History

1950s

Sleeping beauty 1959

Sleeping beauty is one of Disney’s classic 2D animations, and is often thought of as one of the early additions to the Disney collection. However its was made when the animation studios were well established and experienced in this field of animation, having good twenty years to develop and master their skills. Their first full-length film was snow white in 1930.

This film shows fantastic, beautiful hand painted backgrounds, flowing detailed characters that you can’t help but fall in love with, and much more.  My favourite part of the film is when the prince and his horse are arguing, as the horse cannot talk a brilliant use of body language and facial expressions are used to get the point across. This form of story telling always amazes me and I respect the amount of work and planning that would have had gone into the final scene.

1970s

Disney Fantasia 1977

 Fantasia was a compilation of short animations set to varying tracks of classical music. The most famous of which was the Magicians apprentice staring the famous Disney star Mickey mouse. Everyone remembers it for the music when the brooms come alive and march along to the music.  Fantasia is made up of eight sequences set in symphonic concert with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia orchestra; the film was shown in ‘fantasound’ an early stereo system made by Disney. When it first came out it was only showing in fourteen different cinemas because they were the only ones with the right equipment to screen it. It went on to win awards for its brilliance.