Month: January 2012

Why, yes, despite my busy week, we did watch Dumbo. I know I haven’t finished the Fantasia conversation yet, but I will soon. The shortest of the Disney Animated Features, Dumbo clocks in at sixty four minutes. Knowing that as I watched it this time (with the kids – more on that in a few…

Part I: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Johann Sebastian Bach Like any celebrity of anytime, Walt Disney had access to people that other people may not have had the chance to meet. Like anyone in the business he was able to reach out to other artists (in his day, other pioneers). One such artist…

As I have previously stated, Fantasia is by far and away my favorite Disney film. Let’s get some of the random trivia out of the way, shall we? Fantasia was the first film recorded in stereophonic sound. Let me say that again: this was the first film that was recorded in stereo, a sound format…

This is one of the Disney Animated Features that I own on VHS cassette tape. My husband joked to me when I instructed him to get up and press the button on the machine to start the VCR “What? No remote? How barbaric.” The only time that I felt the cassette recording was a detriment…

I managed to watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Saturday night. The children had gone to bed and while it was a little later than I would have wanted, I met my self-imposed deadline of Saturday night.  I’m not sure what direction officially that the blog is going to take, but I think it’s…