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Animation Disney Documentary Film Sound Filmmaking Interview

Disney Imagineering Theme Park Sound Design

Here are some audio and video clips showing how theme park sound is done.

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Animation Art Disney Documentary

Tyrus Wong, ‘Bambi’ Production Designer, Dies at 106

Tyrus Wong, the Chinese-American artist who was the production designer of Disney’s classic feature Bambi (1942), passed away today at the age of 106.

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Documentary Filmmaking People

Hitchcock/Truffaut Documentary

In 1962, French New Wave auteur François Truffaut spent a week in Hollywood with his idol, Alfred Hitchcock. discussing films such as Psycho and Vertigo.

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Animation Art Documentary

Loving Vincent, the world’s first fully painted feature-length film about Vincent Van Gogh

An animation studio aims to create 1,200 paintings in the style of the Dutch post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh for the first feature-length film made solely through hand-painted canvases.

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Documentary Music

All Things Must Pass: The Legendary Past and Celluloid Future of Tower Records on the Sunset Strip

‘All Things Must Pass’ is a feature documentary film examining Tower Records explosive trajectory, tragic demise, and legacy forged by its rebellious founder Russ Solomon.

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Documentary Filmmaking World Fairs and Expos

Christopher Chapman: Oscar winner made “A Place to Stand” for Expo 67

At Expo 67, in Montreal, A Place to Stand was projected in 70 mm on a screen, using nine synchronized projectors – the beginning of Imax technology.

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Animation Disney Documentary People

Floyd Norman – An Animated Life – Teaser

Photo Credit Mr. Fun’s Journal Floyd Norman: An Animated Life is a feature-length look the prolific animator and story artist’s life from growing up in Santa Barbara, CA to his years working as an animator at Disney, Hanna-Barbera, Pixar and more. The undisputed “Forrest Gump” of the animation world, Norman was hired as the first […]

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Documentary Film Editing Technology

The EditDroid: Rise and Fall – Trailer VOD

A very good documentary about the EditDroid. When I worked at Disney Imagineering, we were using laser disc players in a lot of places, including EPCOT starting the 1980s. We were also innovators and early adoptors of nonlinear editing and video to film matchback. From the film’s website; The EditDroid was (one of) the first nonlinear electronic editing system […]

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Documentary People

Milius, a documentary about John Milius

I watched Milius on Netflix and it is great, I recommend it!                         John Milius is the writer of some of the most iconic films of the 70s and 80s. John Milius interviewed by Francis Ford Coppola One of my favorite Milius films is […]

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Disney Documentary

Leslie Iwerks Creating Documentary About Walt Disney Imagineering

Disney plans to pull back the curtain on its Imagineers with a feature-length documentary that explores the history of the division behind the designs of its theme park rides and other attractions.

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