From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #12720 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, December 2 2023 Volume 14 : Number 12720 Today's Subjects: ----------------- FOX Friends Features Breakthrough Solar Generator ["4Patriots sold out" <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2023 19:06:15 +0100 From: "4Patriots sold out" Subject: FOX Friends Features Breakthrough Solar Generator FOX Friends Features Breakthrough Solar Generator http://midasmanifesta.za.com/_Mairjml3yzfVZ896Ms3ktpc-HkNREK66ndCC_KRCFLFMhdelg http://midasmanifesta.za.com/gDW-KhYag37NnE9mjFkVyWs5KyxrFm3m-CcjkbDdZ5-iTbbcyA Fantasia, an experimental film produced to an accompanying orchestral arrangement conducted by Leopold Stokowski, was released in November 1940 by Disney itself in a series of limited-seating roadshow engagements. The film cost $2 million to produce and, although the film earned $1.4 million in its roadshow engagements, the high cost ($85,000 per theater) of installing Fantasound placed Fantasia at an even greater loss than Pinocchio. RKO assumed distribution of Fantasia in 1941, later reissuing it in severely edited versions over the years. Despite its financial failure, Fantasia was the subject of two Academy Honorary Awards on February 26, 1942 b one for the development of the innovative Fantasound system used to create the film's stereoscopic soundtrack, and the other for Stokowski and his contributions to the film. Much of the character animation on these productions and all subsequent features until the late 1970s was supervised by a brain-trust of animators Walt Disney dubbed the "Nine Old Men," many of whom also served as directors and later producers on the Disney features: Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, Woolie Reitherman, Les Clark, Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, John Lounsbery, Milt Kahl, and Marc Davis. Other head animators at Disney during this period included Norm Ferguson, Bill Tytla and Fred Moore. The development of the feature animation department created a caste system at the Disney studio: lesser animators (and feature animators in-between assignments) were assigned to work on the short subjects, while animators higher in status such as the Nine Old Men worked on the features. Concern over Walt Disney accepting credit for the artists' work as well as debates over compensation led to many of the newer and lower-ranked animators seeking to unionize the Disney studio. The Disney animators' strike started in May, 1941. A bitter union strike began in May 1941, which was ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #12720 ***********************************************