Animation Artifacts 18 Nov 2006 08:58 am
Old Article Day
- I have a couple of articles that were printed in 1973 for the first release of the Disney “Classic”, Robin Hood.
At least, Disney calls it a classic; I’ve always had some trouble staying awake through it. The repetitive use of the xeroxed cycles gets dull, and the story is not developed dramatically enough for my taste. It doesn’t take itself seriously enough. (Disney released a much better non-animated Robin Hood in 1952 starring Richard Todd.)
There are moments of good animation, particularly Ollie Johnston’s dialogue between Sir Hiss & Prince John.
The decline had started on The Jungle Book and The Aristocats, but by and large, to me, this film proved once and for all that Disney was dead. All that was left were glimmers of interesting animation. The Rescuers made a valiant attempt to come back, but The Black Cauldron is unwatchable. (Of course, this is just my opinion.)
The first of the two articles below, is taken from a Local 831′s union paper. It was written by Ken Anderson, which is the prime reason for posting it.
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The pictures in the first article are not the best quality, hence I post this second piece, which even on newsprint, gets the photos to look better.
Obviously both used the Disney marketing package to pull photos for illustration. In this second article, I’ve flopped a couple of pictures. It didn’t matter to the publication that the writing in the photos (on model charts etc.) was illegible.
