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The first and fairest meets the latest for Thanksgiving!
November 25, 2009 — The Princess And The Frog is here! Plus Snow White back on DVD leads a comparison of all available editions, plus comments on “It’s A Wonderful… |
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Shrek the Third fun facts
…Pigs The Big Bad Wolf The Gingerbread Man Pinocchio Three Blind Mice Cinderella Snow White Sleeping Beauty Rapunzel Little Red Riding… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…would never have made the giant leap to CGI fare that dominates the marketplace nowadays, and, for good or bad, just as another pioneering animated film, Snow White And The… |
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Enchanted
…tower, surrounded by the friendly forest critters we’ve come to know most notably from Snow White and Sleeping Beauty – only, they’re not quite how we remember them. There’s a… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…little, but there’s nothing here that approaches the sheer fan wallowing that a Snow White, Bambi or Aladdin have provided in recent releases. The disc – predictably – kicks off… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…6-5000, Stupor Duck, The Abominable Snow Rabbit and Hollywood Daffy, plus a collection of fairytale spoofs including Bewitched Bunny and Little Red Walking Hood, a dedicated disc of Clampett classics… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…very good in doing live-action fairytales like Sleeping Beauty and Snow White and stuff like that. And they had very rich costumes; they spent a lot of money on costumes… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2
…featuring Filmation’s own Quackula joined the classic characters. A Snow White Christmas Special was a one-hour 1980 show done for CBS. Contrary to tradition, Snow was joined by seven giants… |
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Russell Schroeder has retrieved Disney’s Lost Chords!
…offers even more exciting and never-heard before insight about the history of Disney’s greatest films, from Snow White to Hercules. Did you know about all the songs that were composed… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition
…gamble: the lavishly produced Sleeping Beauty had proven an elaborate and costly film to make, and had not performed as previous Disney fairytales Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs and… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…know how, shocked at Walt Disney’s success with his first animated feature Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Paramount realised they were in business with the cartoon studio whose leading… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…Disney films that began with Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs 40 years earlier, with the films that just preceded it all having had Walt’s thumbprints on them to some… |
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Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King
On December 21, 1937, Walt Disney Productions premiered Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs to an audience that was hesitant about a full-length animated feature. Beating box office expectations, the… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…the bad and the…wait, that’s not right! I met two of Walt’s most celebrated ladies: the sweet, Snow White, and the sour, Cruella de Vil, who when I told her… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 3 and 4
…about restoring their vast animated shorts catalog to the near-quality of the feature film clean-ups such as Snow White and Pinocchio, I heartily supported the trade-off of having to witness… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…a teaser and trailer, are the same as before, the first sprouting flowery words about the legacy and innovation of Disney animation from Snow White to Roger Rabbit, with a… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…memories of a host of Disney performers, from Snow White’s live-action reference Marge Champion and Mousketeers Tommy Cole, Cheryl Holdridge, Don Grady, and Bobby Burgess, to Babes In Toyland’s Tommy… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…which includes copious extras. It even comes with a soundtrack CD! Cinderella and Snow White got hardcover books packaged in their boxes, and these as well as Alice In Wonderland… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…of a gamble: the lavishly produced Sleeping Beauty had proven an elaborate and costly film to make, and had not performed as previous Disney fairytales Snow White And The Seven… |
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Disney to release throw-back VHS tapes of recent animated films
…1994 to 1999. That line was the first time such classics as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Melody Time, The Lion King, and Mulan were made available to consumers…. |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…than average production values. Previously brought to film by RKO in the 1930 feature Check And Double Check, featuring the white actor-creators Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll in “blackface”, the… |
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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
…several parallels to the original special. In 2005, Classic Media released The Legend of Frosty the Snowman as a sequel to Frosty the Snowman. Finally, last year, Warner Brothers released… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
…same, featuring two packed discs of chronologically listed black and white shorts, as well as two discs in sparkling Technicolor, an unexpected treat! Disc One’s Metrotone Shorts And Two-Reel Specials… |
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Mickey Mouse: The Black And White Years
…again. And speaking of Walt Disney Treasures DVD comparisons, let’s swing the clock back and glance an eye over the Mickey Mouse In Black And White set’s LaserDisc counterpart in… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…him to resolve to never work for another employer again, and Mickey Mouse’s debut in 1928 remained the opening of the floodgates that let Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia and all… |
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Some Day My Prints Will Come…!
I’m was hoping to have my full review of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs up in time for the weekend, but I’m still several hours away from that going… |
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Tooning In, and tuning up, with composer Shawn Patterson!
Ever since Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs became the first film to have its songs and score released as an original soundtrack album (no compact discs back in those… |
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Home On The Range
…years is the production line that started with Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs in 1937, and continued through Walt’s death with The Jungle Book. Even in the early 80s,… |
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Walt: The Man Behind The Myth
…would make his first foray into animated features, creating the field itself with Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, in 1937. The documentary Walt: The Man Behind The Myth is… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…deal and a gamble as Walt Disney’s own first forays into feature animation, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs nearly 60 years before. Since that film’s success in 1995, each… |
