010b – The Black Cauldron Part 2

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We continue our journey in Prydain while we compare and contrast Disney’s “The Black Cauldron” with “The Book of Three” and “The Black Cauldron” by Lloyd Alexander. 

 

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Co-written By

Alicia Brown

 

 Produced By

Kyle, Vaughn M. Dennis and Vanessa Marek

 

 

 Music

“Blood Of The Heroes” by Peter Crowley

“Catrin Finch” by Lisa Lân

“Cinematic Danger Background Music” by Royalty Free Music

“The Fairy Tale” (DSO Theme) – by Roberto Ignis

“Firesong” by Kevin MacLeod

“Lake of Tears” by Derek & Brandon Flechter

“Run” composed by Ross Bugden

“Slip Jigs” performed by Calan

“Wytches Chant”  by Inkubus Sukkubus 

 

 

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Recommended Reading

The Chronicles of Prydain (5 Volumes) by Lloyd Alexander

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Bibliography

 

Print

Alexander, L. (2006). The Chronicles of Prydain #1: The Book of Three. New York: Henry Holt.

Alexander, L. (2006). The Chronicles of Prydain #2: The Black Cauldron. New York: Henry Holt.

Davies, Sioned. The Mabinogion, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Graves, Robert. The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth. New York: Noon Day Press, 1966.

Lane, Elizabeth. “Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain and Welsh Tradition.” Orcrist 7, 1973, pp. 25-29.

Lines, H. H. “Quarterly Notes on Roman Britain.” The Antiquarian Vol. 31 , Jan. 1895, pp. 302.

Nash, D. W. “The Mythological Poems; The Chair of Kerridwen.” Taliesin, Or, The Bards and Druids of Britain: A Translation of the Remains of the Earliest Welsh Bards, and an Examination of the Bardic Mysteries, London: John Russel Smith, 1858, pp. 189–190.

Stephens, T. “British Anthropophagi.” Notes & Queries, vol. 20, no. 8, Dec. 1859, pp. 72–73.

Tunnell, Michael O., and Lloyd Alexander (2014). The Prydain Companion: a Reference Guide to Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Chronicles. Henry Holt.

White, Donna R. “Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain.” A Century of Welsh Myth in Children’s Literature, Greenwood Press, 1998, pp. 97–104.

 

Film

The Black Cauldron [DVD]. (1985). Walt Disney Pictures.

 

World Wide Web

“The Black Cauldron / Disney.” TV Tropes, tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Disney/TheBlackCauldron.

“The Black Cauldron (Film).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 Sept. 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cauldron_(film).

“The Chronicles of Prydain.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 Sept. 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Prydain.

Crossley, Jared. “The Lloyd Alexander Blog.” lloydalexanderfilm.blogspot.com/.

Dallben.” Prydain Wiki, prydain.wikia.com/wiki/Dallben.

“Fflewddur Fflam.” Prydain Wiki, prydain.wikia.com/wiki/Fflewddur_Fflam.

Filmtracks: The Black Cauldron (Elmer Bernstein), www.filmtracks.com/titles/black_cauldron.html.

Fisher, Jason. “Welsh Mythological Underpinnings of Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Cycle.” Journey to the Sea, 15 Oct. 2009, journeytothesea.com/welsh-alexander-prydain/.

“Gurgi.” Prydain Wiki, prydain.wikia.com/wiki/Gurgi.

“The Horned King.” Prydain Wiki, prydain.wikia.com/wiki/The_Horned_King.

Kois, Dan. “Revisiting The Black Cauldron, the Movie That Almost Killed Disney Animation.”Slate Magazine, 19 Oct. 2010, www.slate.com/articles/arts/dvdextras/2010/10/the_black_cauldron.html.

Ness, Mari. “A Demoralizing Disaster: Disney’s The Black Cauldron.” Tor.com, 8 Oct. 2015, www.tor.com/2015/10/08/a-demoralizing-disaster-disneys-the-black-cauldron/

“Prince Gwydion.” Prydain Wiki, prydain.wikia.com/wiki/Prince_Gwydion.

“Princess Eilonwy.” Prydain Wiki, prydain.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Eilonwy.

“Prydain.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 27 July 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prydain.

“Reel History.” Disney’s The Black Cauldron, norlinreelhistory.blogspot.com/2011/09/disneys-black-cauldron.html.

“Taran.” Prydain Wiki, prydain.wikia.com/wiki/Taran.

Toffee, John. “Mabinogion Astronomy.” Caer Gwydion, 1 Jan. 1970, mabinogionastronomy.blogspot.com/2013/08/caer-gwydion-hisresidence-was-among.html.

Toffee, John. “Mabinogion Astronomy.” Mabinogion Astronomy, 1 Jan. 1970, mabinogionastronomy.blogspot.com/.