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Cinderella (1950)

Sumptuously animated, with iconic images and memorable songs, Cinderella exemplifies the golden age of Disney Animation. Adults will be filled with warm nostalgia while watching - even if they didn’t grow up with the film. Kids will be delighted. Smart choices throughout make it an old-fashioned picture with lasting appeal

Orphaned and now living with her cruel stepmother (voiced by Eleanor Audley) and two wicked stepsisters (voiced by Helene Stanley and Rhoda Williams), Cinderella (voiced by Ilene Woods) is now a servant in her own home. Though forced to perform endless chores and suffer unjust punishments, Cinderella never loses hope that someday her dreams will come true. When the King (voiced by Luis van Rooten) organizes a royal ball to find a suitable wife for his son, Lady Tremaine becomes determined to prevent Cinderella from attending.

Cinderella is very much a classic fairy tale. The story is timeless and easy to latch onto. It’s also very much a product of its time. The protagonist is not an active participant in their own story. Today, a strong female character might use her wits to get herself out of a jam or just punch the bad guy in the face. It’s no spoiler to tell you that Cinderella’s salvation is kind of just served to her on a platter through the magic of her fairy godmother (voiced by Verna Felton)… but that's oversimplifying it. The story’s message is that even if others treat you like dirt, you shouldn’t hold a grudge and remain kind. The moral is taken to an extreme but it’s a good lesson to teach - far more applicable to real life than you'd think.

This is a rather straightforward retelling of the fairytale by Charles Perrault but key additions and choices make it stand out. First, the animated medium. Every frame of Cinderella is so crisp it looks like it was made yesterday. The colours are wonderful. The characters are delightfully expressive. The movements are smooth, everyone is always on-model and it’s a delight to simply watch the story play out. The chateau is filled with all sorts of details that make it feel like it used to be majestic but is slowly rotting away, like the huge mouse population that moves through its corridors through endless - and varied - secret passages. You can tell the artists had a blast coming up with new ways for Jaq, Gus (voice by Jimmy MacDonald) and the other mice to make their way from one room to another.

Another memorable aspect of Cinderella is the musical numbers. Ask anyone. They’ll tell you Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo is the best piece but over the years So This is Love has grown on me as much as A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes. Special attention should also be given to Oh Sing Sweet Nightengale, in which Cinderella sings harmony with herself in a clever manner that also utilizes the animated medium to its full potential.

Cinderella is a lovely person. She’s meek but kind and patient, with neverending empathy for those around her. Seeing her constantly beaten down breaks your heart. While she could be described as a bit bland as far as heroines go, the same can’t be said about the film's chief villain, Lady Tremaine. Modeled after and voiced by the same woman who would later bring Maleficent to life, she steals every scene she’s in. You hate her but wouldn't dare look away for a moment.

There is one scene, in particular, that stood out to me during this viewing. It’s not a big memorable moment but it exemplifies the care that was put into the film. In it, Cinderella walks up a flight of stairs with a tea set on a tray. She's being followed by Lady Tremaine’s cat, Lucifer, who knows a mouse is hiding beneath one of the cups. The cat is about to get his prey when Cinderella’s shoe suddenly slips off. She turns around to put it back on, spinning the tray and making Lucifer grab the wrong cup in the process. His bewilderment makes us laugh and the scene also foreshadows the famous slipper that will be left behind later in the film.

Cinderella is what you picture when you hear the words “Classic Disney”. it’s gorgeous, contains plenty of laughs, and offers just enough heartbreaks to keep you in suspense until the happy ending you've been promised. The songs are memorable, as are the characters - even if sometimes they’re little more than archetypes. Not every movie should be like Cinderella but if you want to tell an old fairytale, do it like this. (On Blu-ray, March 12, 2021

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Peter Pan

🇺🇸 | Feb 5, 1953

directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Huske

lyrics by Sammy Cahn

theatre play by J.M. Barrie

story by William Cottrell, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, Winston Hibler, Erdman Penner, Milt Banta, Joe Rinaldi

produced by Walt Disney Production

starring Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel

1h17 | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Family, Musical

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Pinocchio (1940, Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen, Norm Ferguson, Bill Roberts, Jack Kinney, Wilfred Jackson, T. Hee)

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Pinocchio is a 1940 animated film directed by various directors, produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on Carlo Collodi's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio. It is the 2nd Disney Classic.

With this new film Walt Disney hoped to repeat the success achieved three years earlier with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 did not allow the desired result to be achieved. However, it was the highest-grossing film of 1940. Furthermore, Walt Disney was working at the same time on a more ambitious project, Fantasia, released in the same year as Pinocchio.

The screenplay was written by Aurelius Battaglia, William Cottrell, Otto Englander, Erdman Penner, Joseph Sabo, Ted Sears and Webb Smith adapting Collodi's book, and tells of the old carpenter Geppetto who carves a wooden puppet named Pinocchio, who is brought to life by the Blue Fairy, who tells him that he can become a real child if he proves "good, courageous, selfless" : thus begins the puppet's adventures to become a real child, which involve many encounters with a series of shady characters.

The production was supervised by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, and the film sequences were directed by Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney and Bill Roberts.

Although it received critical acclaim and became the first animated film to win a competitive Academy Award, winning two for Best Score and Best Song for When You Wish Upon a Star, it was initially a box office flop, primarily due to due to the Second World War which interrupted European and Asian markets abroad.

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AF-703: Erdman Penner: Walt Disney Inspirations

Erdman Penner was a screenwriter, songwriter, and associate producer for the Walt Disney Company. Born in Canada to a Mennonite father and a Roman Catholic mom, he was an only child with a penchant for artistic pursuits. Moving to America as a young man, he quickly became a valued member of the Disney team. This is his story.

Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/erdman-penner-walt-disney-inspirations 

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Lilli e il Vagabondo (1955)

Lilli e il Vagabondo (1955)

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo parlato di un horror veramente importante, probabilmente uno degli horror più importati della storia che ha segnato un vero e proprio cambiamento nel genere: La notte dei morti viventi. Un film su un gruppo di persone intrappolate in una casa e costrette a difendersi da degli zombi. La storia si approccia in maniera molto…

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Peter Pan (1953)

“Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan.”

Bobby Discroll x Kathryn Beaumont 

Directed by George Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske and Jack Kinney

Story by Ted Sears, Erdman Penner, Bill Peet, Winston Hibler, Joe Rinaldi, Milt Banta, Ralph Wright and William Cottrell

Play by J.M. Barrie

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Day 160/365 - Sleeping Beauty

By Erdman Penner and George Bruns

After many childless years, King Stefan and Queen Leah happily welcome the birth of their daughter, the Princess Aurora. They proclaim a holiday for their subjects to pay homage to the princess, and at the gathering for her christening she is betrothed to Prince Phillip, the young son of Stefan's friend King Hubert, so that their kingdoms will always be united.

Among the guests are three fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, who have come to bless the child with gifts. Flora and Fauna give their gifts of beauty and song, respectively. Before Merryweather is able to give her blessing, the evil fairy Maleficent appears, only to be told that she was not invited. Maleficent turns to leave, but when Queen Leah asks if she's offended, the evil fairy curses the princess, proclaiming that Aurora will grow in grace and beauty, but before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will use her finger to touch the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. King Stefan and Queen Leah are horrified and beg the fairies to break the curse. Unfortunately, they are not strong enough to break it, but Merryweather uses her blessing to soften the curse so that instead of dying, Aurora will fall into a deep sleep from which she can only be awakened by true love's kiss. King Stefan, still fearful for his daughter's life, orders all spinning wheels in the kingdom to be burned. The fairies do not believe that will be enough to keep Aurora safe, and so they spirit her away to a woodcutter's cottage in the forest until the day of her sixteenth birthday.

Years later, Aurora, renamed Briar Rose, has grown into a beautiful young woman. On the day of her sixteenth birthday, the three fairies ask Rose to gather berries in the forest so they can prepare a surprise party for her. Briar Rose befriends the animals of the forest and sings them a song, Once Upon a Dream. While singing in the forest, Briar Rose attracts the attention of Prince Phillip, now a handsome young man. He races to find the owner of the beautiful voice and is instantly struck by Rose's grace and beauty. Briar Rose at first is frightened at his sudden appearance, as she is not allowed to talk to strangers, but Philip soon puts her at ease. They instantly fall in love, unaware of being promised in marriage sixteen years ago. Briar Rose asks Phillip to come to her cottage that evening and meet her family.

Meanwhile, Flora and Merryweather argue over the color of Aurora's ballgown, which attracts the attention of Maleficent's raven, revealing the location of Aurora. Back at home, Briar Rose is thrilled to tell her guardians she met a man and fell in love. The fairies finally tell Aurora the truth about her royal heritage, that she is a princess and already betrothed at birth to a prince, and tell her she must never see the man she met again. Heartbroken, she leaves the room. Meanwhile, Phillip tells his father of a peasant girl he met and wishes to marry in spite of his prearranged marriage to Princess Aurora. King Hubert fails to convince him otherwise, leaving Hubert in equal disappointment.

Later that night, the fairies take Aurora back to the castle and leave her alone in a room to wait for her birthday celebrations where she will finally get to see her parents. Maleficent then appears and magically lures Aurora away from the fairies and tricks the princess into touching the spindle of an enchanted spinning wheel. Aurora pricks her finger, completing the curse. The good fairies place Aurora on a bed in the highest tower and place a powerful spell on all the people in the kingdom, causing them to fall asleep until the spell on their princess is broken. While doing so, they overhear a conversation between King Stefan and King Hubert. From King Hubert's conversation with King Stefan, the fairies realize that Prince Phillip is the man with whom Aurora has fallen in love. They rush to find him, but he is kidnapped by Maleficent who is waiting for him at the cottage in the woods. She shows Phillip the peasant girl he fell in love with is the now-sleeping princess. She tells him she plans to keep him locked away until he's an old man on the verge of death, then release him to meet his love, who will not have aged a single day.

The fairies find and release the prince, arming him with the magical Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue. Maleficent tries to stop Phillip by surrounding Aurora's castle with thorns, but fails. She then transforms into a gigantic dragon. Eventually, Phillip throws the sword, blessed by the fairies' magic, directly into Maleficent's heart, causing her to fall to her death.

Phillip awakens Aurora with a kiss, breaking the spell and thereby waking everyone in the palace. The royal couple descends to the ballroom, where Aurora is happily reunited with her parents, while King Hubert is confused of how the two young royals met. Flora and Merryweather resume their argument over the color of Aurora's ball gown, magically changing it from blue to pink while the happy couple waltzes. The last color to appear is pink. Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip live happily ever after.

Favourite Songs: Once Upon A Dream (I love this and I also love the Tchaikovsky melody it’s based on), I Wonder, An Unusual Prince and Wine.

Favourite Character: Merryweather

She’s stubborn and always seems a little shortchanged, but she is the most realistic of the fairies and manages to keep Aurora pretty much safe until the whole spinning wheel incident.

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Lilli e il vagabondo

Lilli e il vagabondo

Una cocker spaniel americana di nome Lilly vive con una famiglia altoborghese, ma la sua esistenza viene sconvolta quando in famiglia arriva un neonato. Lilly incontra così un bastardino noto come il Vagabondo per la strada e i due si imbarcano in un’avventura che culminerà in una relazione sentimentale canina. Titolo originale Lady and the Tramp Regia Charlie…

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February 7, 1940 - Pinocchio has its premiere at the Center Theatre in New York City.

The animated film is based on Carlo Collodi’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio. The supervising directors were Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske. The sequence directors were Bill Roberts, Norm Ferguson, Jack Kinney, Wilfred Jackson and T. Hee. It was adapted by Ted Sears, Otto Englander, Webb Smith, WIlliam Cottrell, Joseph Sabo, Erdman Penner and Aurelius Battaglia.

Disney’s second full-length animated film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1994 after the Library of Congress deemed it to be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

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Scene Stealer: Maleficent gatecrashes the party - the christening, Disney's Sleeping Beauty

Scene Stealer: Maleficent gatecrashes the party - the christening, Disney's Sleeping Beauty - party pooper!

There really is only one definitive screen version of the classic fairytale about the beautiful girl who’s put to sleep for a hundred years by a wicked fairy in a fit of pique because she wasn’t invited to the said maiden’s christening sixteen years previously. Disney’s animated masterpiece Sleeping Beauty (1959) was, and still is, a mesmerising piece of cinema, with a host of characters and…

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Alice in Wonderland

🇺🇸 | July 28, 1951

directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

story John Walbridge, Aldous Huxley, William Cotrell, Dick Huemer, Tom Oreb, Erdman Penner, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Joe Rinaldi, Joe Grant, Milt Banta, Dick Kelsey, Del Connell

novel by Lewis Carroll

lyrics by Mack David, Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman, Don Raye, Gene de Paul, Bob Hillard, Oliver Wallace, Ted Sears

produced by Walt Disney Productions

starring Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna

1h15 | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure

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Sleeping Beauty (1959) was adapted for the screen by Erdman Penner, based mostly on the early 19th century version by The Brothers Grimm, although the screen credit mentions Charles Perrault's late 17th century version as the original source.

Canadian Erdman Penner had 20 writing credits in his career, all for Walt Disney, beginning with a 1937 Mickey Mouse short, including the feature Pinocchio, and four episodes of Walt Disney's long running tv show, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.

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La bella addormentata nel bosco

La bella addormentata nel bosco

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo siamo tornati dopo tantissimo tempo (forse anche troppo) a parlare dei classici animati Disney e abbiamo discusso di Lilli e il vagabondo. Una storia molto semplice e all’apparenza molto tranquilla ma che in realtà nasconde vari elementi interessanti. Una delle prime storie Disney a essere narrata completamente dal punto di vista dei…

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Walt Disney Studios’ Peter Pan (1953)

Peter Pan's nemesis is the pirate Captain Hook.

Captain Hook is obsessed with getting revenge on Peter Pan. The rest of his crew would like to go out to sea. Captain Hook's obsession leads to his own undoing.

Captain Hook: Blast good form!

[waves his hook in front of Smee]

Captain Hook: Did Pan show good form when he did *this* to me?

Mr. Smee: Why, Captain, cutting your hand off was only a childish prank, you might say.

Captain Hook: Aye, but throwing it to that crocodile! That cursed beast liked the taste of me so well he's followed me ever since, licking his chops for the rest of me.

Peter Pan himself goes out of his was to antagonise Hook. He mocks him, calls him names and uses his cunning to triumph over him. Hook has also been wronged by Peter at the start as shown in the quote above. This makes Peter Pan significantly more of an anti-hero, and still affords Hook some sympathy.

Hook also manipulates Tinkerbell to reveal the location of Pan's Hideout.

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Captain Hook is presented as foppish and flamboyant. He wears the colours of purple and pink, stereotypically feminine colours and has a feather in his hat.

He is animated with long holds on dramatic poses. When he hears the crocodile's clock ticking as it approaches, he throws himself into Smee's arms (23:00 – 25:00). He is shown as cowardly and ends up being humiliated by Peter Pan again and again.

In the end, Captain Hook is at the mercy of Peter Pan and pathetically begs for his life to be spared.

Captain Hook: You wouldn't do ol' Hook in now, would you, lad? I'll go away forever.

[tearfully]

Captain Hook: I'll do anything you say.

Peter Pan: Well, all right... if you... say you're a codfish.

Captain Hook: [gulps] I'm a codfish.

Peter Pan: Louder!

Captain Hook: [wailing] I'M A CODFISH!

Captain Hook is presented as being both a formidable villain and a non-threatening comedic punching bag.

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GreenArrow1993 (2016) "You Can Fly! The Making of Peter Pan" (1998) [Online] YouTube. Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQXP6Voq0o> [Accessed 28 August 2017]

10:10 “The storyman Erdman Penner had seen him as a foppish guy, grand manners who through that this is the way to live...all these gourmet connoisseur type things, while the directors saw him as a tough, mean guy who’d shoot the cannon and shoot his crew on the ship and that he was a menacing villain” - Frank Thomas, supervising animator on Captain Hook

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February 5, 1953 - Peter Pan is released in the US.

The animated film is based on J.M. Barrie’s 1904 play Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up [AKA Peter and Wendy]. It was directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske. The story was done by Ted Sears, Erdman Penner, Bill Peet, Winston Hibler, Joe Rinaldi, Milt Banta, Ralph Wright and Bill Cottrell.

Fun fact: This is the last Disney film that was released by RKO Radio Pictures as Walt Disney would go on to create his own distribution company, Buena Vista Distribution.