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You may have noticed that this page is rather spartan in design (although I've tried to make it at least presentable). With the exception of the logo, and the Brisby line, there isn't much here in the way of graphics, scenes from the film, soundfiles, etc. This is deliberate. You see, there are already a large number of quite beautiful sites (I have links to most of them) which have gathered lots of this sort of material. I don't really have anything new to add, so there's not really much point in me posting all the same stuff all over again. You also won't find here lengthy synopses of the film, or descriptions of the characters. If you're here, I assume that you already have a basic familiarity with the film (if you don't, visit a few of the other sites I've listed, or better yet, go out and rent the film now, tonight!). The point is, that if I'm going to put up another Nimh site, it should contain something new, something not available elsewhere. And it does. What this site is all about, what you will find here that you won't find elsewhere, its justification, its raison d'etre, is the Archive.
This is a collection of all the articles I have been able to find about The Secret of Nimh, including stories about Bluth leaving Disney, articles about the future of animation, and reviews of the film itself. I've been collecting this material over a long period of time, and I decided that it should be shared with other Nimh fans. The articles are all posted in their original forms.
When I first saw Nimh, I was ten years old, and the irony is that I didn't even want to see it. I was dead set on seeing Bambi, but my dad said, "No, I've seen that one a million times, here, what about this one?" I was annoyed about it, but went along. (My sister didn't want to see it either, and she went so far as to stay in the car for two hours rather than go into the theatre. Try living with that sometime.) Anyway, the lights went down, the candle was lit, and I was hooked. I'd seen all the Disney films, of course, but they never had such a big impact on me.
When I was older, I started looking up old articles in the library's indices, and then it just started to snowball. I went to every library I could, chasing down obscure journals and magazines, and the result was a scrapbook of Bluth material an inch thick. That is how I came to gather this material.
This isn't all of it, either. I kept the scrapbook going until "All Dogs Go To Heaven," before losing interest (Bluth had never topped Nimh, and after Dogs, I just felt that he wasn't making films worth seeing anymore.) However, I have no plans to add the "American Tail," "Land Before Time," or "All Dogs" material to this page, because it just would take up too much space and time.
Anyway, the fruits of my obsession are now here for all fellow Nimh fans to see. Enjoy!
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