Peter and Elliott the dragon

Peter and Elliott the Dragon is the 30e feature film of animation of the studios Disney. Left in 1977, the film mixes animation and taken real sights like Mary Poppins (1964) and Apprentie witch (1971).

Synopsis

The action occurs at the beginning of the 20th century. The arrival of Peter, a young orphan fleeing his adoptive family, in Passamaquoddy, small town of the New England, more precisely in the Maine, is not done without evil. Strange events all occur, have due his/her companion Elliott, a dragon endowed with invisibility. Only Lampie, the guard of the headlight rather related to drink, manages to see the dragon. But discredited by its defect, he does not convince anybody.

Reccueillis by Nora, the girl of Lampie, Peter and her dragon are not at the end of their sorrows. The inhabitants of Passamaquoddy hold them for persons in charge of the lack of fish while Doctor Terminus seeks to deliver Peter to his parents and, worse, to cut up the dragon to sell it of pieces to preparers in Pharmacie…

Data sheet

  • Title: Peter and Elliott the dragon
  • original Title: Pete' S Dragon
  • Realization: Gift Chaffey, assisted Ronald R. Grow and John Mr. Poer
  • Scenario: Malcolm Marmorstein according to a history of S.S. Field and Director Seton I. Miller
  • of the photography: Directing Frank Philips
  • of production: John Bloss, assisted Christopher Seiter
  • Artistic director: John B. Mansbridge and Jack Martin Smith
  • Decorations: Lucien Mr. Hafley
  • Painter transparencies: P.S. Ellenshaw
  • special Effects: Art Cruickshank, Eustace Lycett and Danny Lee
  • Costumes: Bill Thomas, assisted Chuck Keene and Emily Sundby
  • Make-up: Robert J. Schiffer
  • Hairstyles: the Generic Street Matheron
  • : David Jonas
  • Script: Laws Thurman
  • Coordinator cascades: John Moio
  • Sound: Herb Taylor (supervision), Frank C. Controlled (mixing)
  • Montage: Gordon D. Brenner (film), Raymond Craddock (his), James Melton (sequences of animation), Evelyn Kennedy (music)
  • graphic Design:
    • Artistic director: Ken Anderson
    • Framing (Layout): Joe Hauls
  • Animation:
  • Music:
    • Songs: Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn
    • Arrangements and direction: Irwin Kostal, assisted of James Macdonald
    • Arrangements dances: David Baker
  • Chorégrapie: Onna White, assisted Martin Allen
  • Associate producer: Ron Miller and Jerome Courtland
  • Production: Walt Disney Pictures
  • Distribution: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
  • Budget: approx. 10.000.000 US$
  • Format: Colors - 1,75:1 - Stereo Dolby
  • Lasted: 101 minutes (first version), 123 minutes (arisen 2003)
  • Comings out date: The United States: November 3rd 1977; France: September 13rd 1978

Distribution

  • Helen Reddy : Nora
  • Mickey Rooney : Lampie
  • Sean Marshall: Pete
  • Jim Paves: Dr. Terminus
  • Red Short props: Hoagy
  • Charlie Fixed: Elliott (voice)
  • Shelley Winters: Lena Gogan
  • Charles Tyner: Blackbird Gogan
  • Jeff Conaway: Willie Gogan
  • Gary Morgan : Grover Gogan
  • Jane Kean : Miss Taylor
  • Jim Backus: The Mayor (the Mayor)
  • Cal Bartlett: Paul
  • Walter Barnes: Captain (the Captain)
  • Al Checco: Fisherman #1 (Fishing 1)
  • Henry Slate: Fisherman #2 (Fishing 2)
  • Jack Hakes: Fisherman #3 (Fishing 3)
  • Robert Easton: Blind Proprietor (the owner of the store)
  • Roger Price: Man with visor (the watchtower)
  • Robert Foulk: Old sea captain (the old old seaman)
  • Ben Wrigley: Egg man (the man with eggs)
  • Joe Ross: Cement man (the digger)

French voices

the 1st doubling (1978)

and the participation of the Poppys

2 doubling (2003)

Songs of film

  • Boo Bop Bopbop Bop
  • a small point of light
  • I Saw has Dragon
  • Money by the Pound
  • It' S not Easy
  • Every Little Piece
  • Happiest Home in thesis Hills
  • I Coils You, Too
  • There' S Room for Everyone
  • Brazzle Dazzle Day
  • Passama-qoody
  • Bill off Salts

Rewards and nominations

  • 1978 - 2 Nominations with the Oscar:
    • Better Song for Candle one the toilets ( a small point of light )
    • Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation gold Best Adaptation Score
  • 1978 - 6 nominations to the Academy off Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films:
    • Best Actor - Fantasy (Sean Marshall)
    • Best Actress - Fantasy (Helen Reddy)
    • Best Costumes
    • Best Fantasy Film
    • Special Best Effects
    • Best Supporting Actor (Red Short props)
  • 1978 - Nomination with the Golden Globes for Original Best Score - Motion Picture

Exits cinema

Videos out

  • Years 1980 - VHS 1st version (101mn), realignment 4/3 (full screen)
  • Fall 1993 - VHS 1st version, realignment 4/3
  • Be 1997 - VHS 1st version, realignment 4/3
  • Be 1997 - Laserdisc 1st version, format 1.66
  • 2001 - DVD 1st version, format 1.66
  • October 8th 2003 - VHS 2nd version (new with the cinema), realignment 4/3
  • October 8th, 2003 - DVD 2nd version (new with the cinema), format 1.66

Did you know?

  • In the preliminary draft, Elliott was to remain invisible throughout film. The organizers insisted that it appears at least at the end, then obtained additional sequences gradually, carrying its presence at 22 minutes.

  • Peter and Elliott the dragon was the first film of Disney to being recorded in its Dolby Stereo and the first to be left in VHS to the United States (October 1980).

  • One can hear the famous cry of Dingo when Doctor Terminus is trained by the harpoon.

  • the Phare which one can see in film was built with Morro Bay in California. It was equipped with a so large beacon that Disney had to obtain a special permission of the coastguards to actuate it, because the boats passing by there could have confused it with a true headlight.

  • Jeff Conaway which interprets Willie Gogan, the " frère" of Peter, the role of Kenickie in Grease will play.

  • the organizers chose an Eastern dragon rather than Western because the Eastern dragons are usually associated with the Good.

  • the singer Helen Reddy, famous for its feminist anthem I Am Woman , makes its second appearance with the cinema in the role of Nora, whereas the veteran Mickey Rooney plays his father, Lampie.

  • Peter and Elliott the dragon is the first cartoon film of Disney in which none the " Last nines Wise " - the original team of organizers of the studios - was not implied.

  • Certains special effects of film required the superposition of three scenes (for example, a foreground in catches of real sights, a character animated in the second plan (Elliott) and finally a bottom in catches of real sights).

Titrate in various languages

  • German: Elliot, das Schmunzelmonster
  • English: Pete' S Dragon
  • Danish: Peter og Spanish Dragen
  • : Pedro there el dragón Spanish Elliot
  • : (Mexico) Semi amigo el dragón
  • Finnish: Pete ja lohikäärme Elliot
  • French: Peter and Elliott the dragon
  • Hungarian: Italian Peti sárkánya
  • : Elliott, it drago invisibile
  • Japanese: ピートとドラゴン (Pīto to Doragon) (Peter and the Dragon)
  • Dutch: Peter in Draak
  • Portuguese: Meu Amigo O Dragão
  • Russian: ДраконПита (фильм) (Drakon Pita)
  • Swedish: Peter och draken Elliott

External bonds

  • '' Peter and Elliott the dragon '' on Ultimate Disney
  • '' Peter and Elliott the dragon '' on Internet Movie Database

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