Ratatouille Triumphant
Brad Bird at last night’s world premiere of Ratatouille at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The best film of the summer will be …
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Disney Feature’s New Name
Disney’s ad this year in the Annecy animation festival program book announced a new name for their feature animation division. They’ve …
Disney In Deutschland
For those of you who were disturbed by our post of Bimbo in Israel, here’s the flip side of the coin. Currently playing in San …
Mickey Mouse: Bug Killer
Look out, Jiminy Cricket! I think this promotional paper mask from the 50s, being offer for sale on Toyzine.com, is scary enough to …
Disney wuz here!
Some people would go to any lengths to get a autograph from Walt Disney. But would you go to any depth? An abandoned cave in Cody, …
Enchanted Trailer
I’m still not sure about this flick… but the trailer looks pretty good to me.
A Fair(y) Use Tale
Film history professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University explains copyright law, via clips from Disney and Pixar films, in this clever …
You Asked For It
Here’s an kinescope excerpt from the classic 1950s TV show, You Asked For It, from sometime during its first year of broadcast (1950-51 …
Ward Kimball on The Tomorrow Show
As an addendum to our posts on Ward Kimball (can we ever post enough about Kimball?), our pal Don Brockway (Psst, check out his webpage …
R.I.P. Ward Kimball’s Railroad
According to this piece in today’s LA Times, Ward Kimball’s family is dismantling his backyard Grizzly Flats Railroad – one of the major …
Why? Because we HATE you!
It isn’t everyday that the LA Times prints an editorial that mentions Song of the South (1946) and Alice’s Egg Plant (1925). But that’s …
More About Disney’s New Shorts Program
From Business Week, this article offers a few new details about Disney’s shorts program. Among the tidbits: * The budgets for these …
Donald Duck Wants You To Use Condoms!
Talk about Duck and Cover! A rare wartime propaganda poster from World War II using Donald Duck to urge soldiers to use condoms (prophylactics), is being auctioned off this month by Hake’s.
New Cinderella Book With Mary Blair Art
Via Didier Ghez’s always informative Disney History blog comes word of a new Cinderella storybook that uses Mary Blair’s concept art from …
China’s unlicensed knock-off of Disneyland
It’s the Crappiest Place on Earth! It’s one thing to bootleg a DVD of Pirates of the Caribbean, but it’s quite another to rip off an …
Neal Gabler on Disney at LAT Book Fest
I took a break from my deadlines on Saturday to see Mike Barrier discuss his Walt Disney biography at the Los Angeles Times Festival of …
101 Dalmatians Color Keys by Walt Peregoy
An update at the Cartoon Modern blog: a collection of color keys by Walt Peregoy from Disney’s 101 Dalmatians.
Disney Artists During WWII
Hans Perk has posted a fascinating historical document on his blog: a list of Disney artists serving in uniform during WWII. The …
Disney Tiki Sculpture
I can’t decide if these are cool—or really creepy. These tiki garden statues are being sold through the Disney Stores …
The Three Caballeros return… in Orlando
A few days ago, Walt Disney World in Orlando re-opened the boat ride in the Mexico pavilion at Epcot Center. They have added a Three …
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