Disney’s Preview Palace: The Alex Theater
Today, animation fans watch their favorite animated cartoons (even the classic cartoons of the Golden Age) on high-tech equipment on a huge high definition screen in the comforts of their…
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Animation Anecdotes #210
Fairy Voices. One of the things that made the early Disney animated features so memorable was the careful selection of voices for the characters. The voices for the three fairies,…
A Spin Special: Stan Freberg Records
The late Stan Freberg’s performance as Disney’s “Mickey Mouse” and his work for George Pal are celebrated today in this special “Animation Spin” tribute – to a man who’s unique…
The Projector from “The Three Caballeros” (1945)
For nearly four decades, I have written articles about Disney and animation for magazines, books and websites. Sometimes the character or film has been written about so many times that…
Disney and Early Technicolor
In 1932, Walt Disney had moved from Columbia (where he was very dissatisfied with the way they were handling his animated short cartoons) to United Artists where he had a…
What’s Your Favorite Cartoon Title?
What is your favorite cartoon title, and what makes a good one? While hunting through things from my childhood at my Mothers, I discovered a few pieces of paper that…
Walt Disney’s “The Three Caballeros” on Record
To celebrate the presentation of The Three Caballeros and other “Treasures of the Disney Vault” this Sunday on TCM, here’s a look at the soundtrack album. Walt Disney Presenta LOS…
Japanese Color Animation 1907 to 1945 – Part 1
Broadly speaking, Japanese color animation is seen as a post-World War II phenomenon. Only beginning in 1958, with Tōei Dōga’s 東映動画 Hakujaden 白蛇伝 (Legend of the White Snake; US title:…
Animation Anecdotes #201
Disney’s Boysenberry Mountain. In the Disney animated feature, Fantasia (1940), the majority of the action in the Pastoral Symphony takes place in the brightly colored Elysian Fields at the foot…
In Her Own Words: Virginia Davis
The Disney Brothers Studio did not start with a mouse but a little girl named Virgina Davis. On October 16, 1923, a New York distributor, M. J. Winkler, contracted to…
