Part of the fun of watching the film is to identify the many references to animated shorts and features from the past. Of course, rubber chickens show up elsewhere in the film when Daffy Duck is maniacally playing in the “dueling pianos” segment, he’s wearing boxing gloves initially, but as he continues, his hands come up with a hammer and ice cream cone and then with rubber chickens. There is also an assortment of cartoon comic devices strewn about Toontown: banana peels, falling anvils, and rubber chickens. There must certainly be others that are less obvious. Caricatures of production crew members are on billboard notices for Br’er Baer (Dale Baer) and Gregory and his Rubber Band (Gregory Hinde) and Christine (Blum), Cindy (Finn), Jane (Baer), Gisele (Recinos), Randy (Fullmer), and others involved with the film are memorialized on Toontown store signage-kind of like the acknowledgment given to key Disney contributors on the windows of Main Street. Particularly cool are the references to members of the production crew that have found their way onto graffiti, store signs, and billboard notices in the Toontown segment. Roger Rabbit pulsates with unforgettable scenes, characters and cinematic legerdemain, and each fan finds their own joys, favorite scenes, favorite quotes, and the fun of searching for the hundreds of Easter eggs embedded in the film. Thirty years later, Who Framed Roger Rabbit remains a fan-favorite, and to celebrate the film’s anniversary, we’ve rounded up some animated facts and anecdotes. More than that, the combination of animation and live-action is totally believable and remains astounding to this day. The look is film noir, the gags are broad, the acting is sublime, the writing is clever, the animation superb. A down-on-his-luck private detective, Eddie Valiant, is drawn into a murder investigation and a citywide conspiracy. As the short concludes, we find that the “toons” are just acting out roles in a studio production, and they actually lead their own lives in Toontown-often with more zany convolutions than they display in their scripted shorts. The film’s story takes place in 1947, opening with a typical mid-century cartoon short. Who Framed Roger Rabbit was released under Disney’s Touchstone banner and was a combined production of Disney and Amblin Entertainment, which was founded by Steven Spielberg.
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