Animation Anecdotes #125
Clampett Stories. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946) directed by Bob Clampett features Daffy Duck as famous detective Duck Twacy. Exactly thirty years later at the San Diego Comic-Con, Clampett…
Tag Archives: Walt Disney
“The Three Caballeros” (In Featurette Form)
Walt Disney’s The Three Caballeros (1945) is one of my favorite Disney features – mainly because it’s the least “Disney” animated feature Disney ever made. It’s an “anti-Disney” Disney film,…
Animation Anecdotes #114
Udder Nonsense. When Ralph Bakshi was involved with the Saturday morning series “Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures” (1987), he was constantly running into situations where CBS would give unusual input….
Mickey Mouse in Two New Books
Some of the best Disney scholarship being done today is hidden in the margins of a series of Mickey Mouse comic strip reprint books being published by Fantagraphics Books. David…
Animation Anecdotes #110
The Disappearing Jabberwocky. When the Disney Studio was making the animated feature Alice in Wonderland (1951), there was a planned segment about the dreaded Jabberwocky. Voice legend Stan Freberg was…
Nobody Ever Talks About “Bongo”
Bongo anyone? Nope. Didn’t think so. Does anyone have anything nice to say about Walt Disney’s Bongo? What a sad strange fate. Bongo was a major section of the Walt…
Debunking The Myths: Crusader Rabbit and Walt Disney
How much of what everyone “knows” about animation history is wrong? For example … The first TV cartoon was Crusader Rabbit, in 1949. And Crusader always fought the villainous Dudley…
Walt Disney’s “The Golden Touch” (1935)
Editor’s Note: I always get a kick out of reading about The Golden Touch, the last cartoon Walt Disney himself personally directed. It was a failure – but it taught…
The Mystery of Goofy’s Duo “Freeway Phobia”
Editor’s Note: I’ve always been intrigued by the twin pair of Goofy traffic safety films released by Disney in 1965. The question is: “Why”? Why two of them? Why released…
