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End titles by Richard Williams Studio from Anthony Newley's 1969 film Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
End titles by Richard Williams Studio from Anthony Newley's 1969 film Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
![Richard Williams Low Quality Showreel Nov 82 [2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LaD9ihr0P3E/hqdefault.jpg "Richard Williams Low Quality Showreel Nov 82 [2]
Pardon the quality. A November 1982 showreel of animated advertisement and other clips from Richard Williams Animation Studio.
Richard Williams is the three-time Academy Award winning animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Christmas Carol, and the unfinished cult classic The Thief and the Cobbler [available in its Recobbled Cut at Youtube]. He is the author of The Animators Survival Kit [and the 16-DVD instruction course of the same title], which has won acclaim as possibly the best available resource for aspiring animators. Richard Williams is considered one of the great animators and animation teachers of all time.")
![Early unmade version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit [Paul Reubens, Darrell Van Citters, Disney 1983]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ME4yxyGZNS4/hqdefault.jpg "Early unmade version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit [Paul Reubens, Darrell Van Citters, Disney 1983]
Before Richard Williams directed the animation for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, there was an earlier attempt at Disney, from 1981 to 1983, to adapt Gary K. Wolf’s book “Who Censored Roger Rabbit.”
John Culhane takes us behind the scenes of the unmade Darrell Van Citters version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1983. With animator Mike Giamo and producer Marc Sturdivant.
Disney 1981-1983. Animators: Chris Buck, Randy Cartwright. Character design and concepts: Mike Giamo, Mike Gabriel. Paul Reubens, known as Pee Wee Herman, plays Roger Rabbit. Peter Renaday and Mike Gabriel as Eddie Valiant. Russi Taylor as Jessica. Jack Angel as Captain Cleaver. Screenwriters Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price. Producer Mark Sturdivant.
While Roger was a villain in the book, trying to solve his own murder, this Roger is a loveable goofball in white fur and red overalls - a prototype for the final film. Baby Herman is glimpsed only briefly, and Jessica Rabbit appears to be the villain of the piece. Still, this version clearly laid some groundwork for the Zemeckis/Williams production a few years later.
The prototype Roger Rabbit appears cheering in the stands in the featurette “Sport Goofy in Soccermania.”
More information and pictures:
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