In His Own Words: Ferdinand Horvath on Disney Cartoon Gags
From Horvath’s personal papers was this transcription of a lecture he gave at Disney’s in 1937.
Category Archives: ANIMATION ANECDOTES
Who Was Ferdinand Horvath?
Hundreds of thousands of artists worked in animation over the decades but very few of their names are known to the people who enjoyed their work.
Mad Madam Mim
While Madam Mim is cited as the main villainess of Disney’s The Sword in The Stone, her character and short scene are completely irrelevant to the story.
Remembering ‘Rescue Rangers’
There is a huge fandom for the Disney Afternoon block – and in particular, Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers.
Who Was Volus Jones?
This Disney veteran was tagged as a “shorts guy” – but he was so much more.
Classic 3-D Disney Animation
Just as the fad was taking off, Walt Disney released two cartoons in 3-D in 1953.
The Disney “Alice in Wonderland” Never Made
Walt purchased the rights to Alice in Wonderland in 1938 — in particular the rights to reproduce the original Tenniel drawings.
In His Own Words: H.T. Kalmus on Disney in Technicolor
Walt Disney in 1940 said, “We could do many things with color that no other medium could do.”
The Black Cauldron’s Witches of Morva
The witch threesome in The Black Cauldron were meant to resemble the famous Fates of Greek mythology.
The 1941 Disney Strike
In its June 1941 issue, The Screen Actor Magazine published an extensive article about the Disney Strike, which at that time was a little over a week old.
