PAGE b8 THE STATE JOURNAL A pRiL 18, 2012 Wednesday ALMANAC 50 YEARS AGO The Christian community of Frankfort and Franklin ‘Chimp’ gets Disney touch County marked Good Friday with a new and more compre- hensive service sponsored and conducted by the Frankfort Ministerial Association. The service, at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension on Washington Street, would extend over Documentary directors learn to tell the story the entire hours of Christ’s crucifixion, from noon until 3 p.m. The three hours would focus on seven meditations based upon Jesus’ seven last words from the cross. By RogeR MooRe Isha the chim- McT clA chy-TriBune news service panzee stars 25 YEARS AGO ORLANDO, Fla. – A few in Disney’s Western Hills High School cheerleaders were honored at films into their Disneyna- “Chimpanzee.” the basketball banquet. Those receiving awards were Jen- ture movie-making expe- The film plays as nifer Pieratt, junior varsity white star award; Lara Day, boys rience, producer-direc- a nature docu- varsity silver star award; Kim Peach, boys varsity silver star tors Alastair Fothergill mentary with award; and Laura Smith, girls varsity green star award. and Mark Linfield, veter- Disney touches. ans of the BBC’s acclaimed We meet Oscar, HAPPY BIRTHDAY “Planet Earth” series, fig- Melissa Massie a baby, and ure they’re finally getting April 18, 1967 follow him as he the hang of Disney. Melissa likes riding the city bus and working at Parrott’s learns from his “Of course, Disney pro- Trophies. She also likes to shop and watch TV. vides us with a lot of mon- fellow chim- panzees how today In history ey,” Fothergill said after the Orlando world premiere of to use tools to By The AssociATed Press “Chimpanzee,” the latest gather ants and Today is Wednesday, April 18, the 109th day of 2012. There from the filmmakers who crack nuts. We are 257 days left in the year. gave us “Earth” and “Afri- see him lose his On April 18, 1942, an air squadron from the USS Hornet can Cats” between them. mom, and we led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle raided Tokyo and other Jap- And money “translates see him adopted anese cities during World War II. into time in the field. We by the group’s had over 700 shooting days alpha male, on ‘Chimpanzee,’ almost behavior almost three times as much as say, unheard of by bCw A k Ard GLANCes ‘African Cats.’” “And Disney allows us the researchers not to make a documenta- who helped cre- ry,” Fothergill said. “We’re ate the film. trying to have a narrative, tell a story.” Cr Ou Tesy DIsney “That’s what they’re teaching us,” Linfield adds. “Story.” Even in a documenta- ry, you start with a script, a part of the animal’s lives you expect to be able to tell, Linfield said. But you need to have the money to be able to change directions, if that’s what the animals do. “‘African Cats’ played out close to the script,” Thus, “Chimpanzee” the recording session, and ney touches,” with Slant mag- Fothergill said with a plays as a nature documen- they’d yell, ‘Get Tim to do azine complaining about an cor u Tesy geOrge a. hIll anD rODgers sTuDIO chuckle. “The chimps nev- tary with Disney touches. We the ‘power tool grunt’ for overdose of “cuteness.” But er even looked at the script, meet Oscar, a baby, and fol- this scene’ (with the chimps with Disney’s long track re- The owners and employees of A&P on Second much less read it.” low him as he learns from his using tools). Alastair and I cord of aiming movies at and Street hang a sign recognizing their Honor Store Having Disney backing fellow chimpanzees how to looked at each other. We’re then reaching younger view- meant that the studio sent use tools to gather ants and Brits. We didn’t know what ers, reviews like that may be Award for courtesy and service in 1958. screenwriters from “Beau- crack nuts. We see him lose they were on about. And Tim irrelevant. ty and the Beast” and “Toy his mom, and we see him ad- was rolling his eyes, ‘Not Disney touches aside, it HIS IMA FRA Story 2” to “rip our script to opted by the group’s alpha THAT again.’ He did it, we re- took a Disney-sized invest- Now shreds, in a very construc- male, behavior almost un- sisted putting it in the mov- ment to make “Chimpan- TOR GES NKF Available tive way,” Linfield says. heard of by the researchers ie – slightly resisted it. And zee,” which Fothergill says “Disney’s input was far who helped create the film. then today, when the audi- was four or five times as diffi- IC OF ORT more oriented toward Hol- Disney touches? Hiring ence roared, we realized how cult as “African Cats,” which lywood storytelling, and Tim Allen as narrator, add- wrong we were.” he co-directed. 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