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Anyone seen the southbankshow british documentary on Disney?

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:29 pm
by streetsofgold
Made just before the "oliver and co" release, it is essential for any disney collector. Luckily I still got my old beaten up VHS copy taped from the tv.

It is a dark documentary, stating how disney was then a shadow of its former self. This is a seriously good documentary and the series "south bank show" are well known for amazing documentaries on any subject on the arts in general.

"who framed roger rabbit" has just been released, so not too depressing then. It focuses on "pinnochio" "fantasia" "bambi".

What really gets me though is the ending. It was facinating to know that disney nearly let the majority of its stock to someone else by the mid 1980's. Also, u see a then advanced clip of "oliver and comapny" and the score in the background is different? Odd, it looks darker and ore menacing then the finished product. Great stuff.

They never showed the doc again. Which is over an hour in lenth. Anyone else seen it? I'll gladly make anyone a copy as it is a great doc.

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:36 pm
by JiminyCrick91
I myself have never herad if it.Thank you for sharing info on it thou.Also WELCOME to UD. :)

Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:41 pm
by streetsofgold
JiminyCrick91 wrote:I myself have never herad if it.Thank you for sharing info on it thou.Also WLECOME to UD. :)
Thanx. Iam not a big fanatci like some of u (i hope ) are, but I do find disney and animated films facisnating though. I'll make anyone a copy of the doc. Most old vhs's my dad chucks away. Thank god he kept this one.

Roy e disney, eisner etc are on their. Good stuff

Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 6:04 am
by Wonderlicious
I don't think that I would have ever seen that show (I probably would have only been a few months old at the time), but I seem to remember seeing a BBC documentary about Disney and how Eisner has made it such an evil company. It was made just around the same time as Savedisney.com appeared, and it used Roy's short departure as the backdrop for saying what a mess Eisner's Disney was. Completely cynical, yet interesting.