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Fantasia Sun, Jun 18 | 7:30pm | DGT
This ongoing series celebrates films that have been honored at the Academy Awards. This summer, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company.
Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney founded the Disney Brothers Studio on October 16, 1923, and its animated short films, which introduced the character of Mickey Mouse, led to their first sound short, 1928’s Steamboat Willie. With Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) becoming the first traditionally animated feature film and Fantasia (1940) demonstrating the studio’s increasing stylistic ambition, Disney diversified into live action hits such as 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1954). Consistently producing family-friendly entertainment for the decades to come, the studio branched out into more serious subject matter with their Touchstone and Hollywood divisions, and the growth of computer animation and effects was highlighted in films such as Tron (1982) and Beauty and the Beast (1991). Films produced with Pixar, Marvel Studios, and Lucasfilm have become some of the most popular under the Disney umbrella, and recent successes such as Encanto (2021) and Turning Red (2022) demonstrate the studios’ commitment to diversity in its characters. This screening series of Oscar-nominated and winning films, in conjunction with our Family Matinees, spotlights the remarkable range of the first hundred years of films from Disney. Programmed by Bernardo Rondeau and K.J. Relth-Miller. Notes by Robert Reneau.
Cinderella Sun, Jun 4 | 7:30pm | DGT
Walt Disney spent more than a decade developing this animated film version of Charles Perrault’s 1697 fairy tale about a beleaguered girl, tormented by her unsympathetic stepmother and stepsisters, who gets a chance at romance and a better future through the intervention of her fairy godmother. Disney had the entire film staged with live actors to create reference footage to work from, with the individual characters ultimately animated by Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men.” Cinderella received three Oscar nominations, for Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture), Sound Recording, and the original song “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo.” DIRECTED BY: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi. WRITTEN BY: William Peed, Erdman Penner, Ted Sears, Winston Hibler, Homer Brightman, Harry Reeves, Kenneth Anderson, Joe Rinaldi. WITH: Ilene Woods, Helene Stanley, Eleanor Audley, Luis Van Rooten. 1950. 75 min. USA. Color. English. Rated G; suitable for ages 5+. 4K EDR DCP.
CINDERELLA (1950)
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