A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Melvin Schwartzman
Melvin Shaw
Birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Born:
December 19, 1914
Died:
November 22, 2012
American animator, design artist, writer, and artist. Shaw was involved in the animation, story design, and visual development of numerous Disney animated films, beginning with Bambi, which was released in 1942. His other animated film credits, usually involving animation design or the story, included The Rescuers in 1977, The Fox and the Hound in 1981, The Black Cauldron in 1985, The Great Mouse Detective in 1986, Beauty and the Beast in 1991, and The Lion King in 1994. He was named a Disney Legend in 2004 for his contributions to the Walt Disney Company. -Wikipedia
Character Designer:
1994 The Lion King
Screenplay:
1986 The Great Mouse Detective
1994 The Lion King
Story:
1934 Tale of the Vienna Woods
1942 Bambi
1986 The Great Mouse Detective
1994 The Lion King
Visual Development:
1934 Tale of the Vienna Woods
1942 Bambi
1986 The Great Mouse Detective
1994 The Lion King
Writer:
1934 Tale of the Vienna Woods
1942 Bambi
1957 Tricks of Our Trade
1986 The Great Mouse Detective
1994 The Lion King
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.