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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-04 (Saturday)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 22:22:41 -0800
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On 1/6/2025 9:55 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On the final weekend of my staycation I did some much needed straitening
>> up while I also continued to make my way through selected animated films
>> in my collection.  I watched:
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>> Heavy Metal (4K disc) 1981 R-rated animated anthology film.  Each
>> segment tells a different story featuring an evil glowing green ball.
>>
> 
> I actually watched them film three of the segments from this at Wally
> Bulloch’s Anicam where they were shooting a job of mine at the same time.
> 
> If I recall correctly, one of the segments, they forgot to put in the green
> glowing ball at all, and nobody ever notices.
> 
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> 

It's in all of them, but sometimes its' presence is tangential at best. 
In particular the B-17 bomber segment the ball is almost an 
afterthought. And in the Pentagon segment it sets things in motion, but 
then it's forgotten.

>>
>> Titan A.E. (DVD) Don Bluth directed this  2000 animated sci-fi epic
> 
> I refused to work on it way back when it was still called treasure planet
> and had a different Director. 

Disney came out with a Treasure Planet movie two years later.  Any relation?

Then it became ice planet and then it became
> planet ice. We were telling them they should call it TITAN I.C.
> 
> 
> Not only did they shutter fox animation, they did it the next day. It
> opened on a Friday and just from the projected grosses they called people
> at home on the weekend and told them not to come in Monday.
> 
> 
>>
>> What did you watch?
> 
> Hey, thanks for asking!
> 
> Nothing
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>