Mouse Mania - StopMotion animation

[rocketjohny]

Here's the link to all 3 Jittlov "Mouse Mania" videos back to back. Unfortunately, it's preceded by Michael Landon. Good stuff starts at 1:53.

/watch?v=lluKD6LcQFM

[milojthatch]

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[1BrknHrtdRomeo]

I know the electric parade was a classic and I remember seeing it as a kid...

but omg...I can't get that weird computerized voice that introduces the parade out of my head...I didn't think it would be so creepy and annoying >_<

[DSExp3rt]

Actually I found the other two clips on Youtube at the link here: /watch?v=mDfu5-yxkKE

[rocketjohny]

@DSExp3rt Those are just 3 videos about collecting Disney memorabilia. I thought I saw the other two shorts "the collector" and "rat race" here, but cannot find them now.

[DSExp3rt]

Thanks so much for uploading this! This clip was actually the last of 3 clips involving the young man. The 1st clip was about him waking up in his house full of mickey mouse merchandise, brushing his teeth with a Mickey Mouse toothbrush, and driving to work in a mickey mouse car. The 2nd clip I remember had to do with him sitting in his cubicle at work and where a mickey mouse figure was moving through books and causing a problem at work. Does anyone know what those 2 clips were called?

[youtub3k]

I understand Mike had difficulties getting paid for his work, from Disney Inc. I guess they pay the artists most likely to sue them, first.

Don't cha love it when the floor vanishes and becomes a star field? BTW, what a book Mike could write about all this! Why should Lucas and Spielberg get all the credit?

[fairportfan2]

@youtub3k From what he said (both when i was in the audience as he was showing his films and talking about them and the one or two times i ran into him at SF conventions) it wasn't so much that Disney was slow pay, but more that they had to be "creative" about HOW they paid him, since his operation was 100% non-union, and Hollywood is *almost* a closed shop situation.

So look for the name Devin Cheregeano in this film...

For similar reasons, they couldn't give anyone but him screen credit.

[Choscabella69]

ooh i love mickey ^.^ ♥

[arturohernandez20]

somebody up the full short

[fairportfan2]

@arturohernandez20

That is the full short.  It's the third of three separate pieces.

[DrDutchdoom]

brilliant

[pearvert]

Thanx for posting this. I was hoping there was more Jittlov on YouTube...

[disneyfan85]

It's the Baroque Hoedown playing (AKA the music of the Electrical Parade!)!

They also used part of this scene to play between some songs on DTV.

[StopMotionFanBoy]

This is actually the last of a 3-part mini story Jittlov created for the Mickey's 50th special.

It starts with "The Collector". No stop-motion, but hundreds of Mickey products are seen as Mike wakes up and gets ready for work. The short ends as Mike drives off in a VW bug with mouse ears.

"Rat Race" is next and finds Mike at work with more Mickey products all over his desk. Mike sees & chases a stop-motion Mickey that only he can see.

He's sent to the psychiatrist in "Mouse Mania"

[CAMILOERNESTO47]

I want to see "The Collector" and "Rat Race". Where i can find it?

[StopMotionFanBoy]

This is actually the last of a 3-part mini story Jittlov created for the Mickey's 50th special.

It starts with "The Collector". No stop-motion, but hundreds of Mickey products are seen as Mike wakes up and gets ready for work. The short ends as Mike drives off in a VW bug with mouse ears.

"Rat Race" is next and finds Mike at work with more Mickey products all over his desk. Mike sees & chases a stop-motion Mickey that only he can see.

He's sent to the psychiatrist in "Mouse Mania".

[fairportfan2]

@StopMotionFanBoy There is some stop-motion in "The Collector" - the ball he's tossing from hand to hand, the "baseball bat".

The amazing part of this clip is that there are no opticals - it was all done in-camera.

Including the cruising "flying saucers" in the final parade sequence. (Look at them closely, BTW.)

I ran into Jittlov at the 1980 World Science Fiction Convention and asked him how he did the frisbee flying saucers.

He told me.

[am9224]

This was one of the DTV interludes.

[fairportfan]

You can't see it all that well in this copy, but the frisbees that cruise over the parade like flying saucers are spinning.

When i pont this oute so people who watch it and know about stop-motion, they're amazed. I ran into Mike at a SF WorldCon, and he told me how he did it.

The other thing to amaze you about this short is it's all in-camera work - no optical, no computer stuff. All done in the camera on a single strip of film.

[rocketjohny]

The psychiatrist's name is on the door in the beginning (see below by SoloPilot6).

In addition to Jittlov's name above, the characters are carrying the name of his partner as Disney did not usually credit individual animators and the was the pair's way around that.

[fairportfan]

Actually more than one assistant - on the drum, and on the tuba bells.

[SoloPilot6]

The psychiatrist's name is an injoke. Turn it around and get a smile!

Someone needs to post his "Turtle Joak (sic)" . . .!

[otuswerd]

Amazing...I remember watching The Wizard of Space and Time as a kid...and after seeing this I feel 25 years younger ...

[jagbot50]

Wow, I haven't seen that in 25 years. Mike has to be one of the super animators of his generation. I would know, because I build the Mickey and armature for the final animated. Has to be one of my most memorable times of my life. Thanks to date Mike, Jag

[wolphintv]

They used to show parts of this on the Disney Channel! Man, I thought I'd dreamed it.

[Hollywoodish]

Holly F-ing S-it

Iam so glad some one dug that out of the vault.

Thanks to Mike.....

[Teresa01]

wow all that awesome disney stuff. They never release stuff as good as that anymore unless you go to the theme parks :/