by Jim Smith | Dec 20, 2022 | Bits & Pieces, Disney, Disney Spotlight Series
Every December (and November, and sometimes October) the jolly mug of Santa Claus appears on television, in films, in shopping malls, outside big box stores, and on countless front yard lawns. It’s hard to escape Jolly Old Saint Nick (thankfully I’m quite fond of the...
by Jim Smith | Jun 8, 2022 | Disney Trivia, Lists and Trivia
Disney pictures have a long history with the Academy Awards. Many films, both animated and live-action, have been nominated for (and many of those have won) Oscars for various film categories. For this question, let’s focus on animated films. Which Disney...
by Jim Smith | Jun 8, 2022 | Hidden
Which Disney animated feature film was the first to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture? Answer: Beauty and the Beast (1991) Image: Disney Howard Ashman and Alan Menken took a floundering film to unimagined heights as a musical feature, winning Oscars...
by Jim Smith | May 18, 2022 | Disney, Disney Legends, Disney Spotlight Series
(A version of this article was published for Laughing Place on May 25, 2022.) For a few very rare folks, the ability to add life, character, and charm to an animated figure comes naturally. Fred Moore was one of those people – able to inject an immense amount of...
by Jim Smith | Sep 27, 2021 | Disney, Disney Spotlight Series, Media
Animation has progressed to infinity (and beyond!) since the early days of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse. Hand drawn sequences have been replaced by computer aided illustrations. Computer programming and processing have relieved artists of the painstaking...
