Mouse and Snow White
were created just a few blocks ahead.
The cartoon is "Goofy Gymnastics" (1949).
The success of the cartoon at the beginning
of the feature led to the creation of
three more Roger Rabbit short subjects.
"Tummy Trouble"
was released in the summer of 1989
with the feature, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
It was the first new Disney
short cartoon release
since "Goofy's Freeway Trouble" in 1965.
To maintain the quality established
in the feature, "Tummy Trouble"
was the most expensive
short cartoon ever made.
It took four months to create.
AnimatorTom Sito
pointed out that for "Tummy Trouble"
they had to develop an ending format
since the cartoon in the feature
stops before the story is finished.
For "Roller Coaster Rabbit,"
Director Rob Minkoff said they tried
to "keep Roger up in the air and take
Tex Avery's style to the Nth degree."
"Trail Mix-Up" was released in 1993
with A Far Off Place.
A key animator for Roger Rabbit
was James Baxter, who was
the main animator for Belle
in Beauty and the Beast (1991).
Already a successful animator,
Richard Williams said, "When I saw
the tiger in The Jungle Book (Disney, 1967),
I was bowled over.
I thought,
I don't know beans about animation."
Williams then went on a new 10-year
training effort to further improve his craft.
On the screen is a newsreel.
The Studios produced these
10-minute summaries of world events.
Like short cartoons, they were
shown in theatres before features.
That's how people saw
the news before television.
There was a theatre in the old theatre
district of downtown Los Angeles
that showed nothing but newsreels.
Newsreels were produced up into the 1960s.
This scene was shot during a two-day period
at Gray's State Theatre in Essex, England.
This scene was shot during a two-day period
at Gray's State Theatre in Essex, England.
At 2,000 seats it was the largest
single screen theatre still operating in Europe.
The Ren MarStudio in Los Angeles
doubled for Maroon Studios.
The close-up of the soundstages
at Maroon Cartoon Studios were filmed
at the Shepherd's Bush Bus Depot
in London, England.
Universal Studios
put Steven Spielberg
under contract after seeing
his short film, Amblin
which he made as a student at
California State University at Long Beach.
Spielberg scored his first hit with
the made-for-TV suspense thriller Duel (1971).
Feature films followed with
Sugarland Express (1974), Jaws (1975),
and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and raised in Phoenix, Arizona,
Spielberg started making movies at age 13.
Spielberg went on to become a successful
filmmaker, and in 1984 he formed his own
production company, Amblin Entertainment.
Co-producer Robert Watts helped bring
to the screen numerous landmark films
such as Thunderball (1965), 2001 (1968),
Star Wars (1977), and Return of the Jedi (1983).
Robert Watts said Roger Rabbit was
the most difficult of all the films he'd done.
But in the end it was worthwhile
because it was unique.
Editor ArthurSchmidt "cut his teeth"
on Marathon Man (1976)
and later edited Idolmaker (1980),
Back to the Future (1985),
and Ruthless People (1986).
Schmidt received an Academy Award®
nomination for his work on
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).
Co-producer Frank Marshall
gave up law school for film production.
Marshall's credits include
What's Up, Doc? (1972), Paper Moon (1973),
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. (1982),
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984),
and Back to the Future (1985).
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984),
and Back to the Future (1985).
Richard Williams received
240 awards prior to Roger Rabbit
among them an Academy Award
in 1972 for "A Christmas Carol"
as the Best Animated Short Subject.
This movie inspired
a whole new land at Disneyland Park®,
called "Mickey's Toontown."
This tunnel to Toontown was also used as
The tunnel was photographed near
the Griffith