Archive Episode - Treasure Planet (Ron Clements & John Musker, 2002) (with Ron Clements and John Musker)
Treasure Planet (Ron Clements & John Musker, 2002) .
The Fantasy/Animation podcast takes listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many of your favourite podcast hosting platforms!
For this third archive episode, Chris and Alex revisit a real bucket list moment by journeying back to July 2021 and the episode on Treasure Planet (Ron Clements & John Musker, 2002), which featured as its very special guests the film’s directors Ron Clements and John Musker. Faced with a host of technical issues (alongside barely-concealed disbelief when Disney animation royalty first joined the video call), this episode is a particular favourite, and for good reason - expect turns to the industrial origins of Treasure Planet and the film’s initial pitching to Disney chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Roy E. Disney, and Thomas Schumacher, as well as reflections on its use of the digital painting tools in relation to the landscape of Hollywood animation of the 1990s.
**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**
**As featured on Feedspot’s 25 Best London Education Podcasts**
Suggested Readings
Bell, Elizabeth, Lynda Haas and Laura Sells (eds.) 1995. From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Byrne, Eleanor, and Martin McQuillan. 1999. Deconstructing Disney. London: Pluto Press.
Davis, Amy M. 2006. Good Girls & Wicked Witches: Women in Disney’s Feature Animation. John Libbey & Company/University of Indiana Press.
Davis, Amy M., ed. 2019. Discussing Disney. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Pallant, Chris. 2011. Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation. London: Bloomsbury Academic.