Made me laugh. I remember watching this as a little guy and it being the rage.

Kudos to that movie though, is it not the first of its kind ?

Oh I think I got that wrong, Dick Tracy was the the that broke barriers.

it was not the first of it's kind, for example Mary Poppins had scenes where they interact with cartoon characters. But this was certainly the most important of its kind. And yeah, it's a great movie...

I remember being soo F'n terrified of this scene when I was a kid. I also loved Back to the Future and it wasn't till much later that I figured out Christopher Lloyd played both roles.

*promote

This still freaks me out...but I like being freaked.

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I'm meltinggg! I'm MEEELLLTTIINNGGG *BLOP* *BLOP*

Wow, he's literally staring daggers. I never made that connection as a kid.

I need to re-watch this film.

Disney made a few movies using this technique in the 60s and early 70s. Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, etc.. I remember finding them all dreadfully boring as a child of the 80s.

Roger Rabbit looked far better and more convincing with much more elaborate integration between the "toon" and filmed elements. The two main innovations are painting all the toon elements with extra passes of light and shadow which were "interactive" with the scene (using animator's eyeballs and elbow grease to figure it out). Also using pupeteers and specially built sets to allow more in-camera interaction between toon and physical elements.

>> ^BoneRemake:

Made me laugh. I remember watching this as a little guy and it being the rage.
Kudos to that movie though, is it not the first of its kind ?

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The first film I can find to use animation and live actors 'interacting' was Harryhausen's The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953). If you follow early cinema you'd also be aware of his 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts. Harryhausen was the guy who really created this field of trick photography. That's why he gets a nod from Pixar in Monsters Inc.

Don't forget Pete's Dragon

http://youtu.be/EtAaGbYs-68

>> ^Sagemind:

Don't forget Pete's Dragon
http://youtu.be/EtAaGbYs-68


DAMMIT Now I have to buy that movie too. UGH soo much of my childhood I need to recover.

Still gives me chills

OH BY THE WAY I just remembered I watched this film again a few months ago. Anyone who is left of center will remember this films main theme is about how the freeway is gonna go through toontown and they're gonna destroy LAs great public transport. It's brought up several times throughout the film, and it's extremely telling.

I lived in LA for awhile and I remember driving in the worst traffic in the known universe...it SUCKED. The fact that Oil Companies and car companies have us by the balls because they destroyed public transportation in that city is horrendous.

Please if you get a chance watch this movie again and pay particular attention to that, you may have totally missed it as a kid like I did.