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Previous films like Mary Poppins and Pete’s Dragon combining live action and animation had used a static camera which required only 12 frames of animation per second, but by freeing up the camera and moving it in this film, they had to switch to 24 drawings per second. “No sane person would do this,” Zemeckis recalled about the massive undertaking which presented numerous technical challenges. The successful result inaugurated a second golden age of animation at Disney, quickly followed by films like The Little Mermaid in 1989 and Beauty and the Beast in 1991. Seaman, had starting writing the script back in 1981 using only Disney characters, and it wasn’t until the inauguration of the Michael Eisner/Jeffrey Katzenberg era at the studio that the project was finally put into motion. characters together on the screen for the first time in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. However, two of the other panelists, screenwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter S. The film’s director, Robert Zemeckis, had just come off of the 1985 favorite Back to the Future and had a strong ally in producer Steven Spielberg, who was instrumental in uniting Disney and Warner Bros. Many members of the film’s cast and crew were present both in the audience and on the stage of the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, with host Rich Moore, director of the Oscar-nominated animated feature “Wreck-It Ralph,” guiding them through a trip back to creating an alternate vision of 1940s Hollywood where familiar animated characters work and live alongside human beings. This game-changing mixture of slapstick animation and hardboiled crime film was a major critical and audience hit upon its 1988 release, offering an innovative demonstration of how modern animation could push the boundaries of Hollywood entertainment and create a timeless screen comedy classic. That spirited opener from Academy Governor Bill Kroyer of the Short Films and Animation Branch brought a huge round of applause from the sold-out crowd at the Academy’s twenty-fifth anniversary screening of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” on April 4, 2013. “How about giving it up for 2D animation?” It was also nominated for Art Direction, Cinematography and Sound Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) received Oscars for Film Editing, Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects, and a Special Achievement Award for Richard Williams’s animation direction. Digital restoration provided courtesy of the Walt Disney Studios. Seaman and Jeffrey Price following our return to Toontown. Director Robert Zemeckis and associate producers Don Hahn and Steve Starkey were joined by actress Joanna Cassidy (Dolores), voice actor Charles Fleischer (Roger Rabbit), supervising animator Andreas Deja and screenwriters Peter S.

Our panel of filmmakers relived their adventures in creating a film that remains a delightful tribute to animation’s golden age even as it set a new standard for what the medium could achieve. Masterfully blending the worlds of live-action filmmaking with classic animation, while giving a sharp tweak of the nose to the traditions of both, Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a bold experiment that announced that the Disney animation studio was reborn.

When Toontown was first revealed to the human world 25 years ago, it marked a glorious return to the screen for some of animation’s most beloved characters (including former studio rivals Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny), but also signaled that animation had returned as a vibrant and entertaining medium for all ages. FEATURING ROBERT ZEMECKIS, JOANNA CASSIDY, ANDREAS DEJA, CHARLES FLEISCHER, DON HAHN, PETER S.