11. Why didn't the cartoons last longer? The cartoons were for the time, I do not think they had any lasting value, apart from collectors like yourself (Darren English). The stories, design and animation were adequate, but crude. As animators, we were all pretty green. I believe as with most animation, it was a case of 'make a buck while you can'. It was fun while it lasted.
Richards full interview will be published in the upcoming Beatle cartoons book.
BEATLES MONTHLY STORY ON CARTOONS
The Beatles Monthly magazine recently featured a new item on the Beatles cartoons stating that Apple now owns the rights to the series. Apple is looking at releasing a video compilation of the cartoons. The date of this release is unclear.
MOJO STORY ON BEATLES CARTOONS
The October 1996 edition of Mojo magazine included a 40 page Beatles special. Included was an interview with Neil Aspinal, the complete words to Revolution #9, an interview with Ron Nasty (from the Rutles), and an interview with Paul McCartney.
Most importantly, for me anyway, was an article the magazine did on the Beatles Cartoons.
Mojo states that Apple now owns the Copyrights for the series. Fans can only hope that Apple would buy the series so that they could release it in some format.
Tragically someone at Kings features sanctioned the incineration of many of the scripts from the series a few years ago.
Re: The Beatles Cartoons - мультфильмы о Битлз :) Автор:LeninДата: 29.09.06 22:54:48
7. The scripts were written and storyboarded in the States by King Features, or associates, subject to Beatle representative approval. I have no proof of this; it is what I was told.
8. We did not have any say in the scripts, they were taken as read by the time we had received them. Sometimes we were allowed to draw incidental characters. I remember one episode where an animator had drawn a bosomy flying bat lady. There was some discussion about the shape of the offending creature and androgyny was decided on. My friend had to take to his scenes with an eraser. He was not amused.
9. Do I have any favourite episodes? I don't remember half the episodes. I guess A HARD DAYS NIGHT. It was my first animation. The song is one that was popular at the time and easily identified with the Beatles.
10. Was there to be four one-hour Beatles specials? There were always rumours around the studio and I seem to remember one about specials. Abe Goodman was the consummate businessman and everyone’s uncle, he would always tell us about the great year we would have next year. ARTRANSA lived a hand to mouth existence; it needed US specials to survive. There was dissent among animators in America because work came to Australia, this maybe one of the reasons much of the work we were promised did not eventuate.
Re: The Beatles Cartoons - мультфильмы о Битлз :) Автор:LeninДата: 29.09.06 22:54:20
4. Sources for modelling Beatles characters. We watched interviews with the Beatles. We had discussion meetings with Abe Goodman as to what he required from us. We watched the film A Hard Days Night. We drew and discussed mannerisms and movement from model sheets supplied from the states. We discussed guitar types and Ringo's rings. We also did some pencil tests.
5. Procedures for making the cartoons. As I remember, we worked two animators on a title with an inbetweening. Cel paints were imported from the US, as they were unobtainable here and there had to be colour continuity.
We received storyboards, voice and music tracks from the US.
I do not remember if the tracks were read, direction timed and charted here.
The layout backgrounds commenced
Animation
Inbetweening
Trace and paint in one area, about a dozen girls headed by Zora Janjic.
Oxberry 35mm animation camera, one main operator.
Rushes and reshoots.
Editing, added canned music and FX.
Answer print
Release prints.
6. The cartoons were made at ARTRANSA PARK TELEVISION, French's Forest. I believe there was some subcontracting to Ron Campbell and Zoran Janjic.
Re: The Beatles Cartoons - мультфильмы о Битлз :) Автор:LeninДата: 29.09.06 22:53:33
An unofficial look at the Beatle Cartoons series from a humble fan.
THE BEGINNING....
A Word With Richard Jones
I was fortunate enough to get into contact with Richard Jones, and artist from the ARTRANSA studio in Sydney. Richard detailed what he knew about the tunes, a few stories behind the scenes, and what ended up happening to ARTRANSA. Here are his answers to some fairly broad questions:
1. Where did the cartoons originate? I was never sure. Some attributed the idea to the Beatles themselves, though I suspect that they probably originated in the bowels of King Features during one of their "How do we make more bucks?" meetings.
2. How did I become involved? At the time I was 18 years old and living in a small country town called Quirindi in northern New South Wales. The only thing I wanted to do was to animate. I had been pestering ARTRANSA PARK TELEVISION in Sydney about a job for 2 years. Sending letters, gags, drawings, cells made out of plastic shirt box topes, finally I wore them down and they agreed to give me a job for their next television series. I received a telegram from Graham Sharpe, "Starting Beatles series - need you Sydney next week". When I arrived in Sydney, Artransa was putting the finishing touches to the Beetle Baily and Krazy Kat cartoons. I remember it was several months before we started on the Beatles. I punched a hell of a lot of paper cell in that time!
3. Who proposed the idea? No idea. (Actually it was Al Brodax.)
Re: Памятник "Битлз" Автор:LeninДата: 12.09.06 20:43:55
"Да и создан он из специального сплава, который дороже и прочнее бронзы" - то, что дороже, - в этом никто не сомневается, откаты в Донецке рулят. А вот по прочности.. Джон ожил, покачиваясь из стороны в сторону, от легкого ветерка.. так что время покажет (интересно, в какой школе учился Сергей Калафат и кто был учитель химии, если он полимерный материал назвал "сплавом"?).
P.S. комментарий к той статье добавить не удалось.
Re: Что слушаем, битломаны? Автор:LeninДата: 03.09.06 20:05:54
2Монстр66: >В Донецке, я так понял, это просто временные >композиции, которые вряд ли можно назвать настоящим памятником?
да, они почти из папье-маше - пластмассовые, стоять будут столько, сколько продержится клуб (5-10 лет), делали их в Харькове ребята, которые с таким же удовольствием сделали-бы хоть Буша, хоть ЧеГевару, ИМХО.
Re: Памятник "Битлз" Автор:LeninДата: 01.09.06 23:29:49
Храм Джона - это вообще отдельная песТня отдельного человека и его окружения ;) ИМХО в будущем на эту тему студенты-медики будут писать дипломы и курсовые...
Re: Памятник "Битлз" Автор:LeninДата: 01.09.06 22:45:58
> Ребята у нас много памятников Битлз на территории пост совы? > Конечно не много. > И даже если такой, > то все равно , я думаю очень полезно для этого региона > (- «к сожалению, битломанов в Донецке можно по пальцам пересчитать»). > А по поводу качества скульптур, то мне кажется многие слишком умничают и хотят, > что б это были прямо фото-роботы (музей мадам Тюссо).
возможно, я перегнул конечно с тоном новости, - но: очень печально то, что у людей такой подход и такое отношение. И естественно сразу у меня был шок: я ожидал внутри хотя-бы немного битловской тематики и атмосферы, пусть даже не так, как было в "Yellow Submarine" в Москве, но хоть что-то.. Даже если бы они сделали фаст-фуд с интерьером московской "Золотой Воблы", но вместо утюгов и газет были-бы пластинки и плакаты (а денег это стоило-бы тех-же что и пластиковый "макдоналдсовский" интерьер - просто нужно было привлечь человека, который понимает суть вопроса)... это было-бы куда приятнее.. сейчас же я "Ливерпуль" как то стараюсь обходить, чтобы не нервничать.. хотя и кошусь туда взглядом немного, когда проезжаю..
Что-же касается памятника, и играющей у него музыки.. будем надеяться, что это как-то все-же повлияет на ситуацию в регионе, хотя... сложно все это для понимания - слишком уж субъективно я все воспринимаю. Да и Битлз и их субкультура сейчас - это ИМХО не массовое явление уже.
Re: Памятник "Битлз" Автор:LeninДата: 31.08.06 02:59:43
У кого нибудь есть точная информация о чартах Billboard за 60-е? У меня есть некоторые расхождения по разным источникам, - так, например, из одного источника в 1965-м первая тройка выглядит так:
1. Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones 2. Help - The Beatles 3. I Can't Help Myself - The Four Tops
Данные из другого источника следующие:
1. Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones 2. Yesterday - The Beatles 3. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) - The Byrds
Хочется установить истину )
Re: Ежиный кинотеатр - вам всем в подарок! Автор:LeninДата: 17.01.05 21:29:20