1-20 of 20
Keywords: Disney
Sort by
Chapter
Published: 22 November 2022
... the demise of the Disney Renaissance. Although this period can be seen as the maturation of the Florida studio in terms of its artistry and production capabilities, rumblings within California’s corporate structure, and Feature Animation itself, began to show cracks in the solid foundation of animation’s...
Chapter
Published: 01 August 2020
...Chapter 18 centers on the 1982 filming of Something Wicked This Way Comes by Disney Studios, and the 1982-1983 reshooting and reediting stages of production. Producer Peter Douglas and his father Kirk Douglas were able to convince Disney to finance the film, with Jack Clayton as director...
Book
Published online: 18 May 2023
Published in print: 22 November 2022
...The Disney Animation Renaissance examines the unique situation of an animation studio, known as Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida (WDFAF), existing within a theme-park attraction, the Magic of Disney Animation. This dual-identity facility debuted in May 1989 at the Disney-MGM Studios...
Book
Published online: 20 May 2021
Published in print: 01 August 2020
... of his life produced the playful fantasies of The Halloween Tree, his award-winning television series The Ray Bradbury Theater, a collaboration with Disney Imagineers on EPCOT’s Spaceship Earth, and significant essays on the common ground between science and religion represented by humanity’s Space Age...
Chapter
Published: 20 June 2023
...The conclusion offers an in-depth examination of the NBA’s COVID-19 “bubble” games that took place at Walt Disney World from July to October 2020. As a made-for-television event in a highly mediatized environment, the bubble offered a culmination of the interrelated forces of the court, the venue...
Chapter
Published: 22 November 2022
...The introduction defines animation as an art form and then discusses the contributions of the Florida studio to Walt Disney Feature Animation. Methodology and sources are explained. This includes the process of collecting oral histories from the artists, crew, and staff of the studio...
Chapter
Published: 22 November 2022
...Chapter 3, concentrating on the period most recognizable as the Disney Renaissance, including the blockbuster years (1991-1994) of Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, targets Aladdin (1992) as its case study and introduces two important concepts: (1) the experiments being conducted throughout...
Chapter
Published: 22 November 2022
...By chapter 5, computer-generated imagery has led to the end of the Disney Renaissance. This chapter heralds the passing of the second golden age, marked by the upheaval of Disney’s executive board, and illustrates the continuing development in technology by examining the Florida studio’s other...
Chapter
Published: 22 November 2022
...The postscript gives some details of what happened with Walt Disney Feature Animation after the close of the Florida studio, including the acquisition of Pixar in 2006. Also, the animation industry in general is showing signs of hand-drawn animation returning to prominence, although artists are now...
Chapter
Published: 01 August 2020
... forward uncollected and even unpublished stories from far earlier in his career to fill out the collection. After surveying the mixed reviews, the chapter goes on to describe his renewed collaboration with Disney Imagineers on the EPCOT Spaceship Earth concept and his participation in the EPCOT Forums...
Chapter
Published: 01 August 2020
... consideration with Disney. A collaboration with NASA artist Robert McCall, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and special effects master Douglas Trumbull centered on an IMAX Corporation film theater project titled The City in the Stars, but Bradbury’s storyboard narrative was never produced. The chapter also describes Ray...
Chapter
Published: 01 August 2020
... Aldo Sessa and the books they worked on, The Ghosts of Forever (1980) and Séances and Ghosts (2000). Bradbury was able to gather enough stories for two collections, Quicker Than the Eye (1996) and Driving Blind (1997), and the following year Stuart Gordon and Roy Disney were able to bring The Wonderful...
Chapter
Published: 01 August 2020
...Chapter 42 begins with an accounting of the pervasive spread of Bradbury stories through many hundreds of textbooks and anthologies. “Nothing has to die,” Walt Disney had once told him, and the memory of those words helped turn Bradbury back to the best of his long-deferred books, Somewhere a Band...
Chapter
Published: 01 March 2020
...Since its first feature, Snow White (1937), Disney musical films have often centered on the coming-of-age experiences of young girls; however, the reliance on fairy tale models has often meant a highly conservative structure in which the girl “is won” rather than “wins.” The modern...
Chapter
Published: 22 November 2022
... of the Florida studio’s existence (1989-1990), when it was initially designated as theme park entertainment. The attraction was presented as a showcase for the public display of Disney’s animation pipeline. Theme Park guests were offered a passive experience as they observed the Disney animators at work...
Chapter
Published: 22 November 2022
...Chapter 2 demonstrates how the Florida studio began operating in much the same way as Walt Disney’s studio during the 1930s and 1940s, primarily utilizing hand-drawn cel animation. This chapter presents a comparative analysis of two films that demonstrate the initial departure from that pipeline...
Chapter
Published: 01 September 2014
...This chapter examines the impact of noir aesthetic in the work of the Walt Disney Studio, which produced some of the most pointedly noir-styled cartoons of the period. The most notable of these cartoons is a series of Donald Duck films: Donald's Crime (1945), Duck Pimples...
Chapter
Published: 01 August 2020
... as described in the previous volume, Ray Bradbury Unbound. As the Apollo program came to an end, Bradbury began work designing the basic ride concept and narrative for what would become Spaceship Earth at Disney World’s EPCOT. Chapter 1 closes with the termination of Apollo, long-term setbacks in Disney’s...
Chapter
Published: 01 August 2020
...Bradbury’s long association with WED (later Walt Disney Imagineers) resulted in the 1982 opening of EPCOT and the Spaceship Earth geodetic sphere that he had worked on for more than a decade. Chapter 17 describes the milestones of Bradbury’s participation in Spaceship Earth’s ride display, themes...
Chapter
Published: 01 August 2020
... remained for a future American mission to attempt. Bradbury participated in the 1992 grand opening of the Euro Disney Resort and Park, where he had served as an occasional advisor to Imagineer executive Tim Delany as it was developed. The final episodes of the six-year Ray Bradbury Theater television...