Editing Who Framed Roger Rabbit (section)

===Filming===
[[File:Judgedoom.PNG|thumb|Judge Doom (played by [[Christopher Lloyd]]) threatens Roger Rabbit before introducing him to the dip. [[Mime artist]]s, [[puppeteer]]s, [[mannequin]]s, and [[robotic arm]]s were commonly used during filming to help the actors interact with "open air and imaginative cartoon characters".<ref name="ears" />]]

Williams admitted he was "openly disdainful of the Disney [[bureaucracy]]"<ref name="Katz" /> and refused to work in Los Angeles. Accommodating Williams and his animators, production moved to England where a studio, Walt Disney Animation UK (subsuming Richard Williams Animation), was created for this purpose;<ref name="Disney News Fall 1987">{{cite magazine |last=Solomon |first=Charles |title=Future Disney Classics: New Animated Features on the Way |url=https://archive.org/details/DisneyNewsMagazine_Vol22.4_1987.Fall/page/33 |magazine=[[Disney News]] |date=Fall 1987 |access-date=September 2, 2019}}</ref><ref name="LA Times 880622">{{cite magazine |last=Solomon |first=Charles |title=The Animated Arena of 'Roger Rabbit': Integration of Cartoons With Live Action Will Set Standard. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-22-ca-4589-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215003800/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-22-ca-4589-story.html |url-status=live |archive-date=February 15, 2020 |magazine=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=June 22, 1988 |access-date=September 2, 2019 }}</ref> located at The Forum, 74–80 Camden Street, in [[Camden Town, London]], while the live-action production was based at [[Elstree Studios (Shenley Road)|Elstree Studios]]. Disney and Spielberg also told Williams that in return for doing the film, they would help distribute his unfinished film ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]''.<ref name="Katz" /> Supervising animators included Van Citters, [[Dale Baer]], [[Michael Peraza]], [[Joe Ranft]], [[Tom Sito]], [[James Baxter (animator)|James Baxter]], [[David Bowers (director)|David Bowers]], [[Andreas Deja]], [[Mike Gabriel]], [[Chris Jenkins (film producer)|Chris Jenkins]], [[Phil Nibbelink]], [[Nik Ranieri]], [[Simon Wells]], and [[Bruce W. Smith]]; Williams and associate producer [[Don Hahn]] spearheaded the animation production. The animation production was split between Walt Disney Animation UK and a specialized unit in Los Angeles, set up by [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Feature Animation]] and supervised by Baer.<ref>Wolf, Scott (2008). "[https://archive.today/20120908053504/http://www.mouseclubhouse.com/Interviews/don-hahn/don-hahn-beauty-roger-rabbit.htm DON HAHN talks about 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?']". ''Mouseclubhouse.com''. Retrieved December 31, 2009.</ref> The production budget continued to escalate, while the shooting schedule ran longer than expected. When the budget reached $40 million, Disney CEO [[Michael Eisner]] seriously considered shutting down production, but studio chairman [[Jeffrey Katzenberg]] talked him out of it.<ref name="Katz">Stewart, p.87</ref> Despite the budget escalating to over $50 million, Disney moved forward on production because they were enthusiastic to work with Spielberg.<ref name="Williams" />

[[VistaVision]] cameras installed with [[motion-control]] technology were used for the photography of the live-action scenes, which would be composited with animation. Rubber mannequins of Roger Rabbit, Baby Herman, and the Toon Patrol portrayed the animated characters during rehearsals to teach the actors where to look when acting with "open air and imaginative cartoon characters".<ref name="ears" /> Many of the live-action props held by cartoon characters were shot on set with the props either held by robotic arms or manipulated with strings, similar to a [[marionette]].<ref name="comment" />  For example, a test was shot at ILM where an actor playing the detective would climb down a fire escape and the rabbit is supposed to follow and he knocks down some stacked boxes. Naturally, there would not be a rabbit during the test, so the camera would go down the fire escape and the boxes would fall when a wire was pulled.<ref name=":1" /> The actor who played the voice of Roger, Charles Fleischer, insisted on wearing a Roger Rabbit costume while on the set, to get into character.<ref name="ears" /> [[Principal photography]] began on December 12, 1986,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/95710/who-framed-roger-rabbit/#notes |title=Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Miscellaneous Notes |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=May 30, 2025}}</ref> and lasted for seven and a half months at Elstree Studios, with an additional month in Los Angeles and at [[Industrial Light & Magic]] (ILM) for [[Chroma key|blue screen]] effects of Toontown.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} The [[Dimco Buildings]] in London were dressed as the fictional [[Acme Corporation|Acme Factory]].<ref name="dimco3">{{cite web |author=The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations |title=Who Framed Roger Rabbit filming locations |url=https://www.movie-locations.com/movies/w/whoframed.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060326214824/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/w/whoframed.html |archive-date=26 March 2006 |access-date=2007-10-02}}</ref> The entrance of [[Red Studios Hollywood|Desilu Studios]] in Los Angeles served as the fictional Maroon Cartoon Studio lot.<ref>[[Robert Zemeckis]], [[Frank Marshall (film producer)|Frank Marshall]], [[Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman|Jeffrey Price]], [[Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman|Peter Seaman]], [[Steve Starkey]], and [[Ken Ralston]]. ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Blu-ray audio commentary'', 2013, [[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]]</ref>