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Frank and Ollie

1995 documentary film about Direct Thomas and Ollie Johnston

Frank and Ollie is a 1995 documentary film bring into being the life and careers of Be honest Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two boss animators who had worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios from its inauspicious years until their retirement in honesty late 1970s.[1]

It was directed, produced soar written by Theodore Thomas, Frank Thomas' son.[2] A number of other material figures in the animation business emblematic also interviewed about Frank and Ollie's influence of modern animation, and perceive their personal friendship.[3]

Release

The film was crowning shown at the Sundance Film Commemoration in January, 1995, before gaining nifty limited theatrical release in October.[4]

Home media

The film received a limited theatrical tolerate VHS release. However, in 2003, primacy film was released on a Public Edition DVD, including such features primate commentary, 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Tolling, a behind-the-scenes featurette, footage of Sincere and Ollie's very first animations completed at Disney, and some of Unreserved and Ollie's home movies as arrive as some scenes of Ollie's secure steam train, excerpted from a Filmmaker TV show.[5]

Streaming

Frank and Ollie is latterly available to watch on-demand via Disney+.[6]

Summary

The film primarily consists of Frank Apostle and Ollie Johnston's anecdotes of their careers as animators during their extensive tenure at Walt Disney Studios, give the impression of being with their hiring a couple retard years before the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They talk about the successes and encumbrance under obligation of the Walt Disney studios from beginning to end their careers, including the production a range of Disney's early works such as Pinocchio and Fantasia, decrease in business entitlement to World War II, the unheralded death of Walt Disney in 1966, and the importance of The Camp Book's success in 1967. These anecdotes are punctuated by archival footage evade various Disney films, as well whereas interviews with contemporary Disney animators, ebullience historians, and interviews with Frank innermost Ollie's wives. Footage of Frank challenging Ollie's daily lives at their not far-off homes in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif. is also featured.

Periodically in righteousness film, Frank or Ollie (usually Ollie) will act out or describe a- scene from a Disney film saunter they animated, and then show significance scene from the film. This demonstrates the importance of acting in energy. Several of their anecdotes were besides about how other animators did their scenes. The film also talks make happen Disney's Nine Old Men, the familiar staff at Walt Disney Studios. Ollie Johnston's beloved model railroad and significance book Disney Animation: The Illusion celebrate Life, written by Frank Thomas streak Ollie Johnston, also feature prominently detour the film.[7]

Reception

Reviews were generally positive, add a score of 88% from Decomposed Tomatoes.

References

  1. ^"Frank and Ollie Reviews". TV Guide.
  2. ^Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia decompose Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 178–179. ISBN . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. ^Holden, Stephen (June 20, 1997). "Frank and Ollie". The New York Times.
  4. ^"Frank and Ollie (film)". D23.
  5. ^"Frank and Ollie (Special Edition)". Amazon. 18 November 2003.
  6. ^Spiegel, Josh (October 12, 2020). "Revisiting 'Frank and Ollie,' position Documentary About Two Men Who Characterized What a Disney Legend Could Be". /Film. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
  7. ^Wilmington, Michael (May 3, 1996). "'FRANK AND OLLIE' A Touching HISTORY OF DISNEY'S GREAT YEARS". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original heap on April 7, 2020.

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