Storyboards reveal what Marvin Acme's funeral in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" would have looked like. 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. Sad Sack He had a high, lilting voice, and giggled a lot. Seeing How This Is The Golden Age of American Animation, More Deleted Cameos are: 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? I just think Popeyes insensitive remark would suit Bluto better, with Popeye reacting to it, in a face-heel fashion. Cars 3 would eventually arrive in theaters in June of 2017. Which after being renamed / rethemed as the Tarzan Treehouse in June of 1999 will revert to being the Adventureland Treehouse later this year. Eddie follows these two into a near-by mausoleum. 1959 was Disneylands greatest year attendance-wise. One of the only images from the storyboards for Marvin Acmes funeral that were available online Until now. So is it any wonder that while Pixar was still trying to get a handle on what Cars 3 would actually be about the Mouse (through its DisneyToon Studios arm. Let me remove any doubt here. Your email address will not be published. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) clip with quote - Judge Doom killed Marvin Acme. Popeye, Bluto, and others appear only in this storyboarded funeral scene. Only Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest sold more tickets in 2006) that Disney execs asked John Lasseter to develop a sequel. Skip to main content. Perhaps one of the saddest casualties was the funeral of Marvin Acme. Just to clarify whos where, heres an additional couple of storyboard drawings which suggest camera moves and/or close-ups. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. on SATURDAY, APRIL This article is based on research for The Disney Dish Podcast Episode 412, published on January 30, 2023. 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. Let me get you a close-up of these characters so you can better see the pallbearers. 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! Now what really would have been great about this proposed sequence for Who Framed Roger Rabbit wasnt just Marvins pallbearers. He had stopped work for the day and drinking with friends at a cricket match. 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. When I contact anyone for information, I am always prepared for them to decline or not have the answer. Disney Has Also Forgot To Add: 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. 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. Valiant cant hear what is being said but by the pantomined actions can see it is on the verge of becoming violent. How so?, you query. But there was another aspect of Who Framed Roger Rabbit that for legal reasons as well as its difficulty-to-animate aspect that wound up getting cut from this Amblin production. Lets jump ahead to the 1959 version of Walt Disney Productions annual report. For example, in the scene where sky-diving Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny offer the plummeting Eddie a spare (parachute, he thinks, but of course its a tire), the lawyers for Disney and Warners demanded that not only were Mickey and Bugs to appear on screen for exactly the same length of time, down to the last frame of film, but they were also to have the same number of lines, and even exactly the same number of words, of dialogue. Hole No. Storyboard Drawings 12 - Marvin Acme Funeral Marty Kline April 10, 2019 Enter Amblin The Marvin Acme funeral scene was deleted, but it would have been fun to see. We say goodbye to a man who was more generous than a homely widow with Sunday supper. With Pingo, Pingg, Pongi and Pengy ( Pingus other friends ) and Pingi ( Pingus girlfriend ) frowning with misery ! Walt was over in Switzerland for the start of shooting on Third Man on the Mountain in 1958 and evidently really liked what he saw. And again my apologies for JHM being off the air for a week or so there. Next come (again L to R) Junior & George, one of Tex Averys hound dogs, Practical Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Fifer Pig & Fiddler Pig. So lets start with the obvious: When Disneyland Park first opened in July of 1955, there had never been one of these before. (in the unproduced scene of Marvin Acme's funeral) MGM Cartoons. Marvin was born in Montreal on January 25, 1937, to Bella and Moses Zalman. Whereas poor Nancy currently sounds like a harbor seal with a head cold. Who now that Acmes funeral has wrapped up this famous foursome is heading off to play some golf. Bonkers D. Bobcat 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. 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. 15. Take for example what happened last week when Bob Hoskins died. Bob Z. and the writers came up with the scene. Out ahead of the release of this Ken Annakin film (Walts go-to director in the 1950s), Walt talked up this project in the Companys annual report for 1959, saying that Swiss Family Robinson is . Disneyland spent $254,900 on the construction of that theme parks version of Swiss Family Treehouse. 10. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This Pixar Animation Studios production did so well (Of all the high grossing films released that year, Cars was No. If we built a Swiss Family Treehouse in the Park Well, that then means a steep set of stairs first going up into that tree and then a second steep set of stairs coming down out of that tree. 2 at the box office. 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. In 1965, this Adventureland Attraction even after taking those costs into consideration still managed to turn a profit of $313,000. Beyond Dicks address at WDI, Walt reportedly only wrote two words on this postcard. Better yet, a complete set of these drawings are now up for bid on eBay. 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. Marvin began his career at his father's clothing manufacturing company, P. Segal and then moved to a position at the Canadian Federal Government where he worked . Key difference between Vacation 58 and National Lampoons Vacation is that the movie follows the Griswold family on their epic journey to Walley World. Which explains this line in the 1958 version of Walt Disney Productions annual report. Which bring us to Eddie Valiant, the down-on-his-luck private dick that Bob played in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.. I think King Features wouldnt let Popeye, and therefore Bluto, be used in the picture. Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux Little Dot The famous never-filmed Marvin Acme funeral sequence workbook pages from Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Disney/Amblin, 1988). So the Ken Annakin corona effect lives on at Disney. Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg decided the funeral scene which would require complicated animation and physical gags to be included with the live action and negotiations unsure for the use of some characters in the scene, that it should be cut even though it was known that it was producer Steven Spielbergs favorite scene in the script. And since it only took three Disneyland employees to safely staff & operate the Treehouse (i.e., one person to take tickets at the entrance, a second staffer patrolling upstairs in the tree to make sure the Guests were behaving themselves / not touching the props, and then a third Cast Member down by the exit making sure that Guests arent sneaking up the back stairs to experience the Swiss Family Treehouse without first surrendering a C Ticket), it also became one of the more profitable attractions in the Park. Flippy Doggenbottom from *Toontown Online* And back to National Lampoons Vacation The Walley World stuff was all shot at two Southern California attractions. While amusing, some in the audience were puzzled why Valiant was taking a shower while Judge Doom and the weasels were in hot pursuit and time was running out for Roger. He promised the Toons that in the event of his death, they will inherit Toontown, as stated in his will. An additional $16,000 to maintain each year. It always seemed odd that Tom and Jerry, the top cartoon stars of the time, werent there, or even Fox and Crow. 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 So a fight between them ensues that evolves to include others. 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. So things that are now closely associated with a visit to Disneyland back in the day (EX: Having to purchase a book of tickets before you entered that theme park. Nearby, Marvin Acne's funeral is inprogress. And as a direct result, gags that had been built around these characters comic personas had to then be cut out of the picture. Featuring Popeye, Elmer Fudd, Felix the Cat . And those words supposedly were Build this.. 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. Because Bob brought so much reality & humanity to Eddie, a role that in the wrong hands could have really been just a cartoon. Sugarfoot As you can see below, Bluto, Elmer Fudd, Herman the Mouse, Felix the Cat, Goofy . Only then could you go over to the actual attraction and get in line for that experience. 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