…were passed around the movie industry without much thought. I was thrilled when my Dad brought home a slew of Disney pictures, Snow White, Dumbo, Lady And The Tramp, One…

…as a faithful translation of White’s book and, Dumbo aside, could be described as the first of the Studio’s more broader knockabout comedies. Is This Thing Loaded? Previously released as…

…fifteen years before, making it, by my count, only the third Studio-generated concept after Dumbo, and the last until the might roar of The Lion King, itself an amalgamation of…

…Elephants of 1941’s Dumbo, with a facial close up that could rival anything Bill Plympton could throw at a rabbit! Although not politically correct by today’s standards, Tall Timber ends…

…park, the show evolved into various formats: either serving as the platform to re-run older Disney classics such as Dumbo or Alice In Wonderland, the stage for brand new, made…

…with The Wild and Cars theatrical trailers (both in anamorphic widescreen no less), Dumbo (oddly using score cues from The Rocketeer) and The Little Mermaid’s DVD reissues, plus AirBuddies, Howl’s…

…a slice of sheer fun that, especially with its up-tempo score, recalled the knockabout fun of a Dumbo or a Jungle Book, I’m not sure anyone was really clambering for…

…anthropomorphic mode of transport, and reveals Walt’s early love of trains. Predating the likes of Casey Jr from Dumbo, Mickey handles himself well as the engineer of his out of…

…Beanstalk fable. Since budget constraints and the onslaught of World War II had meant cutbacks at the studio, the proposed feature was paired with another story, the semi-Dumbo sequel Bongo,…

…LaserDisc fans to keep their version of that). Originally the second half of the feature Fun And Fancy Free, that film had ventriloquist Edgar Bergen relating the Dumbo-esque story of…

…frog chorus which evokes memories of Dumbo’s abstract Pink Elephants scene and predates the kind of look Disney would go for in The Little Mermaid some four years later. Interesting…