…of us fail more than others, failure is a part of life, and any one failure is unlikely to mark us for life. And if Charlie Brown’s friends seem unfortunately…

…characters (particularly in the early Popeye shorts) were definitively from the Fleischer school of drawing, including the initial use of very non-Segar-like anthropomorphic animals. Gags were often of the mechanical…

…money bin, and the final part of this story (Ali Bubba’s Cave) features the resolution of Glomgold’s stealing of Scrooge’s properties and the fate of Bubba. Super DuckTales Parts 1…

…cutting-edge, and very witty, and sometimes reminded me of the UPA cartoons of the 1950s. At the end, Disney introduces a new Frontierland episode of “The Horse of the West”,…

…Certificate of Authenticity showing the number of your edition (out of 39,500 copies), and a lithograph copy of the theatrical poster for Grin and Bear It. Ink And Paint: The…

…un-official first was Robert Benchley’s tour of the Studio in The Reluctant Dragon, which only featured a couple of shorts as well as the title featurette. Many of the cartoons…

…“life” to characters, although Walt took some time to warm to this look of his productions. Primarily developed for 101 Dalmatians to aid the depiction of hundreds of spotty dogs,…

…fun of his old jungle life with cool bear buddy Baloo. On the other side of the fence, Baloo is feeling the same and breaks into the village at night…

…at the real-life stars of Finding Nemo, with live-action footage of thirteen of the species shown in the film. Playable all together, this adds up to over seven and a…

…reminded me somewhat of John Kricfalusi’s Ren & Stimpy designs. Interestingly, in this day and age of computer animation breaking box office records, perhaps it’s the highly stylised look of…

…anniversary edition DVD is a timely reminder of one of the Studio’s most overlooked and much-maligned features. After the box off punch of Beauty And The Beast and The Lion…

…of mind there are plenty of guffaws to be had in Father Of The Pride, though instead of wincing through it with Mom and Pop and the rest of the…

…efforts should be applauded no end. Going back even as far as the caveman days of VHS, Ray produced retrospective documentary compilations of the pre-Oswald work of Walt Disney (years…

…unique route of incorporating themed cartoons into well-rounded documentary styled programs. We all know the often told genesis of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, and a fair few will have been…

…be that offensive. It certainly isn’t as tiring, noisy or dull as some of the more major animated pictures of the past couple of years, and this in the end…

…a special, one-off DVD celebration of the park. The release promised much…but never materialised. With the debut of the True Life Adventures in Roy Disney’s Legacy Collection series last year,…

…included, think of the way this gem of a short-lived series was treated during its original run. They are also the words of The Critic himself, one Jay Sherman, TV…

…caps, which should warn you to the terror within. A chapter card and money-off coupons complete the package. Speaking of the differences between the “life” of the 2D vs 3D…

…offbeat inclusion of this Ralph Phillips-debut. Seeing Jones at the beginnings of his musings off into out of the ordinary cartoons, Z-z-z-z finds schoolboy Phillips daydreaming during lessons, and while…