The Nine Disney Animated Masterpieces
Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty
With a simple cut-away transition, suddenly we are looking down on a surface of water and seeing a reflection of flower blossoms falling toward us from above. The actual blossoms meet their reflections and then skim away downstream on the...
By the 1930s Tchaikovsky’s (1840-1893) 25-minute suite of eight dances had completely eclipsed his full-length three-hour ballet written in 1892 a year before the composer’s death. No longer, however: the full two-act ballet nowadays has become a Christmastime staple. Still,...
After the decade-long hiatus in feature-length animation during World War II and its aftermath the three films that kicked off the ’Fifties – Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan – capitalized on technologies already in use previously but with...
