On June 21, 2023, the 35th anniversary of the premiere of Who Framed Roger Rabbit at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, a 35-Year Roger Rabbit crew reunion was held at the Tam O’Shanter in Glendale, CA. The reunion was organized by Don Hahn and Max Howard, …
University Press of Mississippi has decreased the price of the Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat eBook, so it is available at on-line book retailers for a more reasonable price. Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit by Ross Anderson Other formats: Hardcover , Paperback …
I attended CTN animation eXpo and sold a few books, although the primary purpose for attending was to meet people I had only interviewed on the telephone. I had a terrific week. Richard Williams, animation director of Who framed Roger Rabbit, died on August 16, 2019. During the CTN animation eXpo, …
Howard Green, V.P. of Public Relations at Walt Disney Feature Animation, invited me to a lunch at the Disney Studios during the week of the CTN animation eXpo. He made it very special by also inviting some people who had worked on Who framed Roger Rabbit. Included were: Max Howard, Production …
The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) was founded in 1975. It is the largest animation festival in North America. In 2008, OIAF held a special tribute to Richard Williams to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit.” The tribute included an on-stage conversation with John …
It is impossible to discuss Richard Williams without discussing ‘The Thief’, a project that consumed much of his career. ‘The Thief’ had its origins in the mid-1960s when Richard Williams became very interested in Sufism, which is a concept related to an inner mysticalaspect of Islam – although some Sufi …
Richard Williams passed away at his home in Bristol, England, at age 86. He was born on March 19, 1933, in Toronto. In his early teens he traveled to Los Angeles and met the Disney animators. He moved to Europe to study fine art, but eventually moved to London, …
The past six weeks have been a whirlwind of the trip to Annecy and London, then work travel, then some vacation travel, and then retirement. The photo above was taken at an impromptu book signing for family and friends on the dock at a cottage in Ontario. Some public book …
Tom Sito shows that the book on the making of Roger Rabbit actually exists! Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat
Even though one can find ‘six degrees’ of almost anybody from anybody else, there are several connections to classic rock groups amongst the people who worked on Who framed Roger Rabbit that are much closer than ‘six degrees.’ Simon Wells, an animator on Who framed Roger Rabbit in London and …
