PRODUCTIONS BY THE BLUTH GROUPS
A Relatively new place to look for Don Bluth clips is You Tube.
View the search results for "Don Bluth"
Reference to Amazon.com and Blackstar is made in the following sections to help you find any video's you'd like to buy, but these aren't the only sources available. Like any other product it's often worth looking around for the best price. There's usually not a lot in it, but sometimes you can save quite a lot of cash just by going to one site instead of another... hey, it's the same DVD right?! Other good sites to try are (in the UK) PLAY USA (Region 1 DVDs), PLAY.COM (Region 2 DVDs). In the US a few years back GEMM and DUFFELBAG were quite good, although Amazon.com now do the same sort of used video etc sales that they GEMM used to.
Some videos are only available outside of your own DVD region, so it might be worth your while to check to see if there is a "region hack" for your paticular DVD player, particularly for region 2 users wanting to play region 1. (It's worth reading up on DVD region locks if you're not familiar with them.) For region 1 users wanting to use region 2 things can get a bit more complicated - you run into the difficulty of playing material intended for the PAL TV system on NTSC equipment. Although UK PAL TV users don't usually experience difficulties playing R1 DVDs once their players are unlocked, US NTSC TV system users really need to be able to set their players to ignore the TV format on the DVD and output in NTSC. If you have a really new NTSC TV you may be lucky and be able to get away with a pure PAL 625 signal, but I wouldn't bet on it! :-)
If you need an on-line currency converter try The Universal Currency Converter.
(U.S. & Ireland and with Fox Animation)
Special Note: All video and audio clips, although marked "G2" will also work on Real Player 5.
If you have a slow ISP (as many free ISP's are for example) you may only get interrupted playback on the streamed files (mainly because I encoded them to be too big!), or the Player may time-out and abandon the attempt to stream, and just stop altogether. If that happens to you download the non-streaming versions.
"The Secret of NIMH" * Real Audio *
"Dragon's Lair II - Time Warp"
"The Sea Beast and Barnacle Bill" - (1984) [Laserdisk game] Concept work only. Project shelved after Cinematronics withdrew support.
"An American Tail" * Real Audio & Video *
"The Land Before Time" * Real Audio & Video*
"All Dogs go to Heaven" * Real Audio *
"Rock-A-Doodle" * Real Audio *
"Thumbelina" * Real Audio *
"The Pebble and the Penguin" * Real Audio *
"Anastasia" Go to the Anastasia multimedia site.
"Bartok the Magnificent"
TITAN A.E. [After Earth]
Rapunzel scene in the Scissor Sisters' "Mary"
(contains a link to a clip of the animation)
Sleeping Beauty (© 1959) ~ Apprentice Animator!
1968 ~ Don joins FILMATION as a layout artist and works on TV cartoons such as
"Archie" and "The Groovy Ghoulies".
Jouney Back to Oz (© 1971, released 1974) ~ Layout Artist
1971 ~ Don returns to DISNEY, and re-enters their traning programme.
Robin Hood (© 1973) ~ Animator
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (© 1977) ~ Animator
The Rescuers (© 1977) ~ Directing Animator
Pete's Dragon (© 1977) ~ Directing Animator
The Small One (© 1978) ~ Producer / Director
1979 ~ Don leaves DISNEY and takes many other animators with him.
The Fox and the Hound (© 1981) ~ Uncredited by request
Don Bluth documentary clip - Includes short scenes from BANJO, NIMH, TAIL, DOGS, LAND and Rock-a-Doodle. (Real Audio - 352K)
The full Don Bluth / Thumbelina documentary (Real Audio - 1.45Mb)
I've put up the links to the Real Video version of the documentary, as it seems to be back... for now!
Streaming Real Video version of the documentary
Non-streaming Real Video version of the documentary (5.8Mb)
* NEW * High-bitrate Windows Media version of the documentary (63Mb 376Kb/s)
I recommend that you right-click on the above link and select "Save Target As..", then save the file to your hard drive and open it from there. The file will stream, but there is a bit of a wait for it to begin playing, even on a 512K DSL connection! Also remember that Windows Media Player is capable of playing this clip in full-screen, and has brightness and contrast controls (useful for this clip) just like your television has.
Don Bluth also animated a metallic horse shown on an early 1980's television advertisement for an American car company, and according to E! Online, directed a 65 minute music video called "Pigface - Glitch" (1991), although I've never heard of this before and I don't know if he's been confused with some other Don Bluth... Its hard to tell with Don, he seems to have had a try at every kind of entertainment! E does list All Dogs 2 as having been directed by Don Bluth - which it wasn't, so its entirely possible they made a mistake.