American Legends ~ American Legends
After viewing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote to Walt Disney about adapting his novel of an ape-man into a feature animated cartoon. Sixtysome years later, the tale is finally told with brilliant design work that looks unlike any previous animated film. The story is a natural for Disney since the themes of misunderstood central figures have been at the heart of its …
Here's a cat tale that even dog lovers will enjoy. This 1997 Oscar-nominated short from England tells the tale of Fred, a beloved and recently deceased cat. The two children who owned Fred are surprised and delighted to find that he was famous around the world as a singer and groovy trendsetter. A pet hamster (voiced by Tom Courtenay) reflects on the exploits of Fred in a toe-tapping, per…
This is largely a glorified reading experience of the 1950s collection of stories by Dr. Seuss. The visuals are comprised of camera pans and zooms of the author's original artwork, using minimal animation (occasionally a rabbit ear droops or a pond ripples) and relying on the vivid, highly entertaining narration by John Lithgow to bring to life the book's three tales about the follies of pride.…
CAN HORTON PROVE THAT THE WHOS EXIST? INCLUDES 'THIDWICK THEBIG-HEARTED MOOSE'.
Some of the most beloved characters in film and television inhabit two-dimensional worlds that spring from the fertile imaginations of talented animators. The movements, characterizations, and settings in the best animated films are as vivid as any live action film, and sometimes seem more alive than life itself. In this case, Hollywood's marketing slogans are fitting; animated stories are freq…
60th anniversary edition dvd of Disney's beloved animated feature "Dumbo".
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