Classic 3-D Disney Animation
Just as the fad was taking off, Walt Disney released two cartoons in 3-D in 1953.
Tag Archives: Walt Disney
Happy Anniversary to Walt Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland!”
On this day in 1951, Disney’s most offbeat and unfathomable animated features premiered–but it took years for the story LP to appear on Disneyland Records.
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.”
Donald Duck in “The Plastics Inventor” (1944)
Not only an entertaining and well-made cartoon, it also has several unusual points of historical interest.
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.
Walt Disney’s “Peter and the Wolf” on Records
Since we looked at The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in our last installment, let’s flip the Disneyland LP to Side One for Disney’s interpretation of a children’s musical classic.
In His Own Words: Oliver Wallace on “Der Fuehrer’s Face”
The iconic theme song of the only animated cartoon for which Donald Duck won an Academy Award. How Oliver Wallace wrote the song, Der Fuehrer’s Face.
More About Jack Bradbury
For too many animation and funny animal comic book fans, the work of Jack Bradbury is unknown and underappreciated.
Walt Disney’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” on Records
In this anniversary year of both Fantasia and Fantasia 2000, we take a Spin through a stack of recordings inspired by Mickey Mouse’s classic clash with bewitched brooms.
