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Paul Bunyan
Director: Les Clark Release Date: August 1, 1958 Rating: ★★ Review: ‘Paul Bunyan’ belongs to a group of Disney specials that retell tall tales from the West, following ‘The Legend of Johnny Appleseed‘...
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Robin Hood Daffy
Director: Chuck Jones Release Date: March 8, 1958 Stars: Daffy Duck, Porky Pig Rating: ★★★★ Review: ‘Robin Hood Daffy’ is the last of Chuck Jones’s great series of Daffy and Porky pairings. Like...
View ArticleEverglade Raid
'Everglade Raid' opens with Woody Woodpecker reading a newspaper add telling tourists to come to the Everglades to make a fortune on alligator bags.
View ArticleTree’s a Crowd
Woody rides a bus through Colonel Fleabush's 60,000 acre estate full of trees. Woodpeckers are not welcome there, and when the colonel discovers Woody, he orders his big yellow cat Filbur to catch the...
View ArticleJittery Jester
'Jittery Jester' takes place in a medieval castle where Dooley is court jester to a bored king.
View ArticleHakujaden (The White Serpent)
'The White Serpent' (also known as 'Madame White Snake' or as 'Panda and the Magic Serpent') is a feature of firsts: it was the first feature made by the Tōei Studio, Japan's first post-war feature,...
View ArticleCarrousel boréal (Winter Carousel)
Władysław Starewicz was a stop motion pioneer, who had made some very important films in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. 'Winter Carousel' was the last film he completed, and the short's style is...
View ArticleGrand Canyon
'Grand Canyon' is not an animation film. I include it in my blog though, because of its obvious ties to 'Fantasia' (1940).
View ArticleMyszka i kotek (Cat and Mouse)
'Myszka i kotek' is a very beautiful example of the cartoon modern style of the 1950s. The film is a very playful tale of a real mouse chased by a line drawing kitten, which has jumped from a postcard.
View ArticleTortilla Flaps
Tortilla Flaps' is a Speedy Gonzales cartoon featuring a vulture as Speedy's adversary.
View ArticleLe Merle (The Blackbird)
'Le Merle' is based on a French-Canadian addition song, in which a blackbird loses body parts, but regains them manyfold.
View ArticleThe Tender Game
By the end of the 1950s John Hubley had survived the McCarthy era that had hit him hard*, and with his Storyboard studio he could finally make the films he really wanted to.
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