Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust

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●     “Feature Film” The Great Mouse Detective

○   Released on July 2nd 1986. Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his arch-enemy, Professor Ratigan.

○   Thoughts and Reactions?

○   Fun Facts

■   The clock tower scene is the first major use of computer animation (the clock's gears) in a feature-length animated film. The same scene was also the first time traditionally-animated characters were put inside a computer-generated background.

■   The "Let Me Be Good To You" segment was almost cut because though brief, the lyrics and some animation was considered "too risque" for a Disney animated family film, the animators avoided a PG rating and got the scene kept in by appealing to the censors on the grounds that the segment was a Cabaret song and harmless in lyrics, and because the character animated singing it was a mouse, not a human and thus not questionable.

■   Basil of Baker Street is named after Basil Rathbone, who played Sherlock Holmes in 14 films. By strange coincidence, Basil was also a name used by a disguised Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of Black Peter."

■   Alan Young had performed a near-perfect Scottish accent as the voice Scrooge McDuck for the 1977 Disneyland Records adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" (which he also developed and wrote). He repeated the role of McDuck in Mickey's Christmas Carol(1983), and was a natural for the Scottish accent of Hiram Flaversham.

■   The first meeting between Basil and Dawson where Basil guesses he came from Afghanistan and gives a complicated explanation how he assume it, mirrors first meeting between Holmes and Watson in Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet" (the first Holmes novel) where Holmes does the same thing.

■   Production took only one year to complete thanks to the use of computers.

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○   April 10th 1992 - Disney's live-action feature film musical Newsies is released in theaters.

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○   Should be getting Star Wars Episode 9 Trailer the day this episode goes up.

○   Dumbo is not doing well at the box office

■   "Oh man, they could teach a film course on why Dumbo didn't work. It was like Tim Burton was going through the emotions. It felt like an expensive, uninspired story told very blandly without Disney or Burton's signature magic," says box office analyst Jeff Bock with Exhibitor Relations. "What a missed opportunity. I doubt we'll see a Burton budget like this again."

○   Avengers: Endgame Ticket Sale Chaos

■   "Endgame" set Fandango's first day pre-sales record overtaking "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." It broke the record in only six hours, the online ticket seller reported on Tuesday evening

○   Cast for the Little Mermaid 30th anniversary Concert announced

●     Segment: weekly top 4 (secret from each other)”Let’s get down to business”

○   Top 4 Disney Duos:

1.   Lilo and Stitch

2.   Judy and Nick

3.   Mike and Sully

4.   Bianca and Bernard

Tease Next Week:  The Black Cauldron  Top 4:  Darkest Disney Moments

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●     “Feature Film” Pollyanna

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○   Dumbo is out.

○   Avengers Posters - meme

●     Segment: weekly top 4 (secret from each other)”Let’s get down to business”

○   Top 4 Disney Mentors:

■   Bagheera

■   Merlin and Archimedes

■   Sebastian

■   Coach Boone and Coach Yoast

Tease Next Week: The Great Mouse Detective   Top 4:  Disney Duos

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●     “Feature Film” The Reluctant Dragon - Info from IMDB

○   Released on June 20th 1941

○   Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.

○   According to supplemental information on the DVD this film was rushed into production to help keep the studio solvent. The start of WW2 closed Europe to American movies and this cut off much needed revenue for Disney. When it was released it did save the studio but it was not well received and was heavily criticized by the public who were expecting a full animated feature.

○    Features How to Ride a Horse (1950), the first of the Goofy "How-to" cartoons. When narrator John McLeish was brought in to record the narration, he was asked to read it in a very straightforward manner, as if for a serious documentary about horse riding. He was shocked when he was told that the narration he recorded would be used in a Goofy cartoon.

○    In the sound effects department the workers are creating sound effects for a piece of film with the train Casey Junior. Casey would pop up in Disney's next film, Dumbo (1941). Likewise in the art department, the animators are making sketches for "Dumbo". Bambi also makes a minor appearance in this film, a year before Bambi (1942) was released.

○    Most of the 'animators' shown in the film were actually actors hired to portray animators. And this film, showing the Disney animation studios as a happy, coherent family, was released at the worst possible moment, when half of the actual animators went out on strike. The strikers frequently picketed theaters showing the film, sometimes holding up a large cardboard sign depicting Walt Disney as a dragon, labeled 'The Reluctant Disney.'

○    Maquettes in the model department include Jiminy Cricket and the drunk cuckoo clock from Pinocchio (1940), characters from Fantasia (1940) including Chernabog, a black centaurette that Robert Benchley takes with him, and the Knight from The Reluctant Dragon (1941).

○    In the "Baby Weems" sequence, Mount Rushmore is seen with only George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The faces were still under construction until October 1941 and this movie was released before it was finished, which is why Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson are missing.

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○   March 20th 2014 – Aladdin the stage musical opens on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre.

○   March 22nd 2018 Frozen The Broadway Musical opens at the St. James Theatre.

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○   Toy Story 4 Trailer Release

○   Thoughts on the 21st Century Fox Purchase

■   Disney has 60% stake in Hulu

○   Captain Marvel News

■   18th highest Opening Weekend film after Rogue One.

■   Number one at the Box office 2 weekends in a row

■   In its opening weekend, Marvel Studios' "Captain Marvel" made $153 million in North America and $455 million worldwide. It's the biggest global debut for a women-fronted film ever and the second-biggest debut for a Super Hero movie, right behind Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Infinity War."

■   6th Worldwide opening weekend after Harry Potter Deathly Hallows pt 2

●     Segment: weekly top 4 (secret from each other)”Let’s get down to business”

○   Top 4 Walt Disney Era Films:

■   101 Dalmatians

■   Mary Poppins

■   Lady and the Tramp

■   Peter Pan

●     Tease Next Week:  Pollyanna   Top 4:  TBD

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●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○   March 13, 2015 : Live Action Cinderella was Released

○   March 14, 1935 : Donald Duck made his first appearance in the Mickey Mouse Daily Comic Strip

○    March 14, 2010: Princess Tiana was Inducted into the Disney Princess Royal Court

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○   58-year-old George Walter Dewayne Grimes, a worker at Disney World EPCOT fell and died.

○   Marvel Studios announced Destin Daniel Cretton will direct “Shang-Chi”  the first Marvel Studios film with an Asian Lead.

○   Official Aladdin Trailer Dropped

●     Segment: weekly top 4 (secret from each other)”Let’s get down to business”

●     Top 4 Disney Girl Power Moments:

○   Mulan - All the moments!!!

○   Frozen - Anna punching Hans

○   Hunchback of Notre Dame - Esmeralda “Justice” moment

○   Atlantis - Helga taking down the hot air balloon and saying “Nothing personal”

●   Next Week: The Reluctant Dragon (Amazon Prime rent) Top 4: Walt Era Films 

●     “Feature Film” Captain Marvel

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Shoutouts to: Tory, Dom, Ray for support and comments and Ashley for sharing some cool art...and potential future cosplay motivation.

●     “Feature Film”

○   Bedknobs and Broomsticks

○   Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 Disney film starring Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson set in WWII England. Charlie, Carrie, and Paul are children displaced from London by German bombings and are put into the reluctant care of Miss Eglantine Price - an apprentice witch learning her craft via a correspondence course.

○      The children find out Miss Price’s secret when they see her flying on a broom and attempt to blackmail her. Miss Price buys their secrecy with a transportation spell that allows their bed to travel anywhere in the world and explains that she is trying to use her powers to end the war. However, in a bit of an ironic twist, it appears as though the war has put a premature end to her course. Still determined to use magic to end the war, Miss Price and the children take the bed to London to find her teacher, Professor Emelius Browne.

         They find Mr. Browne, but it turns out that he is nothing but a street magician turned con-artist who had no idea that his “spells” actually work. When Miss Price asks about the spells, he says he got all of them from a book he found - but he doesn’t have the entire book.

Delighted at the prospect of his spells actually working and the idea of a duo performing act starring himself and Miss Price, Mr. Browne leads the group to the Portobello Road marketplace in hopes of finding the rest of the book - in their search they come across the mysterious criminal the Bookman - who has the other half of the book, which reveals that the spell is written on a medallion on the mystical Island of Naboombu.

Our group takes the bed to Naboombu and meet the King - who is wearing the sought-after medallion and is very upset that they don’t have a referee for their soccer match. Mr. Browne agrees to referee the match and attempts to use the opportunity to get a better look at the medallion.

After a chaotic soccer match, the group manages to retrieve the spell and return to England. The “substitutiary locomotion” spell makes inanimate objects move in a lifelife way, and as the group returns and finds a Nazi invasion in England, Miss Price uses the spell to create an army of inanimate objects and fend off the Nazis.

Afterward, she is pleased with her success, but has decided to give up magic and continue looking after the children. Mr. Browne is inspired to do something more important and joins the army (promising to return to Miss Price after ;) )

○   Fun facts:

○    Weird relationship with Mary Poppins - Bedknobs repeatedly shelved

○    Stage musical -2019???? Rachel Rockwell - director/choreographer. Release date now TBA

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○   March 7, 2010: Disney-Pixar's Up wins Best Animated Feature Film at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.

○   March 9, 2018: 2018: The live-action science fiction film A Wrinkle in Time is released by Walt Disney Pictures.

●     Segment: Misc “Whosits and Whatsits Galore”

○   CAPTAIN MARVEL!!!!

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○    Disney + is in the news - predicted 160 million subsciptions

○   Maleficent: Mistress of Evil announced for October 18, 2019

○   CAPTAIN MARVEL!!!!

●     Segment: weekly top 4 (secret from each other)”Let’s get down to business”

●     Top 4 WORST Disney movies:

○   Hunchback of Notre Dame 2

○   Maleficent

○   The Haunted Mansion

○   Ella Enchanted

 Next Week: Movie: Captain Marvel!!   Top 4: ?

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●     “Feature Film”

○   Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride

○   Lion King 2 tells the story of a Lion Pride divided. Lionesses who followed scar happily in the first movie have been exiled to the Shadow lands and are led by a lioness named Zira. The rest of the lions live at Pride Rock with Simba as their leader. Simba’s daughter Kiara meets Zira’s son, Kovu, who was picked by scar to be his heir. The two try to become friends but are drawn apart by their fighting parents. This gives Zira the idea to train her son to fight so that one day he can go back to pride rock under the guise of wanting to be friends/part of their pride and once he gets their trust he can kill Simba. What Zira didn’t plan on was actual love blossoming between Kiara and Kovu. Who together try to make their broken tribe one again.

○   Fun facts:
Just as the first movie is said to be based upon "Hamlet," the sequel has elements of another Shakespeare play, "Romeo and Juliet."

○    Most of the original cast reprise their roles from the original, with the notable exceptions of Rowan Atkinson, who was replaced by Edward Hibbert as the voice of Zazu. Jeremy Irons was also replaced by Jim Cummings as the voice of Scar in this film, as he originally did for the last few lyrics of the song "Be Prepared."

○    The opening song, "He Lives In You," was also used in the Broadway version of The Lion King.

○    Suzanne Pleshette and Jason Marsden portray mother and son, Zira and Kovu. Three years following this film, the two actors went on to voice characters with a similar relationship in the Oscar-winning Hayao Miyazaki's animated feature, Spirited Away(2001).

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○   A bunch of movies won Oscars

○   Feb 26, 2014: Aladdin Musical Makes its Broadway Debut

●     Segment: Misc “Whosits and Whatsits Galore”

○   Pixar short “Purl”

○   Pixar Short “Kitbull”

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○    Aladdin Trailer - Genie

○   New Captain Marvel Trailers

○   Frozen 2

●     Segment: weekly top 4 (secret from each other)”Let’s get down to business”

●     Top 4 Disney Couples

○   Mr and Mrs Incredible / Bob and Helen Parr

○   Eugene and Rapunzel

○   Carl and Ellie

○   Roger and Anita

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Movie: Bedknobs and broomsticks  Top 4:  Top 4 worst disney movies

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Top 5 Disney Love Songs:

1. Can You Feel the Love Tonight

2. You’ll Be in My Heart

3. Remember Me

4. Something There

5. A Whole New World

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●     “Feature Film”

○   20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

○   In 1866, Professor Pierre M. Aronnax (Paul Lukas) and his assistant Conseil (Peter Lorre), stranded in San Francisco by reports of a giant sea monster attacking ships in the Pacific Ocean, are invited to join an expedition to search for the creature. During the search, they and harpooner Ned Land (Kirk Douglas) are thrown overboard during an attack, eventually discovering that the supposed monster is actually a submarine piloted by the brilliant but haunted Captain Nemo (James Mason).

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○   February 7th 1940 - Disney's animated feature film, Pinocchio premieres at the Central Theatre in New York City.

○   February 8th 1965 - Julie Andrews receives a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy for her role in Disney's Mary Poppins.

●     Segment: Misc “Whosits and Whatsits Galore”

○   Why plastics are an issue - cori

○   Steps Disney is taking to reduce plastic waste

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○   Endgame and Captain Marvel Superbowl Spots

●     Segment: weekly top 4 (secret from each other)”Let’s get down to business”

●     Top 4 Disney Ocean themed films:

■   1) Lilo and Stitch

■   2) The Little Mermaid

■   3) Moana

■   4) Pirates of the Caribbean (Curse of the Black Pearl)

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Movie: Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride   Top 4:  Top 4 Disney Couples

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●     “Feature Film”

○   The Ugly Dachshund

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○   Feb 2, 1945: the Three Caballeros released

○   Feb 4, 1966 - The Ugly Dachshund was released

○   Feb 7, 1940: Pinocchio premieres

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○   2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards:

■   best performance by a cast in a motion picture

■     Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture:

○   Black panther to be re-released Feb 1-7 in honor of black history month

●     Segment: weekly top 4 (secret from each other)”Let’s get down to business”

●     Top 4 Disney Flops:

■   1) Treasure Planet

■   2) Rescuers Down Under

■   3) The Black Cauldron

■   4) Atlantis: The Lost Empire

●     Jim Hawkins Meme

○   https://youtu.be/Dng1ENa0N-8

○   https://youtu.be/J-WHRo_NAEQ

○   https://youtu.be/4miFNHDBCQw

 Tease Next Week:

Movie: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea   Top 4:  Ocean Movies

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Today we are going to be talking about our feature film: 101 Dalmatians , Oscar Nominations, and then we’re going to get down to business and rank our favorite Animated Disney Dogs.

●     “Feature Film”

101 Dalmatians is based on a 1956 book written by Dodie Smith.

Pongo, a well intentioned Dalmatian living in London, finds love for both himself and his “Pet” Roger. Later, when his mate Perdita has puppies Cruella DeVille an old friend of Anita, Roger’s wife, wants to buy them for nefarious reasons. When Anita and Roger refuse she has them stolen by two petty thieves.

Pongo and Perdita go out to find their puppies and through the help of the twilight bark, save 99 puppies including their own children from being turned into coats by Cruella

○   Fun Facts:

■   At the time of its release in January 1961, this was the biggest grossing animated film of all time saving the animation studio after Sleeping Beauty flopped

■    the first Disney feature film to use photocopying technology (Xerography), which made an animated film with this much visual complexity possible. It also set the visual style of Disney animation (a scratchy, hard outline look) for years until the technology advanced enough (with the production of The Rescuers (1977)) to allow a softer look. ( Disney hated the sketchy look)

■   The scene where the puppies suckle from some friendly cows attracted a lot of criticism at the time of release as it was deemed to be inappropriate for a children's film.

■   Disney took many liberties with Dodie’s book but she absolutely loved them and believed Disney had improved upon her story. ( She had secretly wanted Disney to make a movie of her book along and was pleased when Disney snapped up the rights right after it was published)

○   General thoughts and opinions?

●     Segment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”

○   January 29, 1941: Fantasia Premiered

○   Alot of super bowl winners yelled “Im going to Disneyland/world”

●     Segment: News/Announcements  “The Newsies Banner”

○   Black Panther nominated for 7 academy awards ( Best Picture, Costume Design, Original Score, Original Song, Production Design, Sound Editing, and Sound Mixing)

○   Mary Poppins Returns was nominated for 3 ( Costume Design, Original Score, Production Design.)

○   Ralph Breaks the Internet ( best animated feature)

○   Incredibles 2 ( best animated feature)

○    Christopher Robin ( visual effects)

○   Solo ( Visual effects)

○   Avengers Infinity War ( Visual Effects)

○   Bao (best animated short)

●     Segment: weekly top 4 (secret from each other)”Let’s get down to business”

●     Top 4 Disney Animated Dogs

1   Pongo

2  Copper

3    Nana

4   Toby

Tease Next Week:

Movie:  the Ugly Dachshund   Top 4:  Flops