The Herald of Everett, Washington   Weekend to-do list HeraldNet
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fun with 'Frankenweenie'    • Some of the characters in
"Frankenweenie," like Edgar "E" Gore, may freak out younger
viewers.     • Victor Frankenstein (voiced by child actor
Charlie Tahan) and his beloved dog, Sparky, star in Tim Burton's
"Frankenweenie."    Once upon a time, long before "Dark Shadows"
or "Corpse Bride," even before "Edward Scissorhands" or "Ed
Wood," there was a lad named Tim Burton. And this morbid but
talented lad wanted to make movies. And so back in 1984, while
working as an animator at Disney, Burton made a 20-minute short
called "Frankenweenie," a black-and-white tale about a boy who
revives his dead dog. It was so imaginative and peculiar that
Disney fired the young animator and postponed their release of
the movie so it wouldn't unduly horrify their youthful audience.
Things change, especially when the young lad who wanted to make
movies ended up making mo