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“Feature Film” –  The Rocketeer

• Wikipedia

  • Set in 1938 Los Angeles, California, The Rocketeer tells the story of stunt pilot Cliff Secord who stumbles upon a hidden rocket-powered jet pack that he thereafter uses to fly without the need of an aircraft. His heroic deeds soon attract the attention of Howard Hughes and the FBI, who are hunting for the missing jet pack, as well as the Nazi operatives that stole it from Hughes.

• Trivia - IMDB

  • The character of Neville Sinclair was loosely modelled after Errol Flynn, who was suspected of being a Nazi spy.

  • The Gee Bee racer was nicknamed "The Widowmaker" and "The Flying Coffin" because it was incredibly difficult to fly and was prone to crashing. Because of its speed and maneuverability, some pilots still raced it despite the danger.

  • The actual Gee Bee used in filming was only allowed to land a very limited amount of times during its time working on the movie, as landings are extremely hard on the landing gear of this particular plane.

  • During the fight scene on-board the zeppelin, Cliff says to Neville, "Where's your stuntman now Sinclair?", to which Neville replies "I do my own stunts." This line is in reference to Timothy Dalton's time as James Bond, since he is known for being the only Bond actor to perform most of his own stunts.

  • Billy Campbell, who once studied commercial art, made sure to read the Dave Stevens graphic novel, on which this film was based. He got the part after getting a haircut to make himself look identical to the character in the graphic novel.

  • Joe Johnston's work on this film is what led to his hiring as director of Captain America: The First Avenger 

  • Disney had a special mechanism built especially for this film. Called the "Shaky-cam", it was designed to be the exact opposite of the "Steady-cam", that is, to introduce vibrations into the picture. This was used in the scenes filmed inside the Zeppelin to give the impression of the power of the engines. When the movie went to video, the effect didn't transfer too well, and was therefore steadied.

• Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

  • Black Beauty coming to Disney + November 27th

    • Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is rounded up and brought to Birtwick Stables, where she meets spirited teenager Jo Green. Black Beauty and Jo forge a bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges and adventures.

  • New Trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon - Releases March 2021 (Maybe)

• Segment: Miscellaneous “whosits and whatsits galore”

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• Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business” 

• Disney Pilots (Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel)

• 1. Captain Marvel

• 2. Helen Parr

• 3. Luke/Anakin Skywalker

• 4. Della Duck

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Hello and welcome to Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust, a podcast where we chat about all things Disney by reviewing films, testing our trivia skills, discussing the latest news, and ending every episode with a top 4 ranking.

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• “Feature Film” –  Ratatouille - Pixar

  • A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely, and certainly unwanted, visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.

  • Trivia

    • Pet rats were kept at the studio in the hallway for more than a year so that the animators could study the movement of their fur, noses, ears, paws, and tails.

    • To find out how to animate the scene where the Head Chef is wet, they actually dressed someone in a chef suit, and put him in a swimming pool to see which parts of the suit stuck to his body, and which parts you could see through.

    • (At around sixteen minutes) When Remy (Patton Oswalt) is climbing out of the sewers for the first time, he is barked at by a dog in one of the houses. You only see the dog's silhouette, but it is actually the dog Dug from Pixar's then still-in-production movie Up (2009).

    • Marketing tie-ins proved to be problematic for this movie as no food product company wanted to be associated with a rat.

    • In France, where this movie is set, the movie broke the record for the biggest debut for an animated movie.

    • PIXAR TRADEMARK: (At around one hour and fourteen minutes) Nearly every Pixar movie shows the Pizza Planet truck from the Toy Story franchise. The truck appears on the bridge over the Seine, in the scene where Skinner (Sir Ian Holm) chases Remy (Patton Oswalt).

    • The ratatouille dish prepared by Remy is the alternate variation called confit byaldi. It was adapted by film consultant Thomas Keller. This variation differs much from the conventional ratatouille in terms of preparation and method. The major difference is that the vegetables used are sliced thinly and baked instead of cooking them in the pot.

    • Chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain's favorite food-centric movie. Bourdain said, "They got the food, the reactions to food, and tiny details to food really right, down to the barely noticeable pink burns on one of the character's forearms. I really thought it captured a passionate love of food in a way that very few other films have."

    • Walt Disney Pictures was reluctant to push this movie as a nominee for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, fearing that members might overlook it in the Best Animated Feature category where it was deemed to be a lock. Instead, they concentrated their efforts on making sure it won in the animated category.

• Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

  • Promo for Raya and the Last Dragon

  • Alan Menken reaches EGOT status

  • Madalorian Gets 15 Emmy Nominations

  • New Black Beauty movie Coming to Disney +

• Segment: Miscellaneous “whosits and whatsits galore”

  • Facebook Comments “What have you watched on Disney plus”

    • Cole - Up Up and Away

    • Laura - Hamilton

• Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business” 

• Animated foods we would like to eat

• 1. Tony’s Spaghetti and Meatballs

• 2. Tiana’s Beignets

• 3. Kronk’s Spinach Puffs

• 4. The Bread Loaf in Ratatouille

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Tease Next Episode Feature Film: The Mighty Ducks

Top 4: TBD

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• “Feature Film” – The Muppet Movie: The original muppet movie from 1979 is the story of how the Muppets first got together and made it big. We follow Kermit from his humble swamp-singing origins as he follows his newfound dream to become a rich and famous performer and make people happy. Along the way, he meets Fozzie, Gonzo, Miss Piggy and the whole muppet gang, all the while trying to avoid Doc Hopper, the determined fried frog leg entrepreneur that wants to force Kermit into advertising for him. 

• Trivia

  • This movie is absolutely chock full of cameos: 

    • Dom DeLuise

    • Richard Pryor

    • James Coburn

    • Madeline Kahn

    • Elliot Gould

    • Paul Williams

    • Milton Berle

    • Bob Hope

    • Edgar Bergen 

    • Carol Kane

    • Telly Savalas

    • Steve Martin

    • Cloris Leachman

    • Mel Brooks

    • Orson Welles

  •  A lot of puppetry innovations were incorporated into this movie because of the resources available with the budget they were given - Kermit riding a bicycle, sitting and playing the banjo, fozzie driving the car - all deceptively simple. 

  • The convincing look of Fozzie driving the car full of muppets was pulled off by having puppeteers lying on the floor of the vehicle while a little person in the trunk controlled the car via remote control and a video monitor.

  • Animal crashing through the roof after eating Dr. Honeydew’s Insta Grow pills was NOT a scale model, and they had to build a 60-ft Animal head to achieve the right look

  • A cut subplot followed Statler and Waldorf throughout the movie, heckling the other characters

  • I hope that something better comes along was a rare appearance of Rowlf alongside Kermit 

  • More than 250 Muppets appeared in the final reprise of Rainbow Connection

• Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

  • Muppets Now is set premiere to on July 31 - it is described as an improvised sitcom featuring three segments: a game show, a cooking show, and a talk show

  • Disneyworld is all set to reopen this week - July 11 for Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom, July 15 for Epcot and Hollywood studios

  • Hamilton is out - Caused a 74% increase in Disney+ app downloads. go watch it. Go watch it now. 

• Segment: Miscellaneous “whosits and whatsits galore”

  • Trivia !

• Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business” 

• 1. Miss Piggy

• 2. Animal

• 3. Gonzo

• 4. Sweetums

Tease Next Episode Feature Film: Ratatouille 

Top 4: Disney Animation and Pixar Foods we want to eat

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• “Feature Film” – Treasure Planet

  • The legendary "loot of a thousand worlds" inspires an intergalactic treasure hunt when 15-year-old Jim Hawkins stumbles upon a map to the greatest pirate trove in the universe, "Treasure Planet." Based on one of the greatest adventure stories ever told - Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" - this film follows Jim's fantastic journey across a parallel universe as a cabin boy aboard a glittering space galleon. 

• Trivia

  • The name of the ship, "R.L.S. Legacy", is a reference to the book's ("Treasure Island") author, Robert Louis Stevenson.

  • B.E.N. sings a few bars from "Pirates of the Carribean", a pirate-themed attraction at the Disney's Magic Kingdom.

  • As of 2011, this was Disney's biggest financial loss. Total cost: $180 million (including $40 million for advertising). Total worldwide gross: $101 million. Total loss: $79 million.

  • This movie was pitched to Disney by John Musker and Ron Clements several times: (1) In 1985, during production on The Black Cauldron (1985), but they ended up assigned to direct The Great Mouse Detective (1986). (2) After directing The Little Mermaid (1989), but they ended up assigned to direct Aladdin (1992). (3) After directing Aladdin (1992), but the studio wanted them to direct Hercules (1997). Musker and Clements agreed to direct that movie only if they were allowed to make this movie right after it.

  • The animators visited a Benihana restaurant to take notes for the scene where John Silver chops shrimp.

  • Amelia, in the original design, was going to have tentacles for hair that would move and hold objects.

  • Jim's clothes become lighter as this movie progresses, symbolizing his transformation from "bad boy" to "hero". Near the beginning, he wears a black t-shirt. During his adventure towards and on Treasure Planet, he wears a tan shirt. In the final scene, he wears a white military uniform.

  • A planned sequel was cancelled due to this movie's failure at the box office, and when John Lasseter was appointed CEO of Walt Disney Animation Studios, his first task was to cancel all sequels and television shows. In the proposed treatment, Jim Hawkins and Kate, his love interest and classmate at the Royal Interstellar Academy, must team with Long John Silver to stop the villainous Ironbeard from freeing the inmates of Botany Bay Prison Asteroid. Willem Dafoe was set to voice Ironbeard.

  • To enhance his "bad boy" reputation, the producers added a dark "mask" over Jim's eyes and gave him a black jacket, which he wears in most scenes for the first half of this movie. However, in the second half, he is no longer seen wearing the jacket and by the final scene, the "mask' is gone.

  • On the planet in B.E.N.'s cave, Dr. Doppler says the phrase "Dangit Jim, I'm not a doctor. I mean I am, but it's a doctorate, it's not the same thing." This is a reference to Star Trek (1966), where Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy, always said "Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a ____!" to Captain James T. Kirk.

• Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

  • Splash Mountain is getting rebranded for Princess and the Frog

  • Delayed Disneyland Opening - But other places are still opening

• Segment: Miscellaneous “whosits and whatsits galore”

  • Trivia !

• Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business” 

• 1. Guy Like You

• 2. Les Poissons

• 3. One Last Hope

• 4. Trashing the Camp

Tease Next Episode Feature Film: The Muppet Movie

Top 4: TBD - Something Muppets

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• “Feature Film” – Tangled

  • The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.

  • Trivia

    • Disney's previous animated feature The Princess and the Frog (2009), despite being popular with critics and audiences alike, was a box office disappointment. Disney felt that the film's princess theme discouraged young boys from seeing it. In an attempt to market the film to a broader audience, Disney changed the title of the film from Rapunzel to Tangled, and promoted it as a comedic adventure. An early trailer for the film focused less on Princess Rapunzel and more on Flynn Rider, the male lead character. It was originally believed that Disney's marketing campaign was a desperate attempt to search for a particular audience. However, directors Byron Howard and Nathan Greno claimed that the title change was to emphasize that Flynn has as much of a role in the film as Rapunzel.

    • The most expensive Disney film in the animated canon, at US$260 million.

    • This is the first animated Disney "princess" film to get a PG rating by the MPAA. The previous Disney princess films up to that point were all rated G.

    • The character design of Flynn came from the process called the "hot man meeting" by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, during which they set up a meeting with all of the female employees of the studio in one room and asked them for their opinions of what made a man good-looking, in order to create Flynn's character design with features such as eye color, hair color and style and body type. Video footage showed concept art and photos of various male celebrities, including Johnny Depp, Hugh Jackman, Brad Pitt, David Beckham and Gene Kelly, on the walls of the room.

    • For the scene in which Rapunzel enters the marketplace, the animators were inspired by entrances of Walt Disney World and Disney Land. Rapunzel's excitement towards all the music and people is reminiscent of children at the parks.

    • Zachary Levi auditioned for the part of Flynn Rider and got it, with an English accent. Later, this was dropped and Levi read the role in his own American accent instead.

    • Over 45,000 lanterns are used during the "I See the Light" sequence.

    • Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel both auditioned for the role of Rapunzel. Three years later, they both starred together in Frozen (2013) as Anna and Elsa.

    • Pinocchio can be found in the Snuggly Duckling, right after the cupid is swung to the right of the screen. He is in the top right corner in the rafters. In addition, Pumbaa from The Lion King (1994) (visible in the same scene) and Louis from The Princess and the Frog (2009) (one of the puppets used later in the song) can also be found. It can be inferred that they are all involved in this scene due to them all having dreams (Pinocchio: real boy, Pumbaa: accepted despite bad gas, Louis: jazz musician).

• Segment: Miscellaneous “whosits and whatsits galore”

  • Trivia !

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Top 4: TBD

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• “Feature Film” – Stargirl

  • After the death of his father, Leo moves to Mica, Arizona and initially stands out by wearing his father’s porcupine tie everywhere - until it is cut up by bullies. After that, even though Leo makes the decision to fit in, every year on his birthday he is anonymously gifted a porcupine tie. Years later, the school is buzzing about the new student when Stargirl Caraway makes her appearance at the high school. She is quirky and unique and makes a huge splash at the unremarkable school that has never won an award. Stargirl manages to raise school spirit and is considered their “lucky charm” as the football team actually begins to win games and she and Leo begin a relationship. Eventually, though, Stargirl’s unusual behavior begins to lose favor with the students and everything comes to a head as, instead of cheering the school to victory, Stargirl accompanies the injured star player of the opposing team to the hospital. Without their “lucky charm”, the team loses and everyone blames Stargirl. With pressure from Leo and her classmates, Stargirl tries to be more “normal” and starts going by Susan, the name she was born with. But during a speech competition, Susan realizes that she needs to be herself - she presents as Stargirl, wins the contest, and breaks up with Leo. Her trophy is the only one in the school’s case. At the school dance, Stargirl gives Leo a “surprise” - she has arranged for Leo to sing onstage the way he used to do with his father. The students pour outside and snow begins to fall. No one sees Stargirl again - her family moves away and leaves behind only rumors that, over the years, progressively become more and more mythic about the magic of Stargirl.

• Trivia

  • Grace VanderWaal won America’s Got Talent at age 12 with her own original songs, and does famously play the ukelele

• Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

  • Disneyworld is planning to reopen on July 11

    • No word yet on Disneyland, but it will be allowed to reopen in California’s Phase 3

• Segment: Miscellaneous “whosits and whatsits galore”

  • Trivia !

• Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business” 

• 1. Boy Meets World

• 2. Galavant

• 3. Kim Possible

• 4. Lizzie McGuire

Tease Next Episode Feature Film: Tangled 

Top 4: None

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• “Feature Film” – Moana

  • Summary- The film tells the story of Moana, the strong-willed daughter of a chief of a Polynesian village, who is chosen by the ocean itself to reunite a mystical relic with the goddess Te Fiti. When a blight strikes her island, Moana sets sail in search of Maui, a legendary demigod, in the hope of returning the relic to Te Fiti and saving her people.

• Trivia

  • The spiral on Moana's necklace and on the sail of her boat is called a koru. It represents the unfurling fern frond, symbolizing new life, new beginnings, personal growth, hope, a new start, perfection, rebirth, awakening, purity, the spirit of rejuvenation and peace. As a double spiral, it also symbolizes kinship and belonging.

  • Dwayne Johnson believes that voice acting is the most difficult career in acting, and is personally annoyed when celebrities are cast in animated films despite voicing their characters badly. When Johnson was cast for the film, he repeatedly asked the other voice actors present if he was really giving a good performance.

  • Lin-Manuel Miranda has said the character of Tamatoa the Giant Crab was a tribute to David Bowie.

  • The tattoos on Moana’s father’s abdomen are the same tattoos worn by, Dwayne Johnson's maternal grandfather.

  • When he first gets his hook and is trying to shapeshift, Maui changes into various animals. For a split second, he turns into Sven the Reindeer from Frozen (2013).

  • The first baby in the Production Babies credit is Sebastian, Lin-Manuel Miranda's son, who was born during the making of this film. He's named for the crab in The Little Mermaid (1989).

  • Alan Tudyk is the only main cast member who isn't of Polynesian descent. All other main cast members are of at least partial Polynesian or New Zealand descent.

  • Lin-Manuel Miranda has said that The Little Mermaid (1989) had inspired him to become a songwriter for films like this. Interestingly enough, both The Little Mermaid (1989) and Moana (2016) were directed by the celebrated duo directing team of John Musker and Ron Clements. ( there is also a Little Mermaid reference at the end of the credits AND Lin named his son, sebastian)

  • The original idea was for the film to branch away from the Disney Princess template and focus entirely on Maui, with the story a loose conglomeration of a few legends about him. The crew traveled to Polynesia, and became so fascinated with the culture that Moana was created as the new focus character.

  • Two scenes reference Pocahontas (1995): Chief Tui echoes a scene in which a fatherly chief acknowledges his daughter by saying "it suits you", this time rather than referring to Pocahontas' necklace, Chief Tui speaks of Moana's role as a leader in the village. Additionally, in Tamatoa's song, "Shiny," he mentions Moana's granny saying "listen to your heart", also from Pocahontas.

• Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

  • Disney announced Frozen would not be returning to Broadway after the reopening.

  • Disney Springs will reopen on May 20, but the rest of the Orlando resort will remain closed.

  • Percy Jackson will be rebooted into a series on Disney +,,,,,,,

• Segment: Miscellaneous “whosits and whatsits galore”

  • Trivia !

• Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business” 

  • 1. Kala

  • 2. Mrs. Jumbo

  • 3. Helen Parr

  • 4. Raksha

Tease Next Episode Feature Film: Star Girl

Top 4: TV Shows

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• “Feature Film” – Oliver and Company

  • Trivia

    • Wikipedia - Oliver & Company is a 1988 American animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released on November 18, 1988, by Walt Disney Pictures. The 27th Disney animated feature film, the film is based on the classic Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, which has been adapted many other times for the screen. In the film, Oliver is a homeless kitten who joins a gang of dogs to survive in the streets. Among other changes, the setting of the film was relocated from 19th century London to modern-day New York City, Fagin's gang is made up of dogs (one of which is Dodger), and Sykes is a loan shark.

    • Following the release of The Black Cauldron, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg held a pitch meeting with the animation staff, in which story artist Pete Young pitched the idea to adapt Oliver Twist with dogs. The pitch was quickly approved, and the film quickly went into production under the working title Oliver and the Dodger. Released on the same day as The Land Before Time, Oliver & Company was a box office success, but it received mixed reviews from film critics. 

    • IMDB: When Oliver wakes up after sleeping on the truck tire, he sees people crossing past the alley where he's slept. One of those people is Roger from One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) (look for the guy with the brown hair, blue shirt, and blue pants).

    • Animators shot photos of New York streets as reference, using cameras set eighteen inches off the ground to get a dog's point of view.

    • One of few animated films to feature a front-and-center shot of New York City's Twin Towers. After the tragedy of 9/11, when shots of the iconic towers were being removed from many films to avoid upsetting people, Disney opted not to attempt to edit out the towers, mostly because it would ruin the film's original main title card and because it would be too time-consuming and costly to do. By 2001, Oliver & Company had already been widely distributed on VHS, so there was no point in editing it. Many New Yorkers later commended Disney not altering the film because they felt it was a good portrayal of the way New York used to be before 9/11, and they wanted it left as it was with the towers visible.

    • The first Disney film to have its own department set up expressly for the purpose of generating computer animation.

    • The last animated Disney Classic to use line overlay, also called cel overlay, a technique used to make the backgrounds match the lines of the xeroxed objects in the film.

    • Dom DeLuise (Fagin) had already had roles in several other animated films by this point, namely those by Don Bluth, but this was the only time he got the chance to voice a character in a Disney film. He loved the role so much, he kept ad-libbing lines that ended up being included in the film. He even chose to be in Oliver & Company (1988) over Bluth's The Land Before Time (1988) which released on the same day.

    • The song "Why Should I Worry?" was later used as the theme song of a Disney TV series starring Joey Lawrence, who voiced Oliver in this film.

    • As of 2017, this is the only film in which Billy Joel has had an acting role (all other credited roles have been as himself or as the lead in his music videos).

• Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

  • Central Florida Theme Park Reopening Guidelines

  • Disney streamed it’s Magic Kingdom Fireworks show “Happily Ever After” last Friday, April 24th.

  • The Rise of Skywalker coming to Disney + May 4th

• Segment: Miscellaneous “whosits and whatsits galore”

  • Trivia!

• Segment: Top 4 Ranking “Let’s get down to business” 

• 1. Roger and Anita

• 2. Madame Adelaide Bonfamille

• 3. Widow Tweed

• 4. Jim Dear and Darling

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