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Thundarr the Barbarian
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Thundarr the Barbarian is an American Saturday morning animated series, created by Steve Gerber and produced by Ruby-Spears Productions. The series ran two seasons,1980 and 1981, action figures of the three main characters were released by Toynami in 2004. C. Other episodes with recognizable settings are located in Mexico, while one is in London, another notable feature of this future Earth is that the Moon was broken in two pieces. However, by the period in which the series is set. Earth is reborn in a world of savagery, super-science, some of these malevolent wizards enlist the service of certain mutant species in doing their bidding. Other enemies include The Brotherhood of Night, the cosmic Stalker from The Stars, intelligent humanoid-animal races include the rat-like Groundlings, the crocodile-like Carocs, and talking hawk and pig-like mutants. New animals that existed include fire-shooting whales, a giant green snake with a bear head. Thundarrs weapon of choice, the Sunsword, projects a beam of energy when activated. The Sunswords energy blade can deflect other energy attacks as well as ones, can cut through nearly anything. The Sunsword is magically linked to Thundarr and as such, only he can use it, however, comic book writer-artist Jack Kirby worked on the production design for the show. The main characters were designed by comic book writer-artist Alex Toth. Toth, however, was unavailable to continue working on the show, so most of the wizards and other villains and he was brought onto the show at the recommendation of comic writer Steve Gerber and Mark Evanier. The series was the creation of Steve Gerber, Gerber and friend Martin Pasko were having dinner in the Westwood area one night during the time Gerber was developing the series. Gerber commented to Pasko that he had not yet decided upon a name for the Wookiee-like character the network insisted be added to the series, as the two walked past the gate to the UCLA campus, Pasko quipped, Why not call him Oo-clah. Pasko later became one of several screenwriters also known for their work in comics, such as Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, after writing several scripts, singly and in collaboration with Gerber, Pasko became a story editor on the second season. Other writers included Buzz Dixon and Mark Jones, the series narrator was Dick Tufeld. Thundarr – The main protagonist of the series and he is a barbarian who was once a slave to Sabian until he was freed by Princess Ariel and given the Sunsword which he uses as a weapon in his fight against evil wizards and other villains. Thundarr was known for frequently uttering such pronouncements as Demon dogs, lords of Light. and the Thundarr war-cry Aaaaahh-ee
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The Little Mermaid (1989 film)
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The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Based on the Danish fairy tale of the name by Hans Christian Andersen. Wright, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars, Buddy Hackett, and it also marked the start of the era known as the Disney Renaissance. Announced by Disney back in May 2016, a film adaptation is currently in the works. Ariel, a mermaid princess, is dissatisfied with underwater life in the kingdom of Atlantica and is curious about the human world. One night, Ariel, Flounder, and an unwilling Sebastian travel to the surface to watch a celebration for the birthday of Prince Eric on a ship. Ariel instantly becomes enamored with Eric, the birthday celebration is cut short by a violent storm which destroys the ship and tosses Eric overboard. Ariel rescues him and brings him to shore and she sings to him, but immediately leaves just as he regains consciousness to avoid being discovered. Fascinated by the memory of her voice, Eric vows to find who saved and sang to him, when Triton discovers Ariels love for Eric, Triton confronts her in the grotto and destroys most of the artifacts with his trident. After Triton leaves, two eels named Flotsam and Jetsam convince Ariel to visit Ursula the sea witch, Ursula tricks Ariel into making a deal to transform her into a human for three days in exchange for Ariels voice, which Ursula puts in a nautilus shell. Within these three days, Ariel must receive the kiss of love from Eric. If Ariel gets Eric to kiss her, she will remain a human permanently, otherwise, she will transform back into a mermaid, Ariel accepts and is then given human legs and brought to the surface by Flounder and Sebastian. Eric finds Ariel on the beach and takes her to his castle, Ariel spends time with Eric, and at the end of the second day, they almost kiss but are thwarted by Flotsam and Jetsam. Angered at their escape, Ursula sets a trap for Eric and Ariel, she disguises herself as a beautiful young woman named Vanessa. Discovering that Vanessa is actually Ursula in disguise, Scuttle informs Ariel of Ursulas plan to marry Eric while Sebastian informs Triton about Ursulas actions, assisted by her friends, Ariel stops Erics wedding to Ursula, destroying the nautilus shell around Ursulas neck and restoring Ariels voice. Realizing that Ariel is the girl who saved his life, Eric rushes to kiss her, Triton furiously confronts Ursula and demands Ariels release, but the deal is inviolable. Ursula tricks Triton into taking Ariels place as Ursulas prisoner, giving up his trident, Ariel is released as Triton is transformed into a polyp. Ursula steps forward as the new queen, but before she can use the trident, Ursula attempts to kill Eric, but inadvertently kills Flotsam and Jetsam in the process
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Voice acting
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Voice acting is the art of doing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user. Voice acting is also done for small handheld audio games, performers are called voice actors or actresses, voice artists, or voice talent. Their roles may also involve singing, although a voice actor is sometimes cast as the characters singing voice. Voice acting is recognised in Britain as a specialized dramatic profession, Voice artists are also used to record the individual sample fragments played back by a computer in an automated announcement. The voices for animated characters are provided by voice actors, for live action productions, voice acting often involves reading the parts of computer programs, radio dispatchers, or other characters who never actually appear on screen. With a radio drama or CD drama, there is freedom in voice acting, because there is no need to match a dub to the original actors. In the context of voice acting, narration is the use of commentary to convey a story to an audience. A narrator is a character or a non-personal voice that the creator of the story develops to deliver information to the audience. The voice actor who plays the narrator is responsible for performing the lines assigned to the narrator. In traditional literary narratives, narration is a story element, in other types of narratives, such as plays, television shows, video games. One of the most common uses for voice acting is within commercial advertising, the voice actor is hired to voice a message associated with the advertisement. This has different subgenres, television, radio, cinema, the subgenres are all different styles in their own right. Voiceover used in commercial adverts also is the area of voice acting where de-breathing is used. De-breathing means artificially removing breaths from the recorded voice and this is done to stop the audience being distracted in any way from the commercial message that is being put across. Dub localization is a type of voice-over and it is the practice of voice-over translation altering a foreign language film, art film or television series by voice actors. Voice-over translation is an audiovisual translation technique, in which, unlike in Dub localization, actor voices are recorded over the audio track. This method of translation is most often used in documentaries and news reports to translate words of foreign-language interviewees, automated dialogue replacement is the process of re-recording dialogue by the original actor after the filming process to improve audio quality or reflect dialogue changes. ADR is also used to change original lines recorded on set to clarify context, improve diction or timing, in the UK, it is also called post-synchronization or post-sync
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Jodi Benson
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Jodi Marie Marzorati Benson is an American voice actress, actress and soprano singer. She is best known for providing both the speaking and the voice of Disneys Princess Ariel in The Little Mermaid and its sequel, prequel. Benson voiced the character Barbie in the 1999 movie Toy Story 2, the 2010 Academy Award winning movie Toy Story 3, for her contributions to the Disney company, Benson was named a Disney Legend in 2011. She also gave voice to the spirited Weebo in Disneys live action Flubber, for Warner Bros. she created the voice of Thumbelina, a Don Bluth animated feature film with songs by Barry Manilow. She appeared as Patrick Dempseys assistant Sam, in Disney’s live-action feature film Enchanted, while being a Disney Legend, she also voiced Jane Doe and Patsy Smiles in Cartoon Networks Camp Lazlo. She also voiced the character Tula in Foxs Pirates of Dark water series, bensons debut on Broadway was in the 1983 Kenny Ortega-directed Marilyn, An American Fable. Other Broadway credits include a role in the Broadway musical Smile. Howard Ashman, the lyricist of Smile, would go on to write the lyrics for The Little Mermaid. She describes the song Disneyland at the Smile Reunion concert held on Sept.22,2014, This is the first piece of the puzzle of my life, Benson also sings Disneyland on a compilation CD called Unsung Musicals. In 1989, Benson appeared in the Broadway musical, Welcome to the Club, alongside Samuel E. Wright, in 1992, Benson received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Polly Baker in Crazy For You. She played the narrator in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1998, Benson also played the Queen in a one-night concert version of Rodgers & Hammersteins Cinderella at the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in May 2010. She was at the 2012 SYTA conference singing her signature song Part of Your World on Monday, Benson has been the guest artist for the Candlelight Processional for 5 years at Walt Disney World including December 10–13,2012. She joined the 2013 Spring Pops on May 14–15,2013 as a guest soloist with the Boston Pops, Benson can be heard on over a dozen recordings and has a six-part DVD series entitled Baby Faith from the creators of Baby Einstein. J. Sparkles, and the series Sofia the First for Disney as well as many others. She starred in the Kennedy Center Honors for Ginger Rogers, and in Disneys Premiere in Central Park with Pocahontas, The Walt Disney World 25th Anniversary Spectacular, Benson is the resident guest soloist for the Walt Disney Company/Disney Cruise Line and ambassador for feature animation. On June 6,2016, Benson performed the role of Ariel at the Hollywood Bowls concert performance of The Little Mermaid, in the 1980s, Benson first heard of the audition for The Little Mermaid through lyricist and playwright Howard Ashman. The two had just worked together in the Broadway show Smile until its run ended early, after hearing the demo for Part of Your World, she sang a small part of it on tape where it was later sent to Disney executives. Before her audition for The Little Mermaid, she was primarily a stage actress and it was Ashmans first Disney project
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Mermaid
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A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, Africa. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria, in which the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into an out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover. Mermaids are sometimes associated with events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks. In other folk traditions, they can be benevolent or beneficent, the male equivalent of the mermaid is the merman, also a familiar figure in folklore and heraldry. Although traditions about and sightings of mermen are less common than those of mermaids, some of the attributes of mermaids may have been influenced by the Sirens of Greek mythology. Historical accounts of mermaids, such as reported by Christopher Columbus during his exploration of the Caribbean, may have been inspired by manatees. While there is no evidence that mermaids exist outside of folklore, reports of mermaid sightings continue to the present day, including 21st century examples from Israel and Zimbabwe. Mermaids have been a subject of art and literature in recent centuries. They have subsequently been depicted in operas, paintings, books, films, the word mermaid is a compound of the Old English mere, and maid. The equivalent term in Old English was merewif and they are conventionally depicted as beautiful with long flowing hair. Sirenia is an order of aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit rivers, estuaries, coastal marine waters, swamps. They look ponderous and clumsy but are actually fusiform, hydrodynamic and highly muscular, sirenomelia, also called mermaid syndrome, is a rare congenital disorder in which a child is born with his or her legs fused together and small genitalia. This condition is about as rare as conjoined twins, affecting one out of every 100,000 live births and is fatal within a day or two of birth because of kidney and bladder complications. Four survivors were known as of July 2003, many folklorists and mythographers deem that the origin of the mythic mermaid is the dugong, posing a theory that mythicised tales have been constructed around early sightings of dugongs by sailors. The first known mermaid stories appeared in Assyria c.1000 BC, the goddess Atargatis, mother of Assyrian queen Semiramis, loved a mortal and unintentionally killed him. Ashamed, she jumped into a lake and took the form of a fish, the Greeks recognized Atargatis under the name Derketo. Sometime before 546 BC, Milesian philosopher Anaximander postulated that mankind had sprung from an animal species
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Poseidon
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Poseidon was one of the twelve Olympian deities of the pantheon in Greek mythology. His main domain was the ocean, and he is called the God of the Sea, additionally, he is referred to as Earth-Shaker due to his role in causing earthquakes, and has been called the tamer of horses. He is usually depicted as a male with curly hair. The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology, both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon. According to some folklore, he was saved by his mother Rhea, who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended to have birth to a colt. There is a Homeric hymn to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities, according to the references from Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias, the island of Atlantis was the chosen domain of Poseidon. The form Ποτειδάϝων appears in Corinth, the origins of the name Poseidon are unclear. Walter Burkert finds that the second element da- remains hopelessly ambiguous, another theory interprets the second element as related to the word *δᾶϝον dâwon, water, this would make *Posei-dawōn into the master of waters. There is also the possibility that the word has Pre-Greek origin, Plato in his dialogue Cratylus gives two alternative etymologies, either the sea restrained Poseidon when walking as a foot-bond, or he knew many things. If surviving Linear B clay tablets can be trusted, the name occurs with greater frequency than does di-u-ja. A feminine variant, po-se-de-ia, is found, indicating a lost consort goddess. Poseidon carries frequently the title wa-na-ka in Linear B inscriptions, as king of the underworld, the chthonic nature of Poseidon-Wanax is also indicated by his title E-ne-si-da-o-ne in Mycenean Knossos and Pylos, a powerful attribute. In the cave of Amnisos Enesidaon is related with the cult of Eileithyia and she was related with the annual birth of the divine child. During the Bronze Age, a goddess of nature, dominated both in Minoan and Mycenean cult, and Wanax was her companion in Mycenean cult. It is possible that Demeter appears as Da-ma-te in a Linear B inscription, in Linear B inscriptions found at Pylos, E-ne-si-da-o-ne is related with Poseidon, and Si-to Po-tini-ja is probably related with Demeter. Tablets from Pylos record sacrificial goods destined for the Two Queens, the Two Queens may be related with Demeter and Persephone, or their precursors, goddesses who were not associated with Poseidon in later periods. The violated Demeter was Demeter Erinys, in Arcadia, Demeters mare-form was worshiped into historical times. Her xoanon of Phigaleia shows how the local cult interpreted her, a Medusa type with a horses head with snaky hair, holding a dove and a dolphin, probably representing her power over air and water
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Walt Disney Pictures
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Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film production company and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company. The subsidiary is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California and it took on its current name in 1983. Today, in conjunction with the units of Walt Disney Studios. Animated films such as those by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are released under this brand. Pirates of the Caribbean series is the corporations most successful franchise, the studios predecessor was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, by filmmaker Walt Disney and his business partner and brother, Roy, in 1923. The creation of Mickey Mouse and subsequent short films and merchandise generated revenue for the studio which was renamed as The Walt Disney Studio at the Hyperion Studio in 1926, in 1929, it was renamed again to Walt Disney Productions. With the profits from Snow White, Walt relocated to a studio in Burbank. In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as The Reluctant Dragon and Song of the South. By 1953, the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as RKO Radio Pictures and United Artists and formed their own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution. The Walt Disney Productions in April 1983 incorporated its film division as Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. Touchstone Films banner was used by then new Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the 1984–85 television season with the short lived western, Wildside. The next TV season, Touchstone produced a hit with The Golden Girls, David Hoberman was promoted to president of production, Walt Disney Pictures in April 1988. In April 1994, Hoberman was promoted to president of motion pictures at Walt Disney Studios and was replaced as Disney President by David Vogel. Vogel added the position of Hollywood Pictures in 1997, then was promoted in 1998 to head up all live action motion picture units as president of Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, Pirates of the Caribbean launched a film series and made the ride into a franchise. After four Pirates sequels, the franchise took in more than $5.4 billion worldwide, so, the corporation was looking for addition of the ride adaptations. In 2010, Disney released Alice in Wonderland, an adaptation of the 1951 animated film of the name that became the second $1 billion-grossing film in the studios history. The film began a trend of fantasy genre films being green-lit. With sister units Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm successfully targeting the male market, with the success of Maleficent and Cinderella, the studio announced a whole series of live-action adaptations of animated films as being in early stages. The Jungle Book cemented this trend with a global near billion-dollar box office, some adaptations are sequels to existing adaptations, origin stories and prequels
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The Little Mermaid (TV series)
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Disneys The Little Mermaid is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation based on the 1989 Disney film of the same name. It features the adventures of Ariel as a prior to the events of the film. This series is the first Disney television series to be spun off from an animated film. Some of the actors of the film reprise their roles in the series, among them Jodi Benson as Ariel, Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian, Kenneth Mars as King Triton. Other voice actors include Edan Gross and Bradley Pierce as Flounder, the Little Mermaid premiered in the fall of 1992 with the animated prime time special called A Whale of a Tale, then moved to Saturday mornings. This series originally appeared on CBS, with a run from 1992 to 1994. Disney Channel reran the series in the late-1990s until it was replaced by their pre-teen lineup, the show was later shown on Toon Disney, but has since been removed. Some of the episodes contain musical segments, featuring songs written for the series. The opening theme to the show is a combination of the songs Part of Your World, Under the Sea. The overture for the musical of The Little Mermaid is similar to this. The Little Mermaid television series is a prequel to the movie of the same name, the story is set before the events in the 1989 film, and follows Ariels adventures as a mermaid still living under the sea with her father, Sebastian the crab and Flounder the fish. Various episodes highlight her relationships with her friends, father and sisters, a prequel film, The Little Mermaid, Ariels Beginning, was released in 2008 containing events that contradict the television series, making the TV series and film independent continuities. After the success of the 1989 movie, The Walt Disney Company planned to produce a television series for its Disney Channel cable outlet called The Little Mermaids Island. The proposed series would feature puppets from Jim Hensons Creature Shop interacting with a live Ariel, the new show would concern the adventures of Ariel and her friends before the events in the movie. Jamie Mitchell, an artist and graphic designer who worked on Disneys Adventures of the Gummi Bears, was named the producer, patsy Cameron and Tedd Anasti were the story editors and wrote almost all of the episodes for the shows second and third seasons. Their previous joint work included Hanna-Barberas The Smurfs, the animated Beetlejuice, some of the artists and technicians on the feature film also contributed to the TV series. Mark Dindal, chief of special animated effects for the movie, was a consultant for special effects on the TV show. Robby Merkin, who worked with Alan Menken and Howard Ashman on arranging the songs for the movie, worked as the arranger, conscious of the worldwide acclaim for the movies superior artistry, Walt Disney Television Animation auditioned the best overseas animation studios
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The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
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The Little Mermaid II, Return to the Sea is a 2000 Disney animated feature film and direct-to-video sequel to the 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid. This sequel stars the voices of Jodi Benson as Ariel, Tara Charendoff as Melody and Pat Carroll as Morgana and it is the last film in the chronology of Walt Disneys version of The Little Mermaid. Its followed by a prequel, The Little Mermaid, Ariels Beginning, Ariel and Eric celebrate the birth of their newborn daughter Melody on a ship at sea. Ariels father King Triton presents Melody with a magic locket, the party is interrupted by Ursulas sister Morgana, who threatens to cause Melody harm, using her as leverage to get Tritons trident. Ariel and Eric work together to foil Morganas plan, Morgana escapes, and eludes the attempt of King Tritons forces to capture her. Fearing Morgana and remembering Ursula, Ariel decides, until Morgana is captured, they will have to all knowledge of the sea world. The locket is tossed into the ocean, and a wall is built to separate the royal castle from the sea. Triton assigns Sebastian to keep an eye on Melody, twelve years later, Melody remains unaware of her mother’s mermaid heritage and is forbidden from ever going into the sea. However, she has been sneaking out of the castle regularly to swim, seeing her name on the locket, Melody confronts her mother and, frustrated with her mothers refusal to answer her questions, Melody takes a boat and sails away from home. Her parents soon learn that she is gone, and Triton uses his trident to transform Ariel back into a mermaid to help in the search for Melody. Morgana says that the transformation can be permanent if Melody can get hold of the trident. With the help of Tip the penguin and Dash the walrus, Ariel tries to stop Melody, but before she can explain that Morgana is evil, Melody gives the trident to Morgana. Morgana uses the magic to lord over the ocean, rising to the surface to gloat. Scuttle, Triton, Sebastian, and Eric arrive, and a battle ensues against Morgana, Melody reunites with her family, and Triton offers his granddaughter a choice of becoming a mermaid permanently. Instead, Melody uses the trident to disintegrate the wall separating her home from the sea, reuniting the humans, Jodi Benson as Ariel Tara Charendoff as Melody Samuel E. Kuter as Grimsby Frank Welker as Max the Sheepdog The film was released direct-to-DVD on September 19,2000. On November 6,2006, the film was released in a bundle together with the film in the Region 2 release. The original DVD release was discontinued and a special edition DVD with a deleted song, Gonna Get My Wish. A package called The Little Mermaid Trilogy, which all three Little Mermaid films, was released on the same day
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
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The film features the voices of Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Sally Field, and Jim Cummings. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the film on August 26,2008, the animated by Toon City Animation, Inc. The film contradicts certain events of the series, implying that it is an independent installment of Disneys The Little Mermaid franchise. King Triton and his wife, Queen Athena, rule over the kingdom of Atlantica, filled with music. They have seven daughters, Aquata, Andrina, Arista, Attina, Adella, Alana. One day, the merpeople relax in a lagoon above water, everyone escapes except Athena, who is crushed to death by the ship when she tries to rescue the music box. Devastated by the death of his wife, Triton throws the box away. Ten years later, Ariel and her sisters live under a strict routine maintained by their governess, Marina Del Rey and her assistant, Marina dislikes being the girls governess and longs to be Tritons attaché, a job currently filled by Sebastian the crab. Ariel hates their current lifestyle, which brings her into arguments with her father, Ariel encounters Flounder, whom she later follows to an underground music club. She is overjoyed by the presence of music, and is shocked when she sees Sebastian performing there, when her presence is revealed, the entire band stops playing and hides, believing Ariel will tell her father about them. Ariel sings a song explaining her love of music and the remembrance of her mother, Ariel returns to the palace, and her sisters confront her over her disappearance. She explains where she was, and the night the girls go to the club to have fun. Marina finds them, she later reports their activities to Triton, Sebastian, Flounder, and the band are sent to prison, while Marina gets the job she wants. Triton punishes his daughters inside the palace, resulting in Ariel asking him why music is forbidden, distraught, Ariel argues that her mother wouldnt have wanted music forbidden. She swims to the bedroom, with her sisters following and that night, she leaves Atlantica, and frees her friends. Sebastian leads them to a place far from the palace where Ariel finds Athenas music box. Ariel and Sebastian decide to return to Atlantica to bring the box to Triton, hoping that it will change his mind. On the way back, they are confronted by Marina and her electric eels, Marina wants to stop them so she will retain her position of power, and a struggle ensues
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Disney Princess
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Disney Princess, also called the Princess Line, is a media franchise owned by The Walt Disney Company. Created by Disney Consumer Products chairman Andy Mooney in the early 2000s, the franchise does not include all princess characters from the whole of Disney-owned media, but rather refers to specific characters from the companys animated films. As of 2017, the characters considered part of the franchise are Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel. The franchise has released dolls, sing-along videos, apparel, home decor, toys, licensees for the franchise include Glidden, Stride Rite, Hasbro, and plastic Fisher-Price figurines. Former Nike, Inc. executive Andy Mooney was appointed chairman of The Walt Disney Companys Disney Consumer Products division in the late 1990s. While attending his first Disney on Ice show, Mooney noticed that young girls attending the show were dressed in princess attire that were not authentic Disney products. They were generic princess products they’d appended to a Halloween costume, concerned by this, Mooney addressed the company the following morning and encouraged them to commence work on a legitimate Disney Princess franchise in January 2000. Walts nephew, Roy E. Disney, objected to the creation of the line, the original line-up consisted of princesses Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan and Tinker Bell. Five of them were royal by blood, two married into royalty, and two fit the princess mythology, Tinker was soon removed from the latter category and the overall line-up. This was the first time the characters would be marketed in a separate franchise than their original films, Mooney decided that, when featured on marketing advertisements such as posters, the princesses should never make eye contact with each other in an attempt to keep their individual mythologies intact. Stares off in a different direction as if unaware of the others presence. In an unconventional manner, Mooney and his team launched the Disney Princess line without utilizing any focus groups and with minimal marketing. DCP issued princess product licenses to Hasbro for games, Mattel dolls, Tiana became the first additional character to the Princess franchise officially on March 14,2010, taking Tinker Bells short-lived place as the ninth member. Her coronation took place at the New York Palace, Tinker Bell was already heading up another franchise started in 2005, Disney Fairies. Rapunzel was crowned and inducted into the Disney Princess franchise as the member on October 2,2011, at Kensington Palace in London. On May 11,2013, Disney added the first Pixar character Merida as the 11th Princess to the franchise in a ceremony in front of Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom. Mattel adding a Barbie princess-themed line in late-2010 then the fair, Mattel was only putting out Princesses Cinderella, Ariel and Belle plus the two Frozen princesses during the last year or so of its license. DCP was also attempting to evolve the brand by making them less as damsels, in September 2014, Disney announced that Hasbro would be the licensed doll maker for the Disney Princess line starting on January 1,2016
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Tail
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The tail is the section at the rear end of an animals body, in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso. It is the part of the body that corresponds roughly to the sacrum and coccyx in mammals, reptiles, tailed objects are sometimes referred to as caudate and the part of the body associated with or proximal to the tail are given the adjective caudal. Animal tails are used in a variety of ways and they provide a source of locomotion for fish and some other forms of marine life. Many land animals use their tails to brush away flies and other biting insects, tails are also used for social signaling. Some species tails are armored, and some, such as those of scorpions, some species of lizard can detach their tails from their bodies. This can help them to escape predators, which are either distracted by the wriggling, tails cast in this manner generally grow back over time, though the replacement is typically darker in colour than the original. Most birds tails end in long feathers called rectrices and these feathers are used as a rudder, helping the bird steer and maneuver in flight, they also help the bird to balance while it is perched. In some species—such as birds of paradise, lyrebirds, and most notably peafowl—modified tail feathers play an important role in courtship displays, the extra-stiff tail feathers of other species, including woodpeckers and woodcreepers, allow them to brace themselves firmly against tree trunks. The tails of grazing animals, such as horses, are used both to sweep away insects and positioned or moved in ways that indicate the physical or emotional state. Human embryos have a tail measures about one-sixth of the size of the embryo itself. As the embryo develops into a fetus, the tail is absorbed by the growing body, humans have a tail bone attached to the pelvis, formed of fused vertebrae, usually four, at the bottom of the vertebral column. Rump Empennage, the tail of an aircraft
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Piscine humanoid
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Piscine and amphibian humanoids have made appearances throughout mythology, cryptozoology, folklore and fiction. Huh, Ancient Egyptian frog-headed god whose name means endlessness, iaras from Brazilian mythology Matsya, an avatar of Vishnu in piscine form Nommo fish-like amphibian spirits in Dogon mythology. Crazy Frog Deep Ones from H. P. Lovecrafts The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Fishmen are a race of humans from the anime One Piece. They are said to possess psychic abilities, including being able to read minds and they featured in the special Dragon Ball Z, Bardock - The Father of Goku. Frog, star of the Looney Tunes short One Froggy Evening and onetime mascot of The WB
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Hans Christian Andersen (/ˈhɑːnz ˈkrɪstʃən ˈændərsən/, Danish, often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersens popularity is not limited to children, his stories, called eventyr in Danish, express themes that transcend age and nationality. Some of his most famous fairy tales include The Emperors New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina and his stories have inspired ballets, animated and live-action films and plays. Hans Christian Andersen was born in the town of Odense, Denmark, Andersens father, also Hans, considered himself related to nobility. His paternal grandmother had told his father that their family had in the past belonged to a social class. A persistent theory suggests that Andersen was a son of King Christian VIII. Andersens father, who had received an education, introduced Andersen to literature. Andersens mother, Anne Marie Andersdatter, was uneducated and worked as a washerwoman following his fathers death in 1816, she remarried in 1818. Andersen was sent to a school for poor children where he received a basic education and was forced to support himself, working as an apprentice for a weaver and, later. At 14, he moved to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor, having an excellent soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre, but his voice soon changed. A colleague at the theatre told him that he considered Andersen a poet, taking the suggestion seriously, Andersen began to focus on writing. Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Danish Theatre, felt a great affection for Andersen and sent him to a school in Slagelse. Andersen had already published his first story, The Ghost at Palnatokes Grave, though not a keen pupil, he also attended school at Elsinore until 1827. He later said his years in school were the darkest and most bitter of his life, at one school, he lived at his schoolmasters home. There he was abused and was told that it was to improve his character and he later said the faculty had discouraged him from writing in general, causing him to enter a state of depression. A very early fairy tale by Andersen, called The Tallow Candle, was discovered in a Danish archive in October 2012, the story, written in the 1820s, was about a candle who did not feel appreciated. It was written while Andersen was still in school and dedicated to a benefactor, in 1829, Andersen enjoyed considerable success with the short story A Journey on Foot from Holmens Canal to the East Point of Amager. Its protagonist meets characters ranging from Saint Peter to a talking cat, Andersen followed this success with a theatrical piece, Love on St. Nicholas Church Tower, and a short volume of poems
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The Little Mermaid
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The tale was first published in 1837 and has been adapted to various media, including an animated film by Disney and a musical theatre production. The Little Mermaid dwells in a kingdom with her widowed father, her dowager grandmother. As each returns, the Little Mermaid listens longingly to their various descriptions of the inhabited by human beings. When the Little Mermaids turn comes, she rises up to the surface, watches a birthday celebration being held on a ship in honor of a handsome prince, a violent storm hits, sinking the boat, and the Little Mermaid saves the prince from drowning. She delivers him unconscious to the shore near a temple, here, she waits until a young woman from the temple and her ladies in waiting find him. To her dismay, the prince never sees the Little Mermaid or even realizes that it was she who had saved his life. The Little Mermaid becomes melancholy and asks her grandmother if humans can live forever, the Little Mermaid, longing for the prince and an eternal soul, visits the Sea Witch in a dangerous part of the ocean. However, she will feel as if she is walking on sharp knives. In addition, she will obtain a soul if she wins the love of the prince and marries him. Otherwise, at dawn on the first day after he marries someone else, after she agrees to the arrangement, the Little Mermaid swims to the surface near the princes palace and drinks the potion. She is found by the prince, who is mesmerized by her beauty and grace, even though she is considered dumb, most of all, he likes to see her dance, and she dances for him despite suffering excruciating pain with every step. Soon, the Little Mermaid becomes the favorite companion and accompanies him on many of his outings. When the princes parents encourage their son to marry the princess in an arranged marriage. He goes on to say he can love the young woman from the temple. It turns out that the princess from the kingdom is the temple girl. The prince declares his love for her, and the wedding is announced at once. The prince and princess celebrate their new marriage on a ship. She thinks of all that she has sacrificed and of all the pain she has endured for the prince
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Time (magazine)
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Time is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It was founded in 1923 and for decades was dominated by Henry Luce, a European edition is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong, the South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney, Australia. In December 2008, Time discontinued publishing a Canadian advertiser edition, Time has the worlds largest circulation for a weekly news magazine, and has a readership of 26 million,20 million of which are based in the United States. As of 2012, it had a circulation of 3.3 million making it the eleventh most circulated magazine in the United States reception room circuit, as of 2015, its circulation was 3,036,602. Richard Stengel was the editor from May 2006 to October 2013. Nancy Gibbs has been the editor since October 2013. Time magazine was created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, the two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor respectively of the Yale Daily News. They first called the proposed magazine Facts and they wanted to emphasize brevity, so that a busy man could read it in an hour. They changed the name to Time and used the slogan Take Time–Its Brief and it set out to tell the news through people, and for many decades the magazines cover depicted a single person. More recently, Time has incorporated People of the Year issues which grew in popularity over the years, notable mentions of them were Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, Matej Turk, etc. The first issue of Time was published on March 3,1923, featuring Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the House of Representatives, on its cover, a facsimile reprint of Issue No. 1, including all of the articles and advertisements contained in the original, was included with copies of the February 28,1938 issue as a commemoration of the magazines 15th anniversary. The cover price was 15¢ On Haddens death in 1929, Luce became the dominant man at Time, the Intimate History of a Publishing Enterprise 1923–1941. In 1929, Roy Larsen was also named a Time Inc. director, J. P. Morgan retained a certain control through two directorates and a share of stocks, both over Time and Fortune. Other shareholders were Brown Brothers W. A. Harriman & Co. the Intimate History of a Changing Enterprise 1957–1983. According to the September 10,1979 issue of The New York Times, after Time magazine began publishing its weekly issues in March 1923, Roy Larsen was able to increase its circulation by utilizing U. S. radio and movie theaters around the world. It often promoted both Time magazine and U. S. political and corporate interests, Larsen next arranged for a 30-minute radio program, The March of Time, to be broadcast over CBS, beginning on March 6,1931
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Empire (film magazine)
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Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media of Hamburg based Bauer Media Group. From the first issue in July 1989, the magazine was edited by Barry McIlheney, Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008. It is the biggest selling magazine in the United Kingdom and is also published in the United States, Australia, Turkey, Russia, Italy. Empire organises the annual Empire Awards which were sponsored by Sony Ericsson, the awards are voted for by readers of the magazine. Empire is populist in both approach and coverage and it reviews both mainstream films and art films, but feature articles concentrate on the former. As well as news, previews, and reviews, Empire has some other regular features. Each issue features a Classic Scene, a transcript from a film scene. The first such classic scene to be featured was the I could have been a scene from On the Waterfront. The regular Top 10 feature lists Empires choice of the top ten examples of something film-related, for example,10 Best Chase Scenes or 10 Best Movie Gags in The Simpsons. The Re. View section covers Blu-ray and DVD news and releases, Kim Newmans Movie Dungeon is a regular feature in the Re. View section, in which critic Kim Newman reviews the most obscure releases, mostly low budget horror movies. How much Is Pint of Milk presents celebrities answers to silly or unusual questions and this is intended as a guide to the chosen celebritys contact with reality, and as such can be more informative than a direct interview by reporting some surprising responses. Each magazine includes a Spine Quote, in which a relatively challenging quote is printed on the spine of the magazine, there are usually some obvious and obscure links from the quote to the main features of that months edition. Readers are invited to identify the source and the links to win a prize. Celebrity Mastermind is another regular in which a celebrity is given questions about the films they were in or they directed, celebrities range from Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Lee to John Carpenter and Michael Keaton. A regular feature since issue 167, the feature is a two-page essay on a film selected by Empire in the Re. View section. The selection of the films seem to be random and follow no specific pattern. Only a few issues since the first masterpiece feature have not featured one –169,179,196,197,198 and 246, Issue 240 had director Frank Darabont select 223 masterpieces. L. A. Confidential was featured twice, once in issue 191 and this list is as follows, Alien – Dinner chestburster The Omen – Glass decapitation An American Werewolf in London – Wolf transformation The Exorcist – Crucifix abuse Risky Business – Ready Ralph
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Part of Your World
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Part of Your World is a popular song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman from the 1989 Disney animated feature film, The Little Mermaid. The song has been positively received by critics, who praised Ashman. Ashman complied, replacing some of his previous lyrics with more off-beat terminology, while recording Part of Your World, Jodi Benson requested that the studios lights be dimmed to give her the feeling of being underwater. Ashman stood at Bensons side, giving her suggestions to benefit her performance, Benson admits to have borrowed a lot of her performance from Ashmans live renditions and demos of the song. During production of The Little Mermaid, Part of Your World was nearly cut from the film when it tested poorly with an audience of school children. This caused Jeffrey Katzenberg to feel that the song slowed down the film and needed to be cut, an idea that was resisted by Ashman, Musker, Clements, and Keane. Both Musker and Clements cited the situation of the popular song Over the Rainbow nearly being cut from MGMs The Wizard of Oz when appealing to Katzenberg. Ashman and Keane pushed for the song to remain until the film was in a more finalized state, during a second test screening, the scene, now colorized and further developed, tested well with a separate child audience, and the musical number was kept. According to Menken, Part of Your World was one of the songs applauded at a screening of The Little Mermaid. Written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman, Part of Your World is a ballad written in the style of a Broadway musical number. Described by lyricist Howard Ashman as an I Want song, Part of Your World describes in detail Ariels desire to part of the human world. Written in the key of F major in common time at a moderately bright pace, Bensons soprano vocal range spans exactly one octave. When the movie was first released in 1989, between 1989 and 1991 it was dubbed in about 20 other languages. After the success of the film, about ten years later, in 1998, more dubbings in other languages were released, over the years, more dubbings have been released. Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø dubbed Ariel in three languages, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, italian singer Simona Patitucci was rewarded as best European Ariel in 2001, while Russian singer Svetlana Svetikova was rewarded as best foreign version worldwide. Part of Your World has received positive reviews from critics. Janet Maslin of The New York Times called Part of Your World a musical bulls-eye, Maslin also described the song as a desired musical number for any Broadway musical. Scott Holleran of Box Office Mojo called the song a triumphant tune, while praising Bensons vocal performance, sputnikmusic wrote similarly of Bensons performance, describing it as both breath-taking and brilliant
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Howard Ashman
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Howard Elliott Ashman was an American playwright and lyricist. He collaborated with Alan Menken on several works and is most widely known for several animated films for Disney, for which Ashman wrote the lyrics. Ashman and Menken began their collaboration with the musical God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, for which Ashman directed and wrote both book and lyrics. Their next musical, Little Shop of Horrors for which Ashman again directed, the partnerships first Disney film was The Little Mermaid, followed by Beauty and the Beast. After his death, some of Ashmans songs were included in another Disney film, Ashman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Shirley Thelma and Raymond Albert Ashman, an ice cream cone manufacturer. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College and then went on to achieve his masters degree from Indiana University in 1974, after graduating from Indiana in 1974 he moved to New York and worked as an editor at Grosset & Dunlap. His first two plays, Cause Maggies Afraid of the Dark and Dreamstuff, were met with mixed reviews and his play The Confirmation was produced in 1977 at Princetons McCarter Theater and starred Herschel Bernardi. In 1977 he became the director of the WPA Theater in New York. He first worked with Alan Menken on the 1979 musical Kurt Vonneguts God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and they also collaborated on Little Shop of Horrors with Ashman as director, lyricist, and librettist, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics. Ashman was director, lyricist and bookwriter for the 1986 Broadway musical Smile, in 1986, Ashman was brought in to write lyrics for a song in Disneys Oliver & Company. While there, he was told about another project that they had working on for a couple years. The film was The Little Mermaid, Disneys first fairy tale in 30 years, Ashman, along with Alan Menken, wrote all of the songs for the film. Ashman became a force during the early years of the Disney Renaissance. He would hold meetings and said the animation and musical styles were made for each other which is why Disney needed to continue making musical movies. He also made strong choices in casting actors with strong musical theater, the Little Mermaid was released in November 1989 and it was an enormous success. Ashman and Menken received two Golden Globe nominations and three Academy Award nominations including two for Kiss The Girl and Under The Sea, for Ashman won both awards for the latter. In 1988, while working on The Little Mermaid, Ashman pitched to Disney the idea of a musical adaptation of Aladdin. After he wrote a group of songs with partner Alan Menken and a treatment, a screenplay was written by Linda Woolverton, who had worked on Beauty
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Jeffrey Katzenberg
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Jeffrey Katzenberg is an American businessman, film studio executive and film producer. As a founder and CEO of DreamWorks Animation, he has overseen the production of such animated franchises as Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens and he has since founded a new media and technology company called WndrCo. Katzenberg has also involved in politics. With his active support of Barack Obama, he was called one of Hollywoods premier political kingmakers, Katzenberg was born in New York City, to a Jewish family, the son of Anne, an artist, and Walter Katzenberg, a stockbroker. He attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, graduating in 1969, when he was 14, Katzenberg volunteered to work on Republican John Lindsays successful New York mayoral campaign. He quickly received the nickname Squirt and attended as many meetings as he could, Katzenberg began his career as an assistant to producer David Picker, then in 1974 he became an assistant to Barry Diller, the Chairman of Paramount Pictures. He continued to work his way up and became president of production under Paramounts president, in 1984, Michael Eisner became Chief Executive Officer at The Walt Disney Company. Eisner brought Katzenberg with him to charge of Disney’s motion picture division. Katzenberg was responsible for reviving the studio which, at the time, by 1987, Disney had become the number-one studio at the box office. Katzenberg also oversaw Touchstone Television, which produced such hit TV series as The Golden Girls, under his management, the animation department eventually began creating some of Disneys most critically acclaimed and highest grossing animated features. In addition, Katzenberg also sealed the deal created the highly successful partnership between Pixar and Disney and the deal that brought Miramax Films into Disney. Concerns arose internally at Disney, particularly from Roy E. Disney, when Eisner’s second in command, Frank Wells, died in a helicopter crash in 1994, Eisner refused to promote Katzenberg to the vacated position of president. Tensions between Katzenberg, Eisner and Disney resulted in Katzenberg being forced to resign from the company that October, Katzenberg launched a lawsuit against Disney to recover money he felt he was owed and settled out of court for an estimated $250 million. Later in 1994, Katzenberg co-founded DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, since then, DreamWorks animated feature films have been consistently successful financially and critically with several Annie Awards and Academy Awards nominations and wins. In 2004, DreamWorks Animation was spun off from DreamWorks as a company headed by Katzenberg in an IPO and has recorded mostly profitable quarters since then. The live-action DreamWorks movie studio was sold to Viacom in December 2005, in 2008, the live-action DreamWorks studio again became an independent production company, releasing its films through Disney. In 2006, Katzenberg made an appearance on the season of The Apprentice. He awarded the winners a opportunity to be character voices in Over the Hedge
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Glen Keane
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Glen Keane is an American animator, author and illustrator. Keane is best known for his character animation at Walt Disney Animation Studios for feature films including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan and Tangled. Keane received the 1992 Annie Award for character animation, the 2007 Winsor McCay Award for lifetime contribution to the field of animation and in 2013 was named a Disney Legend. Keane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of cartoonist Bil Keane, creator of the The Family Circus and he was raised in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Keanes interest in art developed as a child by observing his fathers work as a cartoonist, in his early attempts to draw, his father gave him a copy of Burne Hogarths Dynamic Anatomy, and instructed him to analyze the body forms and the creative approach to life drawing. His application was sent to the Program in Experimental Animation. Keane left CalArts in 1974 and joined Disney the same year and his debut work, which was created over a 3-year period, was featured in The Rescuers, for which he was an animator for the characters of Bernard and Penny, alongside the famed Ollie Johnston. In 1975, during the production of his film, Keane married Linda Hesselroth, and they are the parents of design artist Claire Keane. After The Rescuers was completed, Keane went on to animate Elliott the Dragon in Petes Dragon, Keane also animated the climactic bear showdown in The Fox and the Hound. The test integrated traditional character animation and computer-generated backgrounds, and and it was also Disneys first experimentation with digital inked and painted characters. But, the turned out to be too expensive. The test for Where the Wild Things Are was revolutionary for its time, and a predecessor to the ballroom scene in Beauty. In 1983, Keane left Disney as an employee and worked as a freelance artist. During this time, he worked on the character of Professor Ratigan in Disneys The Great Mouse Detective and he also served as an animator on The Chipmunk Adventure where he did the sequences of Boys and Girls of Rock n Roll and Getting Lucky. He returned to Disney to work on the characters of Fagin, Sykes, Keane rose to lead character animator, becoming one of the group of young animators who were trained by and succeeded Disneys Nine Old Men. Keane animated some of Disneys most memorable characters in what has been referred to as the New Golden Age of Disney Animation, Keane designed and animated the character of Ariel in the film The Little Mermaid, then the eagle Marahute in The Rescuers Down Under. Subsequently, Keane worked as the animator on the title characters for three Disney hit features, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas. While living with his family in Paris, France for three years, Keane completed work on Disneys 1999 Tarzan for which he drew the eponymous character, Keane then returned to Disneys Burbank studio as the lead animator for John Silver in Treasure Planet
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Alyssa Milano
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Alyssa Jayne Milano is an American actress, producer and former singer. She is best known for her roles in Whos the Boss, Milano was born on December 19,1972, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the daughter of fashion designer and talent manager Lin Milano and film-music editor Thomas M. Milano. She and her brother, Cory, who is seven years her junior, are of Italian ancestry and her family remained in Bensonhurst until a neighborhood shooting prompted them to relocate to Great Kills, Staten Island. Milano began her career at age seven, when her babysitter, without notifying her parents, Milano was one of four selected from more than 1,500 girls. During the course of her work in the play, Milano, after returning to New York, she appeared in television commercials and did several roles in off-Broadway productions, including the first American musical adaptation of Jane Eyre. When accompanying a friend from the Annie production to the office of a New York agent, Milano was introduced to the agent, who began representing her. She does not feel that growing up in front of the camera harmed her childhood, I consider myself to be normal, Ive got to clean my room, and help in the kitchen. In August 1984, Milano made her debut in the coming-of-age drama Old Enough. The film was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won First Prize, Milano auditioned as Tony Danzas daughter on the sitcom Whos the Boss. After winning the part, she and her family moved to Los Angeles and it premiered on ABC on September 20,1984. Milano developed a relationship with co-star Danza. Commenting on their years together, She was just the sweetest little girl of all time. She became much like my daughter, the series established Milano as a teen idol, and provided her opportunities for other roles. Her education was split between school and a tutor with whom Milano would work for three hours a day. At age twelve, Milano co-starred in Commando as Jenny Matrix, on stage, she starred in Tender Offer, a one-act play written by Wendy Wasserstein, All Night Long by American playwright John OKeefe, and the first American musical adaptation of Jane Eyre. She returned to the theater in 1991, producing and starring in a Los Angeles production of Butterflies Are Free from December 26,1991, a few years later this film was shown in Japan, prompting a producer to offer Milano a five-album record deal. Milanos albums, which she described as pop, scored platinum in the country. Milano starred in two 1988 television films, Crash Course and Dance til Dawn and she produced a teen workout video, Teen Steam, and achieved some fame outside the USA with her music career, which lasted until the early 1990s
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Sherri Stoner
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Sherri Lynn Stoner is an American actress and writer. She has worked extensively in animation and she was a writer and producer for such 1990s animated shows as Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. She is probably best known for Animaniacs, for which she created and voiced Slappy Squirrel, as a producer for Tiny Toon Adventures, she won Emmy awards for Outstanding Animated Program in 1991 and 1993. She lives and works in Los Angeles and she co-wrote Universals Casper and was on the writing staff of the 1996 revival of an animated Casper the Friendly Ghost, also known as The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper. Stoner and Oliver wrote the Disney film, My Favorite Martian, Stoner served as animation reference model for Ariel in Disneys The Little Mermaid and for Belle in Beauty and the Beast. Ariel frequently bites her lip, and Belle often brushes hair away from her face. Both of these are mannerisms of Stoners that animators adapted to the characters and her live-action television work includes a recurring role as Rachel Brown Oleson in the 9th season of Little House on the Prairie, and appearances in Murder, She Wrote and Knots Landing. She was also a member of the Groundlings improvisational troupe in Los Angeles and she worked with Tom Ruegger as story editor on Disneys The 7D. Sherri Stoner at the Internet Movie Database
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Sally Ride
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Sally Kristen Ride was an American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983, Ride was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya. Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, after flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, Ride died of pancreatic cancer on July 23,2012. The elder child of Dale Burdell Ride and Carol Joyce, Ride was born in Los Angeles and she had one sibling, Karen Bear Ride, who is a Presbyterian minister. Both parents were elders in the Presbyterian Church, rides mother had worked as a volunteer counselor at a womens correctional facility. Her father had been a science professor at Santa Monica College. Ride attended Portola Junior High and then Birmingham High School before graduating from the private Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles on a scholarship, in addition to being interested in science, she was a nationally ranked tennis player. At Stanford, she earned a degree in 1975 and a PhD in physics in 1978 while doing research on the interaction of X-rays with the interstellar medium. Astrophysics and free electron lasers were her specific areas of study, Ride was one of 8,000 people who answered an advertisement in the Stanford student newspaper seeking applicants for the space program. She was chosen to join NASA in 1978, during her career, Ride served as the ground-based capsule communicator for the second and third space shuttle flights and helped develop the space shuttles Canadarm robot arm. Prior to her first space flight, she was subject to media due to her gender. During a press conference, she was asked questions like, Will the flight affect your reproductive organs, and Do you weep when things go wrong on the job. Despite this and the significance of the mission, Ride insisted that she saw herself in only one way—as an astronaut. On June 18,1983, she became the first American woman in space as a member on space shuttle Challenger for STS-7. She was preceded by two Soviet women, Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982, the five-person crew of the STS-7 mission deployed two communications satellites and conducted pharmaceutical experiments. Ride was the first woman to use the arm in space. Her second space flight was in 1984, also on board the Challenger and she spent a total of more than 343 hours in space
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Touchstone Pictures
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Touchstone Pictures is an American film distribution label of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Previously, Touchstone operated as an film production banner of Walt Disney Studios. Touchstone Pictures merely serves as a brand, not a business operation. In 2009, Disney entered into a 5-year, 30-picture distribution deal with DreamWorks Pictures by which DreamWorks productions would be released through the Touchstone banner, Touchstone then distributed DreamWorks films from 2011 to 2016. Due to increased public assumption that Disney films were aimed at children and families, in late 1979, Disney Productions released The Black Hole, a science-fiction movie that was the studios first production to receive a PG rating. Over the next few years, Disney experimented with more PG-rated fare, tron was considered a potential Star Wars-level success film by the film division. A loss of $33 million was registered by the division in 1983 with the majority resulting from Something Wicked This Way Comes. Never Cry Wolf, a 1983 PG release that featured male nudity did well as the studio downplayed the films association with the Disney brand. Touchstone Films was started by then-Disney CEO Ron W. Miller on February 15,1984 as a label for their PG films with an expected 3 to 4 movies released under the label. Touchstones first film was Splash, a hit for grossing $68 million at the domestic box office was released that year. Incoming Disney CEO Michael Eisner and film chief Jeffrey Katzenberg considered renaming the label to Hollywood Pictures, following in 1986, Down and Out in Beverly Hills was another early success for Touchstone and is noted as Disneys first R-rated film. Allowing the momentum to increase with films with Ruthless People, Outrageous Fortune, Tin Men. In April 1985, Touchstone Films were licensed to Showtime/The Movie Channel for five years starting in 1986, Touchstone Films was renamed Touchstone Pictures after the film Ruthless People in 1986. With the Touchstone movies, Disney moved to the top of box office receipts beating out all the major film studios by 1988. In April 1988, Touchstone became a unit of Walt Disney Pictures with newly appointed president Ricardo Mestres, on October 23,1990, The Walt Disney Company formed Touchwood Pacific Partners I to supplant the Silver Screen Partnership series as their movie studios primary funding source. Mestres was appointed president of Hollywood, in 2006, Disney limited Touchstones output to 2 or 3 films in favor of Walt Disney Pictures titles due to an increase in film industry costs. Two Touchstone co-productions flopped at the box office minimized by its co-producers financial contributions to the movies, Disney revived Touchstone in 2009 to serve as a distribution label for DreamWorks Studios films. DreamWorks was expected to allow Disney to release additional family fare that could be used at its parks and on its channels, Disney has been financing DreamWorks productions with an $90 million more available under its agreement if DreamWorks cannot get additional equity funding
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Splash (film)
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The film involves a young man who falls in love with a mysterious woman who is secretly a mermaid. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge. Splash had received a PG-rating for including some profanity and brief nudity, in 1964, 8-year-old Allen Bauer is vacationing with his family near Cape Cod. While taking a tour on a small boat, he sees something below the ocean surface that fascinates him. Allen jumps into the water, even though he cannot swim and he grasps the hands of a girl who is inexplicably under the water with him and an instant connection forms between the two. Allen can now breathe under water as he is in the hands of a mermaid, however, Allen is pulled to the surface by the deck hands and the two are separated, though apparently no one else sees the girl. Years later, Allen is now co-owner of a wholesale fruit, depressed after his latest breakup, Allen returns to Cape Cod, where he encounters eccentric scientist Dr. Walter Kornbluth. After Allen is left alone when his motorboat conks out, he falls into the sea, and is knocked out when the boat hits his head. He wakes up with a headache on a beach, where he encounters a beautiful naked woman with blonde hair. After kissing him, she dives into the sea and leaves Allen to return home, Kornbluth, while diving in order to seek proof of strange sea creatures, also encounters the mermaid in her sea form, causing him to become obsessed with finding her again. The mermaid finds Allens wallet in the water and goes to a boat where she finds a map. Using Allens wallet to find where he is from, she decides to find him in New York. She comes ashore naked at the Statue of Liberty, where she is arrested for indecent exposure, using information from Allens wallet, the police contact Allen, and the mysterious girl gets released into his care. She learns how to speak English from watching television, and is eager to see a big city for the first time in her life, unable to say her real name in human language, she selects Madison from a Madison Avenue sign. She tells Allen that she will be in New York for six fun-filled days when the moon is full, despite Madisons occasional unusual behavior, she and Allen fall in love. Allen proposes to Madison, but she declines and runs away, meanwhile, Kornbluth, realizing that the naked woman at Liberty Island was the mermaid he had encountered, pursues the couple trying to expose her as a mermaid by splashing her with water. Many attempts are unsuccessful, and Kornbluth ends up with injuries including a badly broken arm. Kornbluth finally lies in wait with water tanks at the dinner, splashing Madison with an attached hose
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Ursula (Disney)
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Ursula is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures 28th animated feature film The Little Mermaid. However, Ursula is, in fact, determined to sabotage Ariels chances at any expense so that she can replace the mermaids father King Triton as ruler over Atlantica. Created by directors and screenwriters Ron Clements and John Musker, Ursula is based on the sea witch character who appears in the fairy tale The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. However, her role was greatly expanded into that of a much more prominent villain for the film. Disney had struggled to cast Ursula for a year, during which the role was well sought after by several coveted television actresses at the time, Clements and Musker disagreed with lyricist Howard Ashman about who should voice the character. While the directors had written the role with Bea Arthur in mind, Ashman intended to offer it to soap opera star Joan Collins, deepening her own voice for the role, Carroll based her performance on a combination of Shakespearean actresses and car salespeople. Animated by Ruben A. Ursulas appearance was inspired by American actor. When The Little Mermaid was first released in 1989, Ursula was immediately embraced as one of Disneys best villains, praised for being humorous and frightening, the character has garnered positive reviews from film critics, some of whom dubbed her Disneys strongest villain in decades. Meanwhile, Carrolls performance has garnered similar acclaimed to the point of which the role has eclipsed her previous body of work, ultimately becoming virtually synonymous with the character. Clements first discovered Hans Christian Andersens classic fairy tale The Little Mermaid at a local bookstore, Clements suggested The Little Mermaid to Katzenberg, who finally green-lit it after having first rejected it. Hardly present in Andersens original story, the sea witch is not a prominent character, among Clements ideas to alter the story, the filmmaker decided to make the witch more of a villain, describing Ursula as a fun character to develop into such. In Andersens tale, the sea witch is not a villain as much as she is a disreputable mermaid, JR Thorpe of Bustle agreed that, in Andersens story, The sea witch isnt the enemy. Emma James of Teen Ink observed that in addition to giving the character the name Ursula, the studio changed her role as a catalyst in the tale, unlike the sea witch, Ursula deliberately intervenes in an attempt to keep the mermaid from success. Lyricist, producer and writer Howard Ashman had originally envisioned Ursulas relationship with King Triton as a soap opera, Ursula was originally conceived as Tritons sister, which would have naturally made the character Ariels aunt, but the idea was ultimately abandoned. However, their relationship is still vaguely alluded to when the character mentions a time during which she actually lived in Tritons palace. Clements and Musker had originally intended for Ursula to remain her original size at the end of the film, Ursula is voiced by American actress and comedian Pat Carroll. Clements and Musker expected Arthur to accept the role because she had already been working for Disneys Touchstone Television on the sitcom The Golden Girls, however, Arthurs agent resented the directors-writers for insinuating that her client voice a witch, refusing to even present the script to the actress. Amused by her voice, Howard invited the comedian to read for Ursula
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Romance (love)
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Romance is the expressive and pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person often associated with sexual attraction. It is eros rather than agape, philia, or storge, historically, the term romance originates with the medieval ideal of chivalry as set out in its chivalric romance literature. Humans have an inclination to form bonds with one another through social interactions. The debate over an exact definition of love may be found in literature as well as in the works of psychologists, philosophers, biochemists and other professionals. The addition of drama to relationships of close, deep and strong love, psychologist Charles Lindholm defined love to be. an intense attraction that involves the idealization of the other, within an erotic context, with expectation of enduring sometime into the future. The word was originally an adverb of the Latin origin Romanicus, the connecting notion is that European medieval vernacular tales were usually about chivalric adventure, not combining the idea of love until late into the seventeenth century. In primitive societies, tension existed between marriage and the erotic, but this was expressed in taboo regarding the menstrual cycle. Anthropologists such as Claude Lévi-Strauss show that there were forms of courtship in ancient as well as contemporary primitive societies. There may not be evidence, however, that members of such societies formed loving relationships distinct from their established customs in a way that would parallel modern romance, before the 18th century, many marriages were not arranged, but rather developed out of more or less spontaneous relationships. After the 18th century, illicit relationships took on an independent role. In bourgeois marriage, illicitness may have become more formidable and likely to cause tension, in Ladies of the Leisure Class, Rutgers University professor Bonnie G. Smith depicts courtship and marriage rituals that may be viewed as oppressive to modern people. She writes When the young women of the Nord married, they did so without illusions of love and they acted within a framework of concern for the reproduction of bloodlines according to financial, professional, and sometimes political interests. Subsequent sexual revolution has lessened the conflicts arising out of liberalism, anthony Giddens, in his book The Transformation of Intimacy, Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Society, states that romantic love introduced the idea of a narrative into an individuals life. He adds that telling a story was one of the meanings of romance, according to Giddens, the rise of romantic love more or less coincided with the emergence of the novel. It was then that romantic love, associated with freedom and therefore the ideals of romantic love, for the discourse of intimacy emotional closeness was much more important than passion. This does not mean by any means that intimacy is to replace romance, on the contrary, intimacy and romance coexist. The 21st century has seen the growth of globalization and people now live in a world of transformations that affect almost every aspect of our lives, one example of the changes experienced in relationships was explored by Giddens regarding homosexual relationships. According to Giddens since homosexuals were not able to marry they were forced to more open
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The Little Mermaid (soundtrack)
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The Little Mermaid, Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1989 Disney animated feature film, The Little Mermaid. It contains the songs from the written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. The score was orchestrated by Thomas Pasatieri, the album has achieved multi-platinum sales and won the Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children. The soundtrack was first released by Walt Disney Records on October 13,1989, on November 22,1994, the album was included in a four-disc box set entitled The Music Behind the Magic, The Musical Artistry of Alan Menken, Howard Ashman & Tim Rice. The box set included work tapes and demos intertwined into the original soundtrack. The soundtrack was re-released with different artwork, on October 14,1997, on October 3,2006, a new two-disc special edition version of the soundtrack was released to correspond with the two-disc Platinum Edition DVD release of The Little Mermaid. It also included two videos, as well as new cover art. The Legacy Collection, The Little Mermaid was released as an album on November 24,2014. As of February 2007, the album is certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA, in 2010, Rhapsody called it one of the all-time great Disney and/or Pixar Soundtracks. All music composed by Alan Menken with lyrics by Howard Ashman, a fan-compiled complete score does exist and can be heard/seen on video sharing websites. This would prove to him a very high nomination-to-win ratio of awards. Alan was originally hired for the only, but after writing an underscore demo for the films executives. The following are details on the films score overall, Almost all of the score features a section of music in the key of G major. Tour of the Kingdom alternated between G major and E major throughout, in darker moments, and for Ursulas theme, the key of G minor is prominent. The French horn is used to symbolize King Triton, the oboe is used to symbolize Prince Eric, usually, the brass section represents Ursula and the flute almost always portrays Ariels vocal aria. Synthesizers and electric pianos are used often in the orchestration. Scuttles leitmotif can be heard in the beginning of Wedding Announcement and this theme is used as a variation for the music when the animals are stopping Vanessas wedding. Ursulas leitmotif is most obvious in the track Flotsam and Jetsam and this theme is also used while Ariel is being transformed, and it is played fast and supported by a harsh brass section
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Walt Disney Records
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Walt Disney Records is an American record label of the Disney Music Group. The label was founded in 1956 as Disneyland Records, before that time, Disney recordings were licensed to a variety of other labels such as RCA, Decca, Capitol, ABC-Paramount, and United Artists. It was Walt Disney’s brother Roy O. Disney who suggested that Walt Disney Productions form their own record label, Roy enlisted longtime staffer Jimmy Johnson to head this new division. It adopted its current name in 1989, in 1954, the Disneyland Record label was used for a Columbia Records release of Fess Parkers recording of the Ballad of Davy Crockett. The record was a success causing the formation of the record company, the company was founded as Disneyland Records in 1956, serving as the recorded unit subsidiary of Walt Disney Productions. The Disneyland company issued its first album, A Childs Garden of Verses, also, Disneyland Records issued a Parkers Wringle Wrangle single from the Westward Ho the Wagons. Film with in a year of starting operations, the became a hit. This led the company to start recording music from outside the films, however, what ever was released by the company the industry categorized as children. Pricing was directed towards an audience, which was more than standard children fare. The only outside success was Tuttis Trumpets, thus in 1959, the Disneyland label became the childrens label and Buena Vista label for the occasional pop song record. Jimmy Johnson brought in musician Tutti Camarata, founder of Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, to head the Artists, Tuttis connections within the music industry also brought to the label the likes of Mary Martin, Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Jerry Colonna, and Phil Harris. It was also Tutti’s idea that the popular Mouseketeer, Annette Funicello, in 1959, the Buena Vista Records label was formed for Funicellos select recordings and for the release of soundtrack albums and other contemporary music. While looking for the material for Annette, Tutti and his team discovered the songwriting duo of Richard M. Sherman. The two were brought to the Disney studio in Burbank where they became the first staff songwriters for the company. The dual label company started its series in 1965. By 1971, Disneyland Records was also called Disneyland/Vista Records, in 1989, Disneyland Records was renamed Walt Disney Records. In addition to the Buena Vista label, the Disney Audio Entertainment, Disney Sound, today, Walt Disney Records selection of products ranges from traditional studio albums and original soundtracks to audiobooks and karaoke albums. It releases music from Walt Disney Pictures feature films, Lucasfilms Star Wars franchise, Disney Channel Original Movies, Walt Disney Theatrical productions and other feature-length productions
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The Little Mermaid: Songs from the Sea
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The Little Mermaid, Songs from the Sea is the third of three original albums inspired by Disneys The Little Mermaid film. It is an album, listening to the tracks in order will present the story of a typical day in the life of the mermaid Ariel. Ariel, Sebastian, Scuttle, King Triton, and Ariels sisters sing the songs, Sea Kingdom Whats it Like to Be a Mermaid. The Scuttle Strut Theres Only One Ariel Hes a Friend At the Mermaids Ball Party With Me My Room in the Sea Dreaming H20 and we Share the Earth Where Mermaids Dwell
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Marvel Comics
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Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc. formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwides parent company, Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvels modern incarnation dates from 1961, the year that the company launched The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. Most of Marvels fictional characters operate in a reality known as the Marvel Universe. Martin Goodman founded the later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. The issue was a success, with it and a second printing the following month selling, combined. While its contents came from an outside packager, Funnies, Inc, Timely had its own staff in place by the following year. It, too, proved a hit, with sales of one million. Goodman formed Timely Comics, Inc. beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941, Goodman hired his wifes cousin, Stanley Lieber, as a general office assistant in 1939. Lee wrote extensively for Timely, contributing to a number of different titles, Goodmans business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of corporations all operating out of the same office and with the same staff. One of these companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55. As well, some covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12, were labeled A Marvel Magazine many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961. The post-war American comic market saw superheroes falling out of fashion and this globe branding united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications. Atlas also published a plethora of childrens and teen humor titles, including Dan DeCarlos Homer the Happy Ghost, Atlas unsuccessfully attempted to revive superheroes from late 1953 to mid-1954, with the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Atlas did not achieve any hits and, according to Stan Lee, Atlas survived chiefly because it produced work quickly, cheaply. During this time, the Comic Code Authority made its debut in September 1954, Wertham published the book Seduction of the Innocent in order to force people to see that comics were impacting American youth. He believed violent comics were causing children to be reckless and were turning them into delinquents, in September 1954, comic book publishers got together to set up their own self-censorship organization—the Comics Magazine Association of America—in order to appease audiences
