Walt In The Tabloids

Here it is in this week's Globe magazine.I'm sure it's all made up but it would explain a lot if true.

Bobby Driscoll's Story

More wacky tabloid lies...Driscoll as rugged "garbage". (his word)Actually I always thought that Walt hired boys who looked like him when he was a kid because all the child stars have a similar look in Disney's films.

Did It Work?

I wonder how they come up with this stuff.

Pre-Caucasian Rodent and Canine

I wonder who decided to make Mickey flesh colored? Do you think there was a meeting where they debated it hotly? They must have thought that the new colors would be more identifiable to Arians.I like both these cartoons a lot because they look so great. ...and I love the way they move. The style is so different from how we animate today. Much more experimental and tailored to the ideas.Here's how

What Disney Did Best 2: Atmosphere

Color, layout, scene planning, camerawork, special effects and music - and more important than any of those individual elements is the hierarchical coordination of them all.the cutesy character stuff kind of gets in the way of the atmosphere, but I guess you gotta put something in there for the Moms and pantywaists in the audience.My favorite parts of classic Disney movies are the sequences that

What Disney Did Best

I like the look of this transitional period of Disney's. It's between the pure rubber hose cartoons of the early 30s and the feature style that eventually abandoned early cartoon sensibility altogether.Disney was still taking advantage of cartoony motion in this period. The design of the characters was changing slightly to accommodate the new techniques of motion that the animators were