The Aristocats

The Aristocats (Original Title: The Aristocats ) is the 20th full-length animated film the Walt Disney Studios and was released in 1970 The film cost about 4 million dollars and played about 18 million in theaters a. . It is also the first Disney film, participated only as an inspiration for the Walt Disney production.

Action

In the Paris of 1910, the well elderly as wealthy Madame Adelaide Bonfamille continues her beloved cats Duchesse and their children Marie, Toulouse and Berlioz as heirs and disappointed with this quirky Testament her butler Edgar, who also figured to greater chances of the most significant heritage. In order to preserve these opportunities, the butler can now favored cat family disappear by exposing them to far away from the capital. He comes with the blood dog Napoleon and his friend Lafayette Bassett in conflict.

The film is now told in a novel of adventure right from the trial of the cat family, again to get back home. The stammbaumgeadelte Angora cat Duchess and her three children are made with humor and various songs sung last all challenges and reach with the help of the street cat Thomas O'Malley ( full: Abraham de Lacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley ), a street cat band led by his friend Swingy and other animal helpers back to Paris.

Production

The Aristocats movie is the movie, at the idea and concept of Walt Disney himself was involved, but was then produced entirely without the producers who died in 1966 and Mickey Mouse inventor. The film's title is a portmanteau of Aristocrats and Cats. Literally translated, the title is about to be seen as precious cats.

He was one of the first in a long series of productions that have been implemented by Wolfgang Reitherman. With a budget of four million dollars and about 250 employees thus Aristocats was one of the big projects. The script was a collaborative effort by Larry Clemmons, Vance Gerry, Ken Anderson, Frank Thomas, Eric Cleworth, Julius Svendsen and Ralph Wright and based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe. For the production itself were within four years, Milt Kahl, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas and John Lounsbery 325,000 drawings 1125 screenshots and 900 backgrounds produced and edited by Tom Acosta.

The film music was composed by George Bruns ( 1914-1983 ). Floyd Huddleston and Al Rinker wrote Everybody Wants to Be a Cat, Terry Gilkyson was for Thomas O'Malley ( sung by Phil Harris) responsible and Richard and Robert B. Sherman wrote She Never Felt Alone, Scales and Arpeggios, and the title song The Aristocats, which was sung by Maurice Chevalier. The at that time already octogenarian had actually been withdrawn, the task but gladly accepted - as a tribute to his friend Walt Disney, for whom he had previously appeared in quite a few films.

Synchronization

The German synchronous processing was formed in 1971 in the studios of Simoton Film GmbH Berlin. For dialogue book, lyrics and synchronous Director Heinrich Riethmueller responsible. The theme song sang Paul Kuhn (original Maurice Chevalier ).

Awards

Criticism

" The adventures of a lovable cat family of a wealthy family in Paris during the turn of the century (...) A pretty Disney animated film, the lives of the well- observed characteristics of cats. Successful, but not very original elements are combined previous Disney films. The highlight is the rousing Dixieland number that cats need an awful lot of music ' "

Publications on DVD / BD

  • Aristocats. Walt Disney masterpieces. 4:3 format. Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001
  • Aristocats. Special Collection - Walt Disney masterpieces. 4:3 format. Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004
  • Aristocats. Special Collection - Walt Disney masterpieces. 16:9 format. Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2008
  • Aristocats. Special Edition ( BD). 16:9 format. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment in 2012

Soundtrack

  • George Bruns, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Floyd Huddleston and Al Rinker, Terry Gilkyson, Heinrich Riethmueller: The Aristocats. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Polydor, Hamburg 1994, Media -No. 523250-2 - contains both the songs in the original version, as well as in the German version
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