There were occasional celebrity sightings at The Forum. Bob Hoskins was a favourite visitor of the animators. They were also excited whenever Steven Spielberg and Bob Zemeckis dropped by – but they were there… working… so I don’t know whether that counts as a celebrity sighting. Kathleen Kennedy and Frank …
St. Martin’s Gardens is located kitty corner across the intersection of Camden and Pratt streets from The Forum. It was the site of the former Camden Town cemetery. The land was acquired in 1802 for an additional burial ground for St. Martin-in-the-Fields. It was closed for burials in 1856. Many …
In the Pig Head sequence, Eddie Valiant was kidnapped by the Weasels and taken to Toontown, where he was ‘toonarooed’ – painted with a Pig Head. He is tossed out of the Toontown tunnel entrance and runs back to his apartment to shower off the Pig Head with turpentine. Although …
Much of the animation art available in the auction market in the 1980s had been ‘saved’ from garbage cans and dumpsters or ‘walked out the door’ by the artists who created it or studio collectors. In the old days, cels were washed and reused. Animation veterans talk about surfing down …
The plug was pulled on further development work on Roger Rabbit at the Disney studio in 1983. Darrell Van Citters was assigned as director of a Special Projects unit. This unit was set up off the Disney lot on Glen Oaks Blvd. in northern Burbank. They eventually began work on …
