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Maxie Zeus
02-06-2008, 12:01 AM
This is the talkback thread for "Oswald": Now We're All "Lucky" (http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=21438).

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I gotta admit, I wasn't looking forward to reviewing this. What a terrific surprise to find out that the shorts really are quite good; and the documentary is excellent.
JerryvonKramer
02-06-2008, 06:14 AM
So are the shorts completely silent Maxie or do they have some sort of music? The former would seem completely surreal.
Maxie Zeus
02-06-2008, 10:26 AM
I forgot to mention the music!

Dam', I knew I left something out of that review!

They come with a brand-new score by Robert Israel, who has written a ton (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004593/) of new scores for old silent movies. They are very much in the style of the time: loose and jazzy. They don't have the metronomic grind of early sound cartoons (it's not like listening to a Bosko short), but they don't have anything like the complex swinginess of Stalling in the forties, either.
DrTooth
02-06-2008, 12:08 PM
I'm just shocked they made an Ub Iwerks documentary. Seems he was the real animation talent behind Disney's earliest works. And I always felt he didn't get the respect he deserved.
chadhobbick
02-07-2008, 07:25 PM
Didn't Maltin say that it was Ub's grandaughter who made the documentary, not Disney? I have a feeling that Maltin and a few other artists requested that this be included on the Oswald set as a praise to the real man behind the beginning of the Disney cartoons. I couldn't see the old Disney board of directors wanting to acknowledge that Walt wasn't the man who was behind it all.
SpaceCowboy
02-07-2008, 11:57 PM
Didn't Maltin say that it was Ub's grandaughter who made the documentary, not Disney? I have a feeling that Maltin and a few other artists requested that this be included on the Oswald set as a praise to the real man behind the beginning of the Disney cartoons. I couldn't see the old Disney board of directors wanting to acknowledge that Walt wasn't the man who was behind it all.Disney was responsible for distributing the film before on VHS format, so it's not surprising.