Live-Action Disney Films of the 1950s

Alaina turns her Disney series toward the company's best known product! Well, maybe second-best-known. Following tentative steps, an accounting issue led to the studio's first entirely live-action films, establishing some trends that have fallen away, and others that have continued for nearly 70 years. Are today's teen Disney stars the last echo of the old studio system? What is lost in the selective memory of media? How much room is there for art on an assembly line?

Links!

• TCM: Treasures from the Disney Vault
• Donald Duck - Der Fuehrer’s Face (1943)
• The Disney Strike of 1941: How It Changed Animation & Comics
• TCM's notes on Song of the South
• TCM Profile: Robert Newton
• The Academy Juvenile Award
• The Sword and the Rose
• Davy Crockett at the dedication of Frontierland
• Iron Eyes Cody on Snopes
• Walt Disney preparing to find the King of the Leprechauns
• Peter Ellishaw's offficial website

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