Interview with Producer Joe Hale

Skull Rock Podcast interviews Joe Hale for the 35th Anniversary of Disney's The Black Cauldron

Edit: If The Skull Rock Podcast site goes down, you can find the episode at this link: https://www.dix-project.net/item/5509/skull-rock-podcast-35-anniversary-of-disney-s-the-black-cauldron-with-producer-joe-hale

Bobby Driscoll

Walt Disney's Peter Pan (1953) turned 67 on the 5th of this February of 2020.

It got me to thinking about the Disney veteran, former child star, actor and artist Bobby Driscoll [1937 - 1968]

I remember when I was young,

my family and I would watch VHS tapes of Disney Sing Along Songs and the Disney classics.

Disney's Sing Along Songs: Zip A Dee Doo Dah (1986) had some clips of the popular songs from the Disney catalogue as well as the title song Zip A Dee Doo Dah from  Song of the South (1946).

While Song of the South was (and still is) permanently withheld from circulation,

Bobby's second Disney film  So Dear to My Heart (1949) was available at the time, so this was one of the films we watched a lot.

memories aside,

 here is a documentary about Bobby.

interesting articles not talked about in the documentary: The Role I Liked Best... (Saturday Evening Post; 1951-01-27) — DIX - Disney Index Project (relaunch β) (dix-project.net)

Driscoll Appeal Against British Court Conviction Is Lost - Disney Cancels Plans to Bring Child to England Next Year (Showmen's Trade Review; 1949-11-05) — DIX - Disney Index Project (relaunch β) (dix-project.net)

some photographs from Early development of Sleeping Beauty (1959) from the early 1950's with Bobby Driscoll and Kathern Beaumount

              Images from the 2008 "50th Anniversary Edition" of Sleeping Beauty (1959) DVD


Milt Kahl one of Walt's top animator's, who animated and designed Peter and Wendy, did character designs for The Black Cauldron (1985).
You can see Milt's drawings as posted by animator Andreas Deja here: https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2013/02/milt-kahls-black-cauldron.html






                                     

video with a short history about Bobby Driscoll who was buried on Hart Island. also in the video an interview with Black Cauldron special effects animator and current Disney animation film preservationist Dave Bossert.

you can also check out this Bobby Driscoll tribute blog here: http://rememberingbobby37.blogspot.com/

30 years later (on October 2015)

an event I never gone to

on October of 2015, The Black Cauldron had a showing at the El Captain Theatre

you can read the article here:
https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2015/10/31/the-black-cauldron-at-the-el-capitan-theatre/

                 Don Hann producer of The Lion King (1994) and  Beauty and the Beast (1991) promoting  the El Captain Theatre The Black Cauldron screening event.

                                 "The Way It Was Meant To Be Seen" on the big screen
                       
          the  July 1985 Theatrical cut,  not the 1984 work in progress cut.  please don't be disappointed

             
                                               

          footage from the panal discussion, (only the end part of it, with the alternate fairfolk scene.)