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Yellow submarine cartoon characters
Yellow submarine cartoon characters









yellow submarine cartoon characters

yellow submarine cartoon characters

He also directed live-action films, notably Buster Keaton’s last short, The Railrodder (1965).

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Two of his animated short films, My Financial Career (1962), from a Stephen Leacock story, and Christmas Cracker (1963), earned Oscar nominations. He was one of several film-makers credited with moving animation on from the straightforward cartoon style of Disney, and went on to direct his own cult animated classic, Heavy Metal (1981), an adult sci-fi anthology film. Potterton’s sequence was credited with influencing Terry Gilliam in his visuals for Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Actors voiced their characters, and apart from a cameo appearance at the end, they were simply heard performing the songs. But the band members, dissatisfied with Help!, wanted little to do with the new movie. The Beatles had decided to make Yellow Submarine an animated musical fantasy when they were under pressure to complete a three-film deal, following A Hard Day’s Night and Help!, both live-action productions. Working with the creative director Charlie Jenkins, he was responsible for the lay-out, structuring the scene featuring the city’s people and buildings with the submarine flying overhead as it sets off on its journey to save everyone in Pepperland from the music-hating Blue Meanies. Gerald Potterton, who has died aged 91, was an animator and director who stamped his mark on the Beatles’ 1968 film Yellow Submarine with the photo-collage style he brought to its early “Liverpool” sequence, accompanied by the Fab Four’s hit Eleanor Rigby.











Yellow submarine cartoon characters