Don Bluth Archives

Don Bluth has been responsible for many animated films now considered cult classics Those include The Secret of NIMH, An Americal Tail, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Land Before Time, and, of course, Rock-A-Doodle While it may not be as ubiquitous as Disney films that came out in the same era, 1991's Rock-A-Doodle is stamped on[...]

This Don Bluth film is one of many in the animated Bluth empire that became an essential part of an entire generation's childhood Disney made some of the most beloved films of time time, churning out critical darling after critical darling, but Bluth was responsible for films that, for many kids, loomed just as large[...]

Another production cel from a classic Don Bluth film is up for auction at Heritage This time, we move on from the nostalgic dinosaur epic The Land Before Time and the hilariously, oddly dark All Dogs Go to Heaven to Bluth's animated adaptation of Thumbelina, often referred to as Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina At a time[...]

Long before Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) conceived their own choose-your-adventure film for Netflix, Cinematronics worked with former Disney animator Don Bluth and programmer Rick Dyer to develop a unique type of videogame where the player can control the hero in an animated feature The game is able to retain its look throughout through laserdisc technology[...]

Other booths played the bizarre, non-linear spectacle of all the possible ways to die in the Don Bluth laserdisc Dragon's Lair arcade game, and a disturbing anime sequence that I was told was not for young eyes, which featured a lot of disturbing sound effects of what sounded like people being drawn and quartered Before[...]