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Deadline Hollywood reports that Brad Bird's next project is another live action film and he's still developing his own live action film, 1906 .  I think that we've seen the last of Bird as an animation director.

I never saw Brad Bird's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and I won't be seeing Andrew Stanton's John Carter . The analyst in me is still interested in the contrast between the two. Brad Bird Made a sequel to a successful franchise The film starred one of the few actors who can still "open" a film Made a film that had similarities to his animated film The Incredibles Andrew Stanton Made a film based on a 100-year-old book with no preceding movie The film starred someone who has never before received top billing in a feature Made a film that was not similar to his animated films Finding Nemo and Wall-E . John Carter is being touted as a flop that may not hit $30 million for its opening weekend. While Bird emerged from Mission Impossible as somebody who is bankable in both animation and live action, Stanton is already being declared a live action failure. I found this paragraph from Deadline Hollywood interesting. I have no idea how valid it is, but the fa...

No, I'm not implying that Bird is ignorant. But a great many of the reporters who interview him about Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol , which Bird directed, definitely are. Here's an article in the N.Y. Times about Bird and it contains this paragraph: "Plenty of live-action directors have successfully taken on animated movies, including Gore Verbinski ( “Rango” ) and Tim Burton (“Corpse Bride”). But the flow almost never goes in reverse — if you can name a successful example you have movie historians beat — making Mr. Bird’s chance at bat a fascinating one for Hollywood to watch. A similar attempt will come in March, when Andrew Stanton, the director of Pixar’s “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E,” unveils his live-action space saga, “John Carter.”" So the writer has no knowledge of film or animation history. He doesn't know that Tim Burton's first job was as a Disney artist. He has no knowledge of Walt Disney(!), let alone Frank Tashlin, Gregory La Ca...

Steve Stanchfield of Thunderbean Animation is profiled at Greenbriar Picture Shows. Steve has lovingly put together a series of DVDs of public domain material from various studios. Where most public domain releases are done on the cheap, Steve puts enormous effort into finding the best materials and creating extras. I heartily endorse his products. Spline Doctors has posted a podcast with Pete Docter and Bob Peterson of Pixar. Brad Bird is interviewed by Nancy Cartwright at AWN.com. The ASIFA Hollywood Archive presents artwork from Ray Patterson's time at the Mintz studio in the 1930's.

The Museum of the Moving Image is located in Queens, New York, in a building that was once a working film studio owned by Paramount. During World War II, the building was used by the Signal Corps for the creation of instructional films (many including animation) for the military. The museum, which I've visited, is definitely worth the trip to Astoria. In addition to the brick and mortar building, the museum has a web presence that features many interesting articles and dozens of podcasts with movie professionals. There are three interviews that are animation related: two with Chuck Jones ( here and here ) recorded on successive days in December 1994, when he was once again working for Warner Bros. creating short films, and one from 2005 with Brad Bird , recorded after the release of The Incredibles . Jones was 82 at the time of these interviews and he tended to ramble. Several familiar Jones tropes are here, such as his quoting Mark Twain and his screeds against producers. ...