The Look Back Machine: Recent Episodes
Jake Cannon
The Look Back Machine provides a revealing peek back into history with firsthand accounts and research. This documentary-style podcast explores the overlooked, the disregarded, and misremembered tales from Hollywood. In its first series, the podcast explores the epic multi-part journey of Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere to their cartoon creation Recess. Visit us at patreon.com/lookbackmachine or lookbackmachine.tumblr.com
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Hear the story of EPCOT's Cranium Command with Imagineer Jerry Rees and Directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale.
Dreamy Flashback by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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History of Mickey's Christmas Carol History of Mickey's Christmas Carol with help from Director Steve Anderson
The behind the scenes story of Disney's Bubble Boy with Director Blair Hayes and Writer Cinco Paul
Last Kiss Goodnight by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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The story of My Friend Dahmer. with Greg Gonzalez and Ada Ruiz of the LA Meekly Podcast.
The story of the making of Blacula with Director William Crain. 31 days, 31 episodes, Halloween.
For serial killer week, it's Dahmer (2003). The story behind the film. 31 days, 31 episodes, Halloween.
The behind the scenes story of the making of Disney's Don't Look Under the Bed. Just one of our entries into our week of Disney Halloween Flicks part of our month long celebration of Halloween. 1 new episode each day for all 31 days.
Happy Halloween from the Look Back Machine.
The story of the Disney horror classic Mr. Boogedy. This is our first entry in our week of Disney Halloween. And part of our larger 31 episodes for 31 days of October.
The story of Arnold Schwarzenegger's acting transformation. 31 days, 31 episodes, Halloween.
The story behind the legendary Halloween DCOM, Disney's Phantom of the Megaplex. Part of our 31 days, 31 episodes for Halloween.
The story of Frankenstein and Me. Part of our 31 days of Halloween. 31 episodes, 31 days.
The story behind the making of Wallace and Gromit Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Part of our 31 episodes for 31 days of Halloween.
The story behind the making of Disney's Tower of Terror (1997). Another entry into our Halloween Treats Week of Disney.
The story of Lake Placid and Stan Winston. Our creature feature for Halloween Treats. 31 days of Halloween episodes presented by The Look Back Machine.
The making of Freaked (1993) with director Tom Stern.
How a film was pulled from theaters before it got a chance and hilarious Mr. T stories.
The continuing story of Benji as told by creator Joe Camp.
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The story of Benji in 2 acts starring creator Joe Camp.
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Come along for the story of the making of Hulk Hogan's first starring vehicle No Holds Barred (1989) as told by director Tom Wright and Composer Jim Johnston.
A movie was pulled 24 hours before it was released. This is how it happened. With Director Nick Powell.
The story of how director Brian Taylor bounced back after Ghost Rider 2 with the horror comedy gem Mom and Dad.
The story of Ghost Rider 2 starring Nicolas Cage, with interviews from directors Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine.
LA Meekly's Greg Gonzalez joins us to explore the twilight years of Vincent Price, the horror legend.
Episode 5 of our continuing saga of Disney's Recess created by Paul and Joe. How Joe helped develop Hey Arnold! and Paul finds his way back into Hollywood through Beethoven the animated series.
The story of how director Rupert Wainwright followed up Stigmata with the remake of John Carpenter's The Fog.
How Patrick Lussier made Dracula 2000 while combatting the Weinsteins. Part of our Halloween series
Paul and Joe find themselves at Nickelodeon for better or worse. Part of our 7 Part series on the saga of Recess.
The story of how Nicolas Cage and his son Weston, created their first comicbook series as told by Weston and writer Mike Carey.
Voodoo Child.
The story of Disney's Rocketman from the eyes of Harland Williams and director Stuart Gillard.
The story of the indy film The Trust starring Nicolas Cage. Hear the story from the directors Alex and Ben Brewer.
The story of Clifford starring Martin Short with Director Paul Flaherty.
Check out stealingdawn.com for Paul's new film.
Hear the story behind the classic horror film from director George Mihalka and the remake by Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer.
The story of Jaws 3D as told by writer Carl Gottlieb and director Joe Alves.
Check out their books on Jaws ---
Designing Jaws by Joe Alves:
https://www.catalinamuseum.org/product-page/joe-alves-on-designing-jaws
The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb:
https://www.amazon.com/Jaws-Log-Expanded-Shooting-Script/dp/0062229281
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In 2000, Disney created a live action musical for television about Pinocchio's father Geppetto. That musical starred Drew Carey. Need we say more?
Interviews with Director Tom Moore.
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The story of how The Great Mouse Detective marked the return of Disney to musicals. Starring Melissa Manchester.
Hear the story behind the making of the Nicolas Cage classic as told by the writer and director.
The story of Brink! with special guest host Chad Goes Deep.
Hear the story of how the famous Disney Channel Original came to be from the director Greg Beeman and writer Jeff Schechter.
Artwork by: Chris Palmer
The story of the film Deadfall is really the story of one of Nicolas Cage's most iconic and yet unknown roles.
This is that story as told by his brother Christopher Coppola, the man who directed the film.
Check out the Deadfall double feature on Nov. 29th in SF at the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival.
Eisner was out, Iger was in, and Pixar took over Disney Animation. And that's just part of the story of Meet The Robinsons.
Logo by: Chris Palmer
Music: Kevin MacLeod and Chris Zabriskie
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The story of Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights with Director Seth Kearsley.
Music by: Kevin MacLeod and more...
The story of how Disney's classic came to be with behind the scenes stories from directors Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft.
Music contributed by: Kevin MacLeod
Check out the Bancroft Brothers podcast on Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bancroft-brothers-animation-podcast/id911802874?mt=2
The story of Disney's The Country Bears from the people who made it: Peter Hastings and Paul Rugg.
Music by: Kevin Macleod
Art by: Chris Palmer
The story of the fall of the Disney Afternoon and the rise of One Saturday Morning.
Music by: Kevin MacLeod
Art by: Chris Palmer
Interviews with: Jymn Magon, Joe Barusso, Greg Weisman, Tad Stones, and Bill Kopp.
The story of the birth of Disney Television Animation and the rise of the Disney Afternoon.
Music by: Kevin MacLeod
Art by: Chris Palmer
Interviews with: Jymn Magon, Tad Stones, Ted and Patsy Anasti, Willie Ito, Carl Barks, and Mark Zaslove.
The story of Disney's Science Court on One Saturday Morning.
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How did the idea for Disney's One Saturday Morning come about?
Hear the inside perspective from Peter Hastings who formed the look and feel of the Saturday Morning block.
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Kevin MacLeod for a ton of the music on the episode.
The behind the scenes story of "Home on the Range," Disney's last hand drawn animated movie until Princess and the Frog five years later. The studio was in flux at the time period, it was the final years of the Eisner administration and the studio was searching for answers.
This is the story of directors John Sanford and Will Finn and their perilous journey during Home on The Range.
Nibbles is one of the amazing creations of Hanna-Barbera, and was brought to life by Francoise Brun-Cottan, a french 5-year old who got the role completely by accident.
Hear the story of how Paul Rugg became Manny the Uncanny for Disney's One Saturday Morning. His journey from the ACME theater to ACME Academy is full of anecdotes about Spielberg, Disney, and Jelly Roll, the giant elephant that wanted him dead.
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While Paul Germain was working at Gracie films organizing the voice records of The Simpsons Shorts, three animators and a colorist were busy bringing the characters to life on celluloid.
This is the behind the scenes story from Bill Kopp, Wes Archer, David Silverman, and Gyorgyi Peluce of how The Simpsons Shorts came to be.
And of course, how a slightly inebriated party conversation launched a cultural phenomenon.
Have you ever wondered how the theme song for Hey Arnold! came to be? Or have you ever wondered is there another version of the song? If you have, then this is the episode for you. Here the behind the scenes story of the jazzy standard featuring an interview with Jim Lang, the composer and the alternate theme from Hey Arnold!
The story of Created by Paul and Joe continues with episode 3. This time Paul is wrapped up in the creation of the most famous and most successful television cartoon in history: The Simpsons (cue heavenly voices from the clouds).
Go inside the creation and execution of The Simpsons on The Tracy Ullman Show with interviews from Paul Germain and Jeffrey Townsend.
It's fresh take on the ground floor of television history.
In our second episode, Paul and Joe continue their odyssey to Hollywood and Disney's Recess.
Joe gets a job at Rhythm and Hues and Paul gets a job working for James L. Brooks.
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The Look Back Machine examines the history of the animated television show Disney's Recess with a multi-part series about its creation and its creators.
It's an Odyssey-like documentary that spans over several decades and reaches its inevitable conclusion.
This is the story of Created Paul and Joe.
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