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>An inter-office memo that accompanies this lot sheds light on the behind-the-scenes struggle of attempting to get "Swabbies" off the ground. The memo, printed on official Walt Disney Pictures letterhead, is written to Katzenberg from Darrell Van Citters, an acclaimed animator who was the director of Sport Goofy in Soccermania and of "Swabbies," dated November 26, 1985. In the memo, Van Citters details to Katzenberg his frustration with "Swabbies," stating that there is "...nothing inherently cartoon about it... It's not funny." He also mentions that the film that "Swabbies" is riffing on, Stripes (Columbia, 1981), was able to be funny within its concept because Bill Murray had more comedic flexibility than the established classic Disney characters of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. Van Citters also expresses concerns about the time left to complete the project as most of his animation crew will be pulled off of "Swabbies" soon to work on an upcoming project that he refers to as, "Roger Rabbit." The memo is hand-signed at the bottom by Van Citters.
>Over the past 40 years, only a handful of model sheets and production artwork from "Swabbies" has surfaced with the full animatic thought to have been lost to time. Newly uncovered, this VHS tape containing the fullest version of "Swabbies" perserves this canceled Disney project as a part of animation history.
>An inter-office memo that accompanies this lot sheds light on the behind-the-scenes struggle of attempting to get "Swabbies" off the ground. The memo, printed on official Walt Disney Pictures letterhead, is written to Katzenberg from Darrell Van Citters, an acclaimed animator who was the director of Sport Goofy in Soccermania and of "Swabbies," dated November 26, 1985. In the memo, Van Citters details to Katzenberg his frustration with "Swabbies," stating that there is "...nothing inherently cartoon about it... It's not funny." He also mentions that the film that "Swabbies" is riffing on, Stripes (Columbia, 1981), was able to be funny within its concept because Bill Murray had more comedic flexibility than the established classic Disney characters of Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. Van Citters also expresses concerns about the time left to complete the project as most of his animation crew will be pulled off of "Swabbies" soon to work on an upcoming project that he refers to as, "Roger Rabbit." The memo is hand-signed at the bottom by Van Citters.
>Over the past 40 years, only a handful of model sheets and production artwork from "Swabbies" has surfaced with the full animatic thought to have been lost to time. Newly uncovered, this VHS tape containing the fullest version of "Swabbies" perserves this canceled Disney project as a part of animation history.
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