- Title: ALE-26
- Summary: PUPPETOONS INTERVIEWS: INTERVIEW FILMED RELATED TO FILMMAKER GEORGE PAL PUPPETOONS INTERVIEWS COMPILATION: WAH CHANG GENE RODDENBERRY RAY BRADBURY DUKE GOLDSTONE RAY HARRYHAUSEN RUSS TAMBLYN ROY DISNEY
- Description:01:00:01 - TITLE CARD: WAH CHANG 01:00:07 - MS OF WAH CHANG TALKS ABOUT HOW HE FIRST HEARD OF GEORGE PAL, A FRIEND AT DISNEY STUDIOS BROUGHT IN A PHILLIPS BROADCAST OF PAL'S. TALKS ABOUT BEING STRICKEN WITH POLIO AND WENT BACK TO WORK AT GEORGE PAL'S PUPPETOON STUDIOS. SAYS PAL MAKE PUPPETS POPULAR, MENTIONS WILLIS O'BRIEN AND RAY HARRYHAUSEN, PAL HAD A GREAT SENSE OF MUSIC AND SPECIAL EFFECTS. TALKS ABOUT GEORGE PAL AS A MAN, WORKING ON FEATURE PROJECTS, TOM THUMB. GEORGE PAL WAS A GENIUS, WELL ORGANIZED. CHANG SAYS HE ANIMATED "THE YAWNING MAN", WITH REPLACEMENT HEADS, TALKS ABOUT SOUNDTRACKS, TOM THUMB DANCE SEQUENCE -WAH CHANG TALKS ABOUT DIRECTING THE ELF SEQUENCE IN "WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHER'S GRIMM" MOVIE, MENTIONS DAVID PAL DOING THE ANIMATION. TALKS ABOUT THE DRAGON SEQUENCE, JEWELS ON THE DRAGON. MENTIONS CREATING A MINIATURE BUDDY HACKETT 01:11:25 - BLANK 01:11:33 - TITLE CARD: GENE RODDENBERRY 01:11:40 - INTERVIEW EXCERPTS WITH GENE RODDENBERRY. TALKS ABOUT MEETING WAH CHANG IN THE MAKING OF STAR TREK. CALLS WAH CHANG A MASTER, TALKS ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH STUDIOS. MENTIONS MICHELANGELO AND THE ISSUES BETWEEN BUSINESS AND THE ARTS. TALKS ABOUT GEORGE PAL AS ALWAYS BEING A YOUNG MAN AND LOVING WOMEN. TALKS ABOUT "DESTINATION MOON", PREDICTS CORPORATE SPACE TRAVEL, SCIENCE FACT NOT SCIENCE FICTION. TALKS ABOUT "THE TIME MACHINE" -TALKS ABOUT PRISONS AND GENDER ROLES AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN A WORLD WITHOUT MEN OR WOMEN AND THE UNMADE MOVIE "DISAPPEARANCE" -TALKS ABOUT "WAR OF THE WORLDS", SOUND EFFECTS -RODDENBERRY SAYS HE LEARNED A LOT FROM GEORGE PAL 01:18:46 - CU OF GENE RODDENBERRY TALKING ABOUT GEORGE PAL'S EFFECT ON HIMSELF AND THE WORLD OF FANTASY. TALKS ABOUT THE SPACE BURIAL IN "THE WRATH OF KHAN" INSPIRED BY GEORGE PAL, "THANKFUL THAT I KNEW GEORGE PAL" 01:21:27 - BLANK 01:21:37 - TITLE CARD: RAY BRADBURY 01:21:43 - MS OF RAY BRADBURY TALKS ABOUT AN OPTIMIST, GEORGE PAL SHOWED HOW HUMANS WILL SURVIVE, TALKS ABOUT FANTASY FILMS "TOM THUMB", MENTIONS WALT DISNEY AND RAY HARRYHAUSEN 01:23:48 - BLANK 01:23:57 - TITLE CARD: DUKE GOLDSTONE 01:24:02 - MS OF DUKE GOLDSTONE TALKS ABOUT FIRST WORKING FOR GEORGE PAL'S PUPPETOONS, MENTIONS THE ARTISTS THAT WORKED FOR HIM. MENTIONS FINANCIAL PROBLEMS AND MAKING BASIC TRAINING MOVIES FOR THE MILITARY AND SHELL OIL INDUSTRIAL FILMS. TALKS ABOUT THE STUDIO IN HOLLYWOOD, THE MAKING OF "TOM THUMB", MENTIONS "THE GREAT RUPERT" WITH JIMMY DURANTE, "DESTINATION MOON" -TALKS ABOUT GEORGE PAL THE MAN, FRIENDS FOR 40 YEARS, HE WAS A GREAT FISHERMAN 01:28:59 - DUKE GOLDSTONE TALKS ABOUT FIRST MEETING GEORGE PAL AND WORKING AT THE MCCADDEN PLACE STUDIO IN HOLLYWOOD, TALKS ABOUT THE JASPAR CHARACTER, PUPPET OF A BLACK BOY, DESCRIBES THE REPLACEMENT METHOD OF 3 -D ANIMATION. TALKS ABOUT THE MUSIC COMPOSED BY ANDRE KOSTELANETZ, PEGGY LEE AS A SINGING HARP. TALKS ABOUT HIS VARIOUS ROLES IN THE STUDIO. MENTIONS "THE DISAPPEARANCE" AN UNMADE MOVIE, CALLS GEORGE PAL MULTI-FACETED, TALKS ABOUT SCIENCE FICTION, "WHEN WORLDS COLLLIDE" AND GEORGE'S CONTRIBUTION TO MOVIE MAKING 01:34:51 - BLANK 01:35:00 - TITLE CARD: RAY HARRYHAUSEN 01:35:07 - EXCERPTS FROM RAY HARRYHAUSEN INTERVIEW: TALKS ABOUT GEORGE PAL'S PUPPETOONS BEING TOO SUBTLE FOR THE TIME. TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH GEORGE PAL'S STUDIO AND DESCRIBES IN DETAIL HIS TECHNIQUE OF USING REPLACEMENT FIGURES, MENTIONS "JIM DANDY" 01:38:15 - RAY HARRYHAUSEN TALKS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE ANIMATED PUPPET FILM AND ANDRE KOSTELANETZ COMPOSER, RAY WORKED ON JIM DANDY AND HULA BULA WITH GEORGE PAL -RAY HARRYHAUSEN DESCRIBE THE GOOD NATURED ENVIRONMENT OF THE STUDIO, BEFORE UNIONS, TALKS ABOUT EFFICIENCY EXPERTS, JOINING THE ARMY, MENTIONS WILLIS O'BRIEN'S TECHNIQUE. STYLIZED VERSUS REALISM 01:42:59 - RAY HARRYHAUSEN CONTINUES COMMENTS ABOUT GEORGE PAL AND SHORT FILMS AND FEATURE FILMS. THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO WORK ON A FEATURE TOGETHER, MENTIONS "DESTINATION MOON" AND SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FILMS. MENTIONS FRITZ LANG AND "METROPOLIS" AND "DELUGE" AND "STAR WARS". TALKS ABOUT THE VIOLENT MOVIES OF TODAY, MENTIONS HIS "SINBAD" 01:47:42 - RAY HARRYHAUSEN COMMENTS CONTINUE: HE TALKS ABOUT GEORGE PAL AS "A PERFECT GENTLEMAN", ORGANIZED AND GOOD BUSINESSMAN, CREATIVE TECHNIQUE INNOVATIONS. WONDERS ABOUT GEORGE PAL FESTIVALS AND REVIVALS. MENTIONS FIRST IMPRESSION OF GEORGE PAL AS BEING A VERY KIND MAN. TALKS ABOUT THE MASS PRODUCED FILMS AND THE MONEY AND LABOR ISSUES OF FILM TODAY 01:54:05 - BLANK 01:54:15 - TITLE CARD: RUSS TAMBLYN 01:54:20 - MS OF RUSS TAMBLYN TALKING ABOUT THE DANCE EXPERIENCE OF WORKING ON TOM THUMB, DESCRIBES THE SCENE WITH AFRICANS. DETAILS THE SEPARATE FILMING AND ANIMATION. MENTIONS A HULA GIRL CHARACTER. 01:56:02 - RUSS TAMBLYN TALKS ABOUT BEING 21 YEARS OLD AND HIS HAIR BEING DYED AND THEM SHAVING HIS CHEST AND LEGS AND BEING DEVASTATED. DESCRIBES THE FILMING PROCESSES AND ALWAYS WORKING ALONE. TALKS ABOUT THE ACROBATICS AND STUNTS, MENTIONS THE SPECIAL EFFECTS DEPARTMENT 01:58:47 - RUSS TAMBLYN CONTINUES DESCRIBING THE FILMING OF TOM THUMB, TECHNICAL ASPECTS AND TECHNIQUES 02:01:50 - RUSS TAMBLYN TALKS ABOUT GETTING HIRED TO DO "TOM THUMB", BEING IN MAINE FILMING "PEYTON PLACE", READING THE ACTUAL FAIRY TALE TOM THUMB. GEORGE PAL ADDED AN INNOCENCE ASPECT TO THE STORY, "HE WAS A BEAUTIFUL MAN". TALKS ABOUT BEING AMAZED AT "TULIPS SHALL GROW" 02:05:13 - RUSS TAMBLYN CONTINUES TALKING ABOUT WORKING WITH GEORGE ON "TOM THUMB", THEY BOTH GOT ALONG WELL. TELLS A FUNNY STORY ABOUT THE STAGE COACH SCENE WITH IN "THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM", DANGEROUS SCENE FILMED IN GERMANY ON A BRIDGE, TAMBLYN DID HIS OWN STUNTS 02:12:27 - RUSS TAMBLYN LISTENS AND TALKS ABOUT "THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM", TALKS ABOUT THE DIFFICULTIES OF FILMING IN CINERAMA. TALKS ABOUT THE FILMING THE DANCING PRINCESS SEQUENCE AT A CASTLE IN BAVARIA, YVETTE MIMIEUX AS PRINCESS, MENTIONS A GYPSY CAMP SCENE 02:18:48 - RUSS TAMBLYN CONTINUES WITH COMMENTS ABOUT GEORGE PAL BEING AN ARTIST AND INNOVATOR, "AN ENLIGHTENED FILM MAKER" 02:20:19 - BLANK 02:20:27 - TITLE CARD: ROY DISNEY 02:20:33 - MS OF ROY DISNEY TALKING ABOUT GEORGE PAL, MENTIONS THAT WALT DISNEY WAS INTERESTED IN HIS WORK AND SHOWING IT AT DISNEY STUDIOS, TALKS ABOUT 3 DIMENSION QUALITIES. DESCRIBES THE PUPPETOONS, AND WALT DISNEY AND GEORGE PAL AS GREAT FRIENDS, TALKS ABOUT "20,00 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA", AND THE AUTO ANIMATRONIC FIGURES, A BUDDY EBSEN SKELETON DOLL. TALKS ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF DISNEYLAND AND THE COUNTRY BEAR JAMBOREE 02:25:26 - ROY DISNEY CONTINUES: TALKS ABOUT THE PARALLELS BETWEEN WALT DISNEY AND GEORGE PAL. SCIENCE AND ART AND FUTURIST OUTLOOK. "DESTINATION MOON" AND "20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA". SCIENCE FICTION AND SCIENCE FACT 02:27:17 - ROY DISNEY CONTINUES TALKING ABOUT THE VARIOUS ROLES AND IMPACT OF GEORGE PAL IN FILM MAKING 02:28:34 - BLANK, END TAPE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1990
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1990s
- File Name: ALE-26