Hashimoto-San He has yellow and orange swirly eyes and carried a straight razor. If Popeye were to be used in the funeral scene, wed have needed to see him carrying the casket alone, perhaps balancing it on one finger (hes strong to the finich, after all). This year is the 30th anniversary of the release of National Lampoons Vacation. Warner Bros. released this Harold Ramis movie to theaters back in July of 1983. Also the Goons from Sleeping Beauty & the Jungle Book vulture (seen briefly at the end) as well. Annakin went on to direct several very popular family films in the 1960s & 1970s, among them Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines and The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. And the Walt Disney Company went out of its way to recognize Kens contribution to the overall success of Disney Studio & the Companys theme parks by naming him a Disney Legend in 2002. They like all of the short-term money that Lightning Lane is pulling in right now and are deliberately overlooking all of the long-term implications of the narrative getting out there that going to WDW is getting too expensive. (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. Swiss Family Treehouse quickly became one of the more popular attractions in the Park. Funeral service from Paperman & Sons, 3888 Jean Talon Ouest, on Monday, February 13 at 10:00 a.m. Burial at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery, 1250 ch. The Entire Cast of The Adventures of Brer Rabbit ( 2006 ) 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. Back to Disneyland Park closing on Mondays & Tuesdays during the off-season When did this practice start? Winnie the Pooh ( Disney ) Shiva at Jackie's home Monday through Wednesday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., and from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. He had a high, lilting voice, and giggled a lot. Sorry folks. Well, this sequence starts out sticking relatively close to the screenplay. photographed on the island of Tobago in the West Indies and that it is shaping up into such an exciting and thrilling picture that the Swiss Family Robinson shows every promise of equaling or surpassing every production our Company has ever put out. The famous never-filmed Marvin Acme funeral sequence workbook pages from Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Disney/Amblin, 1988). And then there was Metro. Which was supposed to have been set in the inner city and focused on what went on in The World Below Cars. As in: Down in the subway system. An early script for the movie include a scene in which Eddie Valiant attends Marvin Acme's funeral. I can hear her coughing in the bedroom right now. Just so Walt could then be certain that this attractions stairways werent too steep. 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? 4 at the box office that year, behind Spartacus, Psycho, and Exodus.. In yet another version, to the human funeral directors amazement as the coffin is being lowered, the crank starts plinking out the tune to Pop Goes the Weasel like a jack-in-the box and the Toon mourners sing the lyrics. During the 2022 holiday season, Disney Parks actually raised the prices on individual Lightning Lanes for popular attractions like Rise of the Resistance to $22 a person. Your email address will not be published. Next come (again L to R) Junior & George, one of Tex Averys hound dogs, Practical Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Fifer Pig & Fiddler Pig. 200 people up in the tree at any one time. Three was Sleeping Beauty Castle. Build up the cave that was behind that pride of lions which was watching over that sleeping zebra so that the Trapped Safari would then have a stronger reveal. etc. By the way, the gentleman who has put this piece of film history up for bid on eBay Well, I dont know this guy from Adam. Which proves to be a problem on the off-season, given that there are days in the late Fall / early Spring when there are more Cast Members working in the Park than there are Guests coming through the turnstiles. More importantly, that theyd also be safe for ladies who were wearing skirts & dressed in heels to use. But rather all of the classic cartoon characters from the 1930s & the 1940s who have turned out to pay their respects to Acme. Popeye makes a joke back about how Were bearing Paul? It's 1947 Hollywood and Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a down-on-his-luck detective is hired to find proof that Marvin Acme, gag factory mogul and owner of Toontown, is playing hanky-panky with. I have a lot more of the drawings, including the Casper ones, I think Joe Ranft drew several of the Casper sequence, including the A GHOST! one. It wasnt til February 6, 1985 that Disneyland Park formally switched to being a seven-day-a-week operation. Marvin was born in Montreal on January 25, 1937, to Bella and Moses Zalman. So a fight between them ensues that evolves to include others. The Wuzzles Thats the piece of land that the pipe which connects the Jungle Cruise and the Rivers of America runs through. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Your email address will not be published. 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. Cubby Bear ( Van Beuren ) Required fields are marked *. Not to mention adding all sort of restaurants & shops to the area surrounding that hotels Olympic-sized pool. Which means that I should probably close here & run out and get her some more medicine. So does Disneylands Swiss Family Treehouse. Storyboards reveal what Marvin Acme's funeral in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" would have looked like. Okay. A live action look-alike for actor Humphrey Bogart is driving. We see Eddie arrive at the graveyard at Inglewood. Ah yes, this takes me back. Well, then consider this: In just the first five years that the Cars film franchise existed, global retail sales of merchandise related to these Pixar movies approached $10 billion. Bob Z. and the writers came up with the scene. Simba, Timon & Pumbaa When there was plenty to go around for everyone. Back then, this Adventureland attraction was a C Ticket (35 cents apiece). Why when toonkind splattered forth upon this landscape, we wandered the hills without a home. Now what really would have been great about this proposed sequence for Who Framed Roger Rabbit wasnt just Marvins pallbearers. Gerald McBoing-Boing But as soon as Casper says Will you be my friend? , in a faithful recreation of that old cartoon cliche, both the toons & the humans at graveside scream A G-G-G-G-G-G-GHOST ! Going clockwise from the middle, we have Bluto, Elmer Fudd, Herman the Mouse, Felix the Cat, Goofy and Popeye the Sailor. ! and then run off in terror. An early press screening of Disney Million Dollar Arm. Not to mention the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train media event down at Walt Disney World), we both went from feeling just tired & run-down to becoming really, really sick. So the Ken Annakin corona effect lives on at Disney. The first Cars spin-off to arrive in the marketplace was Planes. This Klay Hall film (which was set in The World Above Cars) was released theatrically in August of 2013, with the Blu-ray & DVD version of Planes hitting store shelves in November of that same year. Little Roquefort That from 1958 through 1985 [a total of 27 years] the Happiest Place on Earth used to close two days a week during the slower times of year. He genuinely cares about all Toons and has promised that in the event of his death, they will inherit Toontown, as stated in his will. THE ACME FUNERAL SITE - LONG SHOT - DAY. And as for those steep sets of stairs While work was underway on this 70-foot-tall faux tree, Walt persuaded Betty Taylor (who was playing Sue Foot Sue over at the Golden Horseshoe at that time) to come over to the Swiss Family Treehouse construction site one afternoon. Sally Sargant ( Terrytoons ) Aladdin and Jasmine And in this case, the thinking was Walt really liked those live-action movies that Ken Annakin directed for the Studio. Which is a trifle ironic. Arf Arf Arf. Next comes (Again going L to R ) Porky & Petunia Pig, Horace Horsecollar & Clarabelle Cow, Jerky Turkey, Tex Averys wolf character and Droopy. So the Happiest Place on Earth was a learn-as-you-go operation. 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? Thats what worries me about Disneys current situation. It always seemed odd that Tom and Jerry, the top cartoon stars of the time, werent there, or even Fox and Crow. 1. Let me remove any doubt here. 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. 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. TOM AND JERRY. Also many iconic Harvey characters didnt even appear until after 1947, when RRs set: Your email address will not be published. Storyboards for this scene recently surfaced on EBay. 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. Its worth noting here that from the moment the monorail was connected to The Disneyland Hotel that hotel achieved 100% occupancy. And in the middle of a work week that featured some pretty amazing professional opportunities (i.e., being allowed to cover this years Actors Fund Gala, which celebrated the 20th anniversary of Disney on Broadway. Dont fret. Dedicated To Classic Cartoons: Past, Present & Future, New Animation Books For Your Social Isolation. A Terrytoons Mighty Mouse is crying while in the hand of a Fleischer Superman who is on his knees sobbing away. Want to stress here: Two days a week versus the two weeks each year in National Lampoons Vacation.. Honestly, I thought the whole scene was good enough as is, lawyer problems aside (which got worse for Warners as time went on). FYI: He brought along his daughter, Halley (As in Halley Mills, the star of Disneys Pollyana and The Parent Trap). To be specific, Mondays & Tuesday in the Fall & early Winter as well as in the late Winter / early Spring. 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. Roland and Rattfink Great reporting Jim. Marvin Acme (played by the adorable, irrepressible and talented Stubby Kaye) is the head of the Acme Corporation and owner of Toontown. Goofy: Gawsh! Theres a famous story of Walt observing a Mom pulling her kid away from the entrance of the Jungle Cruise. Saying words to the effect Weve already seen that ride. So did this change in the way that Disneyland Park ultimately operated off-season ultimately work out? George of the Jungle and Shep Whereas Teddy He never made it). Marvin D. McCune De Smet, SD - Marv McCune, age 66, of De Smet, SD, passed away Sunday, April 18, 2021 at the Mayo Hospital in Rochester, MN. 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). Over that time, he has interviewed hundreds of animators, actors, and Imagineers -- many of whom have shared behind-the-scenes stories with Mr. Hill about how the Mouse House really works. Worth noting here that in the late 1960s / early 1970s when Walt Disney Animation Studios was fumbling around for an idea for a project to tackle after The Aristocats (That was the last animated feature that Walt Disney personally put into production / greenlit) someone asks that classic question What would Walt do?. I just love how in the above shot Felix the Cat is fighting back tears as he helps to carry Acmes casket. And why is that?, you ask. In one version, Yosemite Sam gets so angry that he yells, Hold it, ya varmints! 9. 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. That was the original plan, anyway. And as a direct result, gags that had been built around these characters comic personas had to then be cut out of the picture. Sugarfoot To be specific here: Once construction of Disneylands Swiss Family Treehouse was complete in the Fall of 1962, it only cost $21,000 to staff & operate annually. Kari Granlund was writing the screenplay for this Robin Hood reboot. Let me get you a close-up of these characters so you can better see the pallbearers. Quacky the Duck ( Screen Gems ) The final shot for the scene would be Valiant saying, When it comes to funerals, Toons are worse than the Irish! 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. TOM AND JERRY. 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(You can read all about this in Walt Disney Productions annual report for 1961. And that was Marvin Acmes funeral. Take for example Cars on the Road, that nine-part series which debuted on Disney+ back in September of last year. One of the sequences from this Disney film that people most fondly remember is that montage where the Robinsons salvage what they can of their wrecked ship, the Swallow, and then use that same material to construct this amazing treehouse on an uninhabited island off the shore of New Guinea. Which is why Im now trying to get Jim Hill Meida back up to speed. Lets look for ways to make the rides there funnier. Clustered around a gravesite are the mourners TOONS of every stripe. Marvin E Owens Home for Funerals. (H&K seperately, and Buzzy,m Katnips longtime crow star, already were established by 1947). Which explains this line in the 1958 version of Walt Disney Productions annual report. An American songwriter Marvin Gaye's funeral in 1984.REF 12326 To license contact info@lpe360.com Anyway, the scene wouldnt have added much to the film, but its nice that other 1940s characters had been planned to appear. Hole No. Wouldnt That Be A Wonderful Sight ? Yes its real.). Hoskins had a real gift when it came to playing tough guys with soft centers. Dolores: But I already have a good man). No lawyer writers. Bluto thinks that Popeyes comment is disrespectful. And Eddie Valiant searching for Roger certainly would have been an occasion to have Elmer Fudd walking by similarly hunting wabbits. We say goodbye to a man who was more generous than a homely widow with Sunday supper. I dont want people coming away from their visit to Disneyland with this impression. And by October 11, 1955 (less than 3 months after Disneyland Park first opened), they had a fix in place. Popeye, Bluto, and others appear only in this storyboarded funeral scene. It actually meant a lot to Nancy & myself that people had noticed that the site had gone dark for a few days and were concerned enough to send along e-mails and/or make phone calls just to make sure that we were both okay. When you think of all the then-A-list actors that Steven Spielberg & Robert Zemeckis reportedly pursued to come play this part (example: Harrison Ford, Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy to name just a few), we are just so lucky that Hoskins ultimately won this role. Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Owl and Gopher The actual Disneyland in Anaheim. 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). More to the point, since Disneylands 1959 expansion project was largely focused on Tomorrowland This time around, the work will largely be focused on the other side of the Park. Cook County, Illinois Birth Index, 1916-1935 . So thats what the Imagineers did. Bendy 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. Carving out the space for the Tahitian Terrace as well as the Enchanted Tiki Room. Well, heres hoping that whoever wins this auction is a kind & generous soul. Im late to this party, but truly just knowing this was planned out in several alternate universes gives me such a euphoric feeling. Im definitely going to make this worth your while.. And those words supposedly were Build this.. An additional $16,000 to maintain each year. But he tells me that there are another 80 or so pages of drawings of classic cartoon characters that were storyboarded from this proposed Roger Rabbit sequence. Featuring Popeye, Elmer Fudd, Felix the Cat . I wonder..who could doPopeyesvoice for that sceneMr.Marvin Acmes(Stubbys)funeral scene..that was cut from the film? Which is why Disney then asked Pixar to prep a follow-up film. As you can see below, Bluto, Elmer Fudd, Herman the Mouse, Felix the Cat, Goofy . Out of every four Guests who came through the turnstile / surrounded that 35 cent C ticket, only one was a kid under 10. Dont believe me? Its now the Spring of 1961 and attendance at Disneyland Park has actually fallen off from the previous year by 200,000 people. Lets jump ahead to the 1959 version of Walt Disney Productions annual report. Which has gotten miserable press since Day One (and is a large part of peoples growing perception that its just gotten too expensive to take their family on vacation to WDW). Sadly, Ken passed away at his home in Beverly Hills back in April of 2009 at the ripe old age of 94. Little Dot This operational change at the Park is going to affect your bottom line at the Hotel. Disneyland spent $254,900 on the construction of that theme parks version of Swiss Family Treehouse. Sadly, the Imagineers werent able to base any other theme park attractions on Ken Annakin movies. 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. Id also like to thank people like Leo N. Holzer, who stepped up to the plate when Nancy & I couldnt and got a new story or two out there. Keep In Mind That WFRR Totally Had Mixed Reviews ! They chit-chatted with Valiant for a few moment before heading off to the links and . 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. Any scene thats supposed to be inside of the actual Walley World theme park was shot at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Mr. Peabody and Sherman From that point on, there are several different variations of what happens to Acmes coffin so that there were multiple options depending upon what character rights could be obtained. Turned this proposed sequence for this film into something that animation fans would have talked about for decades. 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 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. Skip to main content. -Via io9 This resulted in lower net profits compared to the prior year. In 1965, this Adventureland Attraction even after taking those costs into consideration still managed to turn a profit of $313,000. 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. An Justin Springer, who helped get Tron: Legacy off the ground back in 2010, would be producing. The September 1979 issue, to be exact) to the screen. He is angrily confronting her. So lets start with the obvious: When Disneyland Park first opened in July of 1955, there had never been one of these before. How difficult it was for example to tie a hand-drawn Roger down in the live-action footage that Robert Zemeckis had shot. In June of 1961, he extended Disneylands monorail system by a full 2 & a half miles so that this futuristic transportation system rolled right up to the Disneyland Hotels front door. The eulogy is being given by Foghorn Leghorn who intones: Today we commit the body of brother Acme to the cold, I say cold, cold ground. Its an argument that Ive been having with animation fans for nearly a quarter of a century now. With the 50th anniversary re-release of Snow White in 1987, Roger Rabbit in 1988, and the Little Mermaid in 1989, I felt optimistic about the future of animation for the first time in my life. Pink Panther The Mighty Heroes ( Terrytoons ) Thats gotta go inside of the actual Jungle Cruise. So at Walts insistence the Trapped Safari then became the tag gag for the African Veldt section of that Adventureland attraction. If Disney and Amblin Had A Contract with Trickfilmstudio and Editoy, Then Ill Be Very Proud ! Reduced operating hours helped to control operating costs in the face of increased wage rates and other rising costs. Which was going to be necessary for the two elevators that would then make that attractions stretching room scenes possible. This is where I want you guys to build Disneylands version of the Swiss Family Treehouse., The Imagineers explained But Walt. but sorta makes you MISS the appearance[s] of Tom & J, Popeye, Casper, Herman & K , Baby H, Little A, etc. And we were genuinely terrified for Eddie when he did battle with Judge Doom in the Acme Warehouse and then discovered that SPOILER ALERT Doom was the toon with those burning red eyes, and that high, squeaky voice who did in Teddy. You want to know the toughest part of just shutting down for a while? John Howell who was the art director on Swiss Family Robinson was out scouting locations for this movie in 1958. Hopefully by next week, Ill be able to resume JHMs 5-day-a-week publication schedule. Marvin William Leiter. Mark Kauslers account of the Acme funeral is accurate. The Matterhorn at Disneyland was largely inspired by research that the Studio did in Zermatt, Switzerland in late 1957 / early 1958 out ahead of the location shooting that was done for Third Man on the Mountain which officially got underway in June of 1958). 2 at the box office. The other three were adults. Meanwhile, Goofy makes a joke about how tough it is to be a pallbearer. All of them would've appeared in a sequence set at Marvin Acme's funeral, but it was cut due to pacing concerns. No. Popeye: Were bearing Paul? A-hyuck. Killer views of New Orleans Square construction / the Jungle Cruise ride just below.Oh, and that only appeal to kids thing? Nearby, Marvin Acne's funeral is inprogress. He was an unusual blue-grey color, and his fur was nicotine stained. 2. Anyway, heres hoping that you folks enjoyed todays story. A deleted scene involving Marvin Acme's funeral would've featured Foghorn Leghorn as the preacher giving the sermon. He is a bald, middle-aged gentleman with an eccentrically jovial, lighthearted personality who loves and cares deeply for the welfare of all Toons. How so?, you query. It would have been a fun scene with all those disparate Toons but Katzenberg was right that it wasnt necessary to tell the story. Prior to this, if you wanted to go on a ride at Disneyland, you had to first get on line at one of the Parks omni-present ticket booth. Case in point: The Swiss Family Treehouse, which first opened at Disneyland Park back in November of 1962. Once you got to the front of that line, you then had to open your wallet and purchase enough tickets for your entire family to enjoy that attraction. Without Hoskins ability to see (More importantly, make the audience believe that Bob was seeing) things that werent there, Roger Rabbit would have never worked. 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