have
been inspired by the Academy Award®
winning Warner Bros. cartoon
"Knighty Knight Bugs" (1958).
The Singing Sword bears the likeness of
singer Frank Sinatra and croons several bars
of his Coleman-Leigh hit "Witchcraft."
The ends of the lightning bolts
have hands on them trying to pull
Judge Doom's sword away from him.
Composer Alan Silvestri plays drums,
piano, guitar, and woodwinds, and
originally started out to be a musician
touring with bands.
Silvestri got stranded in Los Angeles
when a record deal fell through,
but was hired to write
music for the TV series "CHiPs,"
which began his composing career.
Silvestri was hired by director Zemeckis
to compose Romancing the Stone (1984)
followed by Back to the Future (1985),
whichgarnered two
Grammy® Award nominations.
Silvestri also scored Flight of the Navigator
(1986) and Outrageous Fortune (1987).
BothSteven Spielberg and Terry Gilliam
considered directing this movie,
but ultimately chose different projects.
Richard Williams was reluctant
to accept the Roger Rabbit project.
Williams was concerned about the years
away from his established commercial work and
his continuing pet feature project,
The Thief and the Cobbler.
Veteran Animation Director
Chuck Jones encouraged Williams
to join the Zemeckis-Spielberg team,
saying, "You can't turn down a chance
to work with these guys."
Jones also consulted on the film.
After 27 years in and out of production,
The Thief and the Cobbler was finished
and released in 1995 by Miramax,
under the title Arabian Knight.
The video release
went back to the original title.
Academy Award® winner Ken Ralston,
previously supervised effects for
StarTrek II (1982), Cocoon (1983)
StarTrek III (1984),
What famous lines does Doom use?
Doom quotes the Wicked Witch of the West's
death by water from The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Play the moving train frame-by-frame
and look for cameos in the windows.
The two trees embracing were the stars
of "Flowers and Trees," Walt Disney's
first colourSilly Symphony cartoon (1932).
After the film's success, there were
a slew of TV commercials that tried
to imitate Roger's combination
animation-and-live-action techniques.
Peter (Peter and the Wolf, 1946)
Animals (Johnny Appleseed, 1947)
Tree couple (Flowers and Trees, 1932)
PRESS PAUSE orSLOW MOTION:
How many characters
can you recognise in the finale?
Answers will appear on their first appearance,
reading left to right.
Pinocchio, Pluto, Daffy Duck, Baby Herman,
Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Mickey Mouse,
Dopey, Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny, Peter,
Betty Boop, Donald Duck, Tweety
Road Runner, Droopy,
Cyril (Mr. Toad's horse), Jose Carioca,
Bambi, Singing Harp, Koko the Clown
Monty (pelican), Brer Bear, Sylvester,
Marc Antony (bulldog), Woody Woodpecker,
Big Bad Wolf, Snow White, Penguin,
Marvin Martian, Foghorn Leghorn
What was Steven Spielberg's
Amblin Entertainment's
next association with
Warner Bros. cartoons?
Steven Spielberg teamed
with Warner Bros. to produce
the TV series "Tiny Toons."
Based on a youngergeneration
of Looney Tunes characters,
the series debuted in 1990-
sixty years after the first
Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon was made.
Animators sang for the final reprise
of"Smile, Darn Ya, Smile."
Who is this "hammy" actor?
After his 1935 debut, Porky Pig closed
many of the early Warner Bros. Looney Tunes
cartoons with this now familiar signature.
Screenwriters Jeffrey Price
and PeterS. Seamen met working
together at an advertising agency.
The team also wrote Trenchcoat (1983),
and later Wild, Wild West (1999) and
How The GrinchStole Christmas (2000).
Kathleen Kennedy began her career at
a San Diego TV station while still in college.
Kennedy went on to co-produce movies
such as E.T. (1982), The Color Purple (1985),
and Back to the Future (1985).
Some live actors turned down the role
of Eddie Valiant because they were
concerned about being upstaged by a Toon.
Don Hahn