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Pocahontas is the 33rd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and was originally released to selected theaters on June 16, 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures. It belongs to the era known as the Disney Renaissance that began in 1989 and ended in 1999.
The film is the first animated feature Disney film to be based on a real historic character, based on the known history and also the folklore and legend that surround the Native American woman Pocahontas, and features a fictionalized account of her encounter with Englishman John Smith and the settlers that arrived from the Virginia Company.
A video game based on the film was released across various platforms shortly after the film's theatrical release, and the film itself was followed by a direct-to-video sequel, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World in 1998.
In 1607, a ship of British settlers of the Virginia Company sets sail to the "New World". Onboard the ship are Captain John Smith and the voyage's leader Governor Ratcliffe, who believes the local Native Americans are hiding a vast collection of gold and seeks to gain it for his own. The ship gets caught in a storm, and Smith saves a young, inexperienced man named Thomas from drowning, Smith later admitting his lack of interest for the "New World". In the local tribe in the New World, Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan, dreads being possibly wed to Kocoum, a brave warrior whom she sees as too "serious" when conflicting with her spirited personality. Chief Powhatan gives Pocahontas her mother's necklace as a present. Pocahontas, along with her friends, the gluttonous raccoon Meeko and hummingbird Flit, visit Grandmother Willow, a spiritual talking willow tree who alerts her to the presence of the Englishmen.
Actors: David Ferry Jr. (director), David Ferry Jr. (editor), David Ferry Jr. (writer), David Ferry Jr. (producer), Hannah Macpherson (producer), Kristen Rakes (actress), Reuben Finkelstein (actor), Jodi Lynn Thomas (actress), Bernardo P. Saracino (actor), Monique Candelaria (actress), Catharine Pilafas (producer), Zach Dulin (actor), Michael Sheets (actor), Ariel Rakes (producer), Jordan Hunter (actor),
Genres: Fantasy,Actors: Sunny Vachher (actor), Azmyth Kaminski (actor), Colleen Boag (actress), Jeff Vernon (actor), Howard McNair (actor), Brian Shakti (actor), Ryan MacKenzie (producer), Ryan MacKenzie (actor), Ryan MacKenzie (director), Ryan MacKenzie (actor), Ryan MacKenzie (writer), Ryan MacKenzie (actor), Katy Foley (actress), Charito Mertz (actress), Brian Linsley (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Sunny Vachher (actor), Azmyth Kaminski (actor), Colleen Boag (actress), Jeff Vernon (actor), Howard McNair (actor), Brian Shakti (actor), Ryan MacKenzie (producer), Ryan MacKenzie (actor), Ryan MacKenzie (director), Ryan MacKenzie (actor), Ryan MacKenzie (writer), Ryan MacKenzie (actor), Katy Foley (actress), Charito Mertz (actress), Brian Linsley (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: John Fox (miscellaneous crew), Michael Carman (actor), Shaun Micallef (actor), Greg Sitch (miscellaneous crew), Abe Forsythe (actor), Rhys Muldoon (actor), David No (actor), Tony Nikolakopoulos (actor), Jimeoin (writer), Jimeoin (actor), Roger Mason (composer), Bob Franklin (actor), Michael Veitch (actor), Melanie Brunt (miscellaneous crew), Colin Lane (actor),
Plot: Jimeoin, in the title role, plays a man fixated on the concept of celebrity, or more accurately, how he can become one. He is passionate about being a celebrity, but unfortunately he just isn't very talented. After trying to secure roles in myriad productions he finally finds employment as an extra, and what follows is his misadventures as he becomes involved with shady business men, producers and mobsters all of whom are fixated with show business.
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: Frank Welker (actor), Tim Weske (actor), Brad Garrett (actor), William Morgan Sheppard (actor), Jeff Bennett (actor), David Ogden Stiers (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Rodger Bumpass (actor), Jim Cummings (actor), Phil Proctor (actor), John Kassir (actor), Paul Eiding (actor), Bill Farmer (actor), Rob Paulsen (actor), Billy Zane (actor),
Plot: Pocahontas sets off on a journey to England with Meeko, Flit, and Percy. Hearing rumors of John Smith's death, Pocahontas tries to prevent war and battle.
Keywords: 1610s, 17th-century, american-indian, animal, armor, ball, based-on-true-story, bow-and-arrow, brunette, bullyActors: Gordon Tootoosis (actor), Alan Menken (composer), Christian Bale (actor), Billy Connolly (actor), Linda Hunt (actress), Jim Cummings (actor), Frank Welker (actor), Mel Gibson (actor), John Kassir (actor), Danny Mann (actor), Jim Cummings (actor), David Ogden Stiers (actor), David Ogden Stiers (actor), Susan Bradley (miscellaneous crew), Ian Abercrombie (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Capt. John Smith leads a rag-tag band of English sailors & soldiers to the New World to plunder its riches for England (or, more precisely, for Governor Ratcliffe, who comes along for the ride). Meanwhile, in this "New World," Chief Powhatan has pledged his daughter, Pocahontas, to be married to the village's greatest warrior. Pocahontas, however, has other ideas. She has seen a vision of a spinning arrow, a vision she believes tells her change is coming. Her life does indeed change when the English ship lands near her village. Between Ratcliffe, who believes the "savages" are hiding the gold he expected to be plentiful, and Powhatan, who believes these pale newcomers will destroy their land, Smith and Pocahontas have a difficult time preventing all-out war, and saving their love for each other.
Keywords: 1600s, 17th-century, actor-playing-multiple-roles, american-indian, animal, animate-tree, anthropomorphic-tree, anthropomorphism, arranged-marriage, based-on-true-storyActors: Deborah Harry (actress), Amos Poe (director), Eric Mitchell (actor), Ivan Král (composer), Patti Astor (actress), Robert Gordon (actor), Duncan Hannah (actor), Orlando Gallini (editor), David Forshtay (actor), Gail Michaelson (actress), Kitty Sondern (actress), Sara Johnson (actress), Charli Kalina (actress), Max Crevani (miscellaneous crew), Marnie Whelan (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: This is the story of Rico, a man who lives in New York in 1976 but who lives his own life in Paris during the time of the 'New Wave'. He is a photographer who thinks he's a gangster, a loner, and an outsider. He uses his camera like a gun, loading it with bullets of film. He's constantly on the look for a reality to fulfill his fantasy, and as long as he has that energy, he lives. Of course, he's also a romantic, and this is his downfall, because he believes all photographers to be liars. When Rico falls in love, the delicate balance of the world he has made for himself is disrupted.
Keywords: independent-film, new-york-cityActors: Harold Lime (writer), Paul Frees (actor), Harold Lime (producer), W. Merle Connell (director), Hank Henry (actor), Hank Henry (actor), Hank Henry (actor), Hank Henry (actor), Hank Henry (actor), Hank Henry (actor), Hal Borne (composer), Jack Little (actor), Genii Young (actress), Susan Woods (actress), Betty Blue (actress),
Plot: One of the early color near-nudie films and was re-shown often by, mostly, drive-in theatre owners in need of a quick cash fix. They would hang out the "Adults Only" sign, thereby ensuring that every high school and junior high boy (and more than a few dads) within an hour's drive would storm the gate, and turn on the pop corn machine and then hot-foot it to the night-deposit at the bank. "Not Tonight, Henry" (the actual title and not an alternate title as some seem to think) was a large step up in quality for director W. Merle Connell in that it was in color and also not just a static-camera filming of a burlesque show inside of one of L. A.'s smoky, grind house burlesques. The girls were still out of burlesque, as were Hank Henry and Little Jack Little: Hank Henry is more than a little frustrated at the "lack of attention" he is getting at home from his wife and starts dreaming up amorous escapades with sirens from the past... Cleopatra, Josephine, Delilah and others. Most end in some old burlesque skit or blackout gag, but Henry makes the history rounds. While he is dreaming, his wife is reading a book about the great lovers of history. When he "returns" the wife tells him he doesn't have to sleep on the couch any more... and amends that to---"at least, not tonight, Henry."
Keywords: female-nudity, independent-film, matriarchy, nudie-cutie, nudityAurora borealis
The icy sky at night
Paddles cut the water
In a long and hurried flight
From the white man
to the fields of green
And the homeland
we've never seen.
They killed us in our tepee
And they cut our women down
They might have left some babies
Cryin' on the ground
But the firesticks
and the wagons come
And the night falls
on the setting sun.
They massacred the buffalo
Kitty corner from the bank
The taxis run across my feet
And my eyes have turned to blanks
In my little box
at the top of the stairs
With my Indian rug
and a pipe to share.
I wish a was a trapper
I would give thousand pelts
To sleep with Pocahontas
And find out how she felt
In the mornin'
on the fields of green
In the homeland
we've never seen.
And maybe Marlon Brando
Will be there by the fire
We'll sit and talk of Hollywood
And the good things there for hire
And the Astrodome
and the first tepee
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
Pocahontas.