,000 cels, backgrounds and drawings from Tiny Toons were stolen. “It literally broke my heart because I didn’t want to see them destroyed. I wasn’t trying to steal anything,”
Animation Anecdotes #368
With the popularity of Don Bluth’s Dragon’s Lair videogame, plans were made for a sequel involving time travel and a possible feature length animated film entitled Dragon’s Lair: The Legend.
Animation Anecdotes #367
Space Jam’s producer Ivan Reitman said, “We estimate that we had about 500 animators who worked on the movie. We had a year less than normal for an animated film like this.”
Animation Anecdotes #366
Richard Williams’ The Thief and the Cobbler project went through many different working titles throughout the thrity-one years it was in production.
Animation Anecdotes #365
“Everybody in the world knows Porky has a stutter,” said Ira Zimmerman of the National Stuttering Project in 1991. “But it is inappropriate to depict stuttering in print.”
Disney/MGM’s ‘The Magic of Animation’ Building
“The magic of Disney animation is created here, every day, by a staff of over eighty talents artists and technicians who are producing new featurettes, starring classic Disney characters, for theatrical and cable release.”
Animation Anecdotes #364
There is a poster on the wall, as Roger Rabbit runs through a sawmill, of a buxom, bikini-clad woman straddling an oversize saw — and the words: “Rigid Tools”.
Animation Anecdotes #363
Since Bugs Bunny rose to stardom he has chomped his way through thousands of carrots in 160 films. Consumption of carrots in the United States shot up in the first few years he appeared.
