A report on Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Theatrical release poster by Steven Chorney
Bob Hoskins played the role of Eddie Valiant.
The plot incorporated the actual closing of Pacific Electric.
Judge Doom (played by Christopher Lloyd) threatens Roger Rabbit before introducing him to the dip. Mime artists, puppeteers, mannequins, and robotic arms were commonly used during filming to help the actors interact with "open air and imaginative cartoon characters".
Who Framed Roger Rabbit marks the first and only time in animation history that Disney's Mickey Mouse and Warner Bros.' Bugs Bunny (as well as Donald Duck and Daffy Duck) have ever officially appeared on-screen together. Warners agreed that their biggest cartoon stars, Bugs and Daffy, would each receive an equal amount of screen time as Disney's Mickey and Donald.

1988 American live-action/animated comedy mystery film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and loosely adapted by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman from Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?.

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Theatrical release poster by Steven Chorney

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Mickey Mouse

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Animated cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney, who originally voiced the character, and Ub Iwerks.

Animated cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney, who originally voiced the character, and Ub Iwerks.

Concept art of Mickey from early 1928, from the collection of The Walt Disney Family Museum. The sketches are the earliest known drawings of the character.
Mickey's first appearance in Steamboat Willie (1928)
Mickey in The Band Concert (1935)
Mickey in Fantasia (1940)
Mickey Mouse, as he appears in the Paul Rudish years, and the modern era.
Mickey and Horace Horsecollar from the Mickey Mouse daily strip; created by Floyd Gottfredson and published December 1932
The silhouette of Mickey Mouse's head has become an iconic image.
Walt Disney (1901–1966), the co-creator of Mickey Mouse and founder of The Walt Disney Company, was the original voice of Mickey.
Mickey's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

But in 1988, the two rivals finally shared screen time in the Robert Zemeckis Disney/Amblin film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Looney Tunes opening title used in the 1947–1948 season

Looney Tunes

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American animated comedy short film series produced by Warner Bros. from 1930 to 1969, concurrently with the related Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation.

American animated comedy short film series produced by Warner Bros. from 1930 to 1969, concurrently with the related Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation.

Looney Tunes opening title used in the 1947–1948 season

In 1988, several Looney Tunes characters appeared in cameo roles in Disney's film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Bugs Bunny

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Animated cartoon character created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.

Animated cartoon character created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.

Bugs' preliminary debut (as "Happy Rabbit") in Porky's Hare Hunt (1938).
Bugs' first appearance in A Wild Hare (1940).
Evolution of Bugs' design over the years.
Bugs as he appears in The Looney Tunes Show Season 2.
Mel Blanc was the original voice of Bugs and voiced the character for nearly five decades.
Bugs' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Statue evoking Bugs Bunny at Butterfly Park Bangladesh.

In the 1988 live-action/animated comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bugs appeared as one of the inhabitants of Toontown.

Roger Rabbit as he appears in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

Roger Rabbit

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Animated anthropomorphic rabbit.

Animated anthropomorphic rabbit.

Roger Rabbit as he appears in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
Roger Rabbit as he appears in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
Roger, with Benny the Cab, on the marquee of Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin at Disneyland California.

The book and character were later re-envisioned in Disney's hit 1988 live-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Felix the Cat in The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg by Van Beuren

Golden age of American animation

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Period in the history of American animation that began with the popularization of sound cartoons in the late 1920s when animated films started to feature sound and gradually ended in the 1970s with the closing of Walter Lantz Productions and Terrytoons.

Period in the history of American animation that began with the popularization of sound cartoons in the late 1920s when animated films started to feature sound and gradually ended in the 1970s with the closing of Walter Lantz Productions and Terrytoons.

Felix the Cat in The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg by Van Beuren

The 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit honored both the golden age of American animation and classical Hollywood cinema.

Daffy Duck

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Animated cartoon character created by Warner Bros. Styled as an anthropomorphic black duck, he has appeared in cartoon series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, in which he is usually depicted as a foil for Bugs Bunny.

Animated cartoon character created by Warner Bros. Styled as an anthropomorphic black duck, he has appeared in cartoon series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, in which he is usually depicted as a foil for Bugs Bunny.

Daffy as he first appeared in Porky's Duck Hunt (1937).
Daffy in drag as Carmen Miranda in Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943).
600 Bomb Squadron emblem Daffy Duck.
Daffy's appearance in The Looney Tunes Show (Season 1).

He was one of many Looney Tunes characters allowed by Warner Bros. to appear in the 1988 Disney/Amblin film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Jessica Rabbit

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Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Jessica Rabbit is a fictional character in the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? and its film adaptation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Blanc in 1959

Mel Blanc

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American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years.

American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years.

Blanc in 1959
The cast of The Jack Benny Program, from left to right: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Jack Benny, Don Wilson, and Mel Blanc
Blanc in 1975
Blanc's gravesite marker

In the live-action/animated movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Blanc reprised several of his roles from Warner Bros. cartoons (Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Tweety, and Sylvester), but left Yosemite Sam to Joe Alaskey (who later became one of Blanc's regular replacements until his death in 2016).

Spielberg in 2017

Steven Spielberg

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American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Spielberg in 2017
Spielberg and Chandran Rutnam in Sri Lanka during the filming of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Spielberg, March 1990
Spielberg receiving the Golden Lion by Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo at the 50th Venice International Film Festival, 1993
Spielberg speaking at the Pentagon on August 11, 1999 after receiving the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service
Martin Scorsese, Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas
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Spielberg at his masterclass at the Cinémathèque Française in January 2012
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Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen escorts Spielberg through a military honor cordon into the Pentagon in 1999.
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Spielberg receiving a public service award presented by U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, 1999
Spielberg's shoeprints and handprints in front of the Grauman's Chinese Theatre

Between 1984 and 1990, Spielberg served as either producer or executive producer on nineteen feature films; these include: The Goonies, The Money Pit, Joe Versus the Volcano, *batteries not included, Back to the Future, Cape Fear, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In some films, such as Harry and the Hendersons and Young Sherlock Holmes, the title "Steven Spielberg Presents" would be shown in the opening credits.

Nr. 10 in the reworked second series of Stampfer's stroboscopic discs published by Trentsensky & Vieweg in 1833.

Animation

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Method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images.

Method in which figures are manipulated to appear as moving images.

Nr. 10 in the reworked second series of Stampfer's stroboscopic discs published by Trentsensky & Vieweg in 1833.
A projecting praxinoscope, from 1882, here shown superimposing an animated figure on a separately projected background scene
Fantasmagorie (1908) by Émile Cohl
Italian-Argentine cartoonist Quirino Cristiani showing the cut and articulated figure of his satirical character El Peludo (based on President Yrigoyen) patented in 1916 for the realization of his films, including the world's first animated feature film El Apóstol.
An example of traditional animation, a horse animated by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photos.
A clay animation scene from a Finnish television commercial
A 2D animation of two circles joined by a chain
World of Color hydrotechnics at Disney California Adventure creates the illusion of motion using 1,200 fountains with high-definition projections on mist screens.

Other examples include Allegro Non Troppo (Italy, 1976), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (US, 1988), Volere volare (Italy 1991), Space Jam (US, 1996) and Osmosis Jones (US, 2001).