Dwarf and the King of Frogs

The Hop Frog by Edgar Allan Poe: Summary & Analysis

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Nictitating membrane — Transparent inner eyelid. Parotoid glands — Toxin glands found on toads behind the eyes. Wash your hands after handling a toad and avoid touching your eyes, nose, or mouth. Note the prominent parotoid gland behind the eye of this Dwarf American Toad. Phenology — The study of the seasonal timing of events. When do the frogs start and stop calling?

Polyploid — Having one or more extra sets of chromosomes. Ranavirus — A disease of amphibians. In frogs and toads it causes the tadpoles to die. Release call — The call a male will make if another male mistakes him for a female or the call a female will make if she is not ready. Tadpole — The larval stage of the frog and toad life cycle.

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It has a tail for swimming, a jaw adapted to eating vegetation, and gills for absorbing oxygen from the water. Taxonomy — The process of classifying all living things by their similarities and differences. Toe Pads — Fleshy, disk-shaped, sticky areas on the toes of most treefrogs.

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Tympanum — A frog or toad eardrum. So we are doing less extravagant Treasure Planet kind of treatments.

You have to create a world but [we're doing it more simply]. What we're trying to do with Princess and the Frog is hook up with things that the old guys did earlier. It's not going to be graphic…". The character design tried to create beautiful drawings through subtle shapes, particularly for most characters being human. For the frog versions of Tiana and Naveen, while the animators started with realistic designs, they eventually went for cutesy characters "removing all that is unappealing in frogs", similar to Pinocchio ' s Jiminy Cricket.

Toon Boom Animation 's Toon Boom Harmony software was used as the main software package for the production of the film, as the Computer Animation Production System CAPS system that Disney developed with Pixar in the s for use on their previous traditionally animated films had become outdated. The character animators found some difficulty with this approach, and decided to use traditional paper and pencil drawings, which were then scanned into the computer systems, for The Princess and the Frog. The artwork was then enhanced to affect the appearance of painted strokes and fills, and combined with backgrounds, using Adobe After Effects.

The visual effects and backgrounds for the film were created digitally using Cintiq tablet displays. One of the first things we did was focus on producing shorts, to help us re-introduce the 2D pipeline. It was a real plus for the effects department, so we went paperless for The Princess and the Frog.

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John singing, while slides of pre-production art from the film played on a screen. Supported by a music video by Melina , "Never Knew I Needed" was issued to radio outlets as a commercial single from the Princess and the Frog soundtrack. The film's soundtrack album, The Princess and the Frog: Original Songs and Score , contains the ten original songs from the film and seven instrumental pieces. The soundtrack was released on November 23, , the day before the limited release of the film in New York and Los Angeles.

The film premiered in theaters with a limited run in New York and Los Angeles beginning on November 25, , followed by wide release on December 11, The Squeakquel , scheduled for release the same day. The Princess and the Frog was supported by a wide array of merchandise leading up to and following the film's release. Although Disney's main marketing push was not set to begin until November , positive word-of-mouth promotion created demand for merchandise well in advance of the film. A live parade and show called Tiana's Showboat Jubilee! The Disneyland version's actors actually partook in singing, while the Walt Disney World rendition incorporated lip-syncing.

However, it returned to Disneyland from — as part of the "Limited Time Magic" family-fun weekends. Disney announced on June 4, , that they would release a video game inspired by the film and it was released on November exclusively for Wii and Nintendo DS platforms. It has been officially described an "adventure through the exciting world of New Orleans in a family-oriented video game", featuring events from the film and challenges for Princess Tiana.

The financial and critical success of The Princess and the Frog persuaded Disney to green-light at least one new hand-drawn animated film to be released every two years. Disney animator Tom Sito compared the film's box office performance to that of The Great Mouse Detective , which was a step up from the theatrical run of the box office bomb The Black Cauldron. Looking back on the experience four years later, Catmull acknowledged that Disney had made a "serious mistake" in the process of marketing and releasing the film. Looking back seven years later, Lasseter told Variety: We dug into it and did a lot of research and focus groups.

It was viewed as old-fashioned by the audience. The film received largely positive reviews from critics, praising the animation, characters, music and themes. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "A" grade and applauded the film's creative team for "uphold[ing] the great tradition of classic Disney animation". It's just plain pleasant, an old-fashioned little charmer that's not straining to be the next glib animated compendium of pop-culture flotsam.

No extra ticket charge! No frantic frenzies of meaningless action! This is what classic animation once was like! Upon its release, the film created controversy among some Christians over its use of Louisiana Voodoo as a plot device. Facilier and his "friends on the other side" contain many horror elements and that young children might be frightened by the film. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the film.

For the soundtrack, see The Princess and the Frog soundtrack.

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At the center of this gossip was a woman named Elizabeth F. Ellet , whose affections Poe had previously scorned. The tale is arguably autobiographical in other ways. The jester Hop-Frog, like Poe, is "kidnapped from home and presented to the king" his wealthy foster father John Allan , "bearing a name not given in baptism but 'conferred upon him'" and is susceptible to wine At the suggestion of a Norman squire, the king and five others dressed as Wild Men in highly flammable costumes made with pitch and flax.

The king and his seven councilors appear in the masquerade at midnight, the same time that the Red Death appears in the masquerade in " The Masque of the Red Death ", the narrator of " The Tell-Tale Heart " enters the old man's bedroom each night for one week, and the raven taps on the narrator's door in Poe's poem " The Raven ".

In a letter to friend Nancy Richmond, Poe wrote: Only think of your Eddy writing a story with such a name as 'Hop-Frog'! He explained that, though The Flag of Our Union was not a respectable journal "in a literary point of view", it paid very well.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing. Yale University Press, II, Issue 2 — Fall, , St. Edgar Allan Poe Society, Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. Johns Hopkins University Press, The Biology of Horror:

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