Lets jump ahead to the 1959 version of Walt Disney Productions annual report. Just because a character didnt make his screen debut by the late 1940s doesnt mean the character didnt exist in the RR world it would be about 15 years before those penguin waiters would get their chance in Mary Poppins. Buzzy The Crow TOM AND JERRY. Theres a famous story about the origin of the Matterhorn-at-Disneyland project. Whereas the short story that Hughes wrote (i.e., Vacation 58) follows an unnamed family to a different theme park. Because the storyboard artists took what Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman had originally written for this part of their Roger Rabbit screenplay and really expanded on the concept of animated-characters-attend-a-human-funeral idea. Cuphead and Mugman How Come Their Cameos Got Deleted ? And why is that?, you ask. 5. Meanwhile, Goofy makes a joke about how tough it is to be a pallbearer. 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Any scene thats supposed to be inside of the actual Walley World theme park was shot at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Among them the TWA Moonliner, the Submarine Voyage, the Painted Desert from Frontierland (this is the area Guests traveled through when they experienced Disneylands Mine Train thru Natures Wonderland attraction), Tom Sawyer Island, the Fort in Frontierland, not to mention Skull Rock as well as Monstro the Whale from Disneylands Fantasyland. Given that Bob Iger (at Disneys quarterly earnings call held earlier this week) revealed that the Company now has sequels in the works for Frozen, Toy Story, and Zootopia Well, is it really all that far-fetched to think that at some point further on down the road Disney & Pixar will put yet another sequel to Cars in the works? And in this case, the thinking was Walt really liked those live-action movies that Ken Annakin directed for the Studio. John Mills (the male lead of Disneys Swiss Family Robinson film) was on hand for the dedication of this Adventureland attraction. 3. Continue reading Storyboard Drawings 11 - Escaping from Toontown Hans Bacher April 3, 2019 Enter Amblin Hans Bacher (and Harald Siepermann) had a very different take to the escape from Toontown. This whole scene is being shown from the point of view of Valiant who is in the distance leaning against a palm tree. No. Comment * document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a4b476bf6ec9913e8eb0df1ca3539285" );document.getElementById("i81fec714c").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Jim Korkis is an internationally respected animation historian who in recent years has devoted his attention to the many worlds of Disney. 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Baby Huey Which reminds me of something Walt once said when an Imagineer suggested that the Company could save a few bucks by cutting corners on a particular project: If people ever stop coming to the Park because they think we cut corners on a project, the few cents we saved ultimately arent going to matter. Beyond Dicks address at WDI, Walt reportedly only wrote two words on this postcard. Simba, Timon & Pumbaa Marvin began his career at his father's clothing manufacturing company, P. Segal and then moved to a position at the Canadian Federal Government where he worked . George of the Jungle and Shep Many sequences were storyboarded and some even animated for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) but were then left out of the final feature film for a variety of reasons including cost and time issues, pacing and the fact that while they might have been clever or fun but were not really necessary to tell the story. ! and running off in terror, knocking down chairs, wreaths, loudspeakers and trampling Maroon, who has now recovered and is standing up, in the process. Arf Arf Arf. Under which flowed the water that traveled from the Jungle River Cruise into the Rivers of America). They like all of the short-term money that Lightning Lane is pulling in right now and are deliberately overlooking all of the long-term implications of the narrative getting out there that going to WDW is getting too expensive. During this chaos, a convertible pulls up near Valiant. HECKLE AND JECKLE. 1959 was Disneylands greatest year attendance-wise. I wonder..who could doPopeyesvoice for that sceneMr.Marvin Acmes(Stubbys)funeral scene..that was cut from the film? It's 1947 Hollywood and Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a down-on-his-luck detective is hired to find proof that Marvin Acme, gag factory mogul and owner of Toontown, is playing hanky-panky with. The other three were adults. Nearby, Marvin Acne's funeral is inprogress. So thats what the Imagineers did. 4. But only this week, Ive learned that the original storyboards for this cut sequence are floating around out there. 7. Well, Nancys still battling whatever this crud is. Deputy Dawg Featuring Popeye, Elmer Fudd, Felix the Cat, and more. Maybe we should look at those. Reduced operating hours helped to control operating costs in the face of increased wage rates and other rising costs. de la Fort, Outremont. Marvin Acme (played by the adorable, irrepressible and talented Stubby Kaye) is the head of the Acme Corporation and owner of Toontown. The Marvin Acme funeral scene was deleted, but it would have been fun to see. In the back seat is a live-action look-alike of actor Clark Gable sitting next to Mickey Mouse. 13. He struggles under the weight of the thing and eventually just tosses it into Marvins open grave. But as they say If you dont have your health, you dont have anything. And toward the end of last week, Nancy & I were both seriously over-drawn at the health bank. The ceremony is already in progress. Next come (again L to R) Junior & George, one of Tex Averys hound dogs, Practical Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Fifer Pig & Fiddler Pig. They are all dressed in golf attire and there are bags of golf clubs in the back. Perhaps one of the saddest casualties was the funeral of Marvin Acme. 7 slot in the Top-Ten-for-ticket-sales that year). In that document (which was also published on December 23rd of that year) states that: Again this year, as in each year since Disneyland Park first opened in 1955, new records were set for total attendance and per capita spending of park visitors.The change to a five-day operating week during the 1958 1959 winter season from the seven-day schedule in effect the previous year has worked out very well. Its worth noting here that the Disneyland Hotel (with Walts permission, by the way) on those days when Disneyland was closed would offer its Guests the opportunity to visit Knotts Berry Farm as well as Universal Studios Hollywood. So be bought a postcard of the actual Matterhorn and then mailed it to Dick Irvine (who at that time was the Companys lead Imagineer). Really stilted. From that point on, there are several different variations of what happens to Acmes coffin so that there were multiple options depending upon what character rights could be obtained. Paul Bearins shore hard work, aint it? So below youll see (going L to R) Catnip the Cat, Tom, Jerry & Andy Panda. The short answer was that Valiant had to wash off a toon pig head that the weasels had painted on him (in a scene animated but cut from the film) after a confrontation with Doom in Jessicas dressing room and that earlier Valiant had put in a very busy and sweaty day including attending the funeral of Marvin Acme. This resulted in lower net profits compared to the prior year. Shnookums & Meat Just last year, I attended this amazing panel at Comic-Con where animation veterans like Don Hahn, Dave Bossert, Nik Ranieri, James Baxter, Tom Sito & Andreas Deja talked about all the mistakes that were made over the course of production of this motion picture. 16. Lil Abner and Daisy Mae ( Screen Gems ) You can see Disney proudly showing off the elaborate water wheel system at the heart of this Adventureland attraction, which send 200 gallons of water high up into that faux tree. Its now the Spring of 1961 and attendance at Disneyland Park has actually fallen off from the previous year by 200,000 people. As you can see below, Bluto, Elmer Fudd, Herman the Mouse, Felix the Cat, Goofy . The Rivers of America were now going to be dry for months at a time from January of 1962 through June of that same year, this is when the Imagineers decided to tackle two projects that were well below Disneylands waterline which was digging out the basement space in New Orleans Square (which was originally supposed to house the walk-thru tour version of Pirates of the Caribbean) as well as carving out that below-grade space over at the Haunted Mansion. Not to mention adding all sort of restaurants & shops to the area surrounding that hotels Olympic-sized pool. These preproduction paintings suggest that this Cars spin-off would be far grittier than Say the sort of adventures that Lightning McQueen & Mater would typically have out in Radiator Springs. Nearby, Marvin Acne's funeral is inprogress. Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse (both in the unproduced scene of Marvin Acme's funeral), and Tyke* from Tom and Jerry; Junior (in the unproduced scene of Marvin Acme's funeral) Red Hot Riding Hood and The Wolf from Red Hot Riding Hood (in the unproduced scene of Marvin Acme's funeral) (You can read all about this in Walt Disney Productions annual report for 1961. Out of every four Guests who came through the turnstile / surrounded that 35 cent C ticket, only one was a kid under 10. Sorry I declined to participate in this post, just too much work for nothing, I guess. Hole No. Going clockwise from the middle, we have Bluto, Elmer Fudd, Herman the Mouse, Felix the Cat, Goofy and Popeye the Sailor. So the Ken Annakin corona effect lives on at Disney. And let me tell you, folks: The more I look at these images, I honestly wish that Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, Richard Williams & Dale Baer could have found a way to make the Marvin-Acmes-funeral scene happen. Okay. Tom Terrific Back then, this Adventureland attraction was a C Ticket (35 cents apiece). Little Audrey Which Im told resulted in all sort of angry people at the entrance of Disneylands parking lot. Let me share something that I just found in the 1958 edition of Walt Disney Productions annual report. Storyboards reveal what Marvin Acme's funeral in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" would have looked like. When it reaches the bottom, there is a boing sound and the harlequin clown mascot from the Harvey cartoons introductions pops out. Jim Hill Turns Lady & the Tramp Inside Out for D23 Fanniversary, Video: Disneys Million Dollar Arm Could have a Billion New Fans. Despite being cut from the final film, Joe Alaskey is still credited as voicing him in the end credits. Funeral service from Paperman & Sons, 3888 Jean Talon Ouest, on Monday, February 13 at 10:00 a.m. Burial at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, 1250 ch. Disney Corporate knows about this (hence the number of times questions about this perception has bubbled up in recent surveys that Resort has sent out). - And R. K. Maroon. Which is why even after Disneyland Park switched to a 5-day-a-week operating schedule during the off-season Disneyland Hotel launched into an aggressive expansion plan. All of them would've appeared in a sequence set at Marvin Acme's funeral, but it was cut due to pacing concerns. The final version and the one that is most often referenced seems to be that as the coffin touches the bottom of the grave, Casper the Friendly Ghost rises up and asks, Will you be my friend?. It was No. 10. Interesting side note: Its now an established part of the on-going Disney theme park narrative that Going to the Parks has just gotten to be too expensive and/or complicated, what with the institution of Lightning Lane and then forcing people to use virtual queues if they want to experience newer attractions at the Parks like Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at Epcot or Mickey & Minnies Runaway Railway out in Anaheim. Close. Bonkers D. Bobcat Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. It would have been a great scene. What happened to the Disneyland Hotel in late 1958 / early 1959 when in the off-season Disneyland Park goes to just a five-day-a-week operating schedule? Dont these storyboard drawings just make you wish that Marvin Acmes funeral had actually made it into the finished version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? Psycho had wild, spiky fur, and wore a loosened straightjacket. Winnie the Pooh ( Disney ) He had a high, lilting voice, and giggled a lot. Case in point: The Swiss Family Treehouse, which first opened at Disneyland Park back in November of 1962. 2. Tito and Burrito With a loose retheming that then allows this Disneyland attraction to become home to characters from Disneys Swiss Family Robinson, Tarzan, and Encanto.. Sadly, the Imagineers werent able to base any other theme park attractions on Ken Annakin movies. Back when the Mouse didnt have to have ALL of the money when it came to the Southern California tourism market. We see Eddie arrive at the graveyard at Inglewood. Tel: 1-606-758-9600. THE ACME FUNERAL SITE - LONG SHOT - DAY. It would have been a fun scene with all those disparate Toons but Katzenberg was right that it wasnt necessary to tell the story. As Well as Robby the Seal ( Pingus Friend ) Crying as Acmes coffin gets lowered straight right down into the grave. He promised the Toons that in the event of his death, they will inherit Toontown, as stated in his will. *Sigh* I bet the story artists either bought a bunch of PD tapes, or toured the Paramount studios (and found the hidden Max & Dave Fleischer door. Well, heres hoping that whoever wins this auction is a kind & generous soul. So thats what happened around here last week / earlier this week. Wouldnt That Be A Wonderful Sight ? Which is why Im now trying to get Jim Hill Meida back up to speed. And what does the Company do with this info? Lets look for ways to make the rides there funnier. Only thing missing would have been Private Snafu blowing Taps off-key, then firing a salute (and shooting down a planeful of Gremlins from the Kremlin). But as soon as Casper says Will you be my friend? , in a faithful recreation of that old cartoon cliche, both the toons & the humans at graveside scream A G-G-G-G-G-G-GHOST ! For example, in the scene where sky-diving Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny offer the plummeting Eddie a spare (parachute, he thinks, but of course its a tire), the lawyers for Disney and Warners demanded that not only were Mickey and Bugs to appear on screen for exactly the same length of time, down to the last frame of film, but they were also to have the same number of lines, and even exactly the same number of words, of dialogue. Because the concrete foundation that supported this six ton structure had to go down some 42 feet Well, that totally screwed up the water system that previously connected Disneylands Jungle River Cruise to the Rivers of America. It always seemed odd that Tom and Jerry, the top cartoon stars of the time, werent there, or even Fox and Crow. Which has gotten miserable press since Day One (and is a large part of peoples growing perception that its just gotten too expensive to take their family on vacation to WDW). The famous never filmed Marvin Acme funeral sequence workbook pages from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (Disney/Amblin, 1988) Did you know? Were then going to have to spend dollars to get those people back.. Largely because the amount of money that the Mouse was making off of the sales of Cars -related merchandise was To be blunt here, mind boggling. However, when some of the photography for other composite scenes came back with a scratch on the negative and needed to be re-shot, it would put the production in jeopardy of missing its Christmas deadline. This document (which was published on December 23, 1958) states that: While the gross income of Disneyland was greater this year than in any prior year, the operating expenses for this family fun park were likewise up substantially primarily to two factors. Which after being renamed / rethemed as the Tarzan Treehouse in June of 1999 will revert to being the Adventureland Treehouse later this year. 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