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From: squid@carroll1.cc.edu (Craig C Schanning)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Batman: TAS  "Mad As A Hatter"
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:56:18 GMT
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI

In article <1992Oct13.090700.1369@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu> ngsippel@miavx2.ham.muohio.edu writes:
>"Mad As A Hatter" was a good episode, but it needed more craziness.  The
>scientist should've been more crazy instead of the calm guy act thru most of
>the show.  All around good show!
>

But that is what made the Mad Hatter a good character.  I beleive
he was more obsessed than crazy.  He was very sane in the beginning.
I liked how he didn't use a card on Alice right away in hopes that
she would love him in sound mind.  I bet ya he will still be sane in
the next hatter episode also, he will probably just be looking for
revenge on Batman for ruining his chances with Alice.  I am
glad he was sane, Why do we need any more joker imitations?
 

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From: lsmith@deci.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Subject: Re: BTAS: 10/09	 The Forgotten
Organization: The Dark Squidknights of the Poor
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:12:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.152545.2488@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (OtakuRoach) writes:

>10/09	The Forgotten				Dong Yang	???
>
>I felt like I was watching an episode from THE INCREDIBLE HULK.
>Very bad writing on this episode.  Alfred skulking around a slummy
>junkyard in his tuxedo!  Smart-aleck bat-computers!  Sheesh.

The bat computer I liked. Especially "Danger! Rocks!" Gee, thanks.

Oh and I liked the Studebaker.

>But the episode wasn't a total loss.  It had some nice action
>sequences, even if the animation wasn't all that hot.

I keep meaning to make up a list of bad BTAS animation moments. I think I
might have to include something from this episode. Probably the bit where
the boss is eating the drumstick. Actually, just about any scene with the
boss. The guard dogs were poorly done too.

(Top of the list is still the sinking of the cruise ship in Prophecy of Doom.
 Boy, that was a stinker.)
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From: tcw@kepler.unh.edu (Timothy C Webb)
Subject: Superhero cartoons / Cartoon Network
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 02:11:45 GMT

  A while ago when someone posted the schedule for the Cartoon Network, there
was listed a "superhero block" of cartoons from 5-7:30 PM. Can anyone who has
the Cartoon Network fill me in on exactly what they're showing in that time
slot? I want to know whether it's worth it to gert on my cable company's back
about adding this channel. Thanks!

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From: mwdenney@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Michael W. Denney)
Subject: Re: Warner Brothers (was: Why tinytoons?)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na,world
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:43:44 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.140349.1322@bcrka451.bnr.ca> tstrilch@sirius.uvic.ca writes:
>This was an excellent cartoon with two cats, one was over-sized and the 
>other, pretty puny.  The smaller cat had the brains, and ordered the
>big cat to go catch the mice.  This was incredible in how it related to
>Steinbeck's _Of Mice and Men_.  I noticed this after reading the novel
>(and watching the movie - can't wait to see the new adaptation) and brought
>it to the attention of my Grade 12 english teacher.  Thanks to WB this
>was one of the rare occasions that we got to watch cartoons in class.

This was "Cat-Tails For Two" starring the very first (and more Mexican street-
person looking) Speedy Gonzales.

Michael 
 a.k.a. The Phantom Scribbler

 - I like those fellows, all the time having fone!
From: wja@headroom.cray.com (William J. Anderson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Knick Knack?
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:41:14 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.

'Knick-Knack' is a computer animated short film done by Pixar.  It is
available on VHS video-tape (and laser disc soon as I understand it) along
with three other high quality animations done by the same production group.
In addition to being a CGI S/W vendor and broadcast TV commercial production house, Pixar has a goup called 'RenderMan Retail' (named after their CGI modeler-renderer interface specification and S/W) that sells this tape, T-shirts, mugs, posters, and, lest I forget, their software direct to the public.  They can be contacted at the address or phone number below:

	Pixar
	Attn: RenderMan Retail
	1001 West Cutting Blvd.
	Richmond, CA  94804
	
	Voice phone: (510)236-4000
	Fax phone: (510)236-0388


				-regards
				Bill Anderson
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (OtakuRoach)
Subject: Re: BTAS: Vendetta (10/5)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:53:26 GMT
Keywords: BTAS

In article <1992Oct6.031903.15167@tc.fluke.COM>, moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime) writes:
> 
> Spoilers ahoy

What the Professor said.



 10/5	VENDETTA				Spectrum	Killer Croc

Synopsis:  Key witnesses against Rupert Thorne keep disappearing, and the
	   evidence seems to incriminate Harvey Bullock.  That Bullock had
	   a problem in his past that might come back to haunt him were
	   he to go against Thorne doesn't help the situation.  In reality,
	   someone else is attempting to frame Bullock...

> was *did* impress me was the P.O.V. for the various shots, and
> the juxtaposition of the scenes.

Yup.  Now I'm certain there are CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO fans working on
the show.  Some of the shots of Batman swimming to and from the Croc's
lair are lifted straight from similar scenes in CAGLIOSTRO.  Same
camera angles, same motions.  The only difference is Batman instead
of Lupin or one of the Count's guards.

> Frankly, an imaginative set-up of a sequence with good animation is
> more impressive to me than spectacular animation with a standard/banal setup.

The difference between style and flash.

> Also, there's a theme they've been using in the score to this series that I
> never heard in the movies, that has run through two or three other episodes,
> and appeared here as well

There was an interview with one of the writers in the latest ADVANCE COMICS.
Every episode is individually scored, with certain characters having certain
musical themes.  Batman has a theme, as does the Joker.

> Outside of that, I notice Martin Pasko is the story editor.  Is that
> brand-new, or has he been doing this for a while?

I've seen him as editor several times now.  Refresh my memory for a sec:
I know he's involved with the Big Two, but I can't place the name.
Who IS he?

> And does it vary from episode to episode?

Yes.  Sometimes whoever wrote the episode gets the credit as editor,
sometimes it's someone else.
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From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Don Bluth Studios no more
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:09:42 GMT
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

tll@cco.caltech.edu (Tal Lewis Lancaster) writes:
>Maybe this is old news and I missed the thread.  But I heard that 
>Don Bluth has closed his studios both in the U.S. and abroad and has filed
>for Bankrupcy.  

I guess that shouldn't be a surprise after Rockadoodle...
-- 
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From: as298@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stephen E. McGinnis)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: BTAS: Schedule for the next two weeks
Date: 8 Oct 1992 07:44:59 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


A friend of mine who works in the industry gave mke the
schedule up to the n..end of November. So pay attention..

Week#7
10/19  Perchance to Dream
10/20  Joker's Favor (Rerun)
10/21  Beware the Grey Ghost
10/22  Nothing to Fear (Rerun - Scarecrow)
10/23  P.O.V. (Rerun)

Week #8
10/26  Night of the Ninja
10/27  The Clock King  (Rerun)
10/28  Be a Clown  (Rerun - Joker)
10/29  Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne
10/30  Tyger, Tyger

Week #9
11/2   Heart of Steel, Pt.1
11/3   Heart of Steel, Pt.2
11/4   Almost Got 'em
11/5   CAt Scratch Fever
11/6   Dreams of Darkeness

Week #10
11/9   Terror in the Sky
11/10  I Am the Night
11/11  Joker's Wild
11/12  <Moon of the Wolf
11/13  Christmaws....Christmas With the Joker

Week #11
11/16  Robin's Reconning, Pt.1
11/17  Robin's Reconning, Pt.2
11/18  If You're So Smart Why Aren't You Rich?
11/19  The Mechanin.....Mechanic (Origin Batmobile)
11/20  Off Balance)

Week #12
11/23  Day of the Samauri
11/24  What is Reality (Riddlrer)
11/25  Appointment In Crime Alley (Rerun)
11/26  Eternal Youth (Rerun - Poinson Ivy)
11/27  Fear of Victory (Rerun - Robin, Scarecrow)

There you have it.....sorry for the typos....
Stephen
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From: rgaines@engin.umich.edu (Robert A Gaines)
Subject: Re: BTAS: 10/09  The Forgotten
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 22:32:18 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: na


   Was I the only one who kept expecting *someone* (the Boss, Batman,
Alfred, *anyone*) to refer to having a "failyuh to commyun'cate?"

- Rob
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From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Beyond Mind's Eye (was: Wow! Killer Bee)
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 07:15:57 GMT

rich.bellacera@amail.amdahl.com writes:
>Ron Dippold spoke of a film entitled Beyond Mind's Eye which is a follow-up
>to The Mind's Eye and covers computer animation since 1988.

>Question:
>Since The Mind's Eye has already been available on video tape for the past
>year or so, doe thins mean that Beyond Mind's Eye will be coming to video
>soon?

Mirimar Productions says "soon."  Before the end of the year.  Video
tape and, of course, laser disc.


>I attended a Animation Film Festival about a year ago where a computer
>animated short was featured.  I cannot remember the name of the feature
>exactly, but I seem to recall the word "spermatazoa" or something like that in
>the title. It was about a spore that comes from outerspace, lands on a planet,
>roots and thrives, then it completely takes over the planet.  The end of the
>featurette has all of the plants that grew from this one spore shooting their
>spores off into space, presumable to repeat the actions that took place at the
>beginning of the film.  Vicious cycle of doom.  Does anyone know the title of
>this film and where it might be available?

Panspermia.  Most of it is shown in Beyond the Mind's Eye so it may
not be worth getting by itself.  I don't know where it's available,
but the name should help.  I got the name when I saw it at the regular
animation festival (Spike & Mike's) here.
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From: walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu
Subject: Re: Tim Curry
Organization: The Claremont Graduate School
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:27:58 PST

In article <1992Oct7.212248.29400@newshost.unh.edu>, ss1@kepler.unh.edu (The Rink) writes:
> In article <BvrLF1.EwL@ulowell.ulowell.edu> bkeener@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian E. Keener) writes:
>>I did recognize the name "Tim Curry", but couldn't place it... what has he
>>	done before "Meggalomania"?
>>
>>							-MetalMaster (Ed)
> 
> He acted in both "Annie" and "Clue".  That's all I can think of.

Sorry to followup twice to one post, but I just remembered that Tim Curry 
also did the voice of Captain Hook in Fox's animated series "Peter Pan"
(which I don't think is on anymore).  If you're primarily an animation fan
that may be where you remember the name from.
Joe Walker
walkerjo@cgsvax.claremont.edu

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From: vgriscep@wam.umd.edu (VGR (Craig Pell))
Subject: Re: It's coming out WHEN?!?
Keywords: Oct. 24th
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:36:28 GMT

In article <81141@ut-emx.uucp> aodn307@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Joshua Henry Geurink) writes:
>
>	Did I read that ad correctly?  The bozos at FOX are waiting until
>OCTOBER 24th to premeire the X-Men animated series?  I mean, according

I too have been seeing the ads on Fox.  But today, when the one came on
showing Wolverine baring his claws, something occurred to me:  is this show
going to be any more exempt than "Conan the Adventurer"?  I mean, just
how many people do you expect him to cut with those claws?  If you said
zero, then you've given the same answer that I thought of.  Even "Batman"
has been pulling some G.I.Joe-type violence-skirting (and *yes*, little 
kids are able to detect this falsehood).  I've been so eager and excited
about the X-Men show, it hasn't occurred to me, until now, that the show
might be bad.  What good are claws that won't be cutting?  Please, not the
God-awful idiotic TMNT trick of cutting a chandelier so it falls on a
villain.  I don't think my stomach could take it.

  VGR

"They're gawking at us, how mortifrying...!"                    -Breakdown
"The word, Breakdown, is `mortiFYing';  my sentiments exactly." -Dead End

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From: sssines@bluemoon.rn.com (Shawn Eric Sines)
Subject: x-men promos
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 22:18:43 EDT

Is it just me or does the animation look awful for the x-men series.. 
Beast looks awkward and disproportionate, and Gambit looked anorexic!
        Part of me dreads seeing this series...

                                Shawn Sines

All responses to... 
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or 
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Acting Our Age
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:35:02 GMT

I suppose there is a problem of connotations here.  Your dictionary denotes 
'childish' in a very negative way, more of a connotation really.  Childish 
literally means 'like a child' which can be either positive or negative.  
Positive in that it means less cynical, perhaps more able to simply enjoy 
something, less preconceptions.  Negative in that Adults are expected by 
society to not act like children, but instead have discipline.
     Probably 'Mature' would be a better word here.  When one is mature, one 
knows when it is okay to act childish.  When one is immature one does not know 
when it is okay to act childish.  Thus, it is possible to never act childish 
and be immature (arrested development and repression), since that person never 
knows when it is okay to be childlike.  Taking honest pleasure from a cartoon 
can be childlike at times.  Refusing to enjoy a cartoon because it is a 
childlike act is simply immature.
     Dave Van Domelen, but what do I know, I'm a physics grad, not psych
From: xorcist@cyberden.uucp
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Ok... so it looks like there is a comic book. ''maybe'' Flux...
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 12:32:31 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

Well I found out today that Peter is working on a comic book. Possibly
Aeon Flux. Not 100% though as there are copyright problems w/MTV on that,
but I will try and get more info as it happens.
PS

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From: isupstud@bnr.ca (Wayne Hutton)
Subject: Re: Knick Knack?
Reply-To: isupstud@bnr.ca (Wayne Hutton)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:08:57 GMT


>With all this discussion about animation festivals and so on, I was
>remembering a short I saw at a festival a couple of years ago (unfortunately,
>I don't remember the name of the festival).  The short was called "Knick
>Knack" and concerned the adventures of a snowman trying to get out of one of
>those water-filled plastic balls that you shake to make it snow.  I
>believe it was computer animated.

>I went back twice just to see this short--it was the funniest damn piece of
>animation I'd seen in a long time.  Can anybody tell me if it's available
>on tape, and if so, where I can get it?
>Thanks!
>Joe Walker


	I believe that I know which cartoon you are referring to.  I went to
see a movie while in Victoria, B.C. (A League of Their own. - Tom Hanks,
Madonna, John Luvitz, Geena Davis, etc.) and before the show started, there
was a short flick as an intro.  I can't remember what it was called, but I do
know that it involved a snowman trying to get out of a shaky thing to woo a
bikinied woman.  The flick was not very long, but it was one of the funniest
things I have ever seen.  I don't know if this will accompany the movie when
it comes out on video tape (probably not) but it's worth looking into.

	I also have a question.  Did anyone see the 23rd International
Animation Festival?  There was a series of cartoons all the way through
that involve two men beating the living &%$#@ out of each other.  It was so
funny that I was crying in the theatre when I saw it.  Does anyone know
what it was called, or where I can get a hold of it?

	Please post a response or send email to "stud7b43@bnr.ca".

Thank you,

Todd Strilchuk (a cartoon at heart)
From: emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Review of LTV show 2: 3
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:53:48 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <1992Oct15.155937.20376@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (OtakuRoach) writes:
>In article <1992Oct15.141300.18545@news2.cis.umn.edu>, donnell@seahorse.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:
>> 
>> Hey, I have never had a problem understanding "JacMac and Radboy"!
>> Course, I saw it before it was on MTV/Ltv...
>
>Same here (Maaaan, I miss NIGHT FLIGHT), but I STILL couldn't make sense
>of most of the dialogue.

Night Flight's gone?  That's too bad - I used to enjoy it during my trips
to the States.

I don't think you're supposed to entirely understand the dialogue in
Jac Mac and Radboy - it seems to be just phrases relating to a scene
being mixed together.

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From: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Tim Curry
Reply-To: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 10:35:29 GMT

Tim Curry starred in a little known feature film called _Rocky
Horror Picture Show_ .  You probably never saw or heard of it;
it didn't do very well at the box office.  

I know this because I asked the same question when I saw the
movie at the Ottawa Animation Fesival.

Erik Timmerman
Film/Video Department
RIT
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From: wmorgan@stsci.edu (Windsor A. Morgan)
Subject: BTAS: The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy 10-14
Originator: wmorgan@pallas.stsci.edu
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:10:11 GMT





This episode was excellent.  When I saw Elliot Maggin's name as the
writer, I knew it would be pretty good, but it was better than that.
Not much else to say, but:

(1) I wondered how Batman could figure out the riddles so quickly.  It
turns out he was in on it from the beginning :-).

(2) Has this Wormwood character shown up in the comics or anywhere
else?

(3) We see the Bat-signal for the first time

(4) Did the sound sound sub-par to anybody else?  I noticed that the
music seemed different in the opening (bank explosion) and at various
places in the episode (words sounded mumbled, for example).


-- 
'Verily, there be no leader as wise as the Vision!'
                         Windsor Morgan (wmorgan@stsci.edu OR NHT@PSUVM.BITNET)
                         Space Telescope Science Institute
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From: xorcist@cyberden.uucp
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: AEON FLUX Comic book = NO!
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 02:06:25 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

Ok... I finally found out from the Flux's mouth...

There will be NO Aeon Flux comic book. There never was. Never will be.
Legally impossible anyways.

Oh well.

Peter wants to animate... not comic book it anymore.

<X>orcist

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From: cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows)
Subject: Re: Casey Kasem/Robin
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 05:15:11 GMT

In article <BvrpLu.24L@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> mwdenney@undergrad.ma
h.waterloo.edu (Michael W. Denney) writes:
>In article <1992Sep30.093350.2188@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> wildcard@vax1.m
nkato.msus.edu writes:
>>Sure why not.
>
>Sure, Casey Kasem is a fairly common name in the animation world.  For t
ose of
>you who love trivia (like myself), some of his voice credits include:
>
>The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings)
>The Flintstones (guest voice)
>Transformers
>Josie and the Pussycats
>Hong Kong Phooey
>and of course his most famous roll: Shaggy from Scooby-Doo.
>
>Michael
> a.k.a. The Phantom Scribbler
>
> - You've got ta keep your eye on the ball! Eye. Ball. Eyeball!
> - That's a joke son. You're built too low.  The fast one's go over
> - your head.  Ikeep a pitching 'em and you keep a missing 'em!
>


Don't forget Battle of the Planets (I've never seen it, but I've heard
he was in it)...

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From: cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows)
Subject: Re: the young sentinels
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	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 05:31:21 GMT


I had at one time a coloring book from this series.

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        "Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, then 
          squeeze them both and see which one comes true."
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