At one point Maroon points to his pocket. Lets jump ahead to the 1959 version of Walt Disney Productions annual report. This is then followed by this great moment in the balcony of a movie theater that Roger & Eddie have gone to hide out in, during which Valiant recounts to the rabbit how his brother Teddy was actually killed. Cubby Bear ( Van Beuren ) Meanwhile, back out at graveside, as Foghorn Leghorn is wrapping up his sermon, who comes rising up out of the ground but Casper the Friendly Ghost. Mark. Disney Has Also Forgot To Add: This kid-friendly area (called the Magic Kingdom Golf Course) featured elaborately themed holes with recreations of attractions that could be found right next door at Disneyland Park. So when your winter cold (which wouldnt let go) becomes a spring cold (that just wont go away) suddenly mutates into the Black Plague Well, its then finally time to do something. That high, high, I say that high-larious place up in the sky. The other three were adults. Hopefully from here on in, things will get back to normal here at JHM and we then wont miss any more huge Disney-related stories like the passing of gifted performers like Bob Hoskins. Carlos Lopez Estrada had been signed to helm this film. He had stopped work for the day and drinking with friends at a cricket match. At least when it came to how popular an attraction would be with Guests (The Mickey Mouse Club Circus fiasco of the holiday season of 1955 being the exception, of course). He taught animation classes at the Disney Institute in Florida as well as instructing classes on acting and animation history for Disney Feature Animation: Florida. Its now the Spring of 1961 and attendance at Disneyland Park has actually fallen off from the previous year by 200,000 people. CHIP 'N DALE. I thought we were bearing Acme.. Killer views of New Orleans Square construction / the Jungle Cruise ride just below.Oh, and that only appeal to kids thing? Skip to main content. All those Harvey characters (except Sad Sack, who wasnt an animated Toon) didnt exist in the 1940s setting of Roger Rabbit so why would they be in the film? In 1965, this Adventureland Attraction even after taking those costs into consideration still managed to turn a profit of $313,000. Any scene thats supposed to be inside of the actual Walley World theme park was shot at Six Flags Magic Mountain. (in the unproduced scene of Marvin Acme's funeral) MGM Cartoons. Now in the upper right-hand corner of the above drawing, you may notice an annotation which reads Toons unload casket. Well, wait til you see the six classic toon stars who do the honors for Marvin. It was too morbid for the film and didnt really move the story forward. Next come (again L to R) Junior & George, one of Tex Averys hound dogs, Practical Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Fifer Pig & Fiddler Pig. Okay. He is a bald, middle-aged gentleman with an eccentrically jovial, lighthearted personality who loves and cares deeply for the welfare of all Toons. (H&K seperately, and Buzzy,m Katnips longtime crow star, already were established by 1947). And just in case youre wondering: The cost of extending Disneylands monorail system over to the Disneyland Hotel was $1.9 million (Thats $19 million in 2023 money). That very same year, Walt had some of his staff artists design a miniature golf course that could then be built on the grounds of the Disneyland Hotel. Out of every four Guests who came through the turnstile / surrounded that 35 cent C ticket, only one was a kid under 10. 1200 people an hour. We shed no tears for we know that Marvin is going to a better place. Were then going to have to spend dollars to get those people back.. (Again going L to R) Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Baby Huey, Hippety Hopper, Dick Tracy & Tubby the Tuba all goggle the playful spirit for a second or two. It always seemed odd that Tom and Jerry, the top cartoon stars of the time, werent there, or even Fox and Crow. If the Jungle Cruise was being drained for months so that the Imagineers could then install the Sacred Elephant Bathing Pool sequence in that Adventureland attraction, that meant the Rivers of America had to be drained as well. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) clip with quote - Judge Doom killed Marvin Acme. Its an argument that Ive been having with animation fans for nearly a quarter of a century now. So thats what happened around here last week / earlier this week. Given that back in December of 1958 Disneyland deliberately switched over to an open-five-days-a-week-during-the-off-season schedule in an effort to get Anaheims operating costs under control. That was the original plan, anyway. Better yet, a complete set of these drawings are now up for bid on eBay. Storyboards for this scene recently surfaced on EBay. Mind you, theres a fun little button on this sequence. Disney Big Figures: Where They Began, Where They Are Now and Where Are They Going? Whereas I Ive always pointed to Bob Hoskins performance and said that this was the element that actually made that movie work. 16. The actual Disneyland in Anaheim. He is a bald, middle-aged gentleman with an eccentrically jovial, lighthearted personality who loves and cares deeply for the welfare of all Toons. Marvin Acme (played by the adorable, irrepressible and talented Stubby Kaye) is the head of the Acme Corporation and owner of Toontown. Crusader Rabbit Back when Disney prided itself in being a good neighbor. I Wish Pingu Appeared In Who Framed Roger Rabbit ! This area was specially illuminated for night-time play. I was wondering if they had other characters they controlled that werent used. Its worth noting here that the Disneyland Hotel (with Walts permission, by the way) on those days when Disneyland was closed would offer its Guests the opportunity to visit Knotts Berry Farm as well as Universal Studios Hollywood. John Hughes adapted his own short story (i.e., Vacation 58, which had run in National Lampoon magazine less than four years earlier. Perhaps one of the saddest casualties was the funeral of Marvin Acme. And at that time, Walt was justly proud of this project. There's MICKEY MOUSE comforting MINNIE. So what spurred Disneylands attendance surge in the Summer of 1959 was Walt pumping $6 million into the place for the construction of new attractions (Matterhorn Bobsleds, Submarine Voyage, & Monorail). Marvin E Owens Home for Funerals. Just last year, I attended this amazing panel at Comic-Con where animation veterans like Don Hahn, Dave Bossert, Nik Ranieri, James Baxter, Tom Sito & Andreas Deja talked about all the mistakes that were made over the course of production of this motion picture. Given that Bob Iger (at Disneys quarterly earnings call held earlier this week) revealed that the Company now has sequels in the works for Frozen, Toy Story, and Zootopia Well, is it really all that far-fetched to think that at some point further on down the road Disney & Pixar will put yet another sequel to Cars in the works? After Roger Rabbit discovers that Marvin is playing Patty Cake with his wife Jessica, Acme is found murdered the following morning in his factory warehouse. Or just trading with collectors, either way. Not according to the guys who worked on it. Heres the actual opening line to John Hughes Vacation 58.. All of which came in handy during those Mondays & Tuesdays during the Winter Months when people were staying at the Disneyland Hotel and had nowhere to go on those days when the Happiest Place on Earth was closed. All the storyboard drawings you see here were mine (Foghorn Leghorn was traced over from my sketch), except the crowd shot of all the characters at the burial site. Just because a character didnt make his screen debut by the late 1940s doesnt mean the character didnt exist in the RR world it would be about 15 years before those penguin waiters would get their chance in Mary Poppins. Casper (the definitive version). Famous characters Popeye, Bluto, Olive Oyl, Superman, Little Lulu, and Casper the Friendly Ghost, as well as Pat Sullivan 's Felix the Cat, and MGM's Tom & Jerry, were all scripted to appear in a scene revolving around Marvin Acme's funeral, but the rights to the characters could not be obtained in time, although a photo of Felix shaking hands Marvin Acme's death. He is angrily confronting her. The Disney Dish Podcast is part of the Jim Hill Media Podcast Network. Im sorry that this sites content went for days without being updated. 8. Turned this proposed sequence for this film into something that animation fans would have talked about for decades. Whats more, what initially drove him to seek out and then purchase this amazing animation artifact was my August 2011 story about scenes that had been cut out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.. Were they planned to make cameos in the movie, or at least considered ? Little Dot Theres a famous story about the origin of the Matterhorn-at-Disneyland project. Well, heres hoping that whoever wins this auction is a kind & generous soul. Anyway Now what made this redo / expansion of the Jungle River Cruise complicated is that this Adventureland attraction shared a water system with the Rivers of America (Guests who were headed to Disneylands old Chicken Plantation Restaurant for lunch or dinner used to have to walk over a bridge in Frontierland. I consider him a true animation treasure and always encourage him to share more of his animation knowledge. If you ever want to journey to the town of Goldsborough on the Caribbean island of Tobago. Required fields are marked *. This was what led Walt to bring Marc Davis over to WED from Feature Animation in October of 1960 and effectively say Help me make Disneyland better. Largely because so many people came out to the Park that Summer to experience Disneylands heavily hyped brand-new attractions which included the Matterhorn Bobsleds. Meanwhile, Goofy makes a joke about how tough it is to be a pallbearer. Theres Barely Any Famous Studios Characters ! But Hoskins matter-of-fact retelling is so real & so raw that from here in on in this movie you then just cant help but feel for this character. HECKLE AND JECKLE. If the funeral scene had been included in the film, no doubt the same stipulation would have been made for the bit with Bugs, Mickey, Humphrey and Clark in the convertible. In the original screenplay, an entire day went by between the time Eddie exited the Terminal Bar & Grill and the moment that Valiant encountered Jessica Rabbit as he stepped out of his office bathroom. Wed have to rip that up and then reroute that water system., The Imagineers then said But Walt. Which reminds me of something Walt once said when an Imagineer suggested that the Company could save a few bucks by cutting corners on a particular project: If people ever stop coming to the Park because they think we cut corners on a project, the few cents we saved ultimately arent going to matter. Which was going to be necessary for the two elevators that would then make that attractions stretching room scenes possible. Which then pushed Guests to go seek out various A, B, C & D Ticket attractions around the grounds) Well, that form of admission media didnt come online til October 11, 1955. Because no one was ever going to climb up the 68 steps that then led to the three rooms in this Adventureland attraction (The parents bedroom, the boys bedroom [up in the crows next] and then the common area / kitchen / dining room) and then the 69 steps back down to the ground. George of the Jungle and Shep Popeye: Were bearing Paul? How difficult it was for example to tie a hand-drawn Roger down in the live-action footage that Robert Zemeckis had shot. No doubt, that dialogue between Bugs and Mickey had the stink of being written by a dozen high-priced attorneys. Thats what worries me about Disneys current situation. Its Bob Hoskins performance that I think elevates Who Framed Roger Rabbit from being just this clever movie which is loaded with witty, well-done animation to being a truly great film. While this work was being done along the shore of the Rivers of America, over towards the entrance of Adventureland, the Imagineers were reconfiguring that restaurant that faced out towards Disneylands Hub. Hopefully by next week, Ill be able to resume JHMs 5-day-a-week publication schedule. Which is why Disney then asked Pixar to prep a follow-up film. 2. Thanks for all your dedicated work for Roger Rabbit history. Three was Sleeping Beauty Castle. A live action look-alike for actor Humphrey Bogart is driving. A deleted scene involving Marvin Acme's funeral would've featured Foghorn Leghorn as the preacher giving the sermon. But when Disneys version of Swiss Family Robinson finally arrived in theaters in December of 1960, it did quite well at the box office. They are all dressed in golf attire and there are bags of golf clubs in the back. This would've been Marvin Acme's funeral" Likewise the Japanese Village and Deer Park over Buena Park. Honestly, I thought the whole scene was good enough as is, lawyer problems aside (which got worse for Warners as time went on). He struggles under the weight of the thing and eventually just tosses it into Marvins open grave. Its still there, by the way. The scenes set in the parking lot at Walley World as well as at the entrance of that fictious theme park were shot in the parking lot & entrance of Santa Anita Race Track (Horse Track). Storyboards reveal what Marvin Acme's funeral in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" would have looked like. Not to mention my two-a-week for the Huffington Posts Entertainment page as well as the monthly pieces that I write for Best of Orlando & Best of Vegas. Probably Maurice LaMarche, who had voiced the muscular mariner in Popeye and Son for Hanna-Barbera in 1987. 6. Disney Corporate knows about this (hence the number of times questions about this perception has bubbled up in recent surveys that Resort has sent out). That said, I was well aware at the time that many of the creative decisions in Who Framed Roger Rabbit were the result of legal negotiations in the boardroom. Thereby creating the oldI say old neighborhood we know as Toontown.. With Pingo, Pingg, Pongi and Pengy ( Pingus other friends ) and Pingi ( Pingus girlfriend ) frowning with misery ! So this change in the way that Disneyland Park operated during the off-season made things easier for Walt and Disneys book-keepers back in Burbank. Review. The storyboard drawings are by the Amblin contract artist, Marty Kline. Evidently, a sequel was considered, but I wonder if theyd have utilized the obvious premise of the newest threat to traditional Toon Town after 1947: the UPA style which shortly rendered Roger Rabbits slapstick out of date, and the takeover of the HannaBarbarians: limited animated characters who talked more than moved. After Valiant leaves Roger and Dolores at the bar, he hops a red car to the Inglewood cemetery (that was originally going to be a real cemetery somewhere in the San Francisco area) where the Marvin Acme funeral is taking place. Im definitely going to make this worth your while.. 14. How so?, you query. In fact, Walt so loved this gag that after the Africa Veldt section first opened at Disneyland Park in June of 1964 he actually made the Imagineers go back in this portion of that Adventureland attraction and restage it. The longish path that Catch My Breath, Paul Briggs picture book took to be published by Disney Hyperion, My Golden Ticket allows Willy Wonka fans to go on a personalized tour of that fabled chocolate factory, The Property Brothers take Jonathan and Drews House Party on the road to promote their new memoir, With the help of ELLE Magazine & fashion designer Zac Posen, cartoon icon Betty Boop receives a modern-age makeover, Walt Disney Animation Studios Artist Showcase program encourages the creation of new childrens books. Kari Granlund was writing the screenplay for this Robin Hood reboot. The Wuzzles Under which flowed the water that traveled from the Jungle River Cruise into the Rivers of America). Simba, Timon & Pumbaa Some three months after Disneyland Park first open. Thank you for the rich account, Mr. Korkis and for the right-on-the-money storyboard sketches all those years ago, Mr. Kausler! But what about Jack Wrather, the guy that Walt went to back in the Late Winter / Early Spring of 1955 and begged & pleaded for Wrather to build a hotel right next to Disneyland Park? 12. Arf Arf Arf. Blackie the Lamb from Noveltoons ( Famous Studios ) Conversely, the pairing of Donald and Daffy was on-the-nose! Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux TOM AND JERRY. Let me get you a close-up of these characters so you can better see the pallbearers. So did this change in the way that Disneyland Park ultimately operated off-season ultimately work out? The famous never-filmed Marvin Acme funeral sequence workbook pages from Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Disney/Amblin, 1988). No lawyer writers. but sorta makes you MISS the appearance[s] of Tom & J, Popeye, Casper, Herman & K , Baby H, Little A, etc. Which is why Im now trying to get Jim Hill Meida back up to speed. Which was a perk that no other hotel in Orange County had. That said, its worth noting here that just in the past year or so weve seen Disney & Pixar attempt to expand the turf that these two characters could comfortably cover. (1) Operating a seven-day week throughout the 1957 1958 week against a six-day week the year before. 7. Let me remove any doubt here. They would be seen doing a pan shot while the eulogy is given. Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare To find out what other sorts of gags the Roger Rabbit production team dreamed up for Marvin Acmes funeral. Mark Kauslers account of the Acme funeral is accurate. Storyboards reveal what Marvin Acme's funeral in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" would have looked like. Interesting side note: Its now an established part of the on-going Disney theme park narrative that Going to the Parks has just gotten to be too expensive and/or complicated, what with the institution of Lightning Lane and then forcing people to use virtual queues if they want to experience newer attractions at the Parks like Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at Epcot or Mickey & Minnies Runaway Railway out in Anaheim. Keep In Mind That WFRR Totally Had Mixed Reviews ! But only this week, Ive learned that the original storyboards for this cut sequence are floating around out there. THE ACME FUNERAL SITE - LONG SHOT - DAY A hearse, and a line of black limos are parked in the lane. Its at this point that Walt personally reaches out to Jack and says I know, I know. Thanks to Mr. Kausler who was incredibly valuable on that film. So lets start with the obvious: When Disneyland Park first opened in July of 1955, there had never been one of these before. Popeye, Bluto, and others appear only in this storyboarded funeral scene. A deleted scene involving the infamous Toon Pig Head would've featured a brief cameo of Witch Hazel. Baby Huey Because the concrete foundation that supported this six ton structure had to go down some 42 feet Well, that totally screwed up the water system that previously connected Disneylands Jungle River Cruise to the Rivers of America. Lets look for ways to make the rides there funnier. In addition to the 4000+ articles Jim has written for the Web, he also co-hosts a trio of popular podcasts: Disney Dish with Len Testa, Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor and Marvel US Disney with Aaron Adams. Mr. Hill makes his home in Southern New Hampshire with his lovely wife Nancy and two obnoxious cats, Ginger & Betty. Paul Bearins shore hard work, aint it? And Walt now wants to turn that attendance deficit around. And then the two of them made multiple trips up & down the stairs that had already been installed in & around Disneylands Swiss Family Treehouse. 9. He Wouldve Been In The Marvin Acmes Funeral Scene Sadly Playing The Violin as the Coffin goes down into the grave ! Tom Cat, Jerry Mouse (both in the unproduced scene of Marvin Acme's funeral), and Tyke* from Tom and Jerry; Junior (in the unproduced scene of Marvin Acme's funeral) Red Hot Riding Hood and The Wolf from Red Hot Riding Hood (in the unproduced scene of Marvin Acme's funeral) Many sequences were storyboarded and some even animated for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) but were then left out of the final feature film for a variety of reasons including cost and time issues, pacing and the fact that while they might have been clever or fun but were not really necessary to tell the story. This document (which was published on December 23, 1958) states that: While the gross income of Disneyland was greater this year than in any prior year, the operating expenses for this family fun park were likewise up substantially primarily to two factors. And again my apologies for JHM being off the air for a week or so there. While yet another was supposed to have shined a spotlight on trucks. Swiss Family Robinson was the very last film that he directed for Disney Studios. But as soon as Walt saw Marcs art for the Trapped Safari, he basically said Thats too good a gag to waste on the people who are riding Disneylands train. Flippy Doggenbottom from *Toontown Online* Nudnik ( Paramount Cartoon Studios ) The Rivers of America were now going to be dry for months at a time from January of 1962 through June of that same year, this is when the Imagineers decided to tackle two projects that were well below Disneylands waterline which was digging out the basement space in New Orleans Square (which was originally supposed to house the walk-thru tour version of Pirates of the Caribbean) as well as carving out that below-grade space over at the Haunted Mansion.
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