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Saturday Morning Cartoons: A Vintage Hallowe’en

Oct 31, 2015 Brandie Ashe 0

A wild, weird, and wonderful All Hallows’ Eve to you all! This week, The Retro Set offers a smorgasbord of classic Halloween cartoons for your ghoulish pleasure–some familiar, some perhaps less so. Felix the Cat […]

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A Whole “Blu” World: Aladdin Diamond Edition

Oct 28, 2015 Brandie Ashe 0

A rebellious princess falls in love with an orphaned petty thief on the streets of an Arabian kingdom. She is fifteen, going on sixteen, and at the insistence of her father–and the laws of the […]

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No One But Donald Duck: A Birthday Tribute

Jun 9, 2015 Brandie Ashe 0

On June 9, 1934, the Walt Disney animation studios released The Wise Little Hen, a Silly Symphony adapted from a classic fairy tale. As with most of the Silly Symphonies, the cartoon did not feature any […]

Animation

Birds of a Feather: Disney’s Latin America and The Three Caballeros

Mar 14, 2015 Brandie Ashe 2

On Sunday, March 15th, Turner Classic Movies will open the Disney Vault for another night of rare programming. As part of the evening’s celebration, TCM will air the 1944 film The Three Caballeros, followed by the 2008 documentary Walt […]

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A Brief Look: The 2015 Animated Oscar Nominees

Feb 21, 2015 Brandie Ashe 0

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 […]

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Playful Pluto (1934)

Jan 17, 2015 Brandie Ashe 2

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 […]

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