Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty
Remarked Disney animator extraordinaire Marc Davis (1913-2000): Animation is an anachronism. It is that rarity – a handmade product in a mechanized age.[1] “Hand-made” yes, but intricately dependent on machinery! Because animated films share with other cinema the technology of...
Walt Disney’s thorough undivided and detailed attention to any particular project – what is today called “micromanagement” – seems to have been the determining factor in that project’s artistic quality. Some would assert that Walt’s influence was limited mainly to...
Although Disney’s creations share with other forms of cinema the telling of stories, the big difference is that originally everything on the screen was drawn or painted by hand, a fact which aligns them more closely with pictorial fine art....
So what exactly is it that qualifies any particular work of art as a “masterpiece”? The dictionary definition is simply “a supreme intellectual or artistic achievement.” Check! But I like art collector Dar Reedy’s broader take on this question: …a...
Walter Elias Disney died December 15, 1966, just 10 days after his 65th birthday. During his lifetime he directed the creation of thirteen full-length animated films nine of which are masterpieces unequaled in that art form: Snow White and the...
