In DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990), Scrooge McDuck adds to his wealth by finding the hidden treasure of the legendary thief, Collie Baba. Here, Uncle Scrooge and Collie Baba are made from sea shells and shark teeth found on the beaches of Venice, Florida (in addition to paint and just a little bit of metal hardware--for Scrooge's spectacles and Collie Baba's mustache and goatee).
The movie was a spin-off of the 1987 syndicated series Disney's DuckTales. Which itself was an adaptation of the Uncle Scrooge comic books series that really took off in 1952 (the character was first introduced in 1947).
Alan Young voiced Uncle Scrooge in the original DuckTales TV series and film. He began playing Scrooge in a 1974 record album adaptation of A Christmas Carol which was later adapted into the famous 1983 film, Mickey's Christmas Carol. 1990s kids may also know Young from his role in the live action series Mister Ed (a 1961 sitcom about a man with a talking horse) that ran in reruns on Nick at Nite.
DuckTales The Movie was created by Disney TV Animation and animated by Walt Disney Animation France and Walt Disney Animation UK (the studios in France and the UK closed long ago). The screenplay was written by Alan Burnett, who went on to guide the stories for Batman The Animated Series at Warner Brothers. A real highlight of the movie for me is the adventurous soundtrack by David Newman.
The character of Collie Baba has a very interesting function in the film. He is an important figure in the story, but the audience only gets brief hints of what he looks like in the form of statues and iconography.
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