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How long was “Black Cauldron” actually in the works at Disney (Ep 302)

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by offering birthday greetings to a modern animation master. They then welcome Neil O’Brien, author of “After Disney,” to discuss what it was like to work on the Burbank Lot back in the Late 1970s / Early 1980s Throughout this episode, listeners will learn about: When did “BOOP: The Musical” do its out-of-town try-out in Chicago How long after Charles Dickens’ death was his short story, “Life of Our Lord,” published When did Glen Keane first begin working at Walt Disney Animation Studio Which song from DreamWorks Animation’s “The Prince of Egypt” wound up winning an Oscar Who did Andreas Deja share a room at Disney Studios with during the development of The Black Cauldron” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

0:04.0

Down time can be just fine, plain bangers from them 90s.

0:08.0

Tea break.

0:09.0

Lunt break.

0:10.0

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

0:12.0

Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?

0:15.0

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time. Go play some other time put your phone down tombollah open for fun

0:26.5

terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org welcome back to fine tuning with drew taylor your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary

0:35.7

i'm entertainment writer j Hill and Mr. Taylor,

0:40.3

whose writings in the industry you can regularly read over on the rap and whose musings on the

0:45.2

Mission Impossible movies you can listen to on Light the Fuse, the official Mission Impossible podcast.

0:51.5

He and I are recording this week's show on Sunday, April 13th,

0:56.9

which happens to be Glenn Keane's 71st birthday. Seventy-one years young, as we like to say.

1:05.5

Well, yes, a 66-year-old old fart. Yes, yes. I like the 71 years young, okay, but tell my knees that.

1:15.0

But anyway, Glenn Keane, originally born back in 1954, son of cartoonist Bill Keen,

1:21.0

the creator of Family Circle, went to Cal Arts, joined Disney animation studio, September of 74.

1:28.3

Look, if you're a regular listen to this podcast, I don't need to tell you

1:32.8

which amazing characters came out of his Blackwing 602.

1:38.9

That was the pencil that Glenn, along with the nine old men and Andreasasia, used to use before everybody then switched over their drawing tablets and centaiques and that sort of thing.

1:51.1

Anyway, Glenn retires from Disney back in September of 2012.

1:55.5

A year after that, he's made an official Disney legend.

2:00.6

Over the past decade, Mr. Keen has won an Academy Award for that animated short that was based on Kobe Bryant's retirement poem, Dear Basketball.

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