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‘Twas The Night Before Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition

…in fact there are exactly NO special features that pertain to the disc’s main feature. Oh, they address the holiday season, with Trailers for the Peanuts holiday specials and the

Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection

…seen as money losers, with no real avenue for recouping their investment. When the film was finished, there was then the issue of actually releasing it, with the main reason…

Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas screen shot and press release

their only course of action is to break into Santa’s workshop and write their own names on the list. By the time their mission is complete, however, they learn a…

LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!

…that they did during their second stint with the studio. Their cartoons were technically proficient, though generally mediocre otherwise. Still, they are beautiful cartoons from the golden age of animation,…

Bedtime Stories

…you factor in the naturally blue tinge of the theatrical poster artwork that’s reproduced here both on a glossy embossed slipcover and the sleeve underneath. There’s a lot of the

New interview, Robinsons promising for Disney, more Treasures, Popeye is coming

then, the REALLY big announcement…The first volume of Popeye The Sailor Man was officially announced this week by Warner Home Video. TV Shows On DVD has the best summary of…

Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy

There is not the traditional squash and stretch of the Fleischer shorts, but there is still a bounce and enthusiasm in the animation that one expects. There is also an…

Cats Don’t Dance

…a lot to be said for Cats Don’t Dance. The DVD supposedly adds the theatrical trailer and the 1947 Tom And Jerry cartoon The Cat Concerto (which won the Best…

The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection

…stories that were under consideration at the Studio at the time until the camera rests on one, The Wind In The Willows. The book opens up, and introduces the warm…

The Disney Song Encyclopedia

…and the taste for Disney, the fact is that we all know at least one Disney song. That’s because the history of the House of Mouse – and American history…

Snow White: The Characters And Legacy Of The First And Fairest Of Them All!

…lonely genius; Disney, the experimenter and planner; the director of the future will partake of all of them; without them he could not exist, whether he ever heard of them…

Big Hero 6

the disc something of a historic release is the inclusion of the Studio’s latest animated short Feast, the Academy Award winner which gives Disney the unique distinction of being the

Preview Animation from Pencils to Pixels

…Staging • The Rule of the Line • Shooting Down the Line • Getting Around the Line • The Cut-Away Shot • Moving the Camera • Moving the Actors •…

South Park: Imaginationland

…and even corporate branding – live in harmony, with the happy folk living one side of a great wall, and the villains residing on the other. When terrorists attack, the

Ariel’s Song: Jodi Benson, a fortunate soul under the sea!

…Mermaid and kindly, they asked all the girls from the show – there were 20 of us – to be part of the audition process. And they auditioned from New…

South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season

…who finds himself bottom of the roll. Proving that the more things change, the more they stay the same, the season’s final moments find a place for the return of…

Disney announces ten animated films through 2012

…A musical set in the greatest city of them all, New Orleans, The Princess and the Frog marks Disney’s return to the timeless art form of traditional animation. The film…

Disneynature: Earth

…without much fanfare or recognition, the work of Attenborough and the BBC clearly being the crews at the forefront of these efforts. With the arrival of high definition, these films…

Director Frank Nissen on Cinderella III: A Twist In Time

…being true to the Stepmother and bringing Cinderella and the Prince into a more modern sensibility. That was the biggest challenge. If you remember, in the first movie, the Prince…

Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies

…I’ve been over there since they started making the movie, chatting with them and giving them some ideas from Tink’s point of view. They’ve been sketching me as I’m there….

Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E

…Little Toaster, and FernGully; The Last Rainforest, and created the original story for the Oscar-nominated Mickey Mouse cartoon, Runaway Brain. I was also the editor for Roy E. Disney and…

The Dad Behind The Myth: An Interview With Walt Disney’s Daughter Diane

…down for their [Walt and Lilly’s] anniversary party the night before the opening of DisneyLand. They had it on the big Mark Twain riverboat with all their friends, and it…

Cars

…fine points about the movie, and indeed a great many of them too (the gentle digs at the nature of how humans deck out their own cars are hilariously amusing,…

Ratatouille

…found from the disc’s Main Menu. A Pixar big screen tradition are their wonderful animated shorts that play on the front of their features in theaters, and the theatrical short…

Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine For You

…as kind of filler to the rest of the disc, rounding up the 50 minutes of the original VHS release. There’s nothing particularly noteworthy about the episode, but using Piglet…

Animated Views: A Retrospective

…to the United States and Disney World, he was hooked on animation. I remember being glued to the hotel channel in the morning before hitting the parks, waiting for The

Strange Magic

their lap. Based on the fact that it was given the January spot on their calendar, only announced three months before it was released, and was put out under the

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Studio Cast Recording

…with the subject. Recognizing the differences is key when comparing the cast recording to the film soundtrack. Virtually all of the songs from the film are carried over, but there…

Danger lurks behind you in DuckTales Season 3 trailer

The trailer for Season 3 of Disney’s DuckTales reboot is now online, and can be checked out in the player above. As has become the norm for this show, there…

New Trolls World Tour music video premieres ahead of film’s home video release

Trolls World Tour didn’t get to enjoy the theatrical run it had been anticipating, but it’s at least able to still have the usual digital and disc releases. To help…