Walt Disney – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com Sun, 24 Dec 2023 21:11:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Swingrowers – Midnight https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/swingrowers-midnight/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/swingrowers-midnight/#respond Thu, 31 Oct 2024 01:05:57 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101377 An evening pause: A prelude to Halloween. The visuals come from vintage 1920s and 1930s early cartoons, though the bulk comes from Walt Disney’s 1929 cartoon, Skeleton Dance.

Hat tip Judd Clark.

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/swingrowers-midnight/feed/ 0 Disney – Four artists paint one tree https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/disney-four-artists-paint-one-tree/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/disney-four-artists-paint-one-tree/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:01:40 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=81712 An evening pause: This short was aired in 1958 on the Disney children’s television show, Disneyland. I emphasize children because this is the kind of material I was offered as a child.

Today it would be considered too sophisticated, and definitely unacceptable because it doesn’t indoctrinate the young on the importance of “racial justice.” My god, all the artists happen to be white!

Yet I know from experience that kids under six would love it just because it is fun to watch the artists work, while older children would find the narration by the artists themselves fascinating. I can say this with confidence because I am certain Disney showed this clip more than once, and I saw it multiple times as a child, watching it with pleasure at different times and ages.

And then there’s the main point. As Walt Disney himself says in the opening, “Don’t imitate anyone. … Go forward with what you have to say, expressing things as you see them. … Be yourself.”

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/disney-four-artists-paint-one-tree/feed/ 10 Walt Disney’s MultiPlane Camera https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/walt-disneys-multiplane-camera/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/walt-disneys-multiplane-camera/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2018 01:01:47 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=52067 An evening pause: This was filmed in 1957, and was almost certainly made to be shown as part of Disney’s weekly television show series for kids that began in 1954 and was one of television’s most popular shows in the 1960s. It describes one of the most important technical developments in animation, developed by Disney, until the arrival of computers.

To repeat: This was made for kids, yet it is thoughtful, entertaining, educational, and quite detailed in the information being conveyed. It treats its young audience with great respect and dignity.

I generally do not watch children’s shows today, but the few that I have seen have generally been quite shallow, overwrought, and would have insulted me, when I was a child. I don’t know if today’s kids would react the same today, because when I was a child Disney’s show was somewhat typical. I expected to be treated with respect. Today’s kids might not have that expectation.

Hat tip Wayne DeVette.

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/walt-disneys-multiplane-camera/feed/ 4 Slandering an American icon. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/slandering-an-american-icon/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/slandering-an-american-icon/#comments Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:29:21 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=27215 Slandering an American icon.

It strikes me that, in addition to (if reports are true) grotesque ambition, Ms. Streep reflects a certain warped mindset that is all too prominent in the fashionable circles of our time. I am talking about a predisposition to believe that anything iconically American is corrupt.

The full essay is here.

I should also add that Ms. Streep’s coments also illustrate nicely the typical know-it-all ignorance of modern leftwing elite culture. She knows that Walt Disney was bigoted, without knowing a goddamn thing about him.

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/slandering-an-american-icon/feed/ 4 The Hunchback of Notre Dame – God Help the Outcasts https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-god-help-the-outcasts/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-god-help-the-outcasts/#respond Sun, 11 Nov 2012 01:01:29 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=15651 An evening pause: On this day, the 74th anniversary of the start of Krystalnacht in Germany, some appropriate and beautiful music from the animated film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-god-help-the-outcasts/feed/ 0 Beauty and the Beast – Little Town https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/beauty-and-the-beast-little-town/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/beauty-and-the-beast-little-town/#respond Fri, 20 Jul 2012 01:01:06 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=15649 An evening pause:

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/beauty-and-the-beast-little-town/feed/ 0 A very merry unbirthday to you! https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/a-very-merry-unbirthday-to-you/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/a-very-merry-unbirthday-to-you/#respond Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:01:11 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=16766 An evening pause: Truly Walt Disney’s most frenetic and surreal animated films.

Twinkle twinkle little bat,
How I wonder what you’re at.
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea tray in the sky.

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/a-very-merry-unbirthday-to-you/feed/ 0 The Little Mermaid – Part of That World https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/the-little-mermaid-part-of-that-world/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/the-little-mermaid-part-of-that-world/#respond Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:01:33 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=15647 An evening pause: Sometimes, it is our dreams and hopes that matter the most.

]]> https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/the-little-mermaid-part-of-that-world/feed/ 0 Aladdin – A Whole New World https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/aladdin-a-whole-new-world/ https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/aladdin-a-whole-new-world/#respond Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:01:36 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=15645 An evening pause: “Don’t you dare close your eyes!”

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