Originally Released: July 1951 Runtime: 75 Minutes Directed By: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske “The Time has come, my little friends, to talk of other things. Of shoes and ships and sealing wax. Of cabbages and Kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether […]
Original Release: February 1950 Runtime: 75 Minutes Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wilfred Jackson Something that I have ranted to friends and family about since starting this project is that it presents the potential to watch films which I may have never seen or that I have […]
Many of our friends have asked about this story and since its been a while since I did a personal story on my blog and ALSO because my blog has been very Disney-fied lately, I feel that this tale deserves, nay, begs to be here. Enjoy! * […]
Original Release: October 1949 Runtime: 68 Minutes Directed By: Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi and James Algar The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad marks two big land marks in this project’s run. For starters, it is the last of the package film era, a series of collected shorts […]
Original Release: November 1946 Runtime: 94 Minutes Directed By: Harve Foster & Wilfred Jackson I’m sure there are more peaceful and less controversial films to start a new series with but when looking through the chronological order of all Disney films, I was struck by Song of the […]
For any of you who have been following my Vault Disney series, you will know that I have just reached the end of the first ten films. Since starting this project I have been showered with surprises. I’ve been surprised at just how many of these films I’ve […]
Tonight I had the overwhelming pleasure of seeing Jessie Bear perform in her new almost one woman show, Type What Now. In the play, Jessie recounts her real life tale of being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and oh what a journey it is. Jessie starts of by […]
Original Release: May 1948 Runtime: 75 Minutes Here we are, at the end of the package film era of Disney, and all I can say is, “Thank goodness.” In the 1940’s Walt Disney Studios created package films, which were collections of several short films made into one feature, […]
Original Release: September 1947 Runtime: 73 Minutes If you read my article on the previous film in this series, Make Mine Music, you’ll know that I was starting to get a little tired of the package film era. Essentially, with World War II raging in the background, taking […]
Original Release: April 1946 Runtime: 76 Minutes If it hasn’t become clear yet by my mentioning in every article, let me say it again here, World War II was not kind to Disney. Several of the studios big budget films had flopped and the small budget films had […]