Animation Artifacts 01 Feb 2006 08:14 am
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Peter Bart’s editorial in Variety re the mergers of Pixar/Disney and WB/UPN is entertaining and worth a look.
- Likewise, Michael Barrier, today, has posted a serious look at the business side of the buyout/merger.
- More of the same: if you haven’t seen this post yet, at O-Meon.com, it’s a report on the work John Lasseter will have in front of him as the Principal Creative Advisor at Disney Imagineering. (Looks like Cars will be the last film Lasseter directs.)
- It shouldn’t be such a surprise that the Golden Globes have announced the creation of a new catergory for the Best Animated Feature. The question, really, is why have they waited so long? Is this part of the outcome of Disney folding Pixar into its web? Another question is why do the SAG Awards feature so many cute clips of actors doing Voice-Overs, when they offer no Voice-Over category awards? Don’t these actors deserve honor too?
- A lot of unsung people make the movies we see and go without enormous accolades. That’s one of the nice things about the Annie Awards. Merits are rewarded.
- To that end, I’ve decided to post the following pages from the Fleischer’s Animated News, their monthly newsletter. It includes a lot of cartoons, poems and miscellaneous information by and about the studio’s talent. (I believe it’s a 1939 issue, but I can’t find a date.) Mariana Johnson was a longtime fixture in NYC animation. She worked in the I&P departments of a number of studios. I met her at the Raggedy Ann studio in 1977. In this piece she and her husband, animator Tom Johnson, are featured in the “Tintypes” column. I thought it worth posting. Tomorrow I’ll add the page about Tom.
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on 01 Feb 2006 at 9:04 am 1.Galen Fott said …
As with the Best Animated Feature Oscar, I think this “honor” is simply a way for mainstream Hollywood to eliminate animated features from competition for Best Picture. “Beauty and the Beast” scared ‘em all!
on 01 Feb 2006 at 9:08 am 2.Michael said …
I have to agree with you. We’ll see, next year, if CARS is in there for Best Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes. I also think there are a lot of other political implications involved in it. Certainly, the overpublicized mergers of Pixar & Disney (actually it wasn’t a merger, but a buyout) have the Golden Globes trying to make the people at Disney happy.