One of the most beloved children's cartoon characters, SpongeBob, is actually just as popular with adults. At least about 35% of fans of this cartoon have long grown out of short pants. But from the “square” ones, apparently not.
For many actors, it was not their roles in films that brought them national fame, but their dubbing of cult cartoons. This, for example, happened to our Boris Novikov, who “gave” his voice to the postman Pechkin.
Walt Disney is considered the most Oscar-winning animator in the world. He owns 26 figurines. The prize for the cartoon about Snow White looked very unusual: it consisted of one large figurine and seven “short” ones.
The image of a wolf from “Well, wait a minute!” one of the authors of the cartoon, V. Kotenochkin, “copied” it from real person: a guy dressed in the style of a street punk. The creators of the legendary cartoon saw Vysotsky in the role of the wolf. And Vladimir Semenovich himself was not against voicing the character and writing a song for him. But the artistic council refused the services of the disgraced bard and actor. The “voice” of the wolf was Anatoly Papanov, who also coped with his task perfectly. And yet justice, at least a little, triumphed. In one of the episodes, while climbing a rope, a wolf whistles the tune of a song about a friend. It was written by Vysotsky and sounded in the film “Vertical”, where Vladimir Semenovich starred.
Faina Ranevskaya, who voiced Miss Bok in the cartoon about Carlson, flatly refused to say the words “Dear, dear...” at the end of the episode “Carlson is back.” This ending seemed too sweet to her, and also “overheard” from her heroine from the film “Spring”. The authors of the cartoon could only agree. Although later they cheated, and the words “darling, darling!” were nevertheless recorded. Only in the voice of editor R. Frichinskaya, who perfectly matched the tone of Faina Georgievna.
Mickey Mouse might not be called Mickey, but Mortimer. At least that's the name Walt Disney liked.
The cartoon about Uncle Styopa lay on the shelf for more than 20 years due to an absurd accident. During the final viewing, the censors noticed that Stepan Stepanov was reading a newspaper with the clear headline “Pravda,” but there was nothing else on the page other than the headline. “Yeah, that means our press doesn’t write the truth!” — the commission was offended and did not allow the cartoon to be seen by the viewer.
The longest-running animated series on American television is The Simpsons: it has been running non-stop since 1989. During this time, fans of Homer Simpson and his family saw more than 400 episodes. By the way, the newspaper L`Osservatore Romano, published in the Vatican, considers the Simpson family to be devout Catholics. On the grounds that they pray before
The Disney company has released many wonderful cartoons that both children and adults enjoy watching. We present to you the top 7 most interesting facts about popular cartoons Disney studios.
7. Vultures and The Beatles
Few TV viewers do not know about the cartoon “The Jungle Book” and about its main characters - the “frog” Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, the man-eating tiger Shere Khan, the beautiful and cunning panther Bagheera and the wise bear Baloo. In one episode, Mowgli encounters a flock of vultures. Most people don't know that during the making of the cartoon, Brian Epstein, manager The Beatles, asked Disney animators to create a vulture design based on the legendary Fab Four. According to another version, the Disney studio was the first to begin negotiations with the musicians. The original idea was that The Beatles would voice these characters. However, the idea failed due to John Lennon, who refused to sing for "Mickey Fucking Mouse". And the Vultures' song, which was originally supposed to be a rock number, was remade and performed in an a cappella style.
6. Characters without a mother
Many Disney heroines and heroes, by the will of their creator, lost their mother at a young age. Examples of this are Bambi and Cinderella. In other cases, there is no mention of the mother from the beginning to the end of the film. Examples are The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Belle from Beauty and the Beast. There was a dark circumstance that led Disney to decide to make certain characters solely "daddy's kids." In the early 1940s, Walt Disney and his brother Roy bought the house for their parents. But there was a gas leak and Disney's mother, Flora, died. Producer Don Hahn, who knew his boss well, explained that this incident haunted Walt Disney, which is why he left his princesses without a mother.
5. Fake lion roar
Everyone knows the famous long roar of the great lion Mufasa from The Lion King. But most viewers have no idea that the sounds emanating from the royal animal’s mouth are not, in fact, a lion’s roar. This is a combination of the roars of a bear and a tiger, as well as the voice of actor Frank Welker, who growled into an iron bucket during the dubbing.
4. Name WALL-E
The name of the cute robot WALL-E from the cartoon of the same name is known as an acronym for the job he does - Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class. Here's an interesting fact about popular cartoon Disney: The name WALL-E is a hidden reference to the founder of Walt Disney Pictures, Walter Elias Disney. Some readers may argue that the cartoon was released by Pixar. However, it is a subsidiary of Disney.
3. The genie and the merchant
In third place in the ranking unusual facts, associated with Disney cartoons, is the story of the reincarnation of the Genie. In 1992, Disney released its worldwide famous cartoon"Aladdin." And his fans have gone to great lengths to debate whether the traveling merchant that viewers see at the very beginning of the film is the Genie in disguise. This theory was based solely on the fact that both the merchant and the Genie had 4 fingers on their hands, a black curly beard, and they were both voiced by famous actor Robin Williams. And two decades after the release of Aladdin, directors Ron Clements and John Musker confirmed that the crazy fan theory was true!
In a promotional interview, Clements revealed that the connection between the two characters was intended from the beginning. According to the plan, at the end of the cartoon there was to be a scene in which the merchant would reveal himself as the Genie. However, due to changes in the plot, this scene was not included in the final version of Aladdin.
2. Looping Animation
Sometimes when watching Disney cartoons you get a feeling of déjà vu. And all because there are many similar scenes in them. Disney animators often redesign older animation. This saves a lot of time and money when working on your next masterpiece. A great example of this is the similarities between scenes ballroom dancing in Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty. The studio staff had been using this trick for years before it was noticed.
1. Disclaimer for the words of the hero of “Frozen”
In 2013, the Disney studio released the magnificent cartoon “Frozen” about Queen Elsa, who has ice magic, and her sister Anna.
The authors decided to have a little fun during the end credits, as a bonus for those who are persistent enough to watch them to the end. There is a disclaimer in the credits that reads: “The views and opinions expressed in the film by Kristoff on All Men Eating Their Bugs are solely his own and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of The Walt Disney Company or directors."
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Very interesting information about cartoons from our childhood and facts that we did not know before.
The Adventures of Leopold the Cat
The creators of the Soviet animated series about a good-loving cat and evil mice thought for a long time about the name of the main character. I really didn’t want to call the character a simple cat name, like Murzik or Barsik. At the same time, the name had to be easy to remember and sound beautiful. There is a version that the name of the good-natured cat was invented by the son of Arkady Khait, who was the author of the cartoon script. The boy recently watched the film “The Elusive Avengers,” which was popular at that time; one of the characters in the film was a White Guard colonel named Leopold Kudasov. This is how the famous cat Leopold appeared to us all. By the way, hooligan mice also have their own nicknames. The plump gray prankster is called Motey, and the thin and harmful one is Mitya. However, in the cartoon the mice remained nameless.
Some episodes parody famous Soviet films. Thus, in the series “Walk of the Cat Leopold” there is an obvious reference to the film “White Sun of the Desert”, where the scene of Said being dug up by Sukhov is parodied. And in the series “Leopold the Cat’s Clinic” there is a reference to the film “Operation Y” - a white mouse plans to euthanize a cat with chloroform, but his gray friend falls asleep.
In 2008, the Cook Islands collectible silver two-dollar coin featured the main characters from the animated series.
Brownie Kuzya
In the first episode of the cartoon, songs based on poems by Valentin Berestov are heard.
In addition to the trilogy by Tatyana Alexandrova mentioned in the article, there are a number of works about the brownie Kuza, written later by her daughter, Galina Alexandrova.
There are also two audio plays called “Kuzka the Brownie,” recorded by the Vimbo and Astrel publishing houses in 2008 and 2010, respectively.
A fragment of the series “The Adventures of the Brownie” is shown in the movie “Night Watch”.
flying ship
The cartoon features songs by Yuri Entin to the music of Maxim Dunaevsky performed by famous artists: Mikhail Boyarsky, Anatoly Papanov.
The episode where the Tsar places Princess Zabava under house arrest, and the Princess herself beats and throws dishes (dowry), parodies a similar episode in Leonid Gaidai’s film comedy “Prisoner of the Caucasus.”
Yuri Entin, by his own admission, wrote the words to another song from the cartoon (Vodyanoy’s song) while sitting in the bathroom for 10 minutes.
Babok-Yozhek performed ditties women's group Moscow Chamber Choir.
Baby and Carlson
The musical composition heard during the ghost's attack on the crooks is the uncredited tune "House of Horrors" by Merv Griffin, performed by the Charles Grean Orchestra and representing an arrangement of melodies from Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre and Chopin's funeral march.
Vasily Livanov voiced the role of Carlson in a voice that imitated the voice of the famous director Grigory Roshal in its intonation.
In the 1970s in the USSR, the cartoon was released on reels, and at the end of the 20th century - on VHS. In the 1990s, an audio fairy tale based on the cartoon of the same name with text by Alexander Pozharov was released on audio cassettes by Twic Lyrec.
Plasticine crow
They wanted to ban the cartoon because it turned out to be “ideologically unprincipled.” The picture was saved by Ksenia Marinina and Eldar Ryazanov, who showed “The Crow” in one of the issues of “Kinopanorama” in defiance of the censors.
All three parts of the cartoon have one thing in common minor character- an old woman with a carpet beater.
The creation of the cartoon took about 800 kg of Soviet plasticine, which had to be painted with paints due to its faded colors.
The main part of the melody in the third part of the cartoon (“Or maybe, or maybe ...”) is a slightly modified verse of the Irish folk song Whiskey in the Jar, the “bridge” in its middle part (“But then the fox ran, or maybe he didn’t run…”) is a quote from George Harrison’s song “My Sweet Lord.” The melody was also used in the song of the junior minister for the film “Tales of the Old Wizard”.
Last year's snow fell
The cartoon “Last Year's Snow Was Falling” received too much attention from the censors. “At the screening of “Snow,” I was in a pre-heart attack state,” said the director of the film, Alexander Tatarsky. – They told me that I was disrespectful towards the Russian people: you have only one hero - a Russian man, and he’s an idiot!..
Based on the cartoon there are two of the same name computer games, which tell about the new adventures of the Man. Both games were voiced by Sadalsky.
Explaining to the composer what the final song should be theme song, Tatarsky said: “They will bury us to this melody!” And so it happened: the theme from the cartoon “Last Year’s Snow Was Falling” was played at the director’s funeral.
The phrase “Oh, these storytellers” is the epigraph of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s first novel “Poor People,” which in turn is a quote from the story of Prince V.F. Odoevsky “The Living Dead.
The mystery of the third planet
The cartoon was also shown abroad. In the US, Alice was voiced by Kirsten Dunst, and Talker was voiced by James Belushi.
The St. Petersburg group Kim and Buran, performing electronic music in the Sci-Fi/Space Age Pop genre.
In 2005, the Akella company made a platform arcade game based on the cartoon - The Secret of the Third Planet.
Cheburashka
To the question: “Where did the idea come from to call Cheburashka exactly Cheburashka?”, Eduard Uspensky, in one of his interviews, said that he once observed the following picture: a friend’s little daughter was trying on a fur coat that was too big for her and was dragging along the floor. “The girl kept falling, tripping over her fur coat. And her father, after another fall, exclaimed: “Oh, I screwed up again!” This word stuck in my memory and I asked what it meant. It turned out that “cheburahnutsya” means “to fall.” That’s how the name of my hero appeared,” the author admitted.
In the latest cartoon "Cheburashka Goes to School" Cheburashka was unable to read the telegram from Gena. Although in the cartoon “Crocodile Gena” Cheburashka found Gena through an advertisement, and in the cartoon “Cheburashka” he even read the couplet on the poster of the pioneers: “Everything unnecessary is for scrapping, we will collect scrap metal.”
Gena the Crocodile's Song has also been translated into Finnish, as well as Japanese, English, German, Swedish, Bulgarian, Polish and other languages. In all these countries different times Roman Kachanov’s films “Crocodile Gena”, “Cheburashka” and “Shapoklyak” were released.
Three from Prostokvashino
The cat Matroskin could also become the cat Taraskin. This surname belonged to an employee of the film magazine “Fitil.” But Anatoly Taraskin forbade Uspensky to use his name. Later he very much regretted it: “What a fool I was! I regretted giving my last name!” - he wrote and said to the writer.
It took a long time for the image of Galchonok to come together, so everyone who came into the artists’ room at Soyuzmultfilm was asked to draw Galchonok. L. Shvartsman, the creator of Cheburashka, even had a hand in its creation.
Levon Khachatryan copied Uncle Fyodor’s mother from his wife, Larisa Myasnikova. "Small in stature, short hairstyle, wearing glasses. Popov made his amendments... Points. In my sketch they were round, like my wife wears, but Popov thought that square ones were better” (from Levon Khachatryan’s notes).
Before “Prostokvashino,” Nikolai Yerykalov and Levon Khachatryan had already worked together on the cartoon “Bobik Visiting Barbos.” There are certain similarities between the characters of these two cartoons.
The episode where the postman Pechkin knocks on the door and Galchonok answers “Who’s there?” is very similar to a similar episode in the 1971 American educational animated series “The Electric Company” (English) where the plumber knocks on the door and a parrot answers him.
Hedgehog in the fog
In 2003, “Hedgehog in the Fog” was recognized as the best cartoon of all time according to a survey of 140 film critics and animators from different countries.
In January 2009, in Kyiv, at the intersection of Zolotovorotskaya, Reitarskaya and Georgievsky Lanes, a monument to Hedgehog was erected. The figure of the Hedgehog is made of wood; the spines are screws. He is depicted sitting with a bundle on a high stump.
- Hedgehog in the Fog is also popular overseas: in October 2009, a parody of this cartoon was used in the episode “Spies Reminiscent of Us” of the American animated series “Family Guy.”
One episode of the animated series Smeshariki “Hedgehog in the Nebula” is based on the cult work “Hedgehog in the Fog”.
The popularity of the character led to the appearance of a number of cartoons based on other stories by Sergei Kozlov (How the Hedgehog and the Little Bear met New Year, “Shake! Hello!, Winter's Tale, Autumn ships, Amazing barrel, etc.).
On October 16, 1923, the Walt Disney Company was founded. She has released a whole collection of cartoons that children around the world love. We have collected interesting facts about Disney cartoons and their characters.
It’s always interesting who this or that favorite character was based on. It is known that the image of Aladdin was copied from Tom Cruise and MC Hammer, and the Genie was copied from Robin Williams. Initially, in 1988, when the cartoon was created, they decided to create Aladdin from the then popular actor Michael J. Fox (“Back to the Future”). But the result, it must be said, did not impress the artists. Unfortunately, that image has not been preserved. But the current Aladdin is copied from Tom Cruise - so young man decided to add brutality, and took his famous bloomers from rapper MC Hammer. The genie was based on comic actor Robin Williams. By the way, it was he who voiced the Genie in the cartoon.
The little mermaid Ariel also had her own prototype. She was modeled after 11-year-old Alyssa Milano, who was starring in the TV series “Who’s the Boss?” at the time. In addition to her appearance, they also took some character traits from the actress, as well as her demeanor.
Observant cartoon fans have probably noticed that in the cartoon Mickey Mouse, their favorite character always has round ears, no matter what angle he is filmed from. This is true. The artists endowed Mickey Mouse with this strangeness: no matter where you look at the mouse, his ears remain unchanged - two black circles at the top of his head.
Glasgow City Council in 2007 included Scrooge McDuck in the list of famous and outstanding people cities. The thing is that the character in the same year became the first in the list of the 15 richest fictional characters, which was compiled by Forbes. The compilers of this list explained that this was due to rising gold prices (in 2005 and 2002, Scrooge ranked sixth and fourth, respectively).
Some particularly diligent and attentive person counted all the spots in the cartoon “101 Dalmatians”. There were 6,469,952 of them. Pongo has 72 spots, Perdita has 68, and each of the puppies has 32!
"101 Dalmatians"
The cartoon "Bambi" contains footage from "Pinocchio", in which they were not used. These are some backgrounds in the forest and in the fire scene.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Walt Disney was forced to mortgage his house to finance the production of this cartoon, which cost $1,448,422.74. This was a huge amount for a full-length film. feature film in 1937.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is still the highest-grossing film animated film of all times.
Another interesting thing in the cartoon is Snow White's blush. The fact is that back in 1937 there were no technologies that would make the blush so natural and barely noticeable.
It turns out that to make Snow White look more natural, the animators used their own blush. When Disney asked one artist how she managed to get the blush on Snow White just right, she replied, “What do you think girls do all their lives?”
Frozen
The scene in which Elsa walks onto the balcony of her new ice palace consists of 218 frames, including the longest frame, which was very labor-intensive to render. It took more than 132 hours of work (more than 5 days) to fully process just one frame from this scene.
The Princess and the Frog
Prince Naveen was deliberately created without a specific race. In the cartoon, he was from "Maldonia", a fictional country.
Fate
This surreal short film, produced by the Walt Disney Company, is the unique product of the work of two geniuses - Walt Disney and Salvador Dali. Its production initially began in 1945 and ended only 58 years later.
Lion King
In Swahili, "Simba" means "Lion".
Aladdin
The scene at the very beginning of the film, where the street vendor offers the viewer his goods, was created like this: Robin Williams, the voice of the merchant (who also voiced the Genie), was brought into a recording studio in which there was a box with various items, covered with a blanket. Then the microphone was turned on, the blanket was removed, and Williams began to describe these objects, which he had seen for the first time in his life.
Between the merchant and the Genie, some similarities can be seen in the beard, eyebrows and four-fingered hand.
Beauty and the Beast
Glen Keane, an animator with 38 years of experience, worked on creating the image of the Beast. The result was a hybrid animal with the mane of a lion, the skull and beard of a buffalo, the nose and tusks of a wild boar, the forehead of a gorilla, the paws and tail of a wolf, and the bulky body of a bear. Recently, in an interview, Glen Keane admitted that “The Beast had a multi-colored butt, but no one knew about it except Belle.”
At the very beginning of the cartoon, on the first colored stained glass window depicting the prince, a symbolic phrase is written in Latin: “Vincit qui se vincit”, which means “He who conquers himself wins.”
Little Mermaid
The prototype of Ursula was the stage image American singer and transvestite actor Divine.
The cartoon became the last Disney feature animated film, which was drawn by hand and used an analog camera. About 1,000 different colors were used on 1,100 backgrounds. In total, over 1 million drawings were made.
Glen Keane also worked on the image of the Little Mermaid. Thanks to him, they didn’t cut the Little Mermaid’s song “Part of Your World” from the cartoon. Ariel Glen himself drew from his wife Linda. And later his daughter Claire became the prototype of Rapunzel.
The shot where Ariel reaches for the light through the opening of her grotto was the last scene the animators worked on. It took four tries to get the optical effects just right.
