Disney returns to making shorts

Disney Duster · Post by **Disney Duster** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:01 am

I didn't read it because I didn't want to spoil any surprise in the short itself, which I want to see, but Animated News has this report and interview!:

Deja and Henn on the retuirn of the Goof!

Mr. Toad · Post by **Mr. Toad** » Fri May 11, 2007 11:29 pm

Interesting article from Business WEEK

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/co ... gn_id=yhoo

Big Disney Fan · Post by **Big Disney Fan** » Sat May 12, 2007 1:49 am

Class316 wrote:They will suck. Cause in today's enviroment of pc-ness, there's no way they can do good stuff.

Hey, don't be a conclusion jumper. It might actually be good.

PeterPanfan · Post by **PeterPanfan** » Sun May 13, 2007 4:37 pm

Woo! Can't wait for this. I wonder if it will be a "pre-show" for a new Disney movie...or be on a Special Features for a DVD.

kurtadisneyite · Post by **kurtadisneyite** » Sun May 13, 2007 11:50 pm

not the first time this was tried... Remember the attempts at doing short cartoons just after Roger Rabbit was released as a feature? Disney got through three of them before the effort sputtered and died.

But perhaps Lassetter and his Pixar management (who seem to be behind this new effort) will truly make it "stick" this time around.

MK Sharp · Post by **MK Sharp** » Mon May 14, 2007 1:30 am

It may have failed last time, but it's always worth trying again.

As Walt Disney himself could have said, "If at first you don't succeed, file for bankruptcy, move to the West Coast and start drawing cats".

ichabod · Post by **ichabod** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:29 am

Well Jerry Beck has seen the new Goofy short and is apparently a winner!

Click <a href="http://www.cartoonbrew.com/events/repor ... a">here</a> for the original article.

How To Hook Up Your Home Theater - They nailed it.

Unlike other recent tries at reviving Disney classic characters via new shorts (think The Prince and the Pauper or Runaway Brain), the goal of this new film was not to reivent Goofy but to recapture the spirit of the Disney shorts of the late 40s, particularly the Jack Kinney classics like Hockey Homicide or a Goofy Gymnastics. They did it. It all felt right to me.

Though the film boasts the cream of the crop of current Disney animators (Deja, Henn, Baer, Goldberg, etc.), this isn’t an animators film - it’s a director’s picture. Just as Tex Avery’s cartoons are masterfully skewed through his twisted vision, here directors Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton (the first woman to direct a Disney cartoon!) take control, weaving numerous contempory gag situations into a refreshingly old school cartoon structure.

The red burlap opening titles are back. Michael Giacchino provides a perfect Oliver Wallace-styled musical score, and Corey Burton narrates with intonations falling somewhere between John McLeish and Frank Graham. Certain layouts are direct lifts from Motor Mania (Goofy’s home) and How To Play Football (the football field). And there are literally dozens of gags - truly funny ones and several visual in-jokes for those looking extra hard - packed into the six and a half minute running time.

The bottom line: How To Hook Up Your Home Theater feels exactly like a contemporary 1949 Goofy cartoon - and I can’t pay it any higher compliment than that. It’s the perfect film to start the new shorts program with. A nod to the past as the studio looks to the future. I just hope the studio will promote it properly when it decides to release it later this fall.

So now we know that it's finished and is coming this fall. Predictions for which film it will debut before? I'd suggest Enchanted which would be quite fitting.

PatrickvD · Post by **PatrickvD** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:36 am

ichabod wrote:So now we know that it's finished and is coming this fall. Predictions for which film it will debut before? I'd suggest Enchanted which would be quite fitting.

well, Enchanted was screened all over the country last week, so this popping up simultaneously probaply means it was attached to Enchanted, considering nobody has seen anything of National Treasure yet.

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:22 am

Wonder when it will come to DVD.

Lars Vermundsberget · Post by **Lars Vermundsberget** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:43 pm

ichabod wrote:Well Jerry Beck has seen the new Goofy short and is apparently a winner!

This sounds like the way to go - and if so, let's have more of them!

PeterPanfan · Post by **PeterPanfan** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:53 pm

I'm so glad everyone likes it!

I hope it's attatched to Enchanted.

JEANYLASER · Post by **JEANYLASER** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:19 pm

I love Mickey! I wish to see short film
The Search of Mickey Mouse.

Kossage · Post by **Kossage** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:26 pm

That sounds wonderful. I can't wait to see the short, and it'd be great if it debuted before Enchanted. We'll see.

The red burlap opening titles are back. Michael Giacchino provides a perfect Oliver Wallace-styled musical score, and Corey Burton narrates with intonations falling somewhere between John McLeish and Frank Graham.

Very interesting. It'll be nice to see the opening titles. I can't really imagine Giacchino imitating the style of the great Oliver Wallace, because Giacchino has always sounded more like a John Williams/Don Davis/Michael Kamen/John Barry combo as far as his music goes. Still, it'll be fascinating to hear how far he's gone with imitating Wallace's style, but I'm sure he's put some of his quirky concepts into the mix nevertheless.

akhenaten · Post by **akhenaten** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:21 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5UlELwYCwA

here's a little program for everyone. not related to the new short but a program on 50 years of disney magic.its a 9+ parter. so..be patient.

ichabod · Post by **ichabod** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:45 pm

A rather intruiging post at Cartoon Brew suggests 2008 will bring us two new Disney shorts titled Nessie and Glasgo's Guest.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/a-disney-filmography

Barbossa · Post by **Barbossa** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:31 pm

How is the animation qualty of the new shorts going to be? Is it going to be like the cheap Toon Studios TV animation? Or will it be like the classics during the 40s and 50s.

I recently watched Mickey's House of Villains and wasn't too impressed with that style of animation (Toon Studios).

Mr. Toad · Post by **Mr. Toad** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:13 am

Barbossa wrote:How is the animation qualty of the new shorts going to be? Is it going to be like the cheap Toon Studios TV animation? Or will it be like the classics during the 40s and 50s.

I recently watched Mickey's House of Villains and wasn't too impressed with that style of animation (Toon Studios).

Feature animation is making these shorts, television animation made the Mouseworks/House of Mouse shorts so the style and quality will be totally different.

thatartguy · Post by **thatartguy** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:43 am

Anyone know what movie the new Goofy short is going to be attached to? Please tell me it's not Enchanted.

Jules · Post by **Jules** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:59 am

thatartguy wrote:Please tell me it's not Enchanted.

Er?

ichabod · Post by **ichabod** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:15 am

The new Goofy short will appear with National Treasure: Book of Secrets

http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top ... m_no=21514

Good decision I feel.

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