The Wally Burr Collection

Thanks to Rich Helscher, the Archive now hosts a sizeable portion of paperwork previously belonging to the estate of voice director Wally Burr.  If anyone out there owns copies of items from Wally's collection not represented here, please get in touch.

Audition sheets

Transformers (56 pages, characters A-M)
Transformers (52 pages, characters N-Z)
Transformers (19 pages, alternate set)

G.I Joe - Xamot and Tomax (Michael Bell and Corey Burton), Zarana (Lisa Raggio).
Bigfoot And The Muscle Machines - Jennifer Minerva McGraw, Red and Redder (All by Susan Blu).
Glo Friends - Glo-Cricket, Glo-Turtle, Moose (Lorenzo Music)
Fraggle Rock - Travelling Matt (Pat Pinney).
Dino Riders - Mind Zei (Peter Cullen), Serena (Noelle North).
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes - Dr. Putrid T Gangreen (John Astin).
Bucky O'Hare And The Toad Wars - Al Negator (Gary Chalk), Bucky O'Hare (Jason Michas), Deadeye Duck (Scott McNeil), Dogstar (Gary Chalk), Jenny (Margot Pinvidic), Will DuWitt (Shane Meier).
Thor, Tales Of Asgard (2011 Direct-to-video) - Loki (Rick Gomez), Sif (Tara Strong), Thor (Matt Wolf) script samples for audition.

Scripts, Call sheets, Dialogue scripts

MP 700 Transformers

67/87 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 2 - Flint Dille
Full script - Flint Dille's copy, included here as placeholder
Full script - Wally's notes
Call sheet and dialogue script - Ted Schwartz (Rodimus Prime) script copy.

68/88 Five Faces Of Darkness, part 3 - Flint Dille
Full script - Flint Dille's copy, included here as placeholder
Full script - Wally's notes
Call sheet and dialogue script - includes handwritten  dialogue for John Moschitta ADR session (Blurr, Wheelie, Quintesson)

69/89 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 4 - Flint Dille
Full script - Flint Dille's copy, included here as placeholder
Full script - Wally's notes
Partial call sheet and dialogue script

70/90 Five Faces Of Darkness, Part 5
Full script - Notes by Wally Burr
Call sheet and dialogue script

91 The Killing Jar - Joey Kurihara Piedra and Michael Charles Hill
Full script - second revision, Wally's notes

Full script - third revision, notes by Michael Charles Hill.  Contributor credit: Ryan King

Call sheet and dialogue script

Storyboards

MP 4034 The Transformers The Movie
Note - though these storyboard scans have been available at the Archive since 2020, it is only through collectors buying copies sold by Wally Burr in the mid-2000s that made their inclusion possible.

Storyboards artists:

Peter Chung
Jooin Kim
Chung Hwan Oh
Sioak Park
Sangil Shim
David Shin
Soo Young Chung
Del Barras
James Gomez
Ernie Guanlao
Doug Lefler
Rico Rival
Romeo Tanghal

(If anyone has information about which artist did which sequence, please get in touch so they can be properly credited)

* = scene truncated

+ = scene cut, but dialogue retained and moved.

Sequence 1: 6, 9, 18 before 17, 29, 34, 37 divided into 37A and 37B, 38, 39 divided into 39A and 39B.

Artists: Peter Chung

Sequence 2: Entire sequence simplified.  Green star, satellites, asteroids, ice crystals, stellar ring, nebula and swirling vortex all out.  Superman credits or Star Wars crawl in

Sequence 3: 7*, 22 no pan - static shot.

Artists: Peter Chung

Sequence 4: 1 no pan.

Sequence 5: 2-9, 31 replaced, 36

Artists: Peter Chung

Sequence 6: 15, 24*, 25, 34, 45-48A, 52, 56 replaced, 57-72, 89*, 90

Artists: Peter Chung

Sequence 7: 31, 32, 39-44B replaced by early trailer footage, 54, 55+, 62-65, 67, 68+, 69-72, 83-87 no effects.

Artists: Peter Chung

Sequence 8: 4-8, 11, 37, 37A, 48, 49, 54, 55, 62 replaced by 104, 71 replaced by 78, 80, 81, 83*, 86, 102-111, 116, 122-126, 128+, 130-135, 151, 152*, 183, 188* 

Artists: Peter Chung

Sequence 9: No visuals cuts, 10 second cut to score due to timing issue.

Sequence 10: 2

Sequence 11: 18, 31A, 32, 33, 36*

Sequence 12: 3

Sequence 13: 2, 4C, 10-12, 30, 32

Sequence 14: 2, 16, 18-20, 26, 27

Sequence 15: 24-28, 44, 53*, 57A*, 61, 61A revised, 61B-64, 66, 76, 77, 80, 82 cont. with action from 83, 84A, 84B, 99, 102-105, 107*, 108-112, 114-126

Sequence 16: 2*, 17*, 18-21, 23-25, 34+, 40, 41, 47, 48, 54, 56, 62, 73, 74* 

Sequence 17: No visual cuts, Hot Rod dialogue moved from sc. 11 to sc. 1

Sequence 18: 3, 5, 6, 8, 15, 16

Sequence 19: 10, 11, 17, 23+, 30A, 33 static, 35, 38-41+, 53*, 71

Sequence 20: No cuts

Sequence 21: 1-3, 5-7, 11*, 12, 19A

Sequence 22: 1, 3, 8 revised, 10 revised, 13, 27 revised, 28-30, 32*, 33-35, 37-40 

Sequence 23: 2B, 2C, 3-5

Sequence 24: 33F, 40*, 41, 42, 45, 49, 50, 53 revised, 59+

Sequence 25: 7-11B revised: 8, 10 cut, 7 and 9 action on 11, 14*

Sequence 26: 3C-3H, 14A, 15-15B action moved to 14D, 15-15G, 18, 21, 22A-22C, 23B, 26-27B, 48A

Sequence 27: 1, 12, 14-16, 25 replaced by 25A and 25B, 29, 30, 28 and 31 continuous scene, 34, 35, 39, 41-42, 43-47, 48 revised, 49, 55, 56, 60 moved to 49F, 61-64, 65-70 moved to 49A-49E, 75-77, repeat of 71, 78 moved to 82A, 79, 83, 84

Artists: Peter Chung

Sequence 28: 2

Sequence 29: 13 and 14 revised (Unicron uses eye laser, not hand)

Sequence 30: 27, 28, 41-42, 46, 47A, 47B moved, 52 replaced by 40, 53

Sequence 31: No cuts

Sequence order in finished film

1 to 13

14-1 to 14-29

15-1 to 15-6

22

14-29A to end of 14

15-7 to end of 19

21

20

23 and 25 combined as a continuous sequence

24

26 to 31

Inhumanoids: Marvel Comics treatment

With thanks to Monzo at tfwiki, the Sunbow Marvel Archive now hosts one of the earliest development documents for what would become the toyline and cartoon Inhumanoids.

Known at this stage as The Force Of Light, the 13 page treatment by Marvel Comics writer and editor Tom DeFalco sets the stage for a team of geologists and inventors, initially tasked to defend Earth from devastating meteor showers, who find that the Light Shields built for this task are being sabotaged by The Evil That Lies Within.

To read the treatment and view similar development work for Robotix, Bigfoot And The Muscle Machines, Visionaries and Air Raiders, head to: Sunbow Syndication 1985-1987

Transformers: Aerial Assault storyboards

With thanks to Ryan King, the Archive now hosts full storyboards for The Transformers episode Aerial Assault.  The eighth set overall and last of the twelve episodes written or otherwise worked on by Doug Booth to be represented via script or storyboard.

To view them, head to: Aerial Assault storyboard gallery

Youtube channel

Presenting my YouTube channel, where viewers can find the full 65 episode run of Jem, as well as my various storyboard animatics.  If you've enjoyed the production material I've brought to you through the Archive and would like to show your support, please head over to the channel and subscribe.

More info on lost Marvel series The Young Astronauts

Thanks to Heritage Auctions, we now have a little more info regarding the production of The Young Astronauts.  The fruits of Marvel Productions' partnership with The Young Astronauts Council, in the form of an animated series that was intended to air on CBS for the 1985 TV season, but was delayed due to disputes with the YAC's advisor on the production.  Attempts to restart the series in early 1986 were for naught as the network cancelled the show after the Challenger space shuttle explosion.

Linked below are background layouts from the series' fourth episode Ghostship, under the production code MP 800-04.  Drawn by Disney legend Walt Peregoy, whose work for Marvel around this time included My Little Pony: The Movie, Glo Friends and Moondreamers.

Heritage Auctions link