kilikili
02-09-2005, 02:11 AM
Former Disney Animator Makes Film About Disney Animation
What they said:
"A one-time employee of the Walt Disney Co.'s animation department has made a film about Disney animation. Called Dream On Silly Dreamer, it is being screened in Minneapolis on Thursday, one day before the company's shareholders gather in that city for their annual meeting.
The film's director, Dan Lund, worked for Disney for 15 years before the company decided to shut down its hand-drawn animation studio.
He documented the layoffs that marked the end of an era in American filmmaking by interviewing his co-workers.
"It's not just an attack on management," Lund told the Associated Press. "I didn't make the movie just to tick them off."
The publicity poster for the 40-minute-long movie shows a foot dressed in a business shoe squashing Mickey Mouse.
Long a giant in the animation field, Disney was responsible in the 1990s for such hits as Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and The Lion King.
But following flops like Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Treasure Planet, the firm laid off its hand animators in 2002 to focus on computer-animated features."
More >>> (http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/02/08/Arts/disney050208.html)
-Kilikili
What they said:
"A one-time employee of the Walt Disney Co.'s animation department has made a film about Disney animation. Called Dream On Silly Dreamer, it is being screened in Minneapolis on Thursday, one day before the company's shareholders gather in that city for their annual meeting.
The film's director, Dan Lund, worked for Disney for 15 years before the company decided to shut down its hand-drawn animation studio.
He documented the layoffs that marked the end of an era in American filmmaking by interviewing his co-workers.
"It's not just an attack on management," Lund told the Associated Press. "I didn't make the movie just to tick them off."
The publicity poster for the 40-minute-long movie shows a foot dressed in a business shoe squashing Mickey Mouse.
Long a giant in the animation field, Disney was responsible in the 1990s for such hits as Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and The Lion King.
But following flops like Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Treasure Planet, the firm laid off its hand animators in 2002 to focus on computer-animated features."
More >>> (http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/02/08/Arts/disney050208.html)
-Kilikili