boat builders ( film )
boat builders
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“i met alwyn enoe a few years ago on carriacou island in the caribbean. approaching 70, he is one of the last wooden boat builders, ” said alexis andrews, the film’s director .
“vanishing sail” already has won several awards including the caribbean spirit award for best overall feature film at the caribbean tales film festival and the people’s choice award for best feature documentary at the trinidad & tobago film festival .
in the beginning of the movie, a child has an accident with a toy boat in a puddle. that toy boat is a scale model of the ss united states
the overlapping toy boat and sailing ship connects the real world with the boys’ imagination .
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on the tiny island of carriacou in the eastern caribbean, alwyn enoe is one of the last wooden boat builders practicing a trade that has been passed down the generations from the original scottish settlers who arrived more than two centuries ago .
mickey, donald, and goofy build a boat, but find it' s harder than they had anticipated .
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it' s very well animated, i found none of the gags not funny and it' s just the right length. plus the gang succeed at the end - it' s only minnie that lets them down. so overall, i highly recommend boat builders .
all they have to do is build a boat. it' s so easy that even a child can do .
unless the ones building the boat are mickey, donald, and goofy, who somehow manage to foul it up .
the draft for boat builders shows none of the star names of many of the other shorts. e. g. we will not find fred moore or norm ferguson. small wonder, as at this time they were busy finishing up on snow white and the seven dwarfs .
( there' s probably a pattern here .) at the time of the film' s release ,
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enoe’s story unfolds in the film “vanishing sail, ” which will be screened at 10 a. m. on sunday, april 3, 2016, at the maryland hall for the creative arts auditorium on chase street as part of the fourth annapolis film festival .
while watching this cartoon i noticed a blooper, watch closely in the sequence where after minnie hits the boat with a bottel the next scene shows the boat puilling away and we see goofy in his usual clothes, but the very next scene shows goofy in a... (read more )
when the trio builds a boat
so simple a child could do it
you know it will be wrecked at the end. solid cartoon .
“this is the maryland premiere, ” andrews said. “this story culminates in an exciting wooden sailboat race with enoe’s boat winning a major prize. ”
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then again, if dr adrian didn' t persuade the captain to open the gates, hundreds more people would have died (the passengers who paid to be on the arks and the builders) .
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chekhov' s gunman: adrian' s father is shown boarding a cruise ship early in the film, and he mentions that he has a son he stays in touch with. it isn' t clear until later in the film that adrian is his son .
the film cuts from one story to another, and they are alternately laced with low - key humor, hints of tragedy and even whimsy. there' s the goofy italian family of fishermen who buy coughlin' s last boat and figure in a twist at the end of the film, the impending doom that seems to hang over joey and a mysterious young man who hangs around coughlin as a kind of angel of death .
if two allegations can be derived from one piece of moana still art, imagine the claims that’ll be made when the actual film is released .
the various references to wisconsin throughout the film; first from an old lady at the beginning who regrets moving from there, it becoming the new location of the south pole at the end of the film, as well as being mentioned in the last sentence of jackson' s novel .
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it’s something that i think they have gone ahead with without any approval from the itaukei affairs and the intellectual property owners, being the elders or the canoe builders of fiji. while it is great that pacific island voyaging culture is being featured, i do hope the owners (canoe builders) will receive appropriate compensation for use of their canoe design since the movie will make billions of dollars and the people from korova are not being exploited .
the film suggests that a journey between yellowstone national park and los angeles can be driven in a few hours. the two are 1000 miles apart .
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mickey buys a boat kit, and enlists goofy and donald to help assemble it. the plans say ,
so simple a child could do it
...
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in this short, mickey mouse and his friends donald duck and goofy attempt to build a boat (which they name queen minnie), which is made from fold - out parts (the instructions simply say
all you do is put it together
and
even a child can do it
), though they encounter problems of their own as they go (e. g. donald paints the rudder which keeps being turned by mickey, and goofy thinks the figurehead is an actual woman). their maiden voyage turns out to be their last, as the boat collapses as it sets sail, thanks to minnie mouse hitting the champagne bottle (to christen the boat) just too hard on the boat .
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secondly, it is impossible to not like this short. mickey, donald and goofy make a boat. to quote a reviewer from a website i like to visit :
wackiness ensures
.
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fijian organizations argue that disney used the design of a traditional boat called a camakau (pronounced tha - ma - cow) without their permission. colin philp, a mua voyage coordinator, told the fiji times :
coughlin only knows one way to build boats and he' s not about to change his ways now. but that means he' s out of work, as is his small crew of boat builders  john alder (beau bridges), whose wife is about to deliver their fifth child; daryl monahan (vincent phillip d' onofrio), who has to care for his retarded younger brother joey (michael lewis); and daryl' s best friend eddie johnson (kevin j. o' connor) .
homer spent the summer of 1873 in gloucester, massachusetts, where he painted the boat builders, which belongs to a series of prints and drawings devoted to shipbuilding. his genius for subtle yet penetrating narrative is apparent in the central passage of this small canvas: by overlapping the toy boat and the sailing ship, the artist connects the real world of fishermen with the boys' imagination. the juxtaposition also predicts the future of these cape ann youths, who will likely make their living from the sea. the painting conveys a sense of deep peace as the boys play quietly in the brilliant sunlight. a celebrated magazine illustrator, homer also used this image of two boys in an engraving for the harper' s weekly of october 11, 1873 .
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all of these stories are handled with gentle care, making the film quite personal and fairly charming. but none of the stories or performances is particularly impressive so that in the end it simply seems overly familiar .
during the early 1870s, homer often explored a single theme through several media, and his oil painting, boat builders, set on the coast of gloucester, massachusetts, relates to a series of prints and drawings devoted to shipbuilding. homer also used this image of the two boys in an engraving for the october 11, 1873, issue of harper’s weekly. the scene pairs homer’s love of outdoor subjects with his fondness for themes of boys at play. in the central passage, homer’s genius for subtle, yet penetrating narrative connects the real nautical world with the boys’ imagination by overlapping the toy boat and sailing ship. in their play, the two boys may have been preparing for future lives at sea as fishermen, sailors, or shipwrights. this panel bears only a trace of the ominous tone that often pervades homer’s paintings of life by the sea .
“vanishing sail” is one of 70 films that organizers plan to screen over four days— from thursday, march 31 to sunday, april 3— at the festival, which will also include workshops, post - film discussions and other activities .
amazingly, the boat isn’t the only tenuous claim of infringement being made against that piece of moana concept art. an anonymous reader sent the image below that alleges disney used a photo from this website for the background of their moana concept art. here’s the “proof” :
action film, quiet drama scene: multiple, particularly the scene in air force one between adrian and laura, what' s left of washington dc and the president, and the scenes involving jackson and his family in yuri' s plane .
great animation and backgrounds. that' s some magical ship that builds itself and defies the laws of physics. is goofy really so dumb he can' t recognize an inanimate wood statue from a living person? how does the boat disassemble itself even though it has been nailed together ?
at about two minutes and ten seconds into the film, goofy is seen hammering a nail into a board presumably meant for the starboard side of the ship. however, when he take his hand away, there are two nails hammered in, not one .
why contemporary fijian boatmakers deserve compensation for a centuries - old boat design to which they have no authorship or ownership rights isn’t explained in the piece. from a legal perspective, there’s currently no evidence to suggest that disney doesn’t have the same rights as the fijian boatmakers to use a traditional camakau design in their work .
what little plot there is revolves around the closure of owen coughlin' s (kennedy) waterfront boat - building company, which has been around for more than a century but must now close thanks to the pressures of such cost - cutting measures as fiberglass, which are used by competitors, forcing coughlin out of business .
arthur kennedy, perhaps best known as the photojournalist who followed peter o' toole around in
lawrence of arabia ,
returns to the screen after a 10 - year absence in
signs of life ,
a little slice - of - life film set in a small maine fishing town .
mickey buys a boat kit, and enlists goofy and donald to help assemble it. the plans say ,
so simple a child could do it
, so of course, they have their share of troubles. but even these three soon have the queen minnie ready to launch. so, with appropriate... (more )
“he and his sons spent 30 months building one last racing sloop and i was lucky enough to be able to document it on film. in the old days these wooden ships were an important part of the caribbean culture known as sail - trading or more accurately as the smuggling of contraband, ” andrews said .
mickey buys a boat kit, and enlists goofy and donald to help assemble it. the plans say ,
so simple a child could do it
, so of course, they have their share of troubles. but before long, they' re ready to launch the queen minnie, with appropriate fanfare, at which time, all the collapsible parts collapse .
“our tradition of sailing films on sunday at the annapolis film festival has always been a hit, but this year is especially strong and we expect a great turnout, ” burch said. “we just learned that his excellency, dr. angus friday, ambassador for grenada to the usa will be with us for ‘vanishing sail. ’ we could not be more thrilled. ”
take that: a very lazy shot at arnold schwarzenegger (
he' s an actor - he' s reading from a script !
). there is a veritable myriad of take - thats in the film, but there' s so many that it' s kind of hard to pinpoint them all. western civilization? religion? rich people? russians ?
apocalypse how: judging by the sight of huge chunks of los angeles getting ripped out of the ground, this is likely to be a class 2 at the very least. we look at about class 3b, maybe class 4, depending on the severity of volcanism and floods. the end of the film implies only class 1 - the vast majority of humans are dead, but civilization perseveres .
as for ark encounter, so far, land has been purchased, design work has been completed, and amish builders from indiana have been enlisted for construction. the ark is expected to cost about $ 21 million, of which the ministry has raised more than $ 8 million (supporters can sponsor a peg for $ 100; a “lifetime charter boarding pass” is available for $ 3, 000 per family). when i asked zovath whether his project was really achievable—whether he could safely and efficiently fabricate a multimillion - dollar tourist attraction to god’s specifications, using only wooden pegs, planks, beams, and whatever else might have been available to noah—he didn’t hesitate .
the two men work out of a warehouse - like space in an anonymous industrial complex in hebron, kentucky. when i visited this fall, i was shown a few scale models of their ark, which, compared with the delightful wooden boat pictured in many a children’s book, is a terrifying - looking thing: it has no portholes or open decks, and except for a single door that god is supposed to have slammed behind noah (“and jehovah shut him in”) and some very narrow openings for light and ventilation, the vessel is sealed off in a way that suggests a giant floating coffin .
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michael zovath and patrick marsh would prefer to not take quite as long. with a small team of designers and builders, they’re preparing to construct a colossal wooden ark per the directives presented in the bible and in accordance with what they refer to as the “sound established nautical engineering practices” of noah’s time. when completed, their 510 - foot - long ark—the centerpiece of a biblical theme park to be called ark encounter—will take up about one and a half football fields. (there has been something of a global ark - building boom in recent years, but zovath and marsh’s structure promises to outstretch even its biggest competitors, including the concrete - and - glass - fiber ark built in hong kong in 2009, which is 450 feet long, and a similarly sized vessel constructed by a wealthy businessman in the netherlands after he dreamed that the country had flooded. )
ark encounter—which is to sit on an 800 - acre plot of land in williamstown, about 40 miles south of cincinnati—will be filled with actors and animals (some real, some mechanical) and will also feature a tower of babel, a walled city, an aviary, a “first - century village, ” and something called a “journey through biblical history, ” involving a boat ride down the nile. like all kentucky tourist attractions, ark encounter is eligible for generous state tax incentives—in this case, controversially, up to $ 43 million over 10 years. the park also has the unequivocal support of kentucky’s democratic governor, steve beshear, who likes to boast that the complex could produce up to 900 jobs .
most of the film operates under this, particularly the depiction the eruption of the yellowstone supervolcano. except for gordon, who raises his hand very calmly to his eyes in reaction to the brightness, the other protagonist' s barely react to the eruption and come out completely unscathed. no - one goes deaf from the sound of the eruption, while the shockwave throws charlie a couple of feet backwards, despite the trees all around him being uprooted in their thousands. finally the pyroclastic flow slows down to let the plane time to escape unharmed, while ignoring convection not to boil them alive and after emerging from the ash cloud, the plane isn' t even dirty .
convection schmonvection: the movie seems to forget that in pyroclastic flows, the heat kills people long before the ash cloud touches them. of course, they do stay barely ahead of the flow itself. while that' s already testing of the suspension of disbelief, if they were all the way in the cloud, they' d be dead. they do very briefly get caught inside of the flow in an airplane, which makes even less sense, since airplanes generally don' t run well in clouds of superheated ash. bizarrely, the film then starts paying attention to the laws of physics again, just in time for said pyroclastic flow to utterly disintegrate las vegas airport (and the city itself) .
another childhood favorite, re - watching reminded me of how, when i got into silent slapstick, it all seemed so familiar - mainly because silent - era slapstick is the source of so many 1930s - 1950s animated film gags. this short could just as easily have starred buster keaton. i' ve always enjoyed the shorts that feature disney' s big three as a team, and this is no exception, but i had forgotten the odd interlude with goofy and the mermaid statue, which is something that definitely didn' t age well. i forgot how standard the gag of something violently repelling (either an animal, man in drag or an inanimate object) and the lead saying she' s playing hard to get or is feisty or whatever is .
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frenchy de tremaudan, louie schmittt, chuck couch, eddie strickland, clyde geronimi, paul satterfield, archie robin, don patterson .
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tugboat skipper mickey mouse and his inept crew, consisting of donald duck and goofy, try to save a sinking ship .
goofy (front) and donald (rear) are dressed in a female moose suit, trying to lure a moose for hunter mickey. when they do find one, it turns out to be more than they can handle .
mickey and his friends take a vacation in his house trailer equipped with all the latest modern conveniences. heading up a steep mountain road with goofy driving the car, surely nothing can go wrong .
mickey mouse and donald duck, with the help of goofy the iceman, try to move out before the sheriff can sell off their furniture .
four bored ghosts in a haunted house who' ve scared everyone away call up ghost hunters mickey, donald, and goofy in hopes to have a little fun scaring them off .
when a giant threatens the land, the city folk mistake mickey' s boast of killing seven flies with one blow to be giants. he is then forced to fight the giant for real .
mickey, donald, and goofy are cleaning a large clock. among the complications: mickey fights a sleeping stork that doesn' t want to leave, donald gets tangled up in the main - spring, and goofy is inside the bell when the clock strikes four .
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mickey has been reading lewis carroll' s
through the looking - glass, and what alice found there
, and falls asleep. he finds himself on the other side of the mirror, where the furniture is... see full summary »
the gang is on vacation. goofy has some surfing problems, donald learns why you don' t wear a grass skirt near a fire, pluto and a starfish have a tiff, followed by an encounter with a hermit crab .
mickey is a stage magician, and goofy is a stagehand. donald is sitting in a box seat, and soon starts heckling. mickey retaliates, among other things by making him spit out playing cards, ... see full summary »
mickey mouse and his friends face off against a team of celebrities in a polo match .
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maybe that mermaid goofy has the hots for jinxed them... ...
donald is wasted here and way too much time is spent watching goofy trying to seduce a wooden mermaid .
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mickey, donald, and goofy construct the ship “queen minnie” from folding component parts. when minnie launches the ship by hitting it with a champagne bottle, she whacks it so hard that, once out at sea, it separates into its parts again .
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this mickey short was therefor animated by louie [ schmidtt ], chuck couch, eddie strickland, frenchy de trémaudan, gerry geronimi, paul satterfield, archie robin and [ don ] patterson .
it does bring home the fact that the experienced animators frenchy and geronimi were not considered
good enough
to animate on the feature, as they were animating alongside those who likely used to be their assistants in the early 30s, schmidtt, couch, strickland and robin, while satterfield and patterson were relative newcomers to the disney studio .
looking at the numbering of the scenes, it looks like there were quite some adjustments, maybe after preview, especially on draft page two. where on the draft is the scene
we' ll call her the queen minnie
? i suspect there are several scenes that are so called
camera cuts
where the scene continues on the same background and exposure sheet, but the field shifts without panning, immediately at the new location .
directed by ben sharpsteen, released two months after snow white' s premiere, on 2 / 25 / 38. this draft dated 10 / 26 / 37 ...
thanks for this! i always welcome these kinds of shorts drafts! oddly enough, i remember watching this cartoon a couple of years ago and trying to figure out which scenes were
camera cuts
. looking at it again i suspect the scene you mentioned of mickey announcing
we' re call her the queen minnie !
is part of scene 2
three characters looking at catalogue .
i remember watching this as part of a vhs called
mickey and the gang
with a collection of shorts of mickey mouse, donald duck and goofy, and this short was one of them, and i was always entertained by this cartoon. i was quite surprised that there are mainly underrated people working on this short, i expected people like art babbitt, fred moore or even dick lundy working on it, or something .
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1957 – the mickey mouse club, episode # 3. 24 (tv )
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( tv )
1989 – the magical world of disney, episode # 33. 15 :
mickey' s happy valentine special
( tv )
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the weakest plot element is beau bridges' foray into crime, which seems more contrived than desperate, though it offers a nice wrap - up. the best is kennedy' s, especially as we discover who his angel - visitor is. and the best performances come from d' onofrio and lewis, though their story is not as compelling as it might have been .
on the whole it is a moderately recommendable effort, produced by american playhouse, meaning it will probably wind up on pbs one day soon .
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for a new theme park, creationists (with a little help from a geneticist, some amish men, and generous tax breaks) are building a replica of noah’s ark—exactly as god instructed .
early in the book of genesis, god becomes revolted by his own work. deviant and immoral, man was not what he’d had in mind: “and jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ”
enraged by our collective failing of character, god readied the flood waters. he chose a righteous, blameless man and tasked him with repopulating the planet. his instructions were explicit :
make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. and this is how thou shalt make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. a light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it .
it turns out that erecting a massive ark based on a few lines of ancient verse raises some practical quandaries. gopher wood, for example, is not a kind of wood recognized by modern arborists. likewise, a cubit, the unit of measurement employed by god in genesis, is not a standardized metric, although many people believe it refers to the length of a man’s forearm, from his elbow to the tip of his middle finger. then there are the countless mysteries (scatological, sociological) about the interior, where noah, his seven family members, and his herd of animals (“of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort”) are said to have spent a year and six days .
zovath is a senior vice president and co - founder of answers in genesis, a group of biblical literalists who believe that the earth was created 6, 000 years ago, over the course of six consecutive days. the ministry, which is spearheading ark encounter, has some experience with this sort of undertaking, albeit on a smaller scale: in 2007, in petersburg, kentucky, it opened the creation museum, a 70, 000 - square - foot complex consisting of a café, several movie theaters, a planetarium, and 160 exhibits elucidating events recounted in the book of genesis .
as an apologetics ministry, answers in genesis is devoted to defending the christian faith via a literal reading of the bible, without allowances for allegory. rather than publicly disavow science, though, the group has appropriated its methodology, hiring teams of creationism - friendly researchers to weigh in on ark - related puzzles. (speaking of science, answers in genesis plans to use energy - efficient leed technologies for the park’s heating, cooling, and lighting systems, so as “to be good stewards of creation”—though zovath, for all his preoccupation with flooding, has said he doesn’t believe in global warming. )
one team of advisers, led by georgia purdom, who has a doctorate in molecular genetics from ohio state university, is attempting to compile a definitive list of which animals would have been required to re - speciate the earth in noah’s time. according to the answers in genesis web site, god allowed for the “potential for tremendous variety within the original created kinds. ” through “genetic mutations and other mechanisms, ” those original kinds generated the “great diversity of living things we see today. ” although by some estimates nearly 8 million species of animals are thought to inhabit the planet right now, answers in genesis believes that noah would have needed just 2, 000 to 4, 000 “original kinds” for his ark—which helps explain how everyone managed to fit. the original created kind later yielded all other kinds: the ur - dog begat wolves, dingoes, foxes, great danes, poodles, and so on. “we’re trying to define—and it’s never been done before, we’re breaking new ground—how many dogs make up a dog - kind, and what does that dog - kind look like? , ” zovath said .
my questions about other specifics were met with a quick, relentless defense. how did eight people feed and clean up after several thousand wild animals? conveyor belts. how did noah pack enough food for everyone? he pelletized it. what kept all the animals from eating each other? the hand of god .
“we don’t want anyone to think we’re just making things up, ” said marsh, who is ark encounter’s design director .
answers in genesis contemplated building a full - scale ark as a sister attraction to the creation museum as early as 2004, but the idea became more plausible when a consulting firm estimated that an ark would receive 1. 6 million visitors in its first year. zovath told me he was further heartened by a survey, conducted by 60 minutes and vanity fair in 2009, concerning which “lost artifacts” respondents might like to see: the ark swept it, claiming 43 percent of the vote (atlantis was next, at 18 percent). “people are fascinated with the ark—with the whole account, ” zovath said .
hoping for some added insight into the ark story’s enduring appeal, i headed to the creation museum’s sizable ark exhibit, one of its biggest draws. there, i watched an animatronic noah make hash marks on a curling piece of papyrus, then pause to answer a few preprogrammed inquiries, barking his responses like a seasoned catskills comedian. (“why did i build the ark? well, i built the ark because, simply put, god told me to! ” )
the rest of the exhibit, though, was surprisingly frank about the gruesomeness of the flood. in one diorama, the ark floats past a rock inhabited by screaming, about - to - drown humans (one particularly unlucky figure is also being mauled by a large cat). the darkness of the story surely contributes to its cultural weight; as doomsday narratives go, the body count is nearly unbeatable .
“it’s certainly possible, ” he said. “it was done a few thousand years ago. ”
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concept art from moana (left) and traditional fijian camakau (photo via wcs fiji) .
disney’s next animated feature big hero 6 isn’t even out yet, but some parties have already begun claiming that moana, a disney feature scheduled for 2016 release, stole their intellectual property rights. the claims are based on a single piece of moana concept art that disney released last month .
there are two ways of looking at the traditional canoe being featured in the disney production. one would be people being happy that the traditional canoes are being featured. but the other way of looking at this is on the intellectual property rights side, that the canoe design or the collaboration of the design is quite valuable .
amid amidi is the publisher and editor - in - chief of cartoon brew. read his full bio here .
a new animation history book coming out this week aims to shed new light on the relationship between the two creators of mickey mouse .
75 people are losing their jobs at disney as the company shutters one of its animation divisions .
after more than a year of waiting, animation workers will soon receive the first payment from the $ 170 million settlement they won from various animation studios .
to celebrate mickey’s 90th birthday, taschen and disney have teamed up to produce a massive book on the character .
“legend of the three caballeros” was wrapped a while back, but it’s not available in the u. s .
‘incredibles 2’ is now the highest - grossing u. s. animation release of all - time
‘gumball’ team in u. k. will produce new cartoon network series ‘elliott from earth’
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approaching age 70 and with no more orders coming in, enoe decides to build one last sailing sloop with the hope that his sons will continue the trade .
“it’s a whole experience and the memories don’t go away, ” said festival co - founder patti white, who noted that the festival’s vision is to establish maryland’s capital as a center for filmmakers to showcase different global perspectives and independent thought to a variety of audiences through their work .
some of the selected films include performances from hollywood a - listers and legends .
“the waiting, ” which will be featured on saturday, april 2, stars legendary “godfather” actor james caan as the elderly victim of a supernatural plot by two teenage neighbors to convince him he is being haunted .
meanwhile, oscar winning “deer hunter” actor christopher walken and “friday night lights” actress amber heard star in “one more time, ” which, after its opening night screening, is scheduled again for sunday .
directed by robert edwards, “one more time, ” finds walken portraying a faded crooner stewing in his hamptons mansion over the professional acclaim that eluded him and the trail of romantic wreckage in his wake. the stew is stirred when daughter jude (heard) arrives with her own problems, including a rivalry with her overachieving sister, a ruinous love life, and a fraught relationship with her famous father .
festival organizers and others, though, are high on “vanishing sail, ” which follows enoe’s progress and despair over three years from hauling his trees out of the forest to a final traditional launching ceremony on the bayside .
juliet burch, the annapolis sailing festival director of programming, said filmmakers and renowned sailing aficionados andrews and gary jobson have come together to capture the attention of the local sailing community with their respective films, “vanishing sail” and “the magic & mystery of sable island. ”
“vanishing sail” is part of a transmedia project representing 15 years of research that includes a two - volume photography book, an archive of interviews with some of the top names in west indies sailing, the building of five, 42 - foot, transitional sailing vessels in carriacou and an annual regatta on the island of st. barthelemy that’s sponsored by unesco .
to view the trailer for “vanishing sail” visit: www. vanishingsail. com. for tickets or more information about the festival, visit: www. annapolisfilmfestival. com .
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2012 is a 2009 disaster movie based on the prediction that the world would end on december 21st, 2012. this prediction is itself based on the fact that the mesoamerican long count calendar rolls over somewhere in the vicinity of 2012 - 12 - 21, in much the same way that the gregorian calendar rolled over on 2000 - 01 - 01. it mainly follows jackson curtis (john cusack), a struggling, divorced chauffeur, attempting to survive the apocalypse with his family. the one thing that keeps him and his family alive are rumors of' arks' built by the world governments to keep what they can safe .
a spin - off tv series, tentatively called 2013 and focusing on a group of survivors, was planned. however, as abc decided to not finance it, it is uncertain if the series will ever see the light of day .
not to be confused with twenty twelve, a bbc sitcom about the committee preparing for the 2012 olympic games; 2010: the year we make contact, or rush' s album twenty one twelve .
: justified in that gordon just got his pilot' s license and can barely fly. barely fly upward, that is. he does amazingly well at dodging buildings and debris, something even an experienced pilot would have trouble with .
it happens in two instances, the second one has gordon pair up with an experienced russian pilot, flying a giant antonov plane. in all of these instances, the runway is disintegrating, but with the antonov, they actually run out of runway before reaching liftoff speed .
: the characters planned to stop in honolulu to refuel. the city, and the rest of o' ahu, is
anyone can die: as befitting a movie about the end of the world, but even by disaster movie standards this one is pretty ruthless. don' t get attached to anyone who' s not john cusack' s immediate family .
applied phlebotinum: the destruction of the earth is caused by the heating of its core, caused by excess neutrinos being emitted by the sun. however, since neutrinos almost never interact with matter, these are neutrinos that are
mutating into some other subatomic particle ,
presumably ones that can interact with matter more often. why these new particles don' t interact with the earth' s surface is unclear. lampshaded when adrian, listening about the neutrinos, simply declares
that' s impossible
. he' s right .
the ark: nine of them, in fact. though only four of them were completed in time, and one was critically damaged before it could be launched.
boat builders is an animated short film produced by walt disney , distributed by rko radio pictures and released on february 25 , 1938 . the film was directed by ben sharpsteen and animated by frenchy de trémaudan , louie schmittt , chuck couch , eddie strickland , clyde geronimi , paul satterfield , archie robin , don patterson . 
boat builders is an animated short film produced by walt disney, distributed by rko radio pictures and released on february 25, 1938. the film was directed by ben sharpsteen and animated by frenchy de trémaudan, louie schmittt, chuck couch, eddie strickland, clyde geronimi, paul satterfield, archie robin, don patterson.
boat builders is an animated short film produced by walt disney, distributed by rko radio pictures and released on february 25, 1938. the film was directed by ben sharpsteen and animated by frenchy de trémaudan, louie schmittt, chuck couch, eddie strickland, clyde geronimi, paul satterfield, archie robin, don patterson.