Walt Disney’s “Mickey’s Rival” (1936)
Happy to be back, folks! Here’s an animator breakdown of a Mickey Mouse short I have wanted to write about for a long time…
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Celebrating Disney’s Silly Symphony: “The Night Before Christmas”
In December of 1933, The Walt Disney Studios released its own version of the classic Clement Clarke Moore poem as its fortieth animated Silly Symphony cartoon.
The Old Mill Celebrates 80th Anniversary
This is one of my favorite Silly Symphony shorts because it had no dialogue and relied solely on the visuals and music to tell the story.
Disney’s “The Grasshopper And The Ants” (1934)
Oh, the world owes us a livin’ in this week’s animation breakdown! Based on the Aesop’s fable, The Grasshopper and the Ants has become a Disney classic. Click here for more information.
Walt Disney’s “The Goddess Of Spring” (1934)
This film posed a challenge for the studio, in animating two human characters in a delicate fashion, but the results reveal a problematic struggle.
Disney’s “The Tortoise And The Hare” (1934)
A landmark of Disney animation, Tortoise and the Hare received an Academy Award for Best Animated Short for 1934, defeating Charles Mintz and Walter Lantz’s first cartoons in color, respectively.
