Mouse Mania - StopMotion animation

Leonard Maltin presents "Mouse Mania" a stop-motion animation film created by Mike Jittlov to celebrate the 50th Mickey Mouse birthday, viewed durign Mickey's TV special program. Mike Jittlov master of the stop-motion animation, is best known for his feature movie "The Wizard of Speed and Time".

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[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

[DSExp3rt]

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

[rocketjohny]

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.

[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]

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?

[fairportfan2]

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.

[fairportfan2]

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.

[fairportfan2]

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

[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?

[CAMILOERNESTO47]

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