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Happy Wolfenoot-- take a Togo (2019) climactic ice scene 1/2

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Willem Dafoe as Leonhard Seppala in Togo (2019)

Happy 68th birthday Willem!

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Happy Wolfenoot-- take a Togo (2019) climactic ice scene 2/2

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Togo (2019) gifs, courtesy of Movies in Short on YouTube

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dvd/bluray scans and screens, via @ theicecave . org

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from production designer hans bacher (via one1more2time3 @ wordpress):

"SNOWBALLS was the ‘codename’ for the BALTO production. as I explained in some of the earlier posts, BALTO was produced in STEVEN SPIELBERG’S london AMBLIMATION studio. the studio was located in ACTON. most of the artists came from all over europe, a few from the U.S., but mainly from france. it was a very interesting cultural mixture with all the different languages spoken. amazing talents! it was a joy to work with them. preproduction work on BALTO started around 1992, production in 1993. following is a comparative size-sheet with the main characters and a design for a crew-T-shirt, as far as I remember"

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Sylvie, Jenna, and Dixie in Balto (1995)

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Anyone else remember this lovable underdog (no pun intended)? 😁

Seriously though, I love this movie! My sister and I used to watch it several times at our neighbor’s house. Used to rent it a lot at Blockbuster as well. Also, I’m very pleasantly surprised it even had tie-in merch, considering how underrated it is.

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various sketches and designs, via one1more2time3 @ wordpress

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by hans bacher: "outlined bear in one color would have looked too cartoony, too much detail in the fur too expensive to animate, too realistic and it would have flickered. this is what I came up with as a solution, just animated highlights in two different colors...all felt pen and gouache on top of simon wells' xeroxed storyboard drawings"

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The Beginning and End of Balto

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To my malamute inclined brain I love the way the dog of the Balto statue looks, but I always think it doesn’t really look like Balto…

They make him a lot bulkier than he actually is (even though he’s kinda odd and broad for a sibe) which is why it has this malamute look to me I think. Even Balto isn’t free from being yassified in portraits.

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Ever since I was a kid I shipped Star and Dixie. Idk why exactly I ship it, I just think they look cute together, plus it's funny thinking of Dixie going from crushing on a macho stud like Steele to a skinny dork like Star lol.

Anyway just for fun I gave them puppies. From left to right there's Fox and his three sisters Trixie, Pixie and Comet.

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biblically accurate balto

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(via Scientists sequenced the genome of Balto, famous sled dog of 1925 “Serum Run” | Ars Technica)

In 1925, a sled dog named Balto led his plucky canine team on the last leg of a grueling 127-hour dogsled relay across Alaska to bring lifesaving medicine to the people of Nome—the famous “Serum Run.” Balto was lionized for the feat, even inspiring a 1995 animated film and two sequels. Now scientists have sequenced the dog’s genome for the first time and compared it to modern dog breeds, shedding light on why Balto and similar sled dogs from that period proved well-suited to thrive in the harsh winter environment.

It turns out Balto was just part Siberian husky, and, contrary to popular legend, he was not part wolf. The authors even used the sequenced genome to reconstruct Balto’s physical appearance. These and other findings appear in a new paper published in the journal Science. It’s one of several featured in a special issue reporting on results from the Zoonomia Project, an international collaboration to sequence and compare the genomes of 240 mammals in order to discover the genomic basis of traits essential for all animals, as well as changes that underlie the unique traits of individual species.