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Springtime for Walt

I’m kind of ashamed to admit this, but after learning from Mike Barrier of a play here in San Francisco involving Walt Disney meeting Hitler–Mike, incidentally, has been blogging up a storm recently–I’m going to go see it tomorrow evening.

If nothing else, I figure that by buying a seat, I’m potentially denying one Disney-hater the [...]

You Never Know What’ll Show Up

Mike Barrier has a fascinating, fascinatingly-illustrated piece on recently-discovered story sketches by Webb Smith for the landmark flypaper sequence in Playful Pluto. Or maybe they’re visual notes by that sequence’s animator, Norm Ferguson. Or possibly they’re by someone else.

Like Mike, I hope the collective wisdom of smart animation scholars can come to a definitive conclusion [...]