Since we won’t be posting a full Saturday Morning Cartoons write-up this weekend, here’s a couple of awesome Disney Christmas shorts featuring everyone’s favorite waterfowl, Donald Duck. The first, 1942’s “Donald’s Snow Fight,” features Donald declaring snow “war” on his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. Donald’s legendary mischievousness is nothing compared to what those three…
Let me just start by saying I absolutely adore this week’s movie. Part of the three-way tie for my affections, there is just something about this story that has always struck a chord with me (maybe it’s the spaghetti), but I remember wearing out a copy of the VHS as a kid. Lady and the…
The second in a series of what would come to be known as the “English cycle” of animated films, Walt Disney’s adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s classic children’s tale, Peter Pan, was released in 1953 to much of the same critical furor that surrounded its predecessor, Alice in Wonderland (1951). As with the previous film, Disney’s…
One of my favorite stories of all time is the tale of Alice and her journey down the rabbit hole. I’ve read the Lewis Carroll Alice books (1865’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the 1871 sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There) more times than I can remember over the years, and every…
As has been mentioned a couple dozen times over the past two weeks, today is the day I get to talk about one of my top three favorite Disney films of all time, 1950’s Cinderella. Everyone knows the story of the orphaned cinder girl who works for her evil stepmother and sister(s) and then, with…
Let me preface my discussion of Song of the South by assuring you that I understand the issues some viewers have with this film. I know that this film rubs some people the wrong way, and that there are some who would vilify Disney should they ever try to release this film on video or…
This week for Saturday Morning Cartoons, we’re taking a little journey with Disney into the annals of literature. Released in 1949, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad marks the final “package film” released by the Disney animation studios in the wake of World War II. A year later, Disney would be back in the…
During WWII, many of Disney’s animators were drafted, and eventually the studio itself was commandeered for the war effort, making it difficult to work on big features. Walt had snippets of various things that had been in different stages of production when the war broke out, so he decided to put them to together a…
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