With Pingo, Pingg, Pongi and Pengy ( Pingus other friends ) and Pingi ( Pingus girlfriend ) frowning with misery ! 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. Better staged. This is when Marc came up with the idea for the Sacred Elephant Bathing Pool and the Africa Veldt sequences for The Jungle Cruise. Not to mention the Trapped Safari. I hate to interrupt your boid watchin but is this the right boneyard for the Acme funeral? Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) clip with quote - Judge Doom killed Marvin Acme. Among them the TWA Moonliner, the Submarine Voyage, the Painted Desert from Frontierland (this is the area Guests traveled through when they experienced Disneylands Mine Train thru Natures Wonderland attraction), Tom Sawyer Island, the Fort in Frontierland, not to mention Skull Rock as well as Monstro the Whale from Disneylands Fantasyland. Hole No. They were using the temporary closure of the Jungle Cruise to revamp that operation. Also many iconic Harvey characters didnt even appear until after 1947, when RRs set: To find out what other sorts of gags the Roger Rabbit production team dreamed up for Marvin Acmes funeral. 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Warner Bros. released this Harold Ramis movie to theaters back in July of 1983. The September 1979 issue, to be exact) to the screen. Popeye makes a joke back about how Were bearing Paul? Under which flowed the water that traveled from the Jungle River Cruise into the Rivers of America). CHIP 'N DALE. - And R. K. Maroon. 200 people up in the tree at any one time. 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) This article is based on research for The Disney Dish Podcast Episode 412, published on January 30, 2023. People arent going to like doing all of that climbing., Imagineers continued An attraction like thats only going to appeal to kids. 65 Likes, 5 Comments - Daffy Duck (@brerfox_showbiz_slamdown) on Instagram: "Storyboards of scrapped 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' scene. 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. Marvin Acme (played by the adorable, irrepressible and talented Stubby Kaye) is the head of the Acme Corporation and owner of . And part of his effort to get as much profit as possible out of Disneys theme parks. More more MORE!!!! 15. Walt keenly remembers what happened when he last built an attraction at Disneyland that was based on a Ken Annakin film (Matterhorn Bobsleds inspired by Third Man on the Mountain). 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. You want to know the toughest part of just shutting down for a while? 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. 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). HECKLE AND JECKLE. WowPopeye, Herman, Felix, and Avery Wolf. The final version and the one that is most often referenced seems to be that as the coffin touches the bottom of the grave, Casper the Friendly Ghost rises up and asks, Will you be my friend?. And as Valiant moves through the long column of cars that are parked near Acmes gravesite, the private detective notices R.K. Maroon exit a long black limo. People who own public domain tapes (and closeted Paramount cartoon fans at the time) would have freaked out with excitement if this was in the movie. The famous never-filmed Marvin Acme funeral sequence workbook pages from Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Disney/Amblin, 1988). Well, heres hoping that whoever wins this auction is a kind & generous soul. The actual Disneyland in Anaheim. 4. 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. I thought we were bearing Acme.. Quacky the Duck ( Screen Gems ) Betty was wearing a dress and high heels at the time. Wouldnt That Be A Wonderful Sight ? Nudnik ( Paramount Cartoon Studios ) Thanks for all your dedicated work for Roger Rabbit history. Marvin Acme (played by the adorable, irrepressible and talented Stubby Kaye) is the head of the Acme Corporation and owner of Toontown. With its 11 story-tall Sierra Tower breaking ground in 1961 (it opened the following year in September of 1962). And at that time, Walt was justly proud of this project. Im definitely going to make this worth your while.. 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. Its an argument that Ive been having with animation fans for nearly a quarter of a century now. The funeral scene starred Foghorn Leghorn as a preacher, cast Goofy, Bluto, Felix the Cat and others as pallbearers, and contained a shot where Yosemite Sam angrily tosses Acme's coffin into his grave, making it the most hilarious fake funeral ever proposed! And Walt followed through on that promise. 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. 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? Bluto thinks that Popeyes comment is disrespectful. More importantly, that theyd also be safe for ladies who were wearing skirts & dressed in heels to use. When out of the corner of his eye (through a gap in the fence that surrounded this cricket pitch) John spied this beautiful Samaan tree with a huge 200 foot-wide canopy of leaves. Because the storyboard artists took what Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman had originally written for this part of their Roger Rabbit screenplay and really expanded on the concept of animated-characters-attend-a-human-funeral idea. The Mighty Heroes ( Terrytoons ) 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. He Wouldve Been In The Marvin Acmes Funeral Scene Sadly Playing The Violin as the Coffin goes down into the grave ! Nearby, Marvin Acne's funeral is inprogress. 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. Required fields are marked *. We see Eddie arrive at the graveyard at Inglewood. The final shot for the scene would be Valiant saying, When it comes to funerals, Toons are worse than the Irish! Paramount had a quick comeback in the 70s and 80s, so reading Harvey comics and going to UCLAs archives really left an impression on Disney/Amblin story artists. Which meant that the Magic Kingdom Golf Course at the Disneyland Hotel could operate from 10 a.m. in the morning til 10 p.m. a night seven days a week. And why is that?, you ask. Only Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest sold more tickets in 2006) that Disney execs asked John Lasseter to develop a sequel. So thats what happened around here last week / earlier this week. Hoskins had a real gift when it came to playing tough guys with soft centers. and Various Characters from Don Bluth Animated Movies ! Let me get you a close-up of these characters so you can better see the pallbearers. They should have studied a print of Jasper Goes Hunting to see how its done. An additional $16,000 to maintain each year. Key difference between Vacation 58 and National Lampoons Vacation is that the movie follows the Griswold family on their epic journey to Walley World. That high, high, I say that high-larious place up in the sky. And given that Jim Hill Media is basically a two person shop, if we were both really finally going to get on top of this respiratory-related ailment (which Im just being honest here hasnt been helped by pollen season), it was now time to step away from the site for a few days and just concentrate on getting healthy. I think they made the right decision, looking back, in eliminating the sequence. 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). Back when the Mouse didnt have to have ALL of the money when it came to the Southern California tourism market. These preproduction paintings suggest that this Cars spin-off would be far grittier than Say the sort of adventures that Lightning McQueen & Mater would typically have out in Radiator Springs. Bluto thinks that Popeyes comment is disrespectful. Notably left out of the mix were Popeye characters, Tom and Jerry, and Casper the Friendly Ghost. This operational change at the Park is going to affect your bottom line at the Hotel. Cook County, Illinois Birth Index, 1916-1935 . Let me remove any doubt here. Which was going to be necessary for the two elevators that would then make that attractions stretching room scenes possible. When there was plenty to go around for everyone. But is Who Framed Roger Rabbit a perfect film? Whats kind of intriguing about the plot complication that sets Act 3 of National Lampoons Vacation in motion (i.e., that just as the Grisworld arrive at Walley World [after a harrowing cross-country journey] they discover that Americas favorite family fun park is closed for two weeks for cleaning and to make repairs) is that Well, its based on something that Hughes learned about the real Disneyland. John Howell who was the art director on Swiss Family Robinson was out scouting locations for this movie in 1958. Imagine Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2. Well, this sequence starts out sticking relatively close to the screenplay. I was wondering if they had other characters they controlled that werent used. Required fields are marked *. Dont these storyboard drawings just make you wish that Marvin Acmes funeral had actually made it into the finished version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit ? The way I hear it, even with Spielbergs clout, there were just some cartoon characters that the Roger Rabbit production team couldnt acquire the rights to. Marvin Acme's death. Conversely, the pairing of Donald and Daffy was on-the-nose! 10. Why when toonkind splattered forth upon this landscape, we wandered the hills without a home. The Disney Dish Podcast is part of the Jim Hill Media Podcast Network. 3. Walt may have been overselling things a little here. Dont believe me? I consider him a true animation treasure and always encourage him to share more of his animation knowledge. But when Disneys version of Swiss Family Robinson finally arrived in theaters in December of 1960, it did quite well at the box office. The short answer was that Valiant had to wash off a toon pig head that the weasels had painted on him (in a scene animated but cut from the film) after a confrontation with Doom in Jessicas dressing room and that earlier Valiant had put in a very busy and sweaty day including attending the funeral of Marvin Acme. Storyboards reveal what Marvin Acme's funeral in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" would have looked like. Paul Bearins shore hard work, aint it? 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. Heres the actual opening line to John Hughes Vacation 58.. There's MICKEY MOUSE comforting MINNIE. Its now the Spring of 1961 and attendance at Disneyland Park has actually fallen off from the previous year by 200,000 people. Moose out front shoulda told ya. 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 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). As Well as Robby the Seal ( Pingus Friend ) Crying as Acmes coffin gets lowered straight right down into the grave. And let me tell you, folks: The more I look at these images, I honestly wish that Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, Richard Williams & Dale Baer could have found a way to make the Marvin-Acmes-funeral scene happen. 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.. Whereas poor Nancy currently sounds like a harbor seal with a head cold. 8. Marvin Acme (played by the adorable, irrepressible and talented Stubby Kaye) is the head of the Acme Corporation and owner of Toontown. Because Bob brought so much reality & humanity to Eddie, a role that in the wrong hands could have really been just a cartoon. A-hyuck. In one version, Yosemite Sam gets so angry that he yells, Hold it, ya varmints! He is angrily confronting her. I can hear her coughing in the bedroom right now. Would get a bigger reaction / stronger laugh largely because Guests now wouldnt see the Trapped Safari until they then floated by the lions cave. With New Cameos Like: Largely because the amount of money that the Mouse was making off of the sales of Cars -related merchandise was To be blunt here, mind boggling. Whereas the short story that Hughes wrote (i.e., Vacation 58) follows an unnamed family to a different theme park. In that document (which was also published on December 23rd of that year) states that: Again this year, as in each year since Disneyland Park first opened in 1955, new records were set for total attendance and per capita spending of park visitors.The change to a five-day operating week during the 1958 1959 winter season from the seven-day schedule in effect the previous year has worked out very well. When it reaches the bottom, there is a boing sound and the harlequin clown mascot from the Harvey cartoons introductions pops out. FYI: He brought along his daughter, Halley (As in Halley Mills, the star of Disneys Pollyana and The Parent Trap). The pallbearers of the coffin kept shifting but generally included Yosemite Sam (who is struggling to carry the coffin from underneath it), Elmer Fudd, the silent screen version of Felix the Cat (with a Sob thought bubble above him), Popeye, Bluto, Herman the Mouse and in at least one version, Goofy. 7. Ill plant him muhself! He hoists the casket over his head and stomps toward the grave where he tosses it into the hole and turns to Foghorn Leghorn, Awright, you big-mouth bantampreach., In another version, when the coffin was lowered down into the grave, it landed on a whoopee cushion and a little Tex Avery style sign popped up out of the coffin saying Sad, aint it?. Theres this great scene about 20 minutes into this motion pictures where Valiant as he sits alone in his office, drinking is looking through some photographs and is suddenly undone when Eddie comes across an image of himself, his brother Teddy and Valiants then-girlfriend / secretary Delores cavorting at Catalina. 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