Bedknobs and Broomsticks
I'm surprised this one doesn't have a thread of its own. I've never known it all that well, but I saw it on the 21st, during that Disney marathon on TCM. It's funny how it connects with much more...
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Another great mystery concerning "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" is why it won the 1971 Academy Award for Special Visual Effects over the amazing stop-motion animation of also-nominated "When Dinosaurs...
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I'd like to buy this for my girlfriend on DVD. There's an existiing widescreen disc and a new one coming in September. I can't find any info on which (either or both) is anamorphic. The existing one...
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I had never seen it, but my brother's first wife was British and said it was very much a classic there, everybody had seen it! And I agree, now that I have seen it - top Disney fun!
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Terrible animation, not at all like Disney's classic stuff. Plus, the kids were super-annoying, there was a visible line around the bed as it "swam" underwater, and all the interactions between live...
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I've wondered if the "scratchy" came from attempting to use the early zeroxing technology to streamline and/or make the overall animating process cheaper?
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Right you are about the Xerox process, which allowed the animator's art to be directly copied onto cels rather than done by hand. Many of the animators liked this, as it allowed their original art to...
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The Sherman Brothers' "The Beautiful Briny" song in "Bedknobs" was originally written for "Mary Poppins", but was dropped from the 1964 film.
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There's one part the really surprised me. I forget the title and the place, but it's when they're singing the song about the London area where you can buy anything. After that's been repeated several...
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I rewatched it with a friend a few months back; we both loved it as kids (and she's a good ten years younger than I), but we both thought it dragged a lot. Angela Lansbury is a delight, though, as is...
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I mainly know John Ericson from Dr. Lao, where he played the very likeable male lead - I mean of course the ROMANTIC male lead, as opposed to Tony Randall. Though of course he also got to do something...
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