Animation Anecdotes #223
Disney had acquired certain rights to Winnie The Pooh in 1961 and made a featurette released in 1966. However, it turned out that author A.A. Milne had granted some of his rights to more than one entity.
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Disney’s “On Ice” (1935)
This week, we’ll look into another bona-fide Disney classic! Released in 1935, “On Ice” blends two breeds of artists present at the studio — seasoned animators and their less experienced counterparts.
Walter Lantz Plays it Lucky, 1928
Walt Disney liked to say that it all started with a Mouse, but there exists a Bizarro universe where the story goes differently. Here is the flip-side of that Mickey origin tale, where Walter Lantz is the guy at the table left holding all the chips.
Walt Disney and Jiminy Cricket On The Record
The only record Walt Disney made for his own label, and the edited version with Jiminy Cricket, are featured with the Disneyland 60th Anniversary on the horizon. A DAY AT…
Disney’s “Pluto’s Judgement Day” (1935)
Today, a little variety for this week, with our first Disney breakdown! Just for the record, for some readers that have been wondering, I have no access to any drafts…
In His Own Words: Frank Thomas on the “Sleeping Beauty” Fairies
On the Disney animated feature Sleeping Beauty (1959), animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston were assigned to the three good fairies: Flora, Fauna and Merryweather. The fairies’ names subtly indicated…
Animation Anecdotes #215
Duck Dodger Jr. and An Unwelcome Third Dimension. On the Tiny Toons television series, the 1991 episode featuring Plucky Duck as Duck Dodgers Jr. was storyboarded by the talented Mike…
Walt Disney’s “The Grain that Built a Hemisphere” (1943)
An earlier column in this series was devoted to the Disney film Tuberculosis (1945), produced for nontheatrical distribution in Latin America as part of the government’s Good Neighbor program during…
Walt Disney’s “Standard Parade For 1939”
Not all of the nontheatrical Disney cartoons were educational or public-service films. Some were sponsored films, undertaken for commercial sponsors who were willing to pay to have the prestige of…
Walt Disney’s “Tuberculosis” (1944)
One of my favorite experiences in writing a book on the Disney Good Neighbor films of the 1940s (published in 2009 as South of the Border with Disney) was compiling…
