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 […]
Original Release: December 1944 Runtime: 72 Minutes I think it’s safe to say that The Three Caballeros is the spiritual successor to Saludos Amigos and to that point, it manages to top its predecessor in every single possible way. The film marked the second package film for Disney […]
Original Release: October 1941 Runtime: 64 minutes Jim Korkis, an excellent writer on all things Disney, mentions in his book that “Every Disney movie is someone’s favorite Disney movie.” (The Revised Vault of Walt: Unofficial, Unauthorized, Uncensored Disney Stories Never Told) And as I watch these movies in […]
Original Release: November 1940 Runtime: 126 minutes Even by today’s standards, Fantasia, stands as a huge experimental piece of media. There is nothing else quite like it (Unless you count its follow-up Fantasia 2000). As Deems Taylor, the master of ceremonies in the film, says early on, Fantasia […]
Original Release: February 1940 Runtime: 88 minutes Despite the fact that Pinocchio was released a mere 3 years after Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, the differences in story-telling and animation feel decades apart. Pinocchio seems to transcend its predecessor in every way possible. Let’s start with brass […]
Year of Release: 1937 Runtime: 83 minutes If the only story anyone knew about Walt Disney was of what he went through in order to get Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs produced, I think it would still be enough to land him in the ‘inspirational’ category. The film […]
Last week, to my extreme pleasure, I, a 27 year old man, visited Disney World for the very first time in my life. This was my first Disney theme park experience and I was excited, terrified and a little anxious. Would it be fun even though I wasn’t […]
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