Animated Movies was launched by Olivier Mouroux in 1999. In addition to a daily news report, he also created a database of information about past, current, and upcoming films. In 2003, he took a job in the industry and had to give up his work on the site. Several fans of Animated Movies decided to take on the task of keeping the news portion of his site going, and founded what is now Animated Views. As AV turns 15, let's take a look back at the site we descended from. Below you can explore the database Olivier compiled at Animated Movies during its existence, as it last appeared online in October 2003. |
Directed by: Burny
Mattinson
Written by: Burny Mattinson, based on
Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol (1843)
Music by: Irwin
Kostal
Released on: December 16, 1983 (world premiered
in England on October 20, 1983)
Running Time: 25 minutes
Budget: $ million
Box-Office: $ million in the U.S., $ million
worldwide ($18.4 million in U.S. rentals)
Uncle Scrooge as Ebenezer Scrooge... Alan Young
Mickey Mouse as Bob Cratchit... Wayne Allwine
Goofy as Jacob Marley's ghost... Hal Smith
Donald Duck as nephew Fred... Clarence Nash
Jiminy Cricket as the Ghost of Christmas Past... Eddie Carroll
Burny Mattinson started out as an animator on Robin
Hood (1973) and The
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977). He then went on
to writing for classics such as The Rescuers
(1977), The Fox and the Hound (1981),
The
Great Mouse Detective (1986), and The
Lion King (1994).
The idea for Mickey's Christmas Carol was inspired by a 1974 Disney record album of the same name.
Director Burny Mattinson was inspired to begin the project, with the okay from Disney president and chief executive officer, Ron Miller, in May 1981. One of the difficult tasks in bringing back such fvorite characters as Mickey and Donald was finding the right voices. Clarence " Ducky" Nash was still available to voice Donald as he had since Donald's debut, but Mickey's voice introduced a new talent--Wayne Allwine.
Wayne Allwine, the official voice of Mickey Mouse since Mickey's Christmas Carol, met his wife Russi Taylor, the voice of Minnie Mouse, at a session of voices for Totally Minnie.
The song "Oh, What a Merry Christmas" was written by Frederick Searles and Irwin Kostal especially for this short movie.
Mickey's Christmas Carol was nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Short Film.