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Jul 17, 2023 · With a motley team of the brave Princess Eilonwy, a minstrel named Fflewddur Fflam, and Hen Wen, a remarkable pig who can predict the future, Taran embarks on a quest to stop the Black...
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Jun 10, 2017 · The Black Cauldron 1985 A young boy and a bunch of misfit friends embark on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diabolical tyrant can. Directors: Ted Berman, Richard...
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Jul 24, 1985 · The Black Cauldron: Directed by Ted Berman, Richard Rich. With Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne. A young boy and a group of misfit friends embark on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diabolical tyrant can.
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- Ted Berman, Richard Rich
- 1985-07-24
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As the film starts, a voice-over explains the legend of the Black Cauldron: "Legend has it, in the mystic land of Prydain, there was once a king so cruel and so evil that even the Gods feared him. Since no prison could hold him, he was thrown alive into a crucible of molten iron. There, his demonic spirit was captured in the form of a great, black ...
Grant Bardsley as TaranSusan Sheridan as EilonwyFreddie Jones as DallbenNigel Hawthorne as Fflewddur FflamDevelopment
Walt Disney Productions optioned Lloyd Alexander's Newbery Medal-winning and widely acclaimed five-volume The Chronicles of Prydain series in 1971, and pre-production work began in 1973 when the film rights to Alexander's books were finally obtained. According to Ollie Johnston, it was he and Frank Thomas that convinced the studio to produce the motion picture adaptation of the series. As fans of the book series, the two animators hoped that if the film would be done properly, it might be "as...
Animation
Invented by David W. Spencer from the studio's still camera department, the animation photo transfer process (shorten as the APT process) was first used for The Black Cauldron, which would enhance the technology by which the rough animation would be processed onto celluloid. First, the rough animation would be photographed onto high-contrast litho film, and the resulting negative would be copied onto the plastic cel sheets that would transfer lines and the colors which eventually eliminated t...
Revisions
Shortly before the film's initially planned Christmas 1984 theatrical release, a test screening for the rough cut of The Black Cauldron was held at the studio's private theater in Burbank, California. After the film, particularly the climactic "Cauldron Born" sequence, proved to be too intense and frightening for the majority of the children in the audience (most of whom fled the theater in terror before it was even finished), the then-newly appointed Disney studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg...
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The Black Cauldron was released in North America on July 26, 1985. The film was also screened at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York. It was the most expensive animated feature made as of its release in 1985 with a budget of over $44 million, although some other sources suggests that the film's budget was at $25 million. The film, however, grossed only $21 million at the North American box office and it is considered one of the worst box-office failures from Walt Disney Pictu...
Critical Response
The Black Cauldron received mixed-to-negative reception from film critics, upon its initial theatrical release. It has earned a "rotten" score of 55% at Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus "Ambitious but flawed, The Black Cauldron is technically brilliant as usual but lacks the compelling characters of other Disney animated classics." While the film earned praise for its animation, breakthrough technological achievements, and John Hurt's voice-over performance, the screenplay and lack of appe...
The Black Cauldron is based on the first two novels in the five-volume The Chronicles of Prydain book series written by Lloyd Alexander: The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron. Since that the decision was ultimately made for the basis of the film's story to be based on the first two novels, the filmmakers and animators took artistic liberties wit...
The Black Cauldron was inspired by the book series by Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain.Tim Burton worked on The Black Cauldron as a concept artist, and it was the first film he worked on that he was credited for. This was the second Disney movie he had worked on, the first being The...Starting with this film, the closing credits play at the end of any Disney movie that releases either in theaters, at home, or streaming in the future.This is the first Disney hand-drawn animated film to not feature any musical numbers or any characters singing.The Black Cauldron (film) on WikipediaThe Black Cauldron on IMDbThe Black Cauldron on Disney.comThe Black Cauldron at the Big Cartoon DataBaseThe Black Cauldron. Rating: PG. Release Date: July 24, 1985. Genre: Action-Adventure, Animation, Fantasy. Fantasy, magic, and fun are all brewed together in Disney's legendary adventure The Black Cauldron. Whoever releases the mysterious Black Cauldron's power will be invincible!
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Watch The Black Cauldron | Disney+. 19851h 22m. Coming of AgeFantasyAnimationAction-Adventure. GET DISNEY+. When a fearsome warrior's quest for invincibility leads him to the Black Cauldron, he is challenged by the most unlikely adversary: a young assistant pig keeper named Taran.
