are also doing a presentation on the History of New York Animation at the NY ComicCon (Feb 6-8). The Pelham Picture House will be doing NY Commercials & Indy Animation programs. Sedelmaier Productions and Blue Sky Studios retrospectives.

There will be screenings/panels at the Jacob Burns Center on Silent Cartoons, Cartoons for Kids, as well as J.J. This one, above, looks like an outake from Famous Studios’ Lumberjack And Jill (1949). is refilming them, adding inbetweens where necessary. In preparation for the display, Beckerman is digging out rarely seen pencil animation sequences from his archive, and J.J. Sedelmaier and Howard Beckerman are assembling rare materials for a forthcoming series of animation exhibits showcasing the legacy of New York area animation. Jeffery’s crew meeting for it made Nik almost regret turning down animating Lion King for Pocahontas.J.J. So he insisted that the animals were mute. Jeffery Katzenberg had watched Snow White again when it was re-released at the time and really liked Dopey. Nik Ranieri animated the Redfeather tests and Stephen Fry was going to voice Percy if the animals would have talked.Īccording to Nik, the decision to make the animals mute wasn’t related to John Candy. Updated with a Facebook video link with original voices (the audio above uses soundalikes) and temp audio for John Candy. One is what we got, the other had the leading heroine as a teenager only taking a friendship in John Smith but was a little lighter hearted and, of course, had the critters talk.

Well kids, take your pick of which Pocahontas you would like to have seen. I think it worked out, but it would be interesting to see how the movie would have turned out with a talking turkey in it. Percy lost his ability to speak, and they wrote in Meeko and Flit to add a slapstick dynamic. But when Candy died in ‘94, they scrapped the character and did away with the talking animals all together. Pocahontas originally had a turkey named “Redfeather” as her sidekick animal.

Pencil animation test