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Ten years before Disney, Lotte Reiniger made breathtaking animated features before fleeing the Nazis

The popular history of animation starts with Walt Disney–a tragic oversight and a considerably US-centric misconception. In addition to the pre-Disney animation in America, the…

Amber Frost
May 12, 2015

Bloody hell: Disney made an animated ‘period’ short about menstruation

Beginning in 1946 and continuing into the 1960s, Disney gave young women the “talk” about their periods with an educational animated short titled The Story…

Rusty Blazenhoff
Feb 25, 2015

Disney legend Rolly Crump’s vintage drugs, Beatnik & Commie posters

Rolland “Rolly” Crump is a Disney legend. Originally working as an assistant animator under Uncle Walt himself in the early 1950s, Crump performed “in betweener”…

Richard Metzger
Feb 12, 2014

Old-school Disney animator’s Christmas cards beat every cute viral card you’ve ever seen

1940 Let’s face it — if you want to see a top-notch Christmas card in action, it probably helps if you’re buddies with an old…

Martin Schneider
Dec 19, 2013

Disney World is your worst nightmare: Watch the amazing ‘Escape from Tomorrow’ trailer

Obviously this is not meant to be any sort of review–I just stumbled across this movie myself and I haven’t seen it–but after watching the…

Richard Metzger
Oct 9, 2013

‘Food Will Win the War’: Disney’s most surreal war propaganda cartoon, 1942

Not just a potato twice the height of the Rock of Gibralter… a sexy potato twice the height of the Rock of Gibralter You may…

Amber Frost
Oct 7, 2013

Puke-provoking rich people hire the handicapped so their kids can cut lines at Disney World

Who knows what event, large or small will cause the tipping point to be reached and trigger the long-overdue revolution, but frankly, when I read…

Richard Metzger
May 14, 2013

Classic Disney cartoon scenes with their real life models

  Redditor jamieleto posted a fun series of classic Disney cartoons where a technique called rotoscoping was used (before computers, natch). If you’re unfamiliar with…

Tara McGinley
Apr 29, 2013

Disney’s depressing rejection letter to a woman, 1938

  Depressing to read this? Yes, but it was 1938 so what do you expect? The good news is Disney hired a woman by the…

Tara McGinley
Apr 26, 2013

The future of Star Wars: Lucas vs. Disney mash-up

French filmmaker Patrick Peris has mashed-up all six Stars movies plus new and old Disney films, including Marvel and Pixar, spanning 70 years.

Marc Campbell
Dec 9, 2012

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