"characters are also represented, including those from ""Lilo & Stitch"", ""Toy Story"", ""Monsters, Inc."", ""Big Hero 6"", ""The Aristocats"", ""Star Wars"", and ""Cars"". Disney has also released alternate character representations for holidays and special events. There is also a CGI animated short series featuring the characters. Disney Tsum Tsum (listed on the App Store and Google Play Store as LINE: Disney Tsum Tsum) is a free-to-play mobile puzzle game for iOS and Android developed and published by Line Corporation. The game focuses on Disney, Pixar, and ""Star Wars"" characters rendered as Tsum Tsum toys. The game is divided between two"
"Eddie Collins (actor) ""For other people with the same name, see Eddie Collins."" Edward Bernard ""Eddie"" Collins (January 30, 1883 – September 2, 1940) was an American comedian, actor and singer. He is best remembered for voicing Dopey in Disney's ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937) and for portraying Tylo The Dog in the Shirley Temple film ""The Blue Bird"" (1940). He began working in vaudeville in 1905 and started working in burlesque around 1925. An animator for Walt Disney Productions saw him in a burlesque show and suggested that Disney hire him as a live-action reference model for"
"a dog who is magically transformed into a human, in ""The Blue Bird"" (1940). Upon being transformed, Tylo follows his mistress Mytyl (Shirley Temple) on a quest to find the famed ""Bluebird of Happiness"". Collins' interpretation of Tylo is that of an easily spooked, but loyal companion who will do anything for those he loves. He died of a heart attack on September 2, 1940. Eddie Collins (actor) ""For other people with the same name, see Eddie Collins."" Edward Bernard ""Eddie"" Collins (January 30, 1883 – September 2, 1940) was an American comedian, actor and singer. He is best remembered"
"Walter Bullock. S. Scott Bullock Stuart Scott Bullock (born May 7, 1956), better known as S. Scott Bullock, is an American actor, singer, voice actor and comedian, best known for performing the voice of Flapper in ""Dink the Little Dinosaur"", Wendell in ""Mike, Lu and Og"", Eddy in the ""Barnyard"" franchise, Thunder in ""Teen Titans"", Captain Bones and Lens McCracken in ""Crashbox"", Lamont in ""Gargoyles"", and King Goobot in """" (taking over for Patrick Stewart). Bullock was born Stuart Scott Bullock in Santa Monica, California on May 7, 1956. Bullock is known for providing voices for characters, such as Eddy"
"Brave Little Tailor Brave Little Tailor is a 1938 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon is an adaptation of the fairy tale ""The Valiant Little Tailor"" with Mickey Mouse in the title role. The film was directed by Bill Roberts and features original music by Albert Hay Malotte. The voice cast includes Walt Disney as Mickey, Marcellite Garner as Minnie, and Eddie Holden as the Giant. ""Brave Little Tailor"" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 11th Academy Awards in 1939, but lost"
"S. Scott Bullock Stuart Scott Bullock (born May 7, 1956), better known as S. Scott Bullock, is an American actor, singer, voice actor and comedian, best known for performing the voice of Flapper in ""Dink the Little Dinosaur"", Wendell in ""Mike, Lu and Og"", Eddy in the ""Barnyard"" franchise, Thunder in ""Teen Titans"", Captain Bones and Lens McCracken in ""Crashbox"", Lamont in ""Gargoyles"", and King Goobot in """" (taking over for Patrick Stewart). Bullock was born Stuart Scott Bullock in Santa Monica, California on May 7, 1956. Bullock is known for providing voices for characters, such as Eddy in the"
"the story to the accompaniment of Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dances. The second was ""The Three Little Bops"", featuring the pigs as a jazz band, who refused to let the inept trumpet-playing wolf join until after he died and went to Hell, whereupon his playing markedly improved. Both of these cartoons were directed by ex-Disney animator Friz Freleng. The third film was ""The Windblown Hare"", featuring Bugs Bunny, and directed by Robert McKimson. In ""Windblown"", Bugs is conned into first buying the straw house, which the wolf blows down, and then the sticks house, which the wolf also blows down. After"
"and later released to VHS and DVD by Warner Home Video on October 22, 2002. The film chronicles the career of legendary ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" director, Chuck Jones; from his start in the animation industry as a cel washer; to director of shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Pepé Le Pew, Michigan J. Frog, Marvin the Martian, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Hubie and Bertie, and the Three Bears, among others; the animation process consisting of: storyboards, backgrounds, dialogue, expressions, comedic timing, sound effects, and music; discussions on select Jones films such"
"plays a clarinet and parodies Jazz bandleader Ted Lewis; the performance is based in part on the Ted Lewis Band's 1926 recording of ""St. Louis Blues"". As the band plays the final notes of the climatic finale, they collectively jump on the bandstand and cause it to collapse. They reemerge from the debris to deliver a final ""Yeah!"" to the audience. Blue Rhythm Blue Rhythm is a 1931 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Columbia Pictures. The cartoon stars Mickey Mouse and depicts a multifaceted performance of W. C. Handy's ""St. Louis Blues."" It"
"footage of Cab Calloway. The film was deemed ""culturally significant"" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1994. Also in 1994 it was voted #19 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. The film is now in the public domain. Snow-White (1933 film) Snow-White, also known as Betty Boop in Snow-White, is a film in the ""Betty Boop"" series from Max Fleischer's Fleischer Studios directed in 1933. Dave Fleischer was credited as director, although virtually all the animation was done by Roland Crandall."
"Saludos Amigos Saludos Amigos (Spanish for ""Greetings, Friends"") is a 1942 American live-action animated package film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the sixth Disney animated feature film and the first of the six package films produced by Walt Disney Productions in the 1940s. Set in Latin America, it is made up of four different segments; Donald Duck stars in two of them and Goofy stars in one. It also features the first appearance of José Carioca, the Brazilian cigar-smoking parrot. ""Saludos Amigos"" premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942. It was"
"the Warner Bros. studio in the years after World War II, with Freleng largely concentrating on the above-mentioned characters, as well as Bugs Bunny. Freleng continued to produce modernized versions of the musical comedies he animated in his early career, such as ""The Three Little Bops"" (1957) and ""Pizzicato Pussycat"" (1955). He won four Oscars during his time at Warner Bros., for the films ""Tweetie Pie"" (1947), ""Speedy Gonzales"" (1955), ""Birds Anonymous"" (1957) and ""Knighty Knight Bugs"" (1958). Other Freleng cartoons, such as ""Sandy Claws"" (1955), ""Mexicali Shmoes"" (1959), ""Mouse and Garden"" (1960) and ""The Pied Piper of Guadalupe"" (1961)"
"of the films. Following the success of Disney's ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937) Paul Terry considered making an animated feature film adaptation of ""King Lear"" starring Farmer Al Falfa. However, after seeing the commercial failures of Disney's ""Pinocchio"" and ""Fantasia"" (both 1940) and Max Fleischer's ""Mr. Bug Goes to Town"" (1941), he decided to abandon the project. Until 1957, screen credits were very sparse, listing only the writer (until 1950, solely John Foster; then Tom Morrison thereafter), director (Terry's three main directors were Connie Rasinski, Eddie Donnelly and Mannie Davis), and musician (musical director Philip A. Scheib). Terrytoons'"
"Animation Pierre Olivier Vincent - ""How To Train Your Dragon"" - DreamWorks Animation Fred Gonzales - ""T.U.F.F. Puppy"" – Nickelodeon Tom Owens - ""How To Train Your Dragon"" - DreamWorks Animation Jay Baruchel as Hiccup - ""How To Train Your Dragon"" - DreamWorks Animation James Hong as Mr. Ping - ""Kung Fu Panda Holiday"" - DreamWorks Animation Geoff Johns, Matthew Beans, Zeb Wells, Hugh Sterbakov, Matthew Senreich, Breckin Meyer, Seth Green, Mike Fasolo, Douglas Goldstein, Tom Root, Dan Milano, Kevin Shinick & Hugh Davidson - ""Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III"" – ShadowMachine William Davies, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders -"
"as Baby Einstein for the LATCH System for the U.S. Department of Transportation, ""Pinocchio"" and ""The Jungle Book"" for MyPyramid, ""Bambi"", ""Sleeping Beauty"", and ""Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears"" for Smokey Bear, ""Cinderella"" for child booster seats by the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the ""Little Einsteins"" for art instruction. Several 20th Century Fox films also appears in partnership, such as ""Alvin and the Chipmunks"" and ""Ice Age"". Universal Studios films are also in partnership, such as ""The Lorax"" and ""Curious George"". Radio show host/comedian Adam Carolla took umbrage with the Ad Council on his former radio programs ""The"
"- ""Kung Fu Panda Holiday"" - DreamWorks Animation Gabe Hordos - ""How To Train Your Dragon"" - DreamWorks Animation Ryan Page - ""Alice in Wonderland"" Ernie Gilbert - ""T.U.F.F. Puppy"" – Nickelodeon Nico Marlet - ""How To Train Your Dragon"" - DreamWorks Animation Tim Johnson - ""Kung Fu Panda Holiday"" - DreamWorks Animation Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois - ""How To Train Your Dragon"" - DreamWorks Animation Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, Nick Carr and Tuck Tucker - ""SpongeBob SquarePants"" – Nickelodeon John Powell - ""How To Train Your Dragon"" - DreamWorks Animation Richie Sacilioc - ""Kung Fu Panda Holiday"" - DreamWorks"
"Bugs Bunny, alias Elegant Mess (a parody of Eliot Ness), arrives with the police to bust Rocky and his gang. At the same time, Daffy tiredly carries out Rocky's orders. Naturally, Rocky and his gang are arrested. Daffy is taken to a hospital on a stretcher. Bugs asks Daffy if he needs anything and Daffy requests a proctologist, immediately. Golden Yeggs Golden Yeggs is a 1950 Merrie Melodies short animated film, released on August 5, 1950 by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. and directed by Friz Freleng. It features Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in a forerunner of the Rocky and"
"and were largely replaced by comedy and satire. The ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" shorts by Warner Bros. Animation, for instance, introduced dozens of funny animals, many of whom have reached iconic status in American culture. Other notable funny animals from the color film era included Universal's Woody Woodpecker, Wally Walrus, Chilly Willy and Andy Panda; MGM's Tom and Jerry, Screwy Squirrel, Barney Bear and Droopy; and Terrytoons' Heckle and Jeckle, Gandy Goose, Dinky Duck and Mighty Mouse. Television changed the dynamic of animation, in that although budgets were much smaller and schedules much tighter, this prompted a shift from"
"Bolt (2008 film) Bolt is a 2008 American computer animated comedy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 48th Disney animated feature film. Directed by Chris Williams and Byron Howard, the film stars the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, Diedrich Bader, Nick Swardson, Greg Germann, Susie Essman and Mark Walton. The film's plot centers on a white dog named Bolt who, having spent his entire life on the set of a television series, thinks that he has super powers. When he believes that his human, Penny, has been"
"in ""The Swan Princess"" (1994), and David in ""All Dogs Go to Heaven 2"" (1996). He then lent his voice to many animated series, including ""Dennis the Menace"" as the title character (1993–94), ""Hey Arnold!"" as Curly (1996-2002), ""Crayola Kids Adventures"", ""Napoleon"" as the title character (1997), ""The King and I"" (1999) as Louis Leonowens, and Walt Disney Television Animation's pilot ""Kitty's Dish"" (as Josh). Wylie's voice credits also include ""Batman Beyond"", ""Pepper Ann"" as Crash, ""As Told By Ginger"" as Ian Richton, ""Midnight Club II"", Jimmy Olsen in the 2007 direct-to-DVD movie, """", the roles of Fred Nerk, Nigel"
"Bill Melendez José ""Bill"" Cuauhtémoc Meléndez (November 15, 1916 – September 2, 2008) was a Mexican–American character animator, voice actor, film director and producer known for his cartoons for Walt Disney Productions (working on four Disney films ""Pinocchio"", ""Fantasia"", ""Dumbo"" and ""Bambi""), Warner Bros. Cartoons, UPA and the ""Peanuts"" series. Melendez provided the voices of Snoopy and Woodstock in the latter as well. A native of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, Melendez was educated in U.S. public schools in Douglas, Arizona. He later attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (which would later become California Institute of the Arts). Following the"
"By early 1934, Friz Freleng was appointed the main director of the ""Merrie Melodies"", following the departures of other directors from Leon Schlesinger Productions (the company later known as Warner Bros. Cartoons). ""Beauty and the Beast"" (released in April 1934) was the first ""Merrie Melodies"" animated short film directed by Freleng. It was a color film, using a two-color process. However, following its release, Freleng would direct six short films in black and white. Among them were ""The Girl at the Ironing Board"" and ""The Miller's Daughter"". From November 1934 onwards, the ""Merrie Melodies"" switched to only including color films."
"boy and the other a Jewish girl. In addition to many American and British films, the series also featured motion pictures from Russia, France, Bulgaria, Japan, Sweden, Italy, China, Australia, South Africa, and Czechoslovakia, as well as several other countries. Other films that aired during the series run include the Academy Awarding-winning French film ""The Red Balloon""' ""Skinny and Fatty"" from Japan; ""Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World"" from Great Britain; ""Tillie, the Unhappy Hippopotamus"" from Czechoslovakia; and ""Mi-Mi, the Lazy Kitten"" from China. Actor Ray Bolger, a star of ""The Wizard of Oz"", served as narrator for some"
"Disney also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for ""Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom"", the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for ""The Alaskan Eskimo"" and the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel) for ""Bear Country"". In addition to its Oscar, the film also won the International Prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival, an award at the Berlin Film Festival and a special achievement award from the Golden Globe Awards. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically,"
"The Tortoise and the Hare (film) The Tortoise and the Hare is a 1935 American animated short film released on January 5, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jackson. Based on an Aesop's fable of the same name, it won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. This cartoon is also believed to be one of the inspirations for Bugs Bunny, who first appeared in 1940. Max Hare is the heavy favorite to win a major sporting event---he's cocky, athletic and incredibly fast. His challenger, Toby Tortoise, is teased and jeered for"
"their lives in blissful captivity and are unexpectedly shipped back to Africa. Now they must struggle to survive while attempting to return to New York City with the help of a crafty cadre of penguins and with many other characters along the way. ""Madagascar"" is a 2005 computer-animated comedy film and the first film in the series. Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, the film tells the story of four Central Park Zoo animals: Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer), and Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith). These animals have"
"urged for more animal-centric animated features, and suggested a North American backdrop, taking particular inspiration from an original landscape painting by Albert Bierstadt that he bought. To track the ""king"" idea, the hero would naturally be a bear, the king of the forest. At the time, the original idea, which was inspired by ""King Lear"", centered around an old blind bear who traveled the forest with his three daughters. In 1997, veteran animator Aaron Blaise came on board the project as director because he ""wanted to be attached so that I could animate bears"", and was soon joined by co-director"
"Byron Howard Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, story artist and occasional voice actor at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is best known as the co-director of ""Bolt"" (2008), ""Tangled"" (2010), and ""Zootopia"" (2016), and a supervising animator on ""Lilo & Stitch"" (2002) and ""Brother Bear"" (2003). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for ""Tangled"" and won an Oscar for ""Zootopia"". Howard was born in Misawa, Japan, and raised in both the outskirts of Philadelphia and Issaquah, Washington, United States, in a middle-class family. He attended Evergreen State College"
"Millar. Later on, as Bozo chases the cat (and drags Buddy along), they pass a billboard that advertises ""Frisby"", a reference to Friz Freleng. A similar reference to Freleng occurs in ""High Diving Hare"". As with many Buddy cartoons, sources differ on the release date of ""Buddy the Dentist"". This article's placement is in accord with the article Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1929-1939), which proposes a different order and date than Leonard Maltin's ""Of Mice and Magic"", hereinbefore cited. For more on such conflicts, see the relevant section of the article on ""Buddy's Circus"". Buddy the Dentist Buddy"
"original stories, the filmmakers enlisted Burny Mattinson, a Disney veteran who worked as the key animator on ""Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too"", to serve as lead storyboard artist for the film, with Anderson and Hall directing. Director Stephen Anderson is best known for his effort on ""Meet the Robinsons"", ""Journey Beneath the Sea"", ""Brother Bear"", ""The Emperor's New Groove"" and ""Bolt"". Director Don Hall also has veteran status at Walt Disney Animation Studios, significantly contributing to ""The Princess and the Frog"", ""Meet the Robinsons"", ""Brother Bear"", ""Home on the Range"", ""The Emperor's New Groove"" and ""Tarzan"". Supervising animators for"
"Store. Bolt (2008 film) Bolt is a 2008 American computer animated comedy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 48th Disney animated feature film. Directed by Chris Williams and Byron Howard, the film stars the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, Diedrich Bader, Nick Swardson, Greg Germann, Susie Essman and Mark Walton. The film's plot centers on a white dog named Bolt who, having spent his entire life on the set of a television series, thinks that he has super powers. When he believes that his human, Penny, has"
"Pinocchio (1940 film) Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Italian children's novel ""The Adventures of Pinocchio"" by Carlo Collodi. It was the second animated feature film produced by Disney, made after the success of ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937). The plot of the film involves an old wood-carver named Geppetto who carves a wooden puppet named Pinocchio. The puppet is brought to life by a blue fairy, who informs him that he can become a real boy if he proves himself to be ""brave, truthful, and"
"in the corner of the room. Two silhouettes of patrons who are late to the screening show up and the wolf asks Red to wait for them to get seated. They resume fighting until Egghead shows up a sixth time and hits the wolf over the head with a mallet. As the ""iris"" comes back Egghead is shown repeatedly kissing Red. Little Red Walking Hood Little Red Walking Hood is a 1937 ""Merrie Melodies"" cartoon supervised by Fred Avery. The cartoon features the basic plot of Little Red Riding Hood, with a few twists and oddball Tex Avery-like gags, such"