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- From: rcook@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Robert Cook)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
- Subject: Re: Cheap Animation
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 15:12:18 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- In article <BzMBMG.1v6@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umcho000@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Connie Cho) writes:
- >
- >Was Rock a Doodle (or whatever, with that Elvis rooster (geez!!)) a
- >Bluth offering?
-
- Yes, and it was pretty bad, IMHO. Rock-a-Doodle was slated for a
- 1990, rather than a 1992 release. Around the time Bluth first came
- to Disney as an inbetweener (like an assistant animator), Disney
- considered a feature based on Edmond Rostand's play "Chanticleer."
- I have no idea whether the stories are similar beyond having a
- rooster who believes that he makes the sun rise. Chanticleer (which
- literally means rooster) also happens to be the name of the rooster
- in Rock-a-Doodle. ;-) As a side note, Bluth once announced, after
- his permanent split from Disney in 1979, that he would produce a
- feature based on Beauty and the Beast. It's interesting to think what
- effect it would have had if he had actually done so.
-
-
- - Robert Cook
-