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From: rdutt@mksol.dseg.ti.com (richard f. dutt)
Subject: Re: Heavy Metal: The Movie
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:46:07 GMT

In article <C15y5z.EK3@melpar> jwidor@melpar (Jeff Widor) writes:
>I have been searching (not very diligently) for a copy of 
>the movie "Heavy Metal"  Cculd someone out there give me 
>(maybe) an order number,price,phone number of a catalog house that
>mey carry this video?
>
>
>================================================================================
>Jeff Widor
>aka. Captain Midnight (For those of you who work with me, DON'T ASK!)
>jwidor@melpar.esys.com
>

Heavy Metal is not on videocassette because the soundtrack used so
many different groups that they continually fought over the rights
and royalties.  It is indefinitely beyond our reach on tape.

On the other hand, Cinemax, because of it's contract with whoever
"owns" the movie, is allowed to show it as part the movie library
they have access to.  Cinemax shows Heavy Metal once every 4 or 6
months only once during the entire month, always at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m.
(really really late at night).  They last time I know they played it
was last Spring (1992) when a friend taped it for me.  You need to
find a Cinemax cable guide and get someone to tape it for you when
it comes up.

Good movie.

-Rich


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From: curts@tmpcu.mdc.com (Curt Schroeder)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Schoolhouse Rock
Date: 25 Jan 1993 09:20:12 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


For those that are interested, Schoolhouse Rock is now available comercially
on video tape.  I saw them on the shelf at a educational supply store in the
Mall of America (St. Paul, Minnesota) during Christmas.

Curt

I am STILL looking for an episode list for Prince Valient on the Family Channel.

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Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
From: vgriscep@wam.umd.edu (VGR (Craig Pell))
Subject: Re: Looking for TRANSFORMERS lyrics
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:27:06 GMT

In article <1k2da5INN6fs@aludra.usc.edu> rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung) writes:
>Am looking for the lyrics to the songs "Dare" and "Nothing's Going to Stand
>in Our Way" from the soundtrack of TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE. Please e-mail
>copies if you have 'em, thanks.

I'm guessing that no one has them, so, I'm gonna start hashing them out here,
as we did with the title theme.  Disclaimer:  this is from memory.

"Dare":

Sometimes when your hopes have all been shattered, there's nowhere to turn;
Wonder how you keep goin'!
Think of all the things that really matter, all the chances you've earned (?);
The fire in your heart is growin'!

You can fly if you try leavin' the past behind,
heaven only knows what you might find...

Dare!  Dare to believe you can survive;
You hold the future in your hands!
Dare!  Dare to keep all your dreams alive;
It's gonna take a stand...
You can win if you dare!

Everybody's tryin' to break your spirit, keepin' you down;
Seems like it's been forever!
There's an early force (?), 'cause you're just healin',
                                                sayin' it's the last round;
Looks like it's now or never!

Out of the darkness, you stumble into the light,
Fighting for the things you know are right...

Dare!  Dare to believe you can survive;
You hold the future in your hands!
Dare!  Dare to keep all your dreams alive;
It's gonna take a stand...
You can win if you dare, dare!...

(music)

(these final choruses are probably out of order)
Dare!  Dare to believe you can survive;
You hold the future in your hands!
Dare!  Dare to keep all your dreams alive;
The power is there at your command!
Oh, dare!  There is a place where dreams survive;
It's gonna move on to victory!
Dare!

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As for "Nothing's gonna Stand in Our Way," I don't even want to try it.
Well, not yet.  I'll let someone else, someone who currently has it with
'em, try it.
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
From: ewolf@larson.nd.edu (Ed Wolf)
Subject: Re: Old Jungle Book Cartoons
Reply-To: ewolf@larson.nd.edu
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:55:45 GMT

I personally own "Mowgli's Brother's" and have seen
"Rikki-Tikki" on video. They are put out by f.h.e.
(I think that's family home entertainment)
and I got  it for about $10. They were, of course 
put together by the immortal Chuck Jones, whose
name deserves mention. And I feel capture the essence
of the original Jungle Book stories as opposed to the 
Disney nice but apocryphal versions.

Good Luck finding 'em!
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
From: srh3@Ra.MsState.Edu (Steven R. Hollis)
Subject: Cartoon channel spotted in Miss
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:53:34 GMT

     Yes, YEsm YES!!!!    Here in Starkville, Mississippi
we just got the cartoon channel.  It was so awesome
to watch the HErculoids and Space Ghost
for the first time in YEARS!  Now we poor college students have something
to look forward to that's basically free.


     The channel has not been too good about publicizing the schedules
that I have seen.  What are some of the stuff they show
Any superfriends?  or the early 80' late 70's batman?


Thanks
Steve
 
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From: goodridg@husc8.harvard.edu (Andrew Goodridge)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Why, Porky!
Date: 24 Jan 93 13:48:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Jan24.084805.19743
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1993Jan23.030850.10787@wam.umd.edu> vgriscep@wam.umd.edu (VGR (Craig Pell)) writes:
>I just had an interesting flashback.  I distinctly recall seeing a piece of
>animation wherein Porky Pig, *the* Porky Pig, says:
>
>"Oh, son of a b---son of a b---son of a b---son of a bitch!  [looks at 
>camera]  Ha.  You didn't think I was gonna say it, did you?"
>
>This was for real;  real WB animation, voiced by Mel Blanc.  What I want to
>know is, does anyone recall exactly where this is from?

It's an in-house piece of animation that the Termite Terrace did for their
own amusement. Somehow it got out, and there you go.

I have that piece of film, as well as a lot of the Racist and Wartime films
that Warners and other have produced. Bought it at a Star Trek Convention
of all things.

THe guy who sold these put the "Son of a Bitch" porky segment on the end of
all the cartoon tapes he sold.

Of course, "Son of a Bitch" isn't really considered all that risque'
nowadays, so that piece of film keeps showing up in places.

------

Speaking of weird in-house. I heard a rumor from someone who I thought would
know (Rich family involved in the movie industry) that Disney animatiors
produced a small sequence of two disney characters having sex, either
Mickey/Minnie Mouse or Jiminy Cricket/Tinker Bell. However, there's never
going to be a way to verify that and it would have been at LEAST 20 years
ago, so I can't say it's anything other than an errant rumor.

- Sketch
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From: kmeyers@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Meyers)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation,alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: Simpsons now eligible for Emmy Best Comedy Series award
Summary: Oh, just great...
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:53:08 GMT
Organization: Acme Looniversity TOONYX, Acme Acres

gavigan@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ryan P. Gavigan) writes:

>I saw on a news story that The Simpsons are now eligible to be nominated 
>for Best Comedy Series Emmy award, instead of having to condescendingly 
>compete against other animated shows.

All well and good, I'm sure, but what about those other animated programmes
that deserve simular treatment?  Like, fer instance, Tiny Toon Adventures?
Now, *there's* a show that should be up for Best Comedy.  In fact, TTA would
have won Best Animated Series *if* we hadn't gotten robbed by - of all
things - _Rugrats_ (BLECH!).

Also, does this mean Batman: The Animated Series can now be nominated for
Best Drama Series?  I certainly hope so...it's better than a lot of the
drivel we see otherwise.

Comments, anyone?
 
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From: dshaffer@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Donald A Shaffer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Eek the Cat!
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:17:34 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

>>Well, as the subject says, any fans out there?
>>Newsweek had the utter audacity to compare this fine cartoon with
>>Ren n` Stimpy! Hey, I like R+S, but this is apples and oranges, NewsFreak!
>>Stupidignorantmediatypes. I`m still pissed about the massive X-Men adblitz
>>on Fox. 
>>Waiting for responses,
>>Stephanie


>>"Kumbaya!" - Eek


>	Oh, yeah!  Awesome show.  Sick, depraved, and generally twisted.  Ah
>love it.

  And here kids we have Niagara falls, built by mr Niagara in 1910 to
protect us from hostile canadian forces (or sume such)
  You gotta love a show with quotes like this. :)

Don Shaffer
"Let me carry that bag for you sir" <<BOOM!!!>>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
From: pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul M. Minutillo)
Subject: Re: BTAS: You want fatalities?  I'll *give* you fatalities....
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:43:23 GMT

In article <24JAN199319355673@rigel.tamu.edu> ted4646@rigel.tamu.edu (cartoon boy) writes:
>[other deaths deleted]
>
>Min and Max (the Jimmy Olsen clones) from "Two-Face" episode 2.  Boss Thorne's
>guys got em in the hallway when the camera wasn't on them.
>
>Two-Face's White Henchmen in "Almost Got Him":  giant penny fall down and go
>boom.  
>
>is it just me, or are Two-Face's henchmen just really unlucky?
>
>
And tonight's episode--I would say that guy in the duck most certainly
bought it!



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Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,rec.arts.disney
Subject: Re: Disney and CAPPS
From: larryg@batpad.lgb.ca.us (Larry Greenfield)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 23:34:34 PST
Organization: The Batchelor Pad

Yes, I guess in my original post, saying "What would Walt Say" was a bit 
stupid. After all, Walt Disney also took part in the McCarthty-era 
blacklisting by helping.  He was no angel, but that still doesn't excuse 
today's Disney business practices.
:::::Larry:::::

::::::::::::::::::Classical Violinists Never Miss A Beat:::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::We Just Blame The Violas:::::::::::::::::::::::::
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
From: fse@phx.mcd.mot.com ()
Subject: Re: Heavy Metal: The Movie
Reply-To: phx.mcd.mot.com!fse@phx.mcd.mot.com ()
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Group
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:47:46 GMT

In article <C15y5z.EK3@melpar> jwidor@melpar (Jeff Widor) writes:
>I have been searching (not very diligently) for a copy of 
>the movie "Heavy Metal"  Cculd someone out there give me 
>(maybe) an order number,price,phone number of a catalog house that
>mey carry this video?

Can't be had from a legit source.  The film was never released on video
cassette.  I was at a toy show here in Phoenix a couple weeks ago (mostly
antiques and stuff from when I was a kid (not too antique)) and one booth
had a nice cell from Heavy Metal hanging up.  He wanted $500 for it (way
too much). After commenting about it to the gentleman he pointed over to 
his table with video tapes for sale (mostly old sci-fi's) and he had three
copies of Heavy Metal for $19 ea.  The tape jackets looked like he'd
zeroxed some original promo stuff for Heavy Metal and slipped it inside the
clear sleave.  The tapes were obviously home copy jobs (hand written
lablels).  He claimed them to be of excellent clarity and in HIFI.
The only reason I didn't buy one is because a couple years ago, CineMax ran
Heavy Metal and I taped it (MTS stereo -> HiFi) and already have a nice
copy.  I suspect this is where he too got his source for these tapes.
At the time I didn't subscribe to CineMax but saw that Heavy Metal was
going to be on.  I called and got CineMax switched on and then after tapeing
the movie cancelled it.  The prorated rate for that month was $5.  Not bad,
$5 plus the cost of a blank tape!

Stan


Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation,rec.arts.disney,alt.fan.furry,alt.fan.disney.afternoon
From: duehara@yosemite.math.ucla.edu (Dana Uehara)
Subject: Toon gloves, coloring
Followup-To: rec.arts.animation,rec.arts.disney,alt.fan.furry
Reply-To: duehara@yosemite.atmos.ucla.edu (Dana Uehara)
Organization: Toonaholics Anonymous
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 23:07:20 GMT

In several 'toons that star anthropomorphized animals (i.e. furries), I've
noticed that several of 'em wear white gloves (Bugs Bunny, Goofy, Max,
PJ -- the latter three being from the "Goof Troop" series, btw).

Is this mainly to set these characters apart from non-anthropomorphized
animals?  For example, WRT Disney characters, Mickey and Goofy both wear
gloves, Pluto doesn't.

As far as coloring goes, this applies mainly to Disney characters (most
notably "Goof Troop") but I suspect this could apply to other characters
as well.  In "Goof Troop" Goofy, Max, Pete and PJ are sometimes drawn with
their limbs colored black, but on occasion their limbs have been drawn with
a fleshtone color (same as their faces).  In some cases they've even been
drawn with fleshtone bodies but their limbs are drawn black.

It's my understanding that in the past these characters have been drawn all 
black except that their faces are given a fleshtone color -- and their 
gloves, of course, are white.  I'm just wondering why they couldn't keep
the coloring consistent.  Or at least stick to one style -- either have
the limbs and body both drawn black or fleshtone, but not both.


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Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,rec.arts.disney
From: steve@fulcrum.oz.au (Steve Taylor)
Subject: Re: Disney and CAPPS
Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:13:48 GMT

larryg@batpad.lgb.ca.us (Larry Greenfield) writes:

>say, I am a traditionalist when it comes to animation, but I don't really 
>mind the use of CAPPS. I think something similar should be used for TV 
>animation... there's just so much ink and paint to be done. In the short 
>term, it will cost more (since Asian labor is very cheap per cel, I 
>know), but in the long run, studios that put out enough product will be 
>self-sufficient.

Hanna-Barbera wrote a computer ink and paint system some years ago. I presume
they`re still using it, as I recently read an article about them porting from
some fairly old machine to a Sun.


							Steve Taylor
							steve@fulcrum.oz.au
From: emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Flintstone Movie ?
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:00:29 GMT
Organization: MegaCorp Central Complex

mcdermot@amiganet.chi.il.us (Mark Mcdermott) writes:

>The last I had heard about a Flintstones project was an "animated" special, the
>title of which suggests it'll be Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's wedding, and which
>would run on TV this season (mentioned in the TV Guide Fall Preview).
>The live-action movie project has kicked around for several years, and will
>probably get made "some day"

The New York Daily News said that the basic plot of Spielberg's Flintstones
movie (which begins shooting in April, starring John Goodman as Fred)
concerns Fred getting a promotion and the Rubbles falling on hard times.
Dino is supposed to be engineered by the Jim Henson crew.
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From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
Subject: Re: BTAS: The Mechanic
Keywords: BTAS
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:48:30 GMT

Did anyone else think that this episode was an attempt to do Batman
Returns right?  I mean, everyone was bitching about how the Penguin
got ahold of the Batmobile....

I kept comparing this episode to those scenes of _BR_, and the show
holds up quite well.
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
From: lchoqu%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Lee Choquette)
Subject: Re: Old Jungle Book Cartoons
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:38:17 MST
Keywords: Mowgli Riki-tiki-tavi
Organization: University of Utah Computer Science

In article <1jminjINN94q@bigboote.WPI.EDU> drwho@parrot.WPI.EDU (Eric Ant Von
Laudermann) writes:
 > "Mowgli's Brothers", "The White Seal", and "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
 > occasionally show up on Nickelodoen's "Special Delivery", which is a
 > block of shows airing every Saturday and Sunday from 2PM to 4PM.

Is this "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" the same show I remember seeing on network TV 10-15
years ago about a mongoose that takes up residence in someone's house, and
destroys a snake's eggs?  Although I was young at the time, I remember being
impressed by how they animated the night scenes.  Was that adapted from a
Kipling story?
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   . . . . Lee Choquette . . . . . . . . . .The early worm . . . . . . . . .
  . . . .lchoqu@cs.utah.edu . . . . . . . . . gets eaten. . . . . . . . . .
 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
From: paul.gunton%theweb@meaddata.com (Paul Gunton) 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: NEW TRANS-FORMERS CARTOON
Date: 24 Jan 93 01:37:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Web BBS 1-513-436-9011 6 Lines 1200 News groups 50,000 files!
Reply-To: paul.gunton%theweb@meaddata.com (Paul Gunton) 

Does anybody know if there is/are any new plans on making another
Trans-formers cartoon series???

If so, please tell me....I know about the Trans-Formers Generation 2...

Paul Gunton
                                                                        
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From: bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation,alt.tv.tiny-toon
Subject: Re: Simpsons now eligible for Emmy Best Comedy Series award
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:05:19 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: solar.tamu.edu

In article <1k121qINN5jl@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> atario@cats.ucsc.edu (Stephen Wayne Miller) writes:
>
>kmeyers@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Meyers) writes:
>
>>In fact, TTA would
>>have won Best Animated Series *if* we hadn't gotten robbed by - of all
>>things - _Rugrats_ (BLECH!).
>
>What?!?  Rugcrap won over all the other excellent shows out there?!?  Which
>awards pay-off deal was this, anyway?  ACE awards?  Emmys?  What?

Rugrats won the 1992 Daytime Emmy for Best Animated CHildren's series 
(or whatever they call it).  Tiny Toons won it in 1991.  They were nominated
in 1992 but didn't win.  I guess they think it's not a good idea to give it
to the same show two years in a row.

Plus, Rugrats really is a good cartoon.  Have you watched a few episodes 
of it?  Some of the shows overdo the cuteness, but many of them are really
quite clever and funny.

WBB

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"Why did you pour ink on my head?"
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation,comp.sys.amiga.graphics,rec.arts.disney
From: rdutt@mksol.dseg.ti.com (richard f. dutt)
Subject: Re: Disney's "New Look": How?
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:10:31 GMT

In article <C192FC.3up@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jle37069@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nevoieur the Hunted) writes:

> I must agree.  I was lucky enough toattend a seminar where the recruiter of Disney animation spoke about the art of Disney animation.  He emphasized that
> computers are great but will never take the place of a human animator.  For example, when animating Belle as she sits in her dress, a computer may eventually be able to animate her dress.  It takes a person with skill in drawing to
> understand how Belle's BODY changes...how the muscles contract and expand..
> how a movement causes a reaction and change elsewhere in the figure.
> A computer is 'good at animating inanimate objects' , especially those that move is very specific ways.  Look at the Rug--while its movement were highly complex, they were also relatively easy to map by computer.  The mass/size of the Rug doesn't actually change that much, just the shape.  A computer can easily track
> this type of change.  Figures are a little harder.
>
> Just my  $0.02
>
> Julius
> email jle37069@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
> OAS AAS LLS
>

In one sense I must disagree.  The whole debate over whether computer-
generated actors and animation will replace the actor and animator is
silly at this point.  You are talking about technology which is only
40 years olds old.  Cavemen were painting and drawing on cave walls
thousands of years ago.  It's not fair to judge the ability of computer
animation while it's only in it's infancy.  I would "propose" that
computers will be able to animated like human artists, but it may be
a couple hundred years down the road.  What I'm talking about here is
an idea along the lines of computers containing a model of human
musculature, skin, hair, etc.  If programmed properly, it would be
able to imitate and human motion.  Notice the big vague areas in the
terms "if programmed properly" and "imitate".  But, I don't believe
that computers will ever replace actors or animators entirely.  I think
it would just bring animation closer to live action film (big crowd
scences: no need to animate each person separately, etc.).  IMHO, this
is one of those "we just don't know yet" debates that frequently
populate rec.arts.startrek.  I really don't think it's fair to say that
computer will never be able to do what animators or actors do today.
Let's give it some time.

Just my $0.02 worth.

-Rich

P.S. - human animation on a computer has come a long way in the last
       decade alone.  Checkout some SIGGRAPH tapes. 
 
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