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Rope Drop. It's a Disney Thing.

Disney's Animal Kingdom photos - 2011

From our trip to WDW and DAK in 2011, these are the "best of" pics from that day.

Rediscovering [Walt] Disney: Vintage Advertising: "The Love Bug" (1969)

From Boxoffice Magazine 1/6/69 The Love Bug on IMDb

Rediscovering [Walt] Disney: Disney's new Burbank Studio ready to open (1940).

From Boxoffice Magazine , January 6, 1940. The first article announces the soon to be opened Walt Disney Co. Burbank Studios. In the second, Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is sited as one of the factors in a surge of animated features going into production. Click on the images to enlarge. And in related news...

And I quote... Steven Moffat (Sherlock & Doctor Who)

"They are very clever shows, but they also fetishise cleverness. Cleverness is the superpower. So I get irritated when people say on Twitter: 'It's too complicated. I'm not following it.' Well, you could try putting your phone down and watching it." When Moffat took over from Davies as Doctor Who's head writer, he was in Hollywood, having been contracted to write three Tintin films for Steven Spielberg. He walked out on Spielberg – what a thing to have on his CV! "I felt really guilty. Far from swaggering out of the building saying, 'I don't care about your damn movie', I felt haunted with guilt because I was the villain. I'm glad they used some of my script in the first film. Steven was lovely about it. He could have sued me." Isn't choosing British TV over Hollywood nuts, career-wise? "Not really. I think TV is pushing ahead. It used to be we make TV on video and they remake it on 35mm. We all now work in high-def, we...

Disney's Animal Kingdom photos - 2010 pt.2

On our second trip to WDW and DAK in 2010, I was able to take more photos 'cause Maddy needed less hand-holding. Here are the "best of" pics from that day.

Disney's Animal Kingdom photographs - 2010 pt.1

Here are more DAK photos. These are from January 2010.

Disney's Animal Kingdom photos - 2009

I was looking at Mark Dominy's DAK photos and feeling a little jealous. So here is a re-posting of some of my pics from DAK in 2009.

'Hunger Games' Poster: Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Takes Aim - Hollywood Reporter

'Hunger Games' Poster: Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Takes Aim - Hollywood Reporter

DC Entertainment Unveils New Logo - Hollywood Reporter

DC Entertainment Unveils New Logo - Hollywood Reporter

I guess he told me.

The following was written in response to my critique of ' The Great Mouse Detective .' TonyWDA Jan 16, 2012 08:00 PM So because your three-year old daughter couldn't sit through a film that wasn't in the usual Disney convention -- something you should've looked into BEFORE watching it with her -- you think it's the worst of the animated feature canon? The Great Mouse Detective was a film made to break away from the traditional Disney fairy-tale formula, so don't judge it for something you wish it was as opposed to what it is: A tale of mystery in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes, NOT Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, told through artwork you should've given more credit for. Especially considering many of the people who'd worked on this film had yet to fully master their crafts. Your apathy towards the film's plot and characters is most likely the result of your disdain for the kind of story it's telling in the first place, so don...

The Octonauts - Seaquest DSV for the Disney Junior set

Or maybe Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, or Sealab 2020, or maybe The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteu , or even Stingray with a little bit of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (and a dash of the Thunderbirds) thrown in for good measure. The Octonauts is a Children’s TV Series, produced by Silvergate Media for Cbeebies and animated by Brown Bag Films. The TV series is based on the children’s books written by Vicki Wong and Michael Murphy of Meomi Design Inc. [See more below] This latest offering from Disney Junior, is a fun, flashy, action-adventure pre-school show. The Octonauts are eight explorers who live, work and play aboard their mobile under-sea base the Octopod. Each (very) short episode finds them living their mantra of "Explore, Rescue, Protect." These episodes are tiny science lessons as they introduce the audience to real under-sea creatures and habitats. There's also a catchy wrap-up tune that recaps what they learned about that episodes sea creature, muc...

"Astro Zombies" (1968)

Astro Zombies on IMDb

Rediscovering [Walt] Disney: "Blackbeard's Ghost"

From Boxoffice Magazine, January 1968. Blackbeard's Ghost on IMDb

"The Mini-Skirt Mob" (1968)

The Mini-Skirt Mob on IMDb

"Maryjane" (1968)

Maryjane on IMDb