As recounted in Stefan Kanfer’s history of animation, Serious Business (1997), early in 1933, Walt Disney gave a personal tour of the Disney animation studio to movie star Mary Pickford. Disney was considering making a live-action version […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year … time for Christmas cartoons! Each Saturday this month, we’ll be taking a fond look back at some classic holiday shenanigans from some very familiar animated folks. First up, let’s revisit the […]
This year marks the 55th anniversary of the release of Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, which debuted in theaters in 1959. To mark the occasion, Disney has dipped not once but twice into Beauty territory this year, with […]
In 2013, Disney brought their flagship character, Mickey Mouse, roaring back to animated life in a series of cartoon shorts that air intermittently between programming on the Disney Channel. These stylized cartoons are at once […]
A searingly funny and very loose adaptation of the traditional Three Little Pigs tale, the Tex Avery-directed Blitz Wolf premiered eight months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent entrance of the United States into World War […]
Disney’s proclivity for ill-advisedly resurrecting its “glory days” is fully evident in Maleficent, the studio’s new re-imagining of the iconic villain from their 1959 animated fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. In taking a fresh look at the title […]
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