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Wolfgang Reitherman
Wolfgang Reitherman (June 26, 1909 – May 22, 1985), also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a German-American animator, director and producer. As a member of the "Disney's Nine Old Men, Nine Old Men" at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions, Reitherman was known for his action-oriented animation. Born in Munich, Reitherman relocated to the United States with his family. He attended Pasadena City College, Pasadena Junior College and briefly worked as a draftsman for Douglas Aircraft Company. Desiring a career in visual arts, Reitherman studied at the Chouinard Art Institute. On the advice of an art instructor, Reitherman applied as an animator for Walt Disney Productions. Reitherman animated on several ''Silly Symphonies'' cartoon shorts. He next animated the Slave in the Magic Mirror in ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1937), Monstro in ''Pinocchio (1940 film), Pinocchio'' (1940), and the cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is not a state of its own. It ranks as the 11th-largest city in the European Union. The metropolitan area has around 3 million inhabitants, and the broader Munich Metropolitan Region is home to about 6.2 million people. It is the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, third largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. Munich is located on the river Isar north of the Alps. It is the seat of the Upper Bavaria, Upper Bavarian administrative region. With 4,500 people per km2, Munich is Germany's most densely populated municipality. It is also the second-largest city in the Bavarian language, Bavarian dialect area after Vienna. The first record of Munich dates to 1158. The city ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasia (1940 Film)
''Fantasia'' is a 1940 American Animated film, animated Musical film, musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and production supervision by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen. It consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Music critic and composer Deems Taylor acts as the film's Master of Ceremonies who introduces each segment in live action. Disney settled on the film's concept in 1938 as work neared completion on ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'', originally an elaborate ''Silly Symphony'' cartoon designed as a comeback role for Mickey Mouse, who had declined in popularity. As production costs surpassed what the short could earn, Disney decided to include it in a feature-length film of multiple segments set to classical pieces with Stokowski and Taylor as collaborators. The soundtrack was recorded u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Stevens
Arthur Christopher Stevens (May 1, 1915 – May 22, 2007) was an American animator, director and producer for Walt Disney Productions. Career Art Stevens was an animator at Walt Disney Productions during the Golden Age of American Animation. Stevens began his career inbetweening on the 1940 film '' Fantasia''. After doing in-between work on several films, he received his first screen credit in 1953 as a character animator on ''Peter Pan''. During his career, Stevens contributed to the storyboards and animation in many Disney cartoon shorts and feature films including Ward Kimball's critically acclaimed 1950s television documentaries ''Man in Space'', '' Man and the Moon'' and '' Mars and Beyond''. Stevens was also an animator on the Oscar-winning shorts '' Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom'' (1953) and '' It's Tough to Be a Bird'' (1969). In 1977, Stevens co-directed ''The Rescuers''. He then co-produced and co-directed ''The Fox and the Hound'' (1981) and contributed story work du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fox And The Hound
''The Fox and the Hound'' is a 1981 American animated buddy drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and loosely based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Daniel P. Mannix. It tells the story of the unlikely friendship between a red fox named Tod and a hound named Copper, as they struggle against their emerging instincts and the realization that they are meant to be adversaries. The film was directed by Ted Berman, Richard Rich, and Art Stevens. It was produced by Ron Miller, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Art Stevens. The ensemble voice cast consists of Mickey Rooney as Tod and Kurt Russell as Copper, respectively, with Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan, Jeanette Nolan, Pat Buttram, John Fiedler, John McIntire, Dick Bakalyan, Paul Winchell, Keith Mitchell, and Corey Feldman providing the voices of the other characters of the film. Mitchell and Feldman in particular voiced Young Tod and Young Copper. The instrumental musical score to the film was co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Animated Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1931–32, to the present. From 1932 until 1970, the category was known as Short Subjects, Cartoons; and from 1971 to 1973 as Short Subjects, Animated Films. The present title began with the 46th Awards in 1974. During the first 5 decades of the award's existence, awards were presented to the producers of the shorts. Current Academy rules, however, call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film." Moreover, " the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded." Only American films were nominated for the award until the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day
''Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day'' is a 1968 American animated musical fantasy short film based on the third, fifth, ninth, and tenth chapters of ''Winnie-the-Pooh'' and the second, eighth, and ninth chapters from '' The House at Pooh Corner'' by A. A. Milne. The featurette was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, produced by Walt Disney Productions, and released by Buena Vista Distribution Company on December 20, 1968, having been shown in theaters with '' The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit''. This was the second of the studio's '' Winnie the Pooh'' theatrical featurettes. It was later added as a segment to the 1977 film '' The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh''. The music was written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. It was notable for being the last Disney animated short to be produced by Walt Disney, who died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, two years before its release. It starred the voices of Sterling Holloway as Winnie the Pooh, Jon Walmsley as C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree
''Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree'' is a 1966 American animation, animated musical film, musical fantasy film, fantasy short film based on the first two chapters of ''Winnie-the-Pooh (book), Winnie-the-Pooh'' by A. A. Milne. The film was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions, and released by Buena Vista Distribution on February 4, 1966, as a double feature with ''The Ugly Dachshund''. It was the last short film produced by Walt Disney, who died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, ten months after its release. Its songs were written by the Sherman Brothers (Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman) and the score was composed and conducted by Buddy Baker (composer), Buddy Baker. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the first animated featurette in the ''Winnie the Pooh (franchise), Winnie the Pooh'' film series, in which it was later added as a segment to the 1977 film ''The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh''. It had featured the voices of Ster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnie The Pooh (franchise)
''Winnie the Pooh'' is a media franchise produced by The Walt Disney Company, based on A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's stories featuring Winnie-the-Pooh. It started in 1966 with the theatrical release of the short ''Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree''. The tone, action, and plot of the franchise is made much softer and slower than that of any other Disney animated franchise, in order for it to appeal to a more preschool-oriented audience. History In 1930, producer Stephen Slesinger originally acquired sole and exclusive American and Canadian merchandising, television, recording and other trade rights to Pooh from A. A. Milne. Then as early as 1938, Walt Disney expressed interest in obtaining the film rights to the Pooh books by first corresponding with the literary agency Curtis Brown. In June 1961, Disney Productions acquired the film rights from Milne's widow Dorothy, as well as the television and merchandising rights from Slesinger's widow Shirley Slesinger Lasswell. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney ( ; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Golden age of American animation, American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards earned (22) and nominations (59) by an individual. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and have also been named as some of the greatest films ever by the American Film Institute. Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney developed an early interest in drawing. He took art classes as a boy and took a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18. He moved to California in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio (now the Walt Disney Company) with his brother Roy O. Disney, Roy. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jungle Book (1967 Film)
''The Jungle Book'' is a 1967 American animated Musical film, musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. Based very loosely on the "Mowgli" stories from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, 1894 book of the same name, it is the final animated feature film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production. It was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and written by Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson (animator), Ken Anderson, and Vance Gerry. Featuring the voices of Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot (actor), Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, and Sterling Holloway, the film's plot follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, try to convince him to leave the jungle before the ruthless tiger Shere Khan arrives. The early versions of both the screenplay and the soundtrack followed Kipling's work mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sword In The Stone (1963 Film)
''The Sword in the Stone'' is a 1963 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney and released by Buena Vista Distribution. It is based on the novel of the same name by T. H. White, first published in 1938 and then revised and republished in 1958 as the first book of White's Arthurian tetralogy '' The Once and Future King''. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, the film features the voices of Rickie Sorensen, Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews, Sebastian Cabot, Norman Alden, and Martha Wentworth. It was the last animated film from Walt Disney Productions to be released in Walt Disney's lifetime. Disney first acquired the film rights to the novel in 1939, and there were various attempts at developing the film over the next two decades before production on the film officially began. Bill Peet wrote both the story and the screenplay for the film, while the songs were written by the Sherman Brothers. This was the first animated Disney film to feature songs by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Truth About Mother Goose
''The Truth About Mother Goose'' is an animated short film released on August 28, 1957, by Walt Disney Productions. The short was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman in his directorial debut, and Bill Justice, and written by Bill Peet. Plot In this short, a trio of jazz-singing jesters sing three Mother Goose nursery rhymes, while an off screen narrator explains their origins in three animated vignettes. The rhymes include: * " Little Jack Horner": Thomas Horner (steward to Richard Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury), allegedly stealing a title deed in transit to Henry VIII of England. * " Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary": The life of Mary Stuart. The segment claims that the "silver bells" are said to "refer to the elaborate decoration on her dresses", the "cockle shells" to her love of exotic food such as cockles, with the "pretty maids all in a row" referring to her ladies-in-waiting. * "London Bridge Is Falling Down": The gradual deterioration and dilapidation of the medieval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
