Napoleon movie with galah parrot

Napoleon is a 1995 Australian film directed by Mario Andreacchio, and written by Mark Saltzman about a golden retriever puppy who runs away from his city home to the wild dogs.

Napoleon is a little dog that lives in Sydney. He and his mother live with a family, but Napoleon loves to dream about meeting the wild dogs that live far away, and eventually becoming one himself. One day he gets into a basket hung from some balloons and flies away into the sky. The wind carries him to a nearby island where the basket finally lands. There he meets all kinds of different animals; some of them are friendly, but some aren't. With the help of a cockatoo friend he learns the secrets of living alone in the island and defending himself from wild animals. He goes in search of the wild dogs, whom he finally finds. He is very happy with them, but then he gets homesick and starts to miss his mother, so he decides to go home again.

 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_(1995_film)

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113932/

 

 

Macaws parrots in Gone with the Wind movie

Source: http://paisleycurtain.blogspot.com/2011/05/gone-with-wind-sets.html

Cranford (TV series)'s parrot

Cranford is a British television series directed by Simon Curtis and Steve Hudson. The teleplay by Heidi Thomas was adapted from three novellas by Elizabeth Gaskell published between 1849 and 1858: Cranford, My Lady Ludlow, and Mr Harrison's Confessions.

Link: Cranford on IMDB

There's a wonderful story about the parrot. When we were doing post-production, I mentioned to Judi that we had to get the parrot back in the studio because we needed more parrot sounds in the scene where Miss Matty decides the parrot has to go. Judi said, "Oh, please let me be the parrot! I can do it! I'll audition for you now!" So she auditioned for the parrot. She was wonderful, and she became the parrot. She also told me, "I'll be cheaper than the parrot." (Return to Cranford - Interview with Sue Birtwistle, co-creator).

Dragonfly's Hyacinth macaw "Big Bird"

Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.

Link: Dragonfly on the IMDB

Big Bird (the Hyacinth macaw) was through a trainer, April, who found the bird and trained the bird. And it was a creation of our rewriter, David Seltzer, who was also the writer of "The Omen." And there were actually two birds, Elwood and Jake, they call them – they call them because of the "Blues Brothers" and they’re blue birds. And yes, they were quite interesting characters. (Tom Shadyac - Director of Dragonfly)

Source: http://www.dvdtalk.com/interviews/tom_shadyac_dir.html

Gwyn: I think bald is sexy.

Joe Darrow: Really?

Gwyn: Yes.

Joe Darrow: I have a parrot that might turn you on.

Mary Poppins parrot umbrella

Parrot Umbrella: That's gratitude for you. Didn't even say goodbye!

Mary Poppins: No, they didn't.
Parrot Umbrella: Look at them! You know, they think more of their father than they do of you!
Mary Poppins: That's as it should be.
Parrot Umbrella: Well? Don't you care?
Mary Poppins: Practically perfect people never permit sentiment to muddle their thinking.
Parrot Umbrella: Is that so? Well, I'll tell you one thing, Mary Poppins: you don't fool me a bit!
Mary Poppins: Oh, really?
Parrot Umbrella: Yes, really. I know exactly how you feel about these children, and if you think I'm going to keep my mouth shut any longer, I-... [she clamps his mouth shut]
Mary Poppins: That will be quite enough of that, thank you.

Source: IMDB



Dr. Dolittle and Polynesia

John Dolittle, MD, is a respected physician and quiet bachelor living with his spinster sister in the small English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. His love of animals grows over the years and his household menagerie eventually scares off his human clientele, leading to loss of wealth. But after learning the secret of speaking to all animals from his parrot Polynesia, he takes up veterinary practice.

His fortunes rise and fall again after a crocodile takes up residence, but his fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world.

link: Doctor Dolittle books

“The Field Fourth Reader” by Walter Taylor Field, published by Ginn and Co., 1925.

Illustration by Marguerite Davis.

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"Shiver my timbers!" growled Polynesia.

Doctor Dolittle's Garden (1927)

Too-Too and Polynesia watched from the ridge of the roof.

Doctor Dolittle's Garden (1927)

Polynesia soared into the air.

Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)

"Yes," said she, "I was awake several times".

Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)

"You bet they were not!" grunted Polynesia.

Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)

An enormous footprint.

Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)

"You mean you think it was he who sent the signals?"

Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)

"Tommy, you seem to be getting enormously tall".

Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)

With a very serious look on her old face.

Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)

"Very poor hospitality, I call it".

Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)

"But grasshoppers!".

Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)

"Watch out, Tommy!".

Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928)

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Doctor Dolittle is a 1967 musical film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley and Richard Attenborough. It is adapted by Leslie Bricusse from the novel series by Hugh Lofting, primarily The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, and Doctor Dolittle's Circus. Doctor Dolittle is taught by his pet parrot Polynesia how to talk to animals and embarks with his friends on a series of adventures.

link: Doctor Dolittle 1967

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Doctor Dolittle (1967) UK 14-track MONO LP for the stage show with words & music by Leslie Bricusse with Alyn Ainsworth and his orchestra, featuring Tony Britton with Christine Yates and Kevin Sheehan.

Tracklisting:

1. Doctor Dolittle

2. The Vegetarian

3. My Friend The Doctor

4. Talk To The Animals

5. At The Crossroads

6. Beautiful Things

7. I've Never Seen Anything Like It

8. After Today

9. Like Animals

10. Fabulous Places

11. When I Look In Your Eyes

12. Where Are The Words

13. I Think I Like You

14. Something In Your Smile

 

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A 1984 cartoon series The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle.

 

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Doctor Dolittle Doll, Mattel 1967

Rio Animated Movie

The next work of Blue Sky Studios is an original 3-D feature called “Rio,” released in April 2011. Set in Rio de Janeiro, the movie is billed as a comedy-adventure that centers on Blu, a rare macaw who thinks he is the last of his kind. When he discovers there is another — and that it’s a she — he leaves his small Minnesota town for Rio. Mayhem ensues.

The cast includes Anne Hathaway, Tracy Morgan, George Lopez and Jesse Eisenberg, of “Zombieland” fame. Carlos Saldanha, the Brazilian-born director of “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” among other Blue Sky films, will also direct “Rio.”

“We’re working really hard to raise the bar here — the realism of the harbor, how the slums look, the way the feathers on our bird characters move,” said Brian Keane, Blue Sky’s chief operating officer.

Source: New York Times
Official website: http://www.rio-themovie.com/
Link: Rio the movie on Wikipedia



Many fans may not realize that a real endangered species – the Spix’s Macaw, Cyanopsitta spixii, and a real individual bird – Presely, inspired director Carlos Saldanba to create the movie.
The Spix’s Macaw became extinct in the wild in the year 2000, when the last known male disappeared. He left no purebred offspring as, lacking a female Spix’s Macaw, he had mated with a Blue-Winged Macaw.

The ashy to brilliant blue Spix’s Macaw dwelled only in a tiny area of northeastern Brazil, where it was limited to a dry-scrub habitat dominated by Caatinga Trees (please see photo). Although there are no more wild Spix’s Macaws, plans are being made to reintroduce them to Brazil in time, and local schools are actively involved in the process (please see article below).
Seventy-one Spix’s Macaws are known to exist in captivity, with an estimated 50 additional individuals possibly being kept but not registered with conservation authorities.

Source: That pet blog

More infor about Spix's Macaws: http://www.macawlanding.org/lastspix.html


Tony Juniper's book about Spix Macaws: http://www.charliesbirdblog.com/~charlie/spixs/spixs.html

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A “Rio” meeting at Blue Sky.

While the studio works on few films at once, it is starting to challenge Pixar and DreamWorks.

A Blue Sky Studios sculptor working on Blu, a macaw in a 3-D feature from the studio, “Rio,” which is planned for release in 2011.

see the Rio Official Trailer