On this day in Movie History… November 18, 1928: Mickey Mouse whistles his way onto the screen in his first speaking performance, in Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie. November 21, 1931: Released only months after Dracula, Universal Pictures has another horror…
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Top DVD & Blu-ray New Releases: Week of 8-19-12
From classics unearthed from the Disney vaults to TV favorites and more, here’s a look at the great new titles that are being released this week. The Aristocats A pampered Parisian cat named Duchess and her three children are in…
Read more →Six Pix: Walt Disney
Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. This time we highlight Walt Disney films. (Specifically, these are pre-1960…
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Is There a Place for Disney’s Song of the South on Home Video?
This week marks the 150th anniversary of the Confederate siege against U.S. forces stationed at Fort Sumter in the Charleston, South Carolina harbor, the first military action of the Civil War. How the conflict’s sesquicentennial is being marked–and, in some parts…
Read more →Kathryn Beaumont Reflects on Disney’s Alice in Wonderland
Providing the voice for one of Walt Disney’s animated heroines is a cinematic trophy only a handful of actresses can lay claim to. But providing the voice for two of Disney’s animated heroines is a one-of-a-kind achievement that can only…
Read more →Ted Thomas Remembers Walt & El Grupo
When he was a kid, Theodore Thomas got to have dinner every night with Walt Disney. Well, not quite in the literal sense. Ted’s father was Frank Thomas, one of the Walt Disney Studio’s fabled “Nine Old Men,” a legendary…
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