Tag: Disney Film Spot
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Disney Film Spot: Fun and Fancy Free
In order of Disney filmography, after Make Mine Music, the live-action/animation hybrid Song of the South follows suit – however as it had never been officially recognized as a Walt Disney Animation Studios film (formerly Walt Disney Feature Animation), the film that follows is the similarly-packaged Fun and Fancy Free. The reasons for Song of…
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Disney Film Spot: Make Mine Music
Continuing our trip through Disney’s era of “packaged films”, the next feature leaves the continent of South America and returns to the United States for a lesson in music. Make Mine Music was a semi-continuation of Fantasia‘s musical exploration, only instead of animating to classical music, Disney decided to give us a brief history in contemporary…
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Disney Film Spot: The Three Caballeros
Another in a long line of Disney packaged films, The Three Caballeros is a brisk 72-minute romp through the cultures and festivities of Latin America, as seen through the eyes of the artists and animators accompanying Walt Disney on his goodwill tour of the land. Compared to the previous film, Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros…
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Disney Film Spot: Saludos Amigos
War changed the creative environment at the Walt Disney Studios in 1942. When America officially entered World War II, the army began occupying the studio, creating a tension that made it hard for the artists to work together harmoniously. After all, many of the artists were young men, eager to join the war effort. Add…
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Disney Film Spot: Dumbo
Time has been much kinder to Dumbo than film and animation historians think. What was once a source of major discussions involving political and cultural debates has now shed the then-current events of its past and become nothing more than a classic in the pantheon of Disney films. During its production, Dumbo faced numerous challenges,…
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Disney Film Spot: Fantasia
Fantasia is an interesting film in that it came right after Snow White and Pinocchio and set out to be so different from the usual Disney product that nobody really knew what to make of it. An entire feature-length film devoted to classical music? Coming off the Great Depression and in the midst of World…
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Disney Film Spot: Bambi
In 1942, The Walt Disney Studios, which had been known for so long as the beacon of fantasy and whimsy, decided to tackle an impossibly ambitious project in the midst of World War II that, not only lacked any remnants of magic, but was made to be a coming-of-age tale about life and death. And…
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Disney Film Spot: Pinocchio
When Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became a massive hit for the Walt Disney Studio, fans were quick to pressure the studio into making a sequel. Such was a film society that was used to studios making cheap follow-ups to big hits (a product of the Great Depression). After all, this was the same culture that released…
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Disney Film Spot: Snow White
Much can be said about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The usual reasons for its universal acclaim range from it being the “first full-length animated feature” to “the first Disney fairy tale”. However, these reasons alone aren’t enough to justify the film’s longevity; if that were so, we would only remember it for historical…
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Disney Film Spot: An Introduction
Welcome to a new segment on Geeks Corner. For the past few years, I have been doing Song Saturdays on DAPs Magic where every week, I would analyze and review a different Disney song. Given that I have almost exhausted that rather large cache of songs, Mr. DAPs and I have decided to create Disney…
