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“No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. It fascinated me the first time I read it as a schoolboy and as soon as I possibly could after I ...

Each year, it gets harder and harder to come up with a Disney-themed Christmas column, since in the past, I have written about Walt’s Christmas, Disney Christmas cartoons, Christmas at the theme ...

For many Disney animation fans, The Rescuers released June 22, 1977 is considered a neglected favorite that receives little attention, affection and documentation. Financially, it was more ...

I recently added to my personal library a copy of Walt Disney's Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks by his son Don Iwerks. Today, the name of Ub Iwerks is fairly well known to most Disney ...

Disney’s animated feature Robin Hood released in 1973 was an innovative and milestone film but not for its disjointed story nor its animation that often reused sequences from previous animated ...

With Michael Jackson’s tragic death in June 2009, there was a flood of special magazines and media tribute projects that detailed the life and achievements of the innovative singer/dancer.

As I mentioned in part one (link) “The Great Mouse Detective” was rushing to completion in 1985 and the fate of Disney feature animation was in the balance. Could inexperienced and unproven ...

to lose a parent or a child? Or for a loved one to die in war, in an accident, or in a natural disaster? What determines the magnitude of a catastrophe—how ...

As we approach another big celebration in 2023 where the Walt Disney Company will be celebrating the 100 th anniversary of the creation of the company in 1923, I am wondering about whether the man ...

When EPCOT Center opened in 1982, the icon for the new Disney theme park was Spaceship Earth that dominated the entrance. It served as the primary landmark and could be seen throughout Future ...

For many young people, being hired to work as an animator at Disney Feature Animation is a dream come true, but for recently graduated Timothy Burton of Burbank, Calif., it was a living nightmare.