Monday, February 13, 2006
Has the Pixar-Disney Merger Made It Safe For Silly Dreamers?
I got an early valentine gift yesterday from Dan Lund and Tony West, an advanced copy of their wonderful DVD Dream On Silly Dreamer. I have long defended this work from those who fear connection and contamination with anything that might make a Hollywood studio unhappy.
This is Hollywood or Burbank and the animation business is small, small, small and we do have to work and live with these people. So I understand why so many people try to distance themselves from anyone telling unpopular trues.
Enough! Give it a break. This is a major work and now that Emeryville and Burbank have married and animators are back in charge of Disney Animation maybe we can put this work in the proper perspective and on your DVD shelf where it belongs. Silly Dream is in the Disney film library now. So I, for one, am going to stop all my butt-covering statements when talking about this film.
This is a great film and you should buy it. I am already showing it to my students, okay upper class students. (maybe not something to show beginning animation students the first week of school) I had a good long talk with Dan the other day. It seems that Disney, the studio, has not really reacted in any way positive or negative to their documentary. But that has not stopped 31 Film Festivals from rejecting or uninviting they film basically out of fear that they will hurt the feelings of a major studio and therefore hurt their own profits.
That being said let`s look at what is on this long awaited disk.
Buy Dream on Silly Dreamer at www.dreamonsillerdreamer.com
or
At www.amazon.com ¶ 8:36 PM
I got an early valentine gift yesterday from Dan Lund and Tony West, an advanced copy of their wonderful DVD Dream On Silly Dreamer. I have long defended this work from those who fear connection and contamination with anything that might make a Hollywood studio unhappy.
This is Hollywood or Burbank and the animation business is small, small, small and we do have to work and live with these people. So I understand why so many people try to distance themselves from anyone telling unpopular trues.
Enough! Give it a break. This is a major work and now that Emeryville and Burbank have married and animators are back in charge of Disney Animation maybe we can put this work in the proper perspective and on your DVD shelf where it belongs. Silly Dream is in the Disney film library now. So I, for one, am going to stop all my butt-covering statements when talking about this film.
This is a great film and you should buy it. I am already showing it to my students, okay upper class students. (maybe not something to show beginning animation students the first week of school) I had a good long talk with Dan the other day. It seems that Disney, the studio, has not really reacted in any way positive or negative to their documentary. But that has not stopped 31 Film Festivals from rejecting or uninviting they film basically out of fear that they will hurt the feelings of a major studio and therefore hurt their own profits.
That being said let`s look at what is on this long awaited disk.
- The Award Winner documentary Dream on Silly Dreamer
- The Alex LA Premiere (yes, the first thing I did was look to see if I was in the footage - I wasn`t)
- Premieres & Festivals Slide Show (I was in the slide show standing next to Roy Disney)
- BBC and other Radio Show interviews
- Extra footage and the full, before edit, interviews
- News Scrapbook
- Department Goodbyes
- Buying Our Desks
- Poster Concept Art
- Early Animation Tests
- Still Art Gallery
- Original Score
- A list of all Film Festivals that rejected or uninvited Dreamer
- Some Hidden Stuff I haven`t Found Yet
- What Joey Midenberger was making in his woodshop
- And what Jacki really said in the Tom Meeting
Buy Dream on Silly Dreamer at www.dreamonsillerdreamer.com
or
At www.amazon.com ¶ 8:36 PM
