For this week’s entry in our Saturday Morning Cartoons series, let’s step away from the classics for a bit and take a brief look at the stellar group of features and short films that are […]
In 1930, Walt Disney gave his flagship character, Mickey Mouse, just what every anthropomorphic rodent needs: a canine companion named Pluto. But Pluto (or, as he was initially known, Pluto the Pup) didn’t start out […]
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 […]
It’s not for nothing that a good many film fans consider 1939 to be one of the greatest years in the history of American film, considering all of the brilliant movies to emerge that year–among […]
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