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ANIMATION

By J AMES DUWARD

The Great Mouse Detective More thanjust another animated "Mouse" adventure, this animated feature hints at the coming revolution in animation.

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Titus. the project was first pro· posed ti t Disney many years lIg0-IIS fliT back liS during the production of The

Rescuers (1977), and kept alive over the years with the assistance of the younger generation of animators, some of whom

were ftans of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Holmes, the relll Sherlock Holmes, is

never seen; liS far as the Disney IInimators are concerned, Basil is Holmes and the human world is barely noticed. But Basil is not a watered·down Holmes, the characters htlve their own reality. This is not "Sherlock Holmes with Animals," but the complete creDtion of a miniature world, very much In the tradition of "The Meg.

nificent Mr. TO&d" from The Wind In the Willows. Produced by Burny MaUinson and di· rected by John Musker, Dlive Michener and Ron Clements, Mouse reprl!sents a return to the rich chaTactl!r style of Song of the South or Wind In the Willows. The emphasis for the animators is not what it was in The BIadc Cauldron with its mllSSive crowd scenes and vast sweeping action, but more focused on the individual characters. "Character animation is at the very heart of this picture :' affirms Ron Clements. ''The animators are absolutely integral to developing the personalities of t he characters:' In some fi l ms. an animator does liUle more than illustrate the story with his drawings. But in this

film. theon·screen drama is created by the artists through the sheer force of thl! per· sonalities they create on paper. "Everything that happens up to the point an animator picks up a pendlsc:ript, storyboard. etc.-is just planning. The story just suggests a direction, but the animator, the really top animators, deter· mine the character's personality. From tnat, comes the drama. And that is the way it should be! This is an animator's medium, not a director·s.·· "Other studios pour all their creativity into story. layout and design. Theanima· tion is just 'move it around 1IliUle: adds John Musker. ··Stylisticlilly. the film is much broader than the last few fi lms r ve worked on.lfs more caTtoony than Fox and Hound.

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the film more marketable. In spite of the fact that the picture was set in 19th cen· tury Victorian England, they wanted a modern score. In particular, it was sug· gested that Michael Jackson and Madon· na should do a few songs. Moreover. Disney management voiced concern over the less than boffo business that Paramount·s YOUTlgSherlockHoimes garnered. Obviously, the public was not interested in Sherlock Holmes. they reasoned. Disney marketing decided to distance themselves from the Paramount film by changing the title from Basil or Baker Street to The Great Mouse Detective. Only a few months before the film's completion, marketing expressed dis· satisfaction with the character's English aeX>

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Twenty Questions ... 1 hevc been reeding CINE· MAGIC for three years lind I em

plcllsed with your !lrtides lind projects In them . Ho wever. I htl~ come (leTO" some prob· lems thllt need to be solved or look~ lit.

I Mve purchesed lIli of your maglulnes lind reed every one of them. but I have need of some Information on e few of the following subjects: ceble con· trois, travelling maUe systems. lIudlo'lInlmatronlcs, mechanical effects, lind rod puppetry. I would like some Information

on cDble control systems. The books I have read tal k II great dealllbout cables in puppets lind crceturcs. rd like to know If you have any books on this subject, lind if you can give me ~

the names of the people that use them in their jobs so I am wri te to them (ex. the people who worked on Return 0( the Jedi i!lnd The Dane Clysla/). I would like to know how the eyes move in th e masks of the Skeksis in The Darlc OySIIII. I would i!llso like some infor· mation on trevelling mettes (op. tlcel prin ting). Do you h"ve "ny books th"t am tell you how to mi!lke an optlcel printer end (not en oeriel.il1li!lge prin ter). Next, I ~ to know how "udlo'i!lnimetronics ("utomete) works i!lnd how to use it In my movies. I h"ve looked into th is subject for ebout e year i/lnd ci!ln 't find i!lny books reli!lting to this subject. i Wi!lS wonde ring jf you know of i!lny books on this or If you know of i/lnyone in this field I could contllct, like George Gibbs who worked for Tempk o( Doom on the buming dummy end the felling dummies in the movie. I would also like Information on mechllnlcal effects like wires end rlldiO