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.
| 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. |
Cast * Interesting Facts * Wind in the Willows * The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Directed
by: James Algar & Clyde Geronimi
Written by: Washington Irvin, Homer Brightman
& Winston Hibler
Music by: Frank Churchill & Oliver
Wallace
Released on: October 5, 1949
Running Time: 68 minutes
Budget: $
Box-Office: $ in the U.S., $ million worldwide
Narrator ("The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow")... Bing Crosby
Narrator ("The Wind in the Willows")...
Basil Rathbone
Mr. Toad... Eric Blore
Cyril Proudbottom... Pat O'Malley
Prosecutor... John McLeish
Mole... Colin Campbell
Angus MacBadger ... Campbell Grant
Rat... Claud Allister
Winky... Ollie Wallace
The
Studio was almost ready to return to "true" feature animation -the last
release was Bambi 7 years earlier and the
studio was still recuperating from the effects of the War. This film
was technically a package film, but consisted of just 2 longish featurettes
-its original title was "Two Fabulous Characters".
The two stories have been released separately on video as "Wind
in the Willows" (75 minutes) and "The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (49 minutes). They were released
on video as a feature film for their 50th anniversary, in 1999.
This movie fell short of being a great movie, but it was a significant
step towards regaining past glories. It won the 1950 Golden Globe
for Best Cinematography.