LOL! Hey that red haired & bearded guy with glasses on 6:37-7:19 is Phil Nibbelink, who plays the voice of one of The Horned King's Henchmen in "The Black Cauldron" (1984) itself! Where he also worked as The Character Designer & Character Animator at the same time! He was The young red bearded Henchman who grabbed Creeper, The Horned King's Sidekick & demanded "More women!" during the very 1st scene where we meet Creeper & the rest of The Horned King's Henchmen! Can y'all believe it?! :D
the production of the Black Cauldron was such a mess, and then it completely flopped in theaters. I don't think it was a bad film, under appreciated in some ways for sure, I'm sure lots of Disney fans don't even know it exists. Once thing John Culhane brought up that was pretty spot on, that, if a story can be done live-action, why animate it? A animation professor first addressed this to me, but i think it's a great point as I have seen some animated films that could have easily been live action instead
4:02 "The Black Cauldron has been in the works for 3 years. Scheduled to released in 1985." Should some parts of the book "Disney War" (2006) be taken with a grain of salt?
Supposition: sometime supposed/somewhat serially slack-scribe slammed-as-suspect dinted Disney traditionalist/chauvinist in fact attends each animation genius and/or process from the same absolute beginning as an audience of one; spots the misfit (the character [?] like himself [?!] literally in JC's case) among the best & the brightest otherwise and each also made of strange but also collectively vastly different mettle are thus here & elsewhere also valued equally for their own art & contributive potential.
