Celebrating five years of Verbal Diorama

02/17/24 • 15 min

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5 years, 244 episodes, 258 histories and legacies. I guess I need to crack on and do some more...

Thank you to you all for supporting me over five years of podcasting.

Huge thanks to Russell, Brett, Tracy, Josh, KT, Oti, Jack, Scott and Zack for being kind enough to send me some messages of congratulations.

Lots of love to you all! Thanks for listening!

5 years, 244 episodes, 258 histories and legacies. I guess I need to crack on and do some more...

Thank you to you all for supporting me over five years of podcasting.

Huge thanks to Russell, Brett, Tracy, Josh, KT, Oti, Jack, Scott and Zack for being kind enough to send me some messages of congratulations.

Lots of love to you all! Thanks for listening!

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Mars Needs Moms

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For the final fifth birthday episode, Disney could see that motion capture was quickly becoming the next big thing for animation, and they wanted in. They teamed up with Robert Zemeckis to make A Christmas Carol, and then Mars Needs Moms, based on a children's book, written to persuade a young child to eat his vegetables.

But Mars Needs Moms would not only be incredibly dark for a family animated film, and venture deep into the realms of the uncanny valley, it would also become a huge box office bomb for Disney, affecting their next Martian-set movie John Carter, and who Disney now do their best to avoid promoting in any way as their own...

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Sleeping Beauty (1959)

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The final episode of Animation Season 2024, and one of Walt Disney's crowning achievements in animation: Sleeping Beauty.

Doing another princess movie after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella seemed like the obvious choice, but it was also risky. Walt Disney didn't want to make the same thing again, and wanted to wow the public with yet another cinematic visual masterpiece to prove Disney were the pioneering animation studio.

A "moving illustration".

To do this he enlisted Eyvind Earle, combining pre-Renaissance, Italian, and Gothic French influences with his own abstract style of realism to create the formalised elegance and stylish design, while also taking advantage of 70mm Super Technirama for the first time ever in animation.

Sleeping Beauty would be lavish and be exactly what Disney intended, but it would come at a cost. Literally and figuratively.

I would love to hear your thoughts on Sleeping Beauty (1959) !

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