Pixar can keep fucking its employees like this because its one of the only major animation studios that remains ununionized btw

“To protect their copyright, streaming sites do not allow for screenshotting of any kind.”

Hey remember VHS where you bought a box to plug into your tv and you could legally record whatever was playing and then own it for free forever

I cannot emphasize enough that you not only COULD, it was ENCOURAGED. Blank video tapes for recording whatever you wanted were available everywhere and it was hard to miss the record button on the machines. They also deliberately designed stuff like VHS players that you could tell when to start recording things - as a kid I'd tell the player to record the cartoon channel beginning at 6 or 7 and then sleep in and watch the tape later - and then they would tell you how to do it in the owner's manual, this was no secret. You were SUPPOSED TO record shows you wanted to keep or that you wouldn't be home for to watch later.

The essential piece of information missing here is that the people who made the VHS machines and the people who made the TV channels were, and I cannot stress this enough, different people.

Like, of course Disney didn't used to want you to record their stuff for free and watch it forever. When VHS home recording came out, the companies that invented it were...sued! Of course they were!

It's just that the TV companies lost the lawsuit. It was deemed that once the signal got to your house legally you could do whatever the hell you wanted with it as long as it was for personal noncommercial use. It would have probably gone differently if the TV companies had the ability to detect whether you were recording them and then shut the signal off.

Like, I am 100 percent on the side of "you should be able to keep and own stuff permanently, I just also think there's a limit to how much breathless mythmaking about the halcyon days of the early nineties I can handle before it starts drifting into low-key misinformation.

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straight up cartoonishly fucking evil corporation

Article published 8:23 AM EDT, Wed August 14, 2024

tl;dr: The server at a restaurant on Disney property assured the couple that certain food items were free of dairy and nut contamination and the woman died of severe anaphylaxis shortly after consuming foods they were repeatedly assured were safe. The epi pen they had did not save her life because the food was absolutely contaminated with what were, for her, deadly allergens. And Disney is trying to corporate capitalist their way out of legal accountability.

It is pretty clear cut that they did, in fact, cause this woman’s death. And her husband is asking for $50k in the wrongful death suit to cover the medical and funerary expenses as well as the mental anguish they caused. A modest $50k, not 50 million. A company worth 156.43 billion dollars is trying to dismiss the suit based on a 5 year old free Disney+ trial instead of giving this man what he’s asking for, a fraction of the amount he deserves.

I hope this makes everyone think twice before visiting the park or bringing their child to the park, especially if you or your loved one has an allergy or disability. Disney will kill you remorselessly, refuse to take accountability and traumatize your loved ones further.

if anyone's wondering what this is about, a woman died from an allergic reaction at a restaurant in a Disney park after repeatedly confirming that the food was allergen-free, and Disney is claiming that because her husband signed up for a free trial of Disney+ a few years ago, he waived all rights to sue them for any reason. i wish i was joking.

Disney is actually saying this.

If you love Disney, its parks, its media, and its merch, listen up.

So I work for Disneyland, and we are talking about striking very soon. So soon, in fact, that we've been hosting rallies just outside of the parks. Yesterday was the 69th birthday of Disneyland Anaheim... it was also a monumental rally.

I haven't seen anyone on tumblr talking about the impending strikes against Disney. Not even going through the Disney tags or searching tumblr for "Disneyland Strike."

Let's talk about why we're striking:

https://www.sfgate.com/disneyland/article/union-button-contract-dispute-19515296.php?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2u5o_mvU3i6jpIyHxBUZpEzD2GRSKFf5Pem4uRXqa6vKWDgZuffvINd1g_aem_AA1L0fI1phugJIluYMcDSw

A day or so ago, @dduane reblogged a long post - a Canadian magazine article from 1966 - about the Americanisation of Winnie the Pooh.

It's an Impressive Tirade in which the writer (Sheila H. Kieran) says what she thinks about letting Walt Disney have a free hand with a foreign Children's Classic.

There's mention of the previous Adaptation Endeavour, "Mary Poppins" (1964) but it's very brief, perhaps with an eye to limited column space - or maybe because All Was Said Already in a previous review.

There is, however, rather a lot about the English characters being given American accents, and about the inclusion of a new character, an American gopher (which, the article suggests, looked vague enough to the Kieran children - its target audience - that it might as well have been a mole or a beaver).

*****

And that reminded me of another bit of American Animalisation done by Disney, in the 1949 short "The Wind and the Willows" - though in this instance it's visual since the voices are, for the most part, suitably British.

They include Basil Rathbone as narrator, and a horse who sounds like George Formby. In some scenes the horse actually looks like Formby, so this voice may not be entirely accidental.

Badger, however, sounds like a Scotsman - the worst kind of stage Scotsman at that - rather than how I used to "hear" him as a C. Aubrey Smith-voiced crusty retired colonel.

That, however, is just personal preference.

However, Disney's Badger is not a proper British (more correctly, European) badger, Meles meles. Here's one, which though not the most amiable of beasts in reality, still manages to look fairly affable ("I say, old chap, whatever are you looking at?")

Instead he's a North American badger, Taxidea taxus, which not only has a less affable expression ("Hey, bud, you. Yeah, you. You lookin' at me? You lookin' at ME?") but, more important, different stripes.

Here's Disney's version alongside mine. The correction took about five minutes of pixel-tweaking.

Disney's animators could have got it right from the outset just as easily, because I'm pretty sure the reference library which provided costume info for Rat's tweed Norfolk jacket and britches included picture-books of natural history.

Come to that, any "The Wind in the Willows" after the unillustrated first edition would have been enough, and there must have been at least one copy lying around for story adaptation and scene-description purposes.

The first illustrated edition came out in the UK in 1931, and its artist was, at author Kenneth Graham's request, the very same E.H. Shepard who had illustrated the Pooh books just a few years previously...

...while this Arthur Rackham colour plate is from an edition published in 1940 in New York.

So those books wouldn't have been impossible for Disney to get.

The problem, however, is that if a word ("badger", for instance) is well known to mean one thing here, it may be Too Much Trouble to find out if the same word means something else there, with the result that finding out can sometimes come as rather a surprise.

Check the UK / US meaning of "suspenders" to see what I mean... ;->

Didn’t expect this to be so frightening

We have fun here, but… know what? I have a lot of sympathy for the Olson twins. They got put through HELL as kids. I daresay they never got to BE kids. They were the prototype for the YouTube Content Mill Hell, their parents monetizing every trip, every vacation they ever took by having them film some kind of special they could shit out onto home video.

And they cranked out A LOT of videos.

I’ve seen some of the outtakes from their “way too old to be doing this shit anymore” years and they look like they want to die. Blown lines are not laughed at, it’s basically always a sigh of utter, soul-crushed defeat and one of them consoling the other because this means this shoot will take MORE time.

We’ll put them in with Britney in the “man they completely didn’t deserve all the jokes we made about them personally” category.

I worry we’re going to see that same hollowed-out look on the face of so many content kids in the coming years. Hollywood needs to be severely reigned-in with kid performer regulations, and that needs to cover the ones being tormented by Mom & Pop as well as Disney & Nick.

I’m not even sure you can even run a Hanna-Montana style show in a way that’s ethical. They have a hard enough time on sitcoms where the kids aren’t in every scene and aren’t the dominant portion of the cast. Kids who love acting should be acting in theater class and school plays and their own self-made home movie projects. Everything else is labor, and while excising children from live-action representation in film is untenable, minimizing it is best for everyone.

I mean, there are reasons that teenagers on TV are in their 20s (in their 30s in my day). Make 90210 or Riverdale with actual teenagers and not only will they age out in two seasons, the FBI is going to be kicking down your door. Youthful adults and audience suspension of disbelief is way easier and less ethically fraught.

And along those same lines, there are reasons animation has been a central aspect of kidvid since kidvid became a thing. Many of them are the same as the ones driving the 90210 16-going-on-35 solution: Nancy Cartwright/Ian Corlett style voices don’t age, you don’t have to deal with child labor laws, etc.

But the big advantage to not using actual kids to make kids content for the audience is a matter of peer-age parasocial pitchmen. The sheer amount of sell-it-sell-it-sell-it in the Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen material would make 1985 Hasbro blush, but with the unregulated content-free-for-all of the web, now its all delivered by kids the audience’s own age, using their own name, talking to the audience directly through the camera while making eye contact.

Abusive family YT channels and the live-action TV kid-trauma mills happen for the same reason. Kidcentric sitcoms are cheap to produce and create a trifecta of media-fandom, celebrity-culture and and parasocial pseudo-peer trust that makes for a very effective path to the ‘rents pocketbooks.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for awesome merch-driven kidvid, but there’s a number of huge differences between an action comedy featuring a bunch of cartoonized action figures trying to be as awesome and fun as it can to move some plastic and an exploited kid the same age as the audience talking to them directly through the camera while unwrapping a birthday party’s worth of that selfsame plastic every day as their parents prompt them from behind the camera.

Seriously, if the FCC and the FTC applied the television kidvid rules to online content you could fund the space program with the fines to a single channel.

The Olsen Twins really went through so much.

Disney Movie Club is shutting down!

Attention: the Disney Movie Club is shutting down. Currently, this is the only place to get Tangled: the Series on DVD/blue-ray. (Other than, like, eBay or whatever.) If you are interested in picking up a copy for yourself, now is the time to do it, because May 20, 2024 is the last day to place orders.

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i mean this so seriously if you have any sort of creative project you can and should be a little obsessed with it. you should reread your own writing and look at your own art and brag about your ocs its literally good for your health

This recently came across my timeline on Twitter ala @coelasquid and it’s too good not to include.

Kelly Turnbull is so fucking wise

“Intense NPC energy” is the best possible description for this phenomenon. They’re right. The characters all have NPC energy in these movies.

this makes me want to throw up and cry and scream and punch a wall

Moana <3

everyone’s favorite jock <3

remember when Mulan risked her life and her family’s honor to save her dad and ended up saving all of China from the Huns but Anna and Elsa are considered Disney’s feminist icons

Remember when Tiana spent hours and hours working hard to save up for her own restaurant to make her dreams a reality without any man in the equation, but Anna and Elsa are the feminist icons?

Remember when Nani tried went from job to job so the social services would get off her back and let her keep her sister. Then when they did come for lilo she negotiated with them and when her sister was kidnapped; She beat up an alien with a branch demanding to be taken to her sister. But you know anna and elsa are the feminist icons?

so ducktales 2017 established that donald has tons of pictures of the nephews on his phone

but that makes me wonder

how many picture of max does goofy have on his phone

Like a lot like literally half of his phone is just Max, he really loves his child. His wallpaper is probably Max, I bet him and Donald sent each other cute photos of their children over the years as well.

This.

This is perfect.

#the only reason goofy and donald have snapchat is to snapchat each other pics of their kid(s). they have a 500 day streak

Via Nate Taylor at Twitter.

I love this