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[Flávio Bittencourt]

Personagens esquecidos de Walt Disney

Alguns deles vingaram e não chegaram a voltar; outros nem vingaram.

 

 

 

(http://www.ebay.com/itm/Walt-Disney-RARE-Portugal-stamp-2445-/350396067150)

 

 

 

 

 

 

April in Portugal [COIMBRA],

Youtube:

Enviado em 23/06/2007  -José António Lourenço Martins Baptista - 

Fado em versão jazzística cantado por Satchmo. Video feito em jeito de homenagem a Louis Armstrong. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

File:Alice-In-Wonderland-Theatrical-Poster.jpg

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(2010_film))

 

 

 

 

 

 

A história da falsa tartaruga e do jabberwocky,

Youtube: 

Enviado em 28/03/2010

Vídeo baseado em episódios das obras de Lewis Carroll "Alice no País das Maravilhas" e "Alice no País do espelho", e em cenas que não entraram no filme animado "alice no país das maravilhas" da Disney por falta de espaço. 

A 1ª parte mostra a conversa que se desenvolve entre Alice, um Grifo e uma "Falsa-tartaruga", cena que aparece na história original do livro de Carroll. A segunda parte é uma animação do poema Jabberwocky, do livro "alice no país do espelho". A cena com o Jabberwocky foi cortada do filme animado na última hora, embora ele irá aparecer na versão de Tim Burton (de forma bem mais sombria).

OBS: as imagens da cena da falsa tartaruga foram retiradas de um comercial estrangeiro de gelatina que é relacionado a Disney (não conseguiram incluir os personagens no filme, jogaram eles para um comercial de tv
[*]).

 

[*] - Vide, por favor, vídeo do Youtube [FRAGMENTO DE ANIMAÇÃO UTILIZADO EM COMERCIAL DE TV QUE ANUNCIA GELATINA MARCA JELL-O] logo a seguir apresentado.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retro Jell-O Commercial with Alice, Gryphon, and Mock the Turtle,

Youtube:

Enviado em 28/03/2011

From Disney's "Alice in Wonderland."

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

(http://www.pimenta.blog.br/tag/louis-armstrong/) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle

 

The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle are two characters that were removed from the film Alice in Wonderland. They would have sang the song Beautiful Soup, though deleted from the final version for time reasons, they would end up appearing in a Wonderland-based ad campaign for Jello later in the 1950s.

Description

The Gryphon

Grifo
The Gryphon
Genya savelevAdded by Genya savelev

The Gryphon is a mythological being that is part Lion and part Eagle. In his Jello commercial appearance, he appears rather confident and proud.

The Mock Turtle

Tortugaartificial
The Mock Turtle
Genya savelevAdded by Genya savelev

The Mock Turtle is part calf and part turtle. Like his book counterpart, he is timid and rather depressed. In his Jello commercial appearance, he has no idea what to serve at a party and no cooking ability, but is quick to take Alice's suggestion of making Jello because of how simple it would be. (...)"

(http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gryphon_and_the_Mock_Turtle)

 

 

 

 

 

 

"CONTEMPLANDO UM BIZARRO ET BAIXINHO NA

MATÉRIA ANTERIOR, LEMBREI-ME DE THE MOCK TURTLE,

QUE É UM QUELÔNIO ESTRANHO, COM CABEÇA DE BEZERRO,

ainda que essa tartaruga falastrão-bovina seja mais estranha que

o ET, cujos traços, por sinal, são ou eram bem diferentes da

TARTARUGA FALSA ou TARTARUGA ARTIFICIAL de CARROLL/DISNEY"

 

(C R...)

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Jell-O

Jell-O est une marque déposée par Kraft Foods utilisé pour désigner une variété de dessert de gélatine. Le terme « Jell-O » est devenu un nom générique utilisé à travers les États-Unis et le Canada pour désigner les desserts de gélatine multicolores.

Anecdotes

 

(http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jell-O)

 

 

 

 

 

 

"THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

September 11, 1968 - Walt Disney Day

 
Forty years ago today marked "Walt Disney Day" in the state of Missouri. The state's governor, Warren E. Hearnes, issued the proclamation a few weeks earlier as part of the planned festivities that would be held in Marceline on September 11, 1968 to celebrate the United States Postal Service's release of the commemorative Walt Disney postage stamp.

For an excellent reporting of that day's events, check out the article "Walt Disney's Stamp of Approval" by Wade Sampson at MousePlanet.

 

(http://2719hyperion.blogspot.com.br/2008/09/september-11-1968-walt-disney-day.html) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A TARTARUGA-BOVINA DE LEWIS CARROLL,

melancolicamente frankensteiniana:

DISNEY NÃO GOSTOU MUITO DISSO (referimo-nos a

Disney, sua equipe de artistas e seus continuadores:

no filme de 2010. essa "tartaruga/bezerro" não deixa de

aparecer, mas apenas emoldurada, na parede):

File:MockTurtlePortrait2010.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_Turtle)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amália Rodrigues Clássics - ' Coimbra ' 'April In Portugal ',

Youtube:

 

Enviado em 06/11/2011

-Amália Rodrigues Classics- Coimbra-April In Portugal with orquestra.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"WALT DISNEY ERA GENIAL; CARROLL, ANTERIOR, 

ERA HIPERGENIAL"

(C R...)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(http://stamp-search.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?type=search&search=des&des=disney&shop=stamp-search&amount=10&num=5)

 

 

 

 

 

 

"(...) Origen del Concepto

La sopa de falsa tortuga fue creada en Inglaterra como un substituto barato de la frecuentemente inaccesible sopa de tortuga. En vez de utilizar carne de tortuga, la textura de la misma se imitaba empleando pedazos de vísceras, sesos, pezuñas, patas y colas de novillo.

Carroll disfrutaba los juegos de palabras y las bromas a la sociedad victoriana y su etiqueta. Las ilustraciones que John Tenniel hizo del personaje, aumentan el valor cómico del mismo, ya que muestran a una criatura compuesta de partes de dos animales: tronco, caparazón y aletas de tortuga marina, pero cabeza, cola y patas de novillo. (...)"

 

(http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsa_Tortuga,

grifo nosso)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

El Grifo y Alicia escuchan la historia de la Falsa Tortuga.

(http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsa_Tortuga

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon, ’Alice in Wonderland’

Lost disney characters Mock Turtle
Disney

(http://thefw.com/lost-disney-characters/)

 

 

 

 

 

 

"A FALSA TARTARUGA, CRIADA POR L. CARROLL, FOI REDESENHADA

PELA EQUIPE DE DISNEY QUE, PROVAVELMENTE ACHOU AQUELE ANIMAL

DEMASIADAMENTE ESTRANHO, TRISTE E FALASTRÃO - E APOSENTOU-O

SUMARIAMENTE [*risos*]"

 

(C R...)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haicai de domingo:

 

Disney aposentou

o tracajá frankenstein

de Lewis Carroll

 

(Flávio Bittencourt),

hoje)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"12 Lost Disney Characters You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Lost disney characters list
Disney

A Disney animated feature goes through several edits and re-writes before it ever makes it to the big screen. Sometimes for the better — without cuts, we would’ve seen a comical turkey voiced by John Candy in ‘Pocahontas.’ Here are 10 Disney characters who join Redfeather in the league of those who didn’t quite make the cut.

Deafy, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’

Lost disney characters Deafy
Disney

In the original Snow White story, the dwarfs all had generic names and no defined personalities. To flesh out the story and make the dwarfs more appealing characters, Walt Disney and his story team gave the dwarfs easily identifiable traits and names to match. But picking the names and personalities was no easy task, as evidenced by the sheer number of unused dwarfs.

Among the rejects was Deafy, sometimes called “Deefy.” As his name(s) suggests, Deafy was hard of hearing and frequently misheard what other characters said to him. Story drawings of Deafy still exist, proving that he was a more serious contender for a role in the film than other suggested dwarfs like Thrifty and Burpy. (Yes, there was a Burpy.)

Why was he cut? It’s not clear whether Deafy was too offensive even for 1930s tastes or Sneezy — who eventually replaced Deafy — just had better comedic possibilities. Either way, Deafy was dumped and modern audiences were spared some cringe-inducing dated and insensitive gags.

Sunflower, ’Fantasia’

Sunflower appeared in the “Pastoral Symphony” segment of ‘Fantasia.’ She is a young, black, female centaur (Centauride according to legend, “centaurette” according to Disney) who helps the other centaurettes shine their hooves and adorn their tails in preparation to meet the centaurs.

Sunflower is a unique case: a character who was cut after the movie’s release. Like most Disney films, ‘Fantasia’ was re-released at least once a decade for many years. By the 1960s, audiences were far less comfortable with a character whose appearance and role in the film smacked of racism. Sunflower was cut from the 1969 release and Disney has largely avoided mentioning her since.

Mr. Hare, ‘Bambi’

Lost disney characters Mr. Hare
Disney

A predecessor to both Thumper and his never seen but often referenced father, Mr. Hare was inspired by Friend Hare from Felix Salten’s original book ‘Bambi: A Life in the Woods.’ Mr. Hare was well respected in the woods as the head of a large family and a gifted philosopher and storyteller, traits which may have inspired Thumper’s father’s frequent moralizing.

In one early draft of the script, he is constantly trying to tell Bambi a story, but keeps having to run off to avoid a fox before he can finish. Towards the end of the movie, Mr. Hare is shot and admits to Bambi that it wasn’t really that good of a story right before he dies.

When young actor Peter Behn gave his distinctive reading of the line “Did the young prince fall down?” at an audition for the role of one of several baby bunnies, Thumper went from an unnamed minor character to Bambi’s scene-stealing best friend. The role of rabbit was taken and Mr. Hare disappeared from the film.

The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon, ’Alice in Wonderland’

Lost disney characters Mock Turtle
Disney

The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle are among the bizarre characters Alice encounters in Lewis Carroll’s original book. One is a traditional fantasy creature, a stately lion-eagle hybrid. The other is a beast from Carroll and illustrator John Tenniel’s imaginations combining a turtle with the parts of a calf commonly found in mock turtle soup. At one time, the two characters were going to appear in the Disney version of Carroll’s story and perform a song.

Unfortunately for them, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ has enough odd characters with no relation to each other as it is. Evidently, the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon added less to the story than the characters that remained in the film. Disney did revisit the pair later on in a series of Alice themed Jell-O commercials. (You can watch one below.)

Louis the Bear, ‘The Rescuers’

Lost disney characters Louis the Bear
Disney

Walt Disney was interested in making an animated film based on Margery Sharp’s ‘Rescuers’ novels about heroic mice helping people in distress. But he wasn’t too keen on the plot of the first novel, in which Bernard and Bianca come to the aid of an imprisoned poet.

Among the ideas considered early on was a story where the mice instead rescue a bear trapped in the zoo. Very little has been written about this version of the film, so not much is known about Louis. What makes him an interesting lost character is the fact that Louis Prima – best known to Disney fans as King Louie from ‘The Jungle Book’ — was slated to voice him.

Walt Disney’s death in 1966 may have weakened enthusiasm for the bear in the zoo storyline, but the news that Louis Prima had a brain tumor was the character’s death knell. Animator Andreas Deja mentions a storyline where the orphan girl Penny befriends the bear, so Louis may have been part of the plot even after he was no longer the one being rescued." (CONTINUA)

[http://thefw.com/lost-disney-characters/]
 
 
 
 
 
 
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More Lost Disney Characters That Didn’t Make the Cut

Music Box, ’Beauty and the Beast’

Lost disney characters Music Box
Disney

The music box was an enchanted object featured in early drafts of the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ script. He communicates only through music and was originally the character who stowed away with Belle when she leaves the castle to find her ailing father.

Like Peter Behn before him did for Thumper, Bradley Michael Pierce elevated the adorable teacup Chip from a throwaway gag to a major character. The story team looked for opportunities to feature Chip and gave the role of the stowaway to him. Aside from this, the music box just never worked well as a character. He was particularly hindered by the movie’s time period, which prevented him from playing many recognizable melodies. Although he lost his starring role, the music box is still briefly visible in the film and was featured in a Disney comic set before the movie.

Babkak, Omar and Kassim, ’Aladdin’

Aladdin Stage Musical
Disney

‘Aladdin’ is absolutely littered with abandoned characters. At one time, Aladdin had a mother (you can listen to her deleted song, ‘Proud of Your Boy,’ here), a second genie who lived in a ring and three layabout buddies named Babkak, Omar and Kassim.

Aladdin and his pals would sing barbershop melodies and try to avoid real work. They had no less than three songs: ‘Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim,’ which introduced the quartet, ‘How Quick They Forget,’ a lament sung by the remaining trio after Aladdin leaves for the palace and ‘High Adventure’ in which Aladdin tries to rally his reluctant buddies to action.

The large number of characters made for a muddled storyline. ‘Aladdin’ underwent a much needed reworking to simplify the story and the three loafers didn’t make the cut. The characters and their songs have resurfaced in the stage musical version of ‘Aladdin’ and the name “Cassim” – with slightly altered spelling – was reused for Aladdin’s father in the direct-to-video sequel ‘Aladdin and The King of Thieves.’ (Watch a performance of ‘Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim’ below.)

Redfeather, ’Pocahontas’

Lost disney characters Redfeather
Disney

Before Meeko the raccoon and Flit the hummingbird came along, Pocahontas told her troubles to a talking turkey named Redfeather. Redfeather was voiced by John Candy and was to have provided much of the film’s comic relief.

John Candy’s death in 1994 may not have helped matters, but much of Redfeather’s dialogue had already been recorded prior to the comedian’s untimely demise. What really spelled doom for Redfeather was the decision to rework ‘Pocahontas’ into a more dramatic film, with older lead characters, a serious romance and no talking animals.

Mheetu, ’The Lion King’

Lost Lion King Characters
Disney

At one point in the development of ‘The Lion King,’ Nala had a younger brother named Mheetu or Mee-Too, a faux-African play on the phrase “me too.” His name suggests a desire to tag along with the two older cubs and their other friend, a bat-eared fox. After Scar’s coup, Nala would’ve been tasked with protecting her brother from Scar’s wrath.

The development of characters like Timon and Pumbaa rendered a second group of friends for Simba unnecessary. Additionally, keeping up with several characters still stuck in the Pride Lands would’ve been too much time away from Simba and, according to the film’s co-writer Linda Woolverton, too dark after Mufasa’s death.

Sara Franks-Allen lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with two dogs, two rabbits and one amazing husband. She writes for the Ladies of Comicazi blog and watches a lot of cartoons.

(http://thefw.com/more-deleted-disney-characters/)

 

 

 

 

 

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"Sábado, 5 de novembro de 2011

A tartaruga de Alice

 
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_FqJkMKCsCgQ/TExqGvCtraI/AAAAAAAAACI/xW7l1tA9fCY/s1600/alice.jpg

 

CartaCapital, Ed. 671 

A corrupção e a tartaruga de Alice


Por Marcos Coimbra



A mídia brasileira não hesita no emprego de sua peculiar aritmética. Foto: Gildo Lima/AE


Em uma das passagens mais conhecidas de Alice no País das Maravilhas, a heroína entabula um diálogo com a Falsa Tartaruga, um ser melancólico, sempre triste por ter deixado de ser uma tartaruga de verdade.
A alturas tantas, a tartaruga relembra os dias na escola e as matérias que estudara: “Reler e escrevinhar, é claro (…) e os diferentes ramos da aritmética: Ambição, Distração, Enfeiamento e Escárnio”. Quando a menina lhe pede que explique o que quer dizer o terceiro, ela responde: “Você sabe o que é embelezar, imagino (…) então você sabe o que é enfeiar”.
A mídia conservadora brasileira é uma espécie de Falsa Tartaruga. Ela não hesita no emprego de sua peculiar aritmética de enfeiar, confundir e escarnecer.
Sua proeza mais recente é a fabricação de uma conta sobre o tamanho da corrupção no Brasil, seguida de sua difusão maciçaFaz como ensinava um famoso propagandista alemão: para transformar uma mentira em verdade, é preciso repeti-la mil vezes.

Hoje, ela fala em 85 bilhões de reais anuais, como se pode ver na capa da principal revista da direita nativa. Ontem, eram 70 bilhões. Amanhã, sabe-se lá. E não importa. O relevante é trombetear uma cifra que impressione, qualquer que ela seja.
A mídia conservadora pega o número e o põe nas manchetes, na boca de comentaristas televisivos, em suas “análises”. Ficam todos compungidos com o tamanho do problema. Como se não fosse ela mesma que lhe deu a dimensão que tanto a assusta.
Tudo começou com a divulgação de um estudo do Departamento de Competitividade e Tecnologia da Fiesp, que tinha a intenção de estimar os “custos econômicos da corrupção” no Brasil. Como passou a ser referência, vale a pena entender o que fizeram seus autores.
Seu ponto de partida foi usar de forma questionável algo banal, os estudos sobre percepção de corrupção, que perguntam a determinado público se acha que ela existe e se seria grande ou pequena. Como as respostas decorrem de impressões, o resultado, óbvio, é subjetivo.
Se, por exemplo, a mídia estiver falando muito do assunto, os entrevistados podem imaginar que a corrupção aumentou, sem que tenha crescido um só milímetro objetivamenteVice-versa, podem achar que diminui enquanto cresce.
O que o estudo da Fiesp fez de mais condenável foi usar uma medida de percepção da corrupção para inferir seu custo real. Inovaram, fazendoalgo que, mundo afora, ninguém faz.
Um problema adicional da metodologia é a fragilidade de suas bases de dados. Para chegar à “corrupção percebida”, a fonte são avaliações de técnicos - estrangeiros (vinculados, tipicamente, a empresas de cálculo de risco), somadas a alguns poucos e modestos estudos com empresários brasileiros. Exemplificando: o Fórum Econômico Mundial faz, em média, 98 entrevistas por país; o Institute for Management Development, 83. Qualquer um vê que seu tamanho é insuficiente.
São pesquisas que usam questionários autorrespondidos, o que as complica ainda mais. Quando a Transparência Brasil quis fazer algo parecido, convidou 4 mil empresas, mas obteve apenas 76 respostas. Como imaginar que essas 0,019% sejam representativas, se foram só elas que quiseram participar?
Os técnicos da Fiesp utilizaram o Índice de Percepção da Corrupção (IPC), calcula-do pela Transparência Internacional para 180 países, e resolveram inventar (verificaram que o Brasil melhorou de 1996 para 2009, mas preferiram deixar isso de lado).
O IPC brasileiro, em 2009, era 3,7 (em uma escala que chega a 10, que significa zero de corrupção percebida). E se nosso índice fosse maior, se a percepção fosse menor?
Mas quanto? Talvez achando que suas especulações pareceriam mais “científicas”, escolheram 12 países a esmo para calcular seu IPC médio. Ficaram, sabe-se lá por que, com Coreia do Sul, Costa Rica, Japão, Chile, Espanha, Irlanda, Estados Unidos, Alemanha, Austrália, Canadá, Cingapura e Finlândia.
Se a corrupção percebida no Brasil fosse igual (por alguma razão misteriosa) à média desses países, nosso IPC iria para 7,45. E daí? Iria para menos se substituíssemos a Finlândia pela Holanda, “mais corrupta”. Para mais, se trocássemos a Espanha pela Eslovênia, “menos corrupta”. E daí?
Daí vem a prestidigitação do estudo da Fiesp. Tomaram um modelo neoclássico de crescimento econômico e resolveram torná-lo “sensível ao índice de percepção da corrupção”. Para isso se deram ao direito de modificar o modelo (sem dizer como) para “incluir os efeitos da corrupção sobre o crescimento de longo prazo do produto per capita” (embora continuassem a falar, somente, de percepções).
Se, então, nosso IPC fosse 7,45 e se o modelo que inventaram fosse verdadeiro, o produto per capita brasileiro seria 1,36% maior ao ano, entre 1990 e 2008. Como o IPC real é menor, teria havido, nessa lógica estranha, um “prejuízo” (o “custo da corrupção”) de 41,5 bilhões de reais anuais.
E se o IPC brasileiro fosse 10? Se nenhum dos empresários ouvidos achasse que há qualquer tipo de corrupção no Brasil? Se fôssemos o único país do mundo com esse índice (melhor que o da Dinamarca, o “menos corrupto”)?
Aí o “prejuízo” de ter o IPC de 3,7 seria maior. Chegaria a 69,1 bilhões de reais anuais (a preços de 2008), que nossa mídia arredondou para 70 bilhões.
E assim se explicam os números que andam por aí: pesquisas limitadas, metodologias discutíveis, inferências sem fundamento. Eles não dizem simplesmente nada.
Se alguém quiser um exemplo melhor da aritmética da Falsa Tartaruga, vai ter trabalho. Faz tempo que não vemos uma discussão tão sem pé nem cabeça."

(http://carcara-ivab.blogspot.com.br/2011/11/tartaruga-de-alice.html)

 

 

 

 

 

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SELO POSTAL DA MONGÓLIA:

BEZERRO REPRESENTADO:

 

(https://www.123rf.com/photo_7258669_mongolia--circa-1982-a-stamp-shows-image-of-a-calf-series-circa-1982.html,onde se lê:

 

Stock Photo - MONGOLIA - CIRCA 1982: A Stamp shows image of a calf, series)

 

 

 

 

(http://www.123rf.com/photo_10946349_vietnam--circa-1988-a-stamp-printed-in-vietnam-shows-a-green-sea-turtle--chelonia-mydas-series-circa.html,
onde se lê:

Stock Photo - VIETNAM - CIRCA 1988: A stamp printed in VIETNAM shows a Green sea turtle - Chelonia mydas, series)

 

 

 

 

 

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(http://viewlinerltd.blogspot.com.br/2008/09/walt-disney-stamp-40-years-ago.html)