Continuing our weekly trip down Disney memory lane, today’s Saturday Morning Cartoons entry will focus on the studio’s two trips south of the border: 1942’s Saludos Amigos and 1944’s The Three Caballeros. These two films were elicited by the United States government during World War II to support President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ongoing Good Neighbor…
I cannot tell you how much I adore this week’s Saturday Morning Cartoon. This is one video that I practically wore out as a kid from repeated viewings. I can quote this movie verbatim while watching. It has one of my favorite animal characters of all time: Thumper, the adorable, smart-assed rabbit. As a child,…
Where do I begin on Dumbo? It’s difficult to bring myself to write a synopsis, because I feel like it would be a rather superfluous thing to do. I suppose I’ll get straight to talking about its merits. I loved Dumbo as a child. I can’t remember what about it particularly, but I loved it.…
Ohh, Fantasia. What joys don’t you provide? Well, quite a few, if some folks are to be believed. Over the years, I have heard all manner of reactions to this film: some love it for its sheer artistry and musical magic, while others find it to be monotonous, boring, over-hyped, and overblown, and still others…
This week for Saturday Morning Cartoons, we’re taking a look at Walt Disney’s second full-length animated feature–the best production of his animation studio’s early years, in my ever-humble opinion–the wonderfully magical Pinocchio, released by RKO in 1940. In this film, more so than in its predecessor, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, everything comes together…
As we kick off our salute to classic Disney animation (and our Saturday Morning Cartoons series!), there’s no better place to begin than with the one that started it all: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released by RKO in limited theaters in 1937 and later across the country in 1938. I have to admit…
It should come as no surprise that the three of us grew up loving animated films in general, and Walt Disney feature films in particular. We grew up in the time of the “clamshell” video cases, and I remember a veritable forest of them populating the shelves of my parents’ entertainment center. In fact, they’re…
You’re welcome. 🙂 I don’t know what made me think of this today, but I was glad to find it posted online! In “The Autograph Hound,” released by Walt Disney Studios in 1939, Donald Duck travels around “Hollywood Studios” in search of autographs from the famous stars of the day, all while trying to allude…
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