Dragon's Lair - Publicity Photo

Bluth, Don--1937 -

1983

Animation (Cinematography).

Video Games.

Dragon's Lair, originally released in 1983, was a video game created for laserdisc. It featured Dirk the Daring on a quest to rescue Princess Daphne from the evil dragon Singe, who had locked her in a wizard's castle. The game was developed by Rick Dyer of Advanced Microcomputer Systems. He had created storyboards to map out the game play, but realized quality animation was needed to complete the project and brought the plans to Don Bluth and his new studio. The budget was so small that the studio animators used their own voices instead of voice actors and each other as models. Princess Daphne was based on Playboy Magazine photos and Marilyn Monroe’s face. The game was an immediate success, but the laserdisc format was not long-lived due to the high cost of production.

Publicity photo of Don Bluth with animated characters from Dragon's Lair.

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Original materials housed in box Photo Rec 7

Image

Photograph

5 x 4 inches

Color transparency

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