The Gallopin’ Gaucho was the second film featuring Mickey Mouse to be produced, following Plane Crazy and preceding Steamboat Willie. The Walt Disney Company completed the silent version on August 7, 1928, but failed to distribute it widely. Due to a lack of interest, the film was not given wide release until after Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy had been released, making it the third Mickey Mouse short, with the sound version released on December 30, 1928.
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Plane Crazy was first released on May 15, 1928, and is the first Mickey Mouse cartoon to be released. It was initially released as a silent film, with a soundtrack added later by Carl W. Stalling and released on December 29, 1928. The short was co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Iwerks was also the main animator for this short and reportedly spent six weeks working on it.
In theaters March 5, 2010
Disney is serious about getting a Best Picture nomination for Pixar’s Up; so much that they bought the entire cover of Daily Variety, seen below:
In limited theaters now; everywhere Thanksgiving.
A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated will be screening November 12-15th, 2009 as part of the Facebook Comic-Con (a free virtual convention occurring on Facebook.com). The project is now live and will remain online until November 15th, at which time, it will be taken down thus ending the free screening event.
Check out the film, broken up into 6 parts (due to Facebook’s 20 minute video length restriction) at: www.facebook.com/video/?oid=160692464632
Note: It is recommended that anyone who has not seen the original ‘Night of the Living Dead’ watch it prior to seeing ‘Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated’ as some of the styles are rather abstract.
Artists, illustrators and animators from around the world were invited to select scenes from the original film and make them their own. With no restrictions on style, media or process the resulting works ranged from oil paintings to comic illustrations and sock puppets to digital animation. These works were then curated into a visual track of artwork and set to the audio of George A. Romero’s ‘Night of the Living Dead’.
In theaters March 5, 2010
