Does anybody know what all the episodes are that feature in the opening titles of the show?
Particularly :
the alien taking the money from scrooge in space
Scrooge and Glomgold climbing a pillar
Scrooge and the boys walking down steps with a torch
Webby kissing a shark
Thanks
I think some of the scenes were just made for the titles such as Scrooge and huey having a pie fight with the Beagle Boys. Well either that or I haven't seen them yet.
Scrooge and Glomgold climbing a pillar = Master of Dijini
Scrooge and the boys walking down steps with a torch = Hotel Strangeduck
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Webby kissing the shark, the Beagle Boys pie fight, the Mummy chasing the nephews, Alien snatching the dollar from Scrooge, and the tiger hugging the nephews were never in any episode.
This bugged me for the longest time growing up, always thinking there were one or 2 more elusive episodes that I always just managed to miss, and with no interenet to confirm episode lists and such, I always wondered what was up with these scenes.
I'd still like to know the "why" behind them though: all other Disney toons from this era, had scenes from episodes in the opening theme like Ducktales did, but unlike Ducktales,(Chip N Dale, Darkwing, Tailspin etc), these other shows never included scenes made specifically for the opening theme. Eventually, you would have seen every episode from the clips shown in the opening theme for all these shows, except for Ducktales.
Maybe they were unused scenes that never made it into some episodes, or maybe they were just made for the opening theme and there is nothing else to it...
Don't suppose the Tiger is a deleted scene from "Dinosaur Ducks" and the mummy from Sphinx for the Memories?
Anyone notice that in some countries at the end credits instead of the map they had a photo of Scrooge and his nephews. There was one on Youtube with Scrooge and his nephews on a magic carpet. i think I've seen one with them next to a St Bernard and it was liking Scrooge. Anyone else seen them?
Opening titles for Ducktales were originaly planned as seperate entity from the episodes. Some ideas may have been taken from existing premises and outlines but most of the first 65 scripts had not yet been written when we started planning the opening titles. There was no mandate to use show material. One of the best animation directors in the industry was brought in-house from an L.A. Ad agency for the opening titles. Somewhere along the line it was decided to keep the entire opening titles production in L.A. and not send it to one of the two Asian studios which were producing the episodes at the time. Thats not to say it was an in-house production. We freelanced out all animation, ib, paint and camera work. Thats where the trouble started. It came back looking absolutely terrible. Characters off model, painted the wrong color, incoherent animation, continuety problems, almost unrecognizable as DuckTales.
Tom Ruzika, the Associate producer at the time, took all the film to our post prod facility along with footage from the first few episodes which had since arrived from Asia and basically locked himself in the editing room for three days. He threw away the storyboard and started over from scratch and a bunch of film. Brilliant work, couldn't believe he not only salvaged that disaster but put together a nice little film working brilliantly with the music.
Only a few scenes from the original board were left in the opening titles. Thats what you were seeing that cant be found in any of the episodes.
When I think about the opening credit now, those special scenes do stand out from the other scenes, which are just clips from episodes... I don't know why, but I get that feeling. Maybe other artists made those or something?
Yes, it's true! IMDB has reached Sweden!
well to make a statement there were two pie secenes The first and main one was in Treasure of The Golden Suns Don't Give up the ship had a pie secene but I own Both Volumes 1 and 2 and I don't see the secound pie secene.
sharePerhaps the mysterious clips were made for an internal reel at Disney before regular production began?
shareI noticed that too, better and more movie-like coloring/shading.
Most likely those were generic clips made specifically for the intro, just like the very first scene when they strut and turn.
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I believe that the episodes (like Webby kissing a shark, Huey and Scrooge McDuck pie fighting with the beagle boys, the nephews being chased by a mummy, an alien snatching a dollar bill from Scrooge, and the nephews being hugged by a tiger) might be long never before seen episodes. Since Disney might release the fourth volume of Ducktales DVD, they might put them in a bonus feature on one of the discs, as special unseen episodes. I recently wrote an email to a Disney member for questioning about the episodes. He didn't reply yet. But who knows, he might tell what they really are.
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"Webby kissing the shark, the Beagle Boys pie fight, the Mummy chasing the nephews, Alien snatching the dollar from Scrooge, and the tiger hugging the nephews were never in any episode. "
The shark kissing and alien snatching were the only scenes not in an episode.
The pie fight was most DEFINITELY in an episode, I remember watching it and seeing it without the music, thinking it was awesome that it fit so well in the themesong. Tiger hugging was also in an episode, and im 90% sure the mummy chasing was also.
I watched these episodes in south africa so maybe we got some rejected toons that maybe were not appropriate for the states but ok here? or not good enough so we got the dregs? haha
I disagree that the alien snatching a dollar bill, and webby kissing a shark are scenes for the intro. Just because neither of us can can find them in an episode, doesn't mean it doesn't exit,
Why, I remember I read about an episode that has Ludwig Von Drake in another episode besides just one called "The Golden Fleece". I only it in a picture in a review. But I couldn't find the show itself. But it does exist. I can promise you that.
"The shark kissing and alien snatching were the only scenes not in an episode."
The pie fight was most DEFINITELY in an episode, I remember watching it and seeing it without the music, thinking it was awesome that it fit so well in the themesong. Tiger hugging was also in an episode, and im 90% sure the mummy chasing was also.
Opening titles for Ducktales were originaly planned as seperate entity from the episodes. Some ideas may have been taken from existing premises and outlines but most of the first 65 scripts had not yet been written when we started planning the opening titles. There was no mandate to use show material. One of the best animation directors in the industry was brought in-house from an L.A. Ad agency for the opening titles. Somewhere along the line it was decided to keep the entire opening titles production in L.A. and not send it to one of the two Asian studios which were producing the episodes at the time. Thats not to say it was an in-house production. We freelanced out all animation, ib, paint and camera work. Thats where the trouble started. It came back looking absolutely terrible. Characters off model, painted the wrong color, incoherent animation, continuety problems, almost unrecognizable as DuckTales.
Tom Ruzika, the Associate producer at the time, took all the film to our post prod facility along with footage from the first few episodes which had since arrived from Asia and basically locked himself in the editing room for three days. He threw away the storyboard and started over from scratch and a bunch of film. Brilliant work, couldn't believe he not only salvaged that disaster but put together a nice little film working brilliantly with the music.
Only a few scenes from the original board were left in the opening titles. Thats what you were seeing that cant be found in any of the episodes.