Search results

And I’ve seen her live in another movie (or rather miniseries) made prior to The Black Cauldron. In all seriousness, if Romeo and Juliet is the film you’re referring to, her performance in that film is one of the reasons Olivia might have been a good fit for the more vibrant personality Eilonwy...

I’ve always wondered how much Hayley Mills recorded for Eilonwy before they decided to replace her with Susan Sheridan, and if Disney still has whatever recordings she made (I’ve read Lloyd Alexander personally wanted Olivia Hussey for Eilonwy, which could have been good).

That’s definitely the case for this particular film, as my previous post implied. I liked The Black Cauldron when I first saw it (even without knowing anything about the edits made to the film), but my appreciation for the film went down considerably once I read the books and realized how much...

The books are among my favorites as well. The film is primarily derived from the first two books (The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron) with a lot of drastic changes. Gone is Arawn (the real villain of the books; the Horned King only appears in the first book) and Gwydion, to name only a...

I honestly never noticed that before (shudders). In all seriousness, I feel the same way about the gag involving a frog stuck in the cleavage of one of the witches of Morva (named Orwen in the books), I mean how did that not bother Katzenberg?

It’s been suggested elsewhere (can’t find a specific link at the moment) that Sleeping Beauty may have initially been meant to be shot in CinemaScope like Lady and the Tramp (hence the 2.55 ratio compared to the normal 2.2 ratio of Technirama) before Walt decided to shoot in Technirama.

Not only 2.35:1 widescreen, but large format Technirama (Sleeping Beauty is the only other animated film shot this way) printed to 70mm. As for the legendary deleted scenes, the closest we’re going to get to an uncut version of the film for the present is this collection of YouTube videos...