Non-Nominated Highlight - The Band Concert (1935)

Well, today is the day Disney's latest film Frozen opens wide, which is all fair and good, but more importantly it also means that Oscar contender Get a Horse! will finally move from the film festivals to the general public. Yes, I've already gone to see it, and I've updated my thoughts on the film in my entry on the Shortlist (which you all must read because I'm getting desperate). And you can stay for Frozen, which is, you know, pretty good.

But today is also the week after the 1935 review went up, and while Three Orphan Kittens, Who Killed Cock Robin? and The Calico Dragon were good films, those were far from being the film animated film from 1935. No, there is one film that came out that year that topped them out and may as well be the best Disney film of all time. (At least the animation professionals polled by Jerry Beck sure think so.)
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Module 2 - Disney

Welcome to Part 2 of my discussion posts from the History of Animation online course I am taking. This module is about one of the biggest animation titans in history: Walt Disney. Disney's early career from the Laugh-o-gram shorts to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was covered in Module 1, so this one deals only with his career after starting his own studio. The one that eventually became a massive corporation that now owns Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilms. It was interesting to see the ups and downs the company had between the debut of Mickey Mouse in 1927 to Wreck-It Ralph in 2012. Of course we're not going to cover all that. This is just going to be the discussion questions.

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