Synopsis: Alice’s Wonderland is a 1923 Walt Disney short silent film, produced in Kansas City, Missouri by Laugh-O-Gram Studio.[1] The black-and-white short was the first in a series of Walt Disney’s famous Alice Comedies and had a working title of Alice in Slumberland. The film was never shown theatrically but was instead shown to prospective… Continue reading “ALICE’S WONDERLAND”
Synopsis: Bimbo’s Initiation is a 1931 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Bimbo and featuring an early version of Betty Boop with a dog’s ears and nose. It was the final Betty Boop cartoon to be animated by the character’s co-creator, Grim Natwick. Bimbo is walking down the street when he suddenly disappears down an open manhole… Continue reading “BIMBO’S INITIATION”
Synopsis: In this animated tale, seaman Lemuel Gulliver is the sole survivor of a shipwreck on the distant land of Lilliput, whose people are no bigger than peanuts. Unaware of Gulliver lying on the beach, King Little arranges for the marriage of his daughter, Princess Glory to Prince David, the son of neighboring King Bombo.… Continue reading “GULLIVERS TRAVELS”
Synopsis: This was the first Chinese feature-length cartoon and it was made under difficult circumstances during WWII when China was occupied by Japan. It shows a very small section from Journey to the West and takes quite a few artistic liberties (with the animation obviously being heavily influenced by Disney – but it also has… Continue reading “PRINCESS IRON FAN” (1941)