Newport Beach Film Festival Offers Return of Disney Animation Rarities
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Winding up the program was a piece from last year, Glago’s Guest (2008). The Annie Award winner was produced to provide a showcase for new animators working at the Disney Studio. Chris Williams directed Glago’s Guest, and then moved on to the Disney feature film Bolt. Set in a bleak Russian landscape, Glago’s Guest tells an enigmatic story featuring a stalwart soldier and a crowd of playful aliens.
Images from last year’s Glago’s Guest
A surprise was in store for the crowd. Before ending the evening, Hahn and Bossert offered a new trailer for Disney-Pixar’s next animated feature, Up, directed by Pete Docter, who also directed Monsters, Inc. “Now that you’ve traveled eighty years in animation, we thought we’d bring along a film that’s coming out at the end of May,” Hahn said.
Disney-Pixar’s Up reaches theaters in May
“Well that’s our show for tonight,” Hahn concluded, “You’ve made an eighty year journey through the history of Disney animation through some of the weirdest stuff we could find in the Disney vaults.”
“There’s plenty more to come,” added Bossert.
Don Hahn
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Dave Bossert
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-- Story, Video and Pictures by Doug Marsh
-- Posted May 7, 2009