Some time ago I was reading a book on animation, and it seems that a disgruntled animator hid a playboy cover in one scene-hidden in a window, to be precise. I think it was spotted eventually and edited out, but it may still be on the original VHS version-keep your eyes peeled!
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Don Bluth films make me want to vom. How dare he even think he was better.
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Some (not all of course) of Don Bluth's films are actually quite good and can rival some of Disney's own works.
It is how you do it, and not your content that makes you an artist." -Alfred Hitchcock
Yeah, I would definitely put Land Before Time, An American Tale, and The Secret of Nimh up there with Disney.
Nevermore
May I ask the source that says Bluth did it? Snopes says the pics were inserted during the post-production process.
Supermodels...spoiled stupid little stick figures mit poofy lips who sink only about zemselves.
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I find it highly unlikely that Bluth would have done it. An animator would have nothing whatsoever to do with the filming of the film. They just wouldn't have the access necessary. You just seem to enjoy making libellous remarks about a man whose films you haven't watched.
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My educated guess is that it was done as a prank during the production of the 1999 home video release, many years after Mr. Bluth left Disney and started his own studio. See Wikipedia for an account of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rescuers
We reasonably can ask why the company went to the major effort and expense of a massive recall, when they retain the harpies filling the screen in full frontal glory in the Night on Bald Mountain section of "Fantasia". I think this is a case-by-case, context-related call. This insert is like displaying a Playboy centerfold in a window on a city street, which I am reasonably certain is frowned upon. In the "Fantasia" item, the harpies are half-human, half-bird mythical monsters, and in that setting I see it as roughly analogous to the numerous classic nude paintings and sculptures in the National Gallery of Art here in Washington, where there are no parental guidance advisories anywhere.
I heard this rumor many years ago and pondered if it could be true. I met a film collector who had access to an original release print from 1977 and we went through it frame by frame. The images did not appear in the window, so it seems that a different print was used for the video release in question tann the actual theatrical release.
Oh Lord, you gave them eyes but they cannot see...
It's definitely there geode. Or, it was at one point. Just look it up on snopes...
shareYep, it's there. But Disney took it out when re-released on video. It's on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXyFziWCnBQ
It was there.
I was working at Suncoast Motion Picture Company in Tampa when the rerelease came out. Before we could even slap a price sticker on it, we got the order to return all copies to the distributor because some slap-happy guy working on the restoration decided to put a piece of Playboy clip-art in one frame when Bernard, Miss Bianca and Orville were flying past some buildings.
"I can arrange for you a humiliating death. And, so we're on the same page, it will involve sheep."
Restoration? Which restoration? The image wasn't inserted onto the VHS release exclusively; it was inserted way back during post-production. In either case, it's old news.
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This film deserves to be well-known than something that once occurs for about a second of screentime, but I decided to share this tidbit of information. It's an excerpt of an article promoting Tarzan with then-Disney animation president Thomas Schumacher explaining where the image came from. The article requires a paid subscription rate to read the entire article, but it's mostly related to the production of Tarzan.
In creating their own Tarzan, the Disney animators, who worked for four years on the project, knew that even just one slip-up could not be tolerated.
"We knew that every scene had to be looked at in detail because people would be scrutinising it," recalls Glen Keane, the movie's animation supervisor.
"We did have discussions about how much flesh should be shown under the loincloth - if we should reveal just that little bit more cheek, but I can honestly say we don't show anything that shouldn't be there."
Thomas Schumacher, Disney's president of animation, explained the reason for the company's caution.
"We had that huge thing with The Rescuers," he says. "A cameraman inserted a tiny two-frame photograph of a topless woman. It was meant as a private joke between him and his friends. Then along comes video and laser discs, and someone out there found it, so we have to be very careful."
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60405413.html
Wow shocking
sharePeople actually think Don Bluth would do that? No way. It was probably just done as a joke by some random employee.
I'd want to have the VHS with the nude lady though. Just to show to people.
Don Bluth is a bitter old man with no sense of aesthetics. It wouldn't necessarily surprise me.
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According to Tom Sito, the animators who worked on the film knew about the subliminal naked picture that was left in the original edition of the film:
"[In] the first 'Rescuers' there was the nudey picture," says Sito. The animator went on to explain that when there was a reedition of the movie, a lot of the original executives who produced the video tape were gone. Not knowing about the naked image, the new executives used the original negative from 1977 in the reedition. This reportedly led to a major recall.
"If somebody had asked an artist, he would say, 'Oh yeah, there's a naked picture in there. I mean, the Playboy centerfold. Everybody knows that.' Everybody who was in animation knew about the centerfold. But nobody asked us," added Sito.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/disney-sexual-messages_n_6452666.html