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CONCEPT ART BY MARY BLAIR / PETER PAN (1953)
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The 60th Anniversary of The Parent Trap (1961) dir. David Swift Release date: June 21, 1961 (USA)
happy 62nd birthday to a movie that brought to life the ethereal magic only found bound within the pages of a book: walt disney’s sleeping beauty (1959).
there’s a reason the walt disney company bled themselves dry to create the movie, and it’s evident in the gorgeous forestscapes by eyvind earle, the very detailed and stylistic animation that is simultaneously medieval in design but modern in its lush and vibrant coloring, the adaptation of tchaikovsky’s ballet by george bruns that never disappears into the background or overpowers the movie, but is a character in and of itself, and the voice talents of mary costa with her angelic singing, the commanding presence of eleanor audley, and the individualistic and comedic performances of verna felton, barbara jo allen, and barbara luddy.
the film is operatic, it’s sweeping, it’s elegant, it’s opulent, and it’s regal like the princess herself. it is, quite simply, an art piece in motion.
watching it is like being aurora and phillip waltzing atop a fluffy pastel cloud within the pages of a golden storybook, like being whisked away to the bygone once upon a time, a time that may or may not have existed... perhaps only once upon a dream.
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DISNEY + SILVER AGE The Disney Silver Age refers to an era of the Disney Animated Canon that lasted from 1950 to 1967. These were the last films that Walt Disney oversaw before he passed away.
CINDERELLA (1950) ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951) PETER PAN (1953) LADY AND THE TRAMP (1955) SLEEPING BEAUTY (1959) 101 DALMATIANS (1961) THE SWORD IN THE STONE (1963) THE JUNGLE BOOK (1967)
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“When I first went there, it was for an audition in 1935. I was then eighteen years old. So it has to have been before May 6th, 1935. So I would say it was like March. I seem to remember March for some reason…I heard about a year later from Frank Churchill, the musical director, that Walt said after I finished, he said, ‘She’s the first one we’ve tried, but I feel certain that this is our Snow White. But I’m not going to go with this until we really find out definitely.’ He said, ‘We’re going to try out as many more as we can.’ I was the first one.”
ADRIANA CASELOTTI, the original singing and speaking voice of SNOW WHITE, in a 1935 screen-test audition.
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Once Upon a Wintertime
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Don’t try to figure out a plan. You can’t reason with a headless man. The Adventures of Ichabod (1949) dir. James Algar & Clyde Geronimi
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The seas be ours, and by the powers; where we will, we’ll roam. Yo ho, all hands, hoist the colors high. Heave ho, thieves and beggars; never shall we die. Some men have died and some are alive and others sail on the sea. With the keys to the cage and the devil to pay, we lay to the fiddler’s green. Yo ho haul together, hoist the colors high. Heave ho, thieves and beggars; never shall we die.
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Once Upon a Wintertime
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