This is the opening cinematic from the upcoming Wii game Epic Mickey. It is fun and has that ever-flowing look of a Disney cartoon. I have one quibble with it. You can’t always do in computer animation what you do in hand-drawn animation. In this case, I think the problem is in Mickey’s hands. They [...]

Here’s an Oscar-winning short from Disney that is based on a popular children’s book, The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf with illustrations by Robert Lawson.  Ferdinand the bull would much rather sit under his favorite tree smelling the flowers than do anything serious.  But he gets caught up in the bull-fighting business and hilarity [...]

This is a very comical excerpt from Disney’s Mars and Beyond science show from 1957.  It lays out the standard plot line and character types from a typical pulp science fiction story.