More than a Disney Background Painter: The Ephemera Art of Bill Layne
Layne was a background artist for the Walt Disney Studios in the 1940s before embarking on a robust commercial art career.
Tag Archives: Walt Disney
Big Bad Blockbuster: The 90th Anniversary of Disney’s “Three Little Pigs.”
The Three Little Pigs arrived in theaters with the same force as the Big Bad Wolf blowing a house in. It was a blockbuster.
The Disney WWII U.S. Navy Aerology Series Film Pamphlets
It seems like an appropriate time to write about the Disney WWII weather films and associated pamphlets.
Music with Character: The 75th Anniversary of “Melody Time”
Managing to avoid most of the pitfalls of its predecessors, Melody Time was the last of Disney’s musical mélanges, and certainly the best.
Cartoon Characters on the Radio!
The frequent appearances of animated characters, particularly Bugs Bunny, on vintage radio shows, prove how popular they really were.
Disney Goes To War
An interesting piece from the August 31st 1942 issue of LIFE magazine that I thought it would be worth posting here.
Hank Ketcham and Animation
Most people do not recall that cartoonist Ketcham got his start working at Walter Lantz and later at Disney before he entered the Navy in 1942.
In His Own Words: Walt Disney on Peter Pan
You never know what you might find in obscure, forgotten magazines. Here’s something I found.
“Snow White” and the Seven Labels, Part 1
Saluting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released nationwide in February 1938, here’s the first of two looks at adaptations on records.
The Friz and the Diz
In January 1927, Friz Freleng boarded a train and headed to California to work for Walt Disney. Here’s why that didn’t last very long.
