The Typography of Disney Animation Logos #10: Transitional Features

Now we work our way through the mid-1980s, and closer towards Disney's rebirth... Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio Fantasia Dumbo and Bambi Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, and Make Mine Music Fun & Fancy Free, Melody Time, and The Adventures of the Ichabod and Mr. Toad Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter …

The Many Logos of Disney Home Ent.

I'm a long-time Disney VHS collector who is fascinated by the little details that differentiate tapes, from all the different eras of Disney's home media division. In a way, it's kind of odd... Walt Disney Home Video had a logo before Walt Disney Productions proper. Walt Disney's films, up until the mid-1950s, had been distributed …

‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ – An Animation Thesis…

My next pick for animation thesis isn't an all-animated film, but it contains a lot of animation... Pure animation, too. Not VFX trickery and lifelike creations. Who Framed Roger Rabbit... A Walt Disney Pictures/Amblin Entertainment film released under Disney's Touchstone banner, spearheaded by Back to the Future trilogy director Robert Zemeckis and executive producer Steven Spielberg, …

15 Underrated Beach Boys Songs

If you're new here or you don't really know me well, here's a few words... I am obsessed with The Beach Boys. I don't play favorites, but in terms of artists and bands? They would be in my Top Ten... Sitting comfortably alongside another 60s act whose name starts with B-E-A. To the intermediate Beach …

Perspective on a Cauldron

When I was perusing the net the other day, I came across a review for a particular animated film that kind of opened my eyes a bit... Author John Kenneth Muir is a long-time movie and media reviewer, and has ran a blog for years. On it, he tackles a wide variety of films and …

Breaking Down Disney’s “Dark Age”: Part 2

In the last part, I took a look at the first films that entered production after Walt Disney's passing in 1966, The Aristocats and Robin Hood. These were two very compromised films, the filmmakers behind them had to be very budget-conscious all the while delivering fun films that would get The Jungle Book's success, and …