Mickey Mouse in “Plight of the Bumblebee”
The Plight of the Bumblebee was a nearly completed Mickey Mouse cartoon from 1951. Director Jack Kinney called it “The best Mickey never finished.”
Tag Archives: Walt Disney
Bugz’ Livez: Antz (Pt. 1)
No, this article’s not all about Dreamworks or Pixar. It’s summer – so I figured we need something appropriate for the season. Summer means picnics. And picnics inevitably mean – ants!
Danny Kaye’s Weavie-Weavies
Walt Disney was always looking for opportunities to find additional work for his artists. One solution was supplying short animated segments for features from other movie studios.
Go To Hades – Part 2A (Sort of)
This week (with apologies), a potpourri of “stuff we missed” due to an inadvertent reversal in order of intended segments of this article last week.
Walt Disney Classified: WEFT and the 3-Point Identification Systems
These were the first U.S. Government contracts awarded to Disney during World War 2 – and opened the floodgates for many other training pictures that consumed the studio for the duration.
Sweepings From the Chimney
In 1965, Poppins-mania was in the air – and there was evidently no end to performers and bands covering various songs from its hit soundtrack.
Disney on Lux Radio Theater – Part Two
Last week, I introduced you to the world of The Lux Radio Theate, a program that featured adaptations of Disney feature films. Here are the remaining four episodes.
Disney on Lux Radio Theater – Part One
For the 1938 broadcast of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney did not want to destroy any illusions – so these episodes had no studio audience.
Walt Disney’s “The Robber Kitten” (1935)
We’re back to animator breakdowns this month! This week, we follow little Ambrose in the Disney Silly Symphony, The Robber Kitten, one of the best – and most overlooked.
A First Attempt at a Disney Music Compilation
By 1942, Walt Disney had compiled quite a catalog of songs – and in that year, somebody at Decca Records thought it would be a good idea to release an “album” of Disney songs.
