A Tale of Two Critters (with Meet the Robinsons director Stephen Anderson!)

It's WHAT WOULD WALT HAVE DONE? MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney, as we devote March 2024 to movies, featurettes and/or TV specials produced by Walt Disney Productions during that odd, awkward inbetween time from 1968-1984, after Walt died but before Eisner took over! And for our first episode of What Would Walt Have Done? Month, we're joined by the man who literally wrote the soon-to-be-released book on that era, Meet the Robinsons director Stephen Anderson! And for our topic, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1977, the summer when Star Wars had the unmitigated audacity to dominate the box office 35 years before Disney owned it. The only competition Disney had that summer was a Herbie sequel and an animated talking mice movie, so the Disney execs thought "Hey, y'know what Walt would've done? He would've paired the animated talking mice movie with 48 minutes of documentary-style footage of a bear and a raccoon in the woods just kinda wandering around, narrated by an obscure country singer who, for thoroughly unclear reasons, is named 'Mayf Nutter.' That'll steer audiences away from Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star for sure!" Are you starting to understand why Disney struggled in the 70s? Join Tony Goldmark, Stephen Anderson, David Ganssle and Luke Ski as they chase A TALE OF TWO CRITTERS!  Pre-order Stephen's new book! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/disney-in-between-the-lost-years-1966-1986  Here's that "bear and bees" video we were talking about btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehm7q6uTtsA   Check out my guests' stuff! STEPHEN ANDERSON Website: https://www.stevehatguy.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevehatguy  Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevehatguy DAVID GANSSLE Website: https://doggans.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doggans87  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/doggans LUKE SKI Portfolio: https://www.luke.ski Bandcamp: https://lukeski.bandcamp.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegreatlukeski And check out this show on social media! Twitter: https://twitter.com/efvdpodcast Host's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonygoldmark Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/972385353152531 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/tonygoldmark Hear new episodes early and ad-free by supporting this show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tonygoldmark