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Saturday Morning Cartoons: A Selection of Animated Red Riding Hoods

Sep 3, 2016 Brandie Ashe 0

Fairy tales have long served as source material for filmmakers–only natural when one considers how universal those stories truly are. These fantastical, largely archetypal narratives draw on moral codes and lessons that transcend time, telling and […]

Animation

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Flowers and Trees (1932)

Aug 27, 2016 Brandie Ashe 0

In 1929, Walt Disney and composer Carl Stalling collaborated on the creation of a new series for the Disney animation crew: episodic cartoons based around particular melodies, in which the action was driven not by […]

Animation

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 […]

Animation

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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