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Seen in 2018.
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Package film. |
References here: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949). |
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“Blame It on the Samba” (1948) IMDb
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Seen in 2018.
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A spin-off from The Three Caballeros (1944). |
Commentary |
A fairly good level of energy and visual imagination. The interaction between animation and live action, in particular, is better than average. |
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“Bumble Boogie” (1948) IMDb
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“Little Toot” (1948) IMDb
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“Once Upon a Wintertime” (1948) IMDb
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Seen in 2018.
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Subject |
A couple goes ice-skating. |
Commentary |
One of the loveliest pieces of animation from this era in the studio, it manages to tell a story that is not simply trite or absurd or a folktale, without dialogue or intradiegetic song, in the clean and flat style that would later come to be associated with UPA but animated on ones. Very cute. |
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“Pecos Bill” (1948) IMDb
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Seen in 2018.
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Commentary |
The mythological aspect, being much more exaggerated, is handled better than in “The Legend of Johnny Appleseed” (1948). Like “The Martins and the Coys” (1946), this is a good example of Disney making one of its hyperfeminine leading ladies physically capable and exposing her to some rather extreme physical activity, in this case a violent landing on the moon. |
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“The Legend of Johnny Appleseed” (1948) IMDb
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Seen in 2018.
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Bowdlerized Christian frontier mythology, with the native Americans happily joining in on a square dance. |
References here: “Pecos Bill” (1948). |
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“Trees” (1948) IMDb
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Seen in 2018.
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One of the clearest and certainly the most self-conscious of Disney’s efforts to combine art forms in this era. This is a little ironic given that the nominal subject matter is the futility of art compared to nature. |
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The 1913 poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer. |
Commentary |
Heavily stylized but very pretty. Thankfully it does not make the poem’s Christian sentiments or anthropomorphization visually explicit. |
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