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Vale Ernest Borgnine who passed away this week aged 95. With himself (Carface), Dom DeLuise (Itchy) and Charles Nelson Reilly (Killer) recently departed I guess that deep-sixes a revival of ADGTH, unless it's an all-girls series. The three Charlies (Burt Reynolds, Charlie Sheen and Steven Weber) are checking their pulses.
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There goes my hope of an All Dogs version of Airwolf.
I'd forgotten Charlie Sheen did one of the All Dogs movies. Crazy... in many senses of the word.
Although really sad that these great voice actors are passing on. I was reading somewhere that June Foray won her first Emmy this year -- at the age of 94!
On this topic - vaguely - I was going through old pic folders on my HD a few weeks ago, and under a sub-folder heading which wouldn't make sense to anyone else but which meant 'things I bought which weren't pulp magazines' I came across something which sent me into a paroxysm of confusion. Apparently about 10 years ago I bought a sketch of Charlie Barkin, hand drawn by Don Bluth, with a COA signed by same.
Since my rooms are a bit like Hiroshima in 1945 without the fallout, or I suppose... ok... like Hiroshima in 1947.. I spent about 90 mins uprooting everything in the vague precinct of where this thing might be and lo - there it is: a pencil sketch of Charlie, absolutely accurate to the 1989 first movie, signed by Bluth. I have no doubt this is original, but what confuses me is that on the COA (which is signed by Bluth) it says 'This is an original hand-drawn character sketch by Don Bluth of Don Bluth's ToonTalk Incorporated. Copyright Bluth Group L.T.D. 1983' and below that: 'Character - Charlie', and Bluth's signature again.
But that's just after 'Secret of NIMH' and nearly six years before ADGTH. Is it just that c. 1983 is a generic copyright set up for all products from Bluth's company? I hope so. Wish I could show it to you, but don't know how to.
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have you thought of using a scanner i so want to see it
I hope that this may provide some clairification.
All Dogs go To Heaven's foundation and outline was put together at the tail end of Nimh's production as a possible, planned follow up feature. The unfortunate part was that Nimh box office returns failed to bring back enough money to keep the company higher than ticking over.
Their little side - contracted - project with Cinematronics making the Dragon's Lair and Space Ace games filled their time between 1983-1984. The first was the only really successful game of the two, as the Laserdisc games fad that powered them burst between titles. With that the Bluth Group Ltd filed for bankruptcy in 1985 (likely taking any subsidies companies along with it).
Bluth joined up with Morris Sullivan to form Sullivan-Bluth Productions, signing a contract up with Amblin to make their next bunch of film's under Spielberg - American Tail/Land Before Time. 86 and 88
When Bluth became an independent filmmaker again after Land's release, he and the studio resurrected the dog picture to go into full production as their first solo since Nimh.
So, if what you have is an original, it could very well have been concept art made/drawn back in 1983 (and of course would carry a 1983 copyright date). I imagine that Bluth was canny enough to keep a hold of the copyrights between companies.
Sources: John Cawley's book: The Animated Films of Don Bluth (free to read here on his website).
Wow. Thank you. You are the Asimov of animation, with a big dash of Bradbrury.
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(lonely princess)
Hi. Yes I could scan it, but don't know how to upload it to this site, and don't have a site of my own.
sorry i am a bit slow what about uploading to your facebook account or something?
I don't have a Facebook account and never will.
how about flikr or deviantart?
As I understand it - and correct me if I'm wrong - you have to be an 'artist'* to be on DeviantArt, and I'm not.
And from what I've seem of Flickr anything you store there is available to anyone without permission via a Google search. If there is a 'permission only' option there I'd consider it.
*'artist' meaning anyone who thinks they are one.
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Well, if you are alright just emailing to me, I can see that it's hosted on Keyframe's server somewhere and linked in... although I think Keyframe's images are being indexed by Google as well.
It's actually a bit tricky to get Google to not index something these days... Keyframe's images used to be run through scripts to prevent them being embedded in posts on other forums, but I eventually took that out because we do actually get traffic from the Google images search.
sorry cal didnt mean to piss you off its just i really really want to see it one last suggestion photobucket
Why don't you email me and I'll send it as an attachment
lupercal
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gmx.com
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