The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Persistence of Disney
The Persistence of Disney, Part 14: Peter Pan (1953)
If James Barrie hadn’t invented Peter Pan then his adventures might just as well have come from the mind of Walt Disney. The story of...
The Persistence of Disney, Part 13: Alice in Wonderland (1951)
One constant in the story of Walt Disney seems to have been an ever-persistent passion for Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” That is reasonable because,...
The Persistence of Disney, Part 12: Cinderella (1950)
After nearly a decade of sidelining his artistic yearnings in favor of World War II and frustrating limits of his budget, Walt Disney celebrated the...
The Persistence of Disney, Part 11: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
From 1942 until 1949, Walt Disney’s animated output came in bits and pieces. That is, his features came in collections called “package films,” which were...
The Persistence of Disney, Part 10: Melody Time (1948)
The package films in Walt Disney’s animated cannon made between 1942 and 1949 are an odd bunch at best. They’re a grab bag of artistic...
The Persistence of Disney, Part 8: Make Mine Music (1946)
What is best in life? Art or commerce? This is a question that plagues all who work in the mass arts and it is certainly...
The Persistence of Disney, Part 7: The Three Caballeros (1944)
It can be supposed that somewhere, sometime, at some point we’ve all seen the entirety of The Three Caballeros even if we didn’t watch the...
