The 61st Annual Academy Awards presentation was held on March 29, 1989. The television show was broadcast on ABC. The opening musical number was a notorious send-up on Snow White, featuring Rob Lowe and Eileen Bowman. The next day, Walt Disney Company filed suit against AMPAS for copyright infringement in …
The ‘booby trap’ scene was storyboarded by Joe Ranft and Mark Kausler during their time at Amblin.
The Marvin Acme funeral scene was deleted, but it would have been fun to see. The storyboard drawings are by the Amblin contract artist, Marty Kline.
Hans Bacher (and Harald Siepermann) had a very different take to the escape from Toontown.
Dick Purdum was one of Richard Williams’s students and proteges at Richard Williams Animation. He was at RWA during the time that Williams brought in Art Babbitt, Grim Natwick, and Ken Harris to provide animation training and to work on The Thief and the Cobbler. As with many of the …
Joe Ranft left CalArts after his sophomore year to join Disney in 1980. He worked with Darrell Van Citters on the Fun With Mr. Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Sport Goofy in Soccermania teams. He worked for Amblin on the Toontown portion of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Ranft was a puppeteer on …
https://wp.me/p9TCVh-4m (see post on ‘ACME Warehouse, from April 7, 2018) The map (below) shows the Shepherd’s Bush area of London in 1841, with the London Railway line. In 1898, The Dimco Buildings were constructed in White City, just north of Shepherd’s Bush, as a shed for the Central …
Darrell Van Citters’s father was in the military, so Darrell moved around a lot when he was growing up. He lived in Albuquerque, NM, when he was in high school, and got a job painting cels at a regional commercial studio. He continued on that job during his first year …
Ron Miller died on February 9, 2019. Thereafter, on Facebook and other social media forums, came an outpouring of posts on what a nice and decent person he was. Many of the posts were by people who may have vilified him while he was President and CEO of Walt Disney …
