20,000 Leagues under the Sea Sun, Jul 9 | 7:30pm | DGT
Walt Disney’s lavish adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1870 novel was reportedly the most expensive Hollywood film made up to that time, a Technicolor-and-CinemaScope spectacle that used the full resources of the studio to bring Verne’s adventure classic to life. James Mason plays Captain Nemo, who sails the world in his futuristic submarine Nautilus , on a mission to destroy all who would wage war. The film won Oscars for its special effects—including a thrilling battle with a giant squid—and art direction, and was nominated for its film editing. DIRECTED BY: Richard Fleischer. WRITTEN BY: Earl Felton. WITH: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre. 1954. 128 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated G. DCP.
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Sun, Jun 11 | 7:30pm | DGT
The Black Hole Sun, Jul 16 | 7:30pm | DGT
The first animated feature from The Walt Disney Company— and the first traditionally animated feature ever produced— was a critical and commercial success that is as beloved today as when it premiered more than 85 years ago. With its artful animation, charming characters, and tuneful score, Snow White created a template for how to bring fantasy to the big screen that is still studied today. The film was nominated for its original score, and the following year the Academy gave Disney a Special Award for the film (one full-sized Oscar and seven small ones), “recognized as a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field for the motion picture cartoon.” DIRECTED BY: David Hand, Perce Pearce, William Cottrell, Larry Morey, Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen. WRITTEN BY: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith. WITH: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille LaVerne, Moroni Olsen. 1937. 86 min. USA. Color. English. Rated G. 35mm.
The Walt Disney Company joined the post- Star Wars sci-fi boom with this ambitious 20,000 Leagues under the Sea - in-space, in which a team of space explorers is imperiled by a brilliant madman piloting a long-lost starship manned by robots, obsessed with journeying through a black hole. The first Disney production to receive a PG rating, it benefited from its imaginative production design and Oscar-nominated cinematography and visual effects and has gained a cult following in the decades since its original release. DIRECTED BY: Gary Nelson. WRITTEN BY: Jeb Rosebrook, Gerry Day. STORY BY: Jeb Rosebrook, Bob Barbash, Richard Landau. WITH: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Ernest Borgnine. 1979. 97 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated PG. DCP.
Fantasia Sun, Jun 18 | 7:30pm | DGT
The third animated feature released by Disney is still the studio’s most experimental work, a series of eight vignettes set to classical music that demonstrate the remarkable potential and variety of feature film animation. The segments range from the lighthearted antics of Mickey Mouse in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” to the sinister, epic imagery of “Night on Bald Mountain.” The film received two Special Awards from the Academy, one for conductor Leopold Stokowski and his associates for “the creation of a new form of visualized music,” and the other to Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company for the advancement of the use of sound in movies. DIRECTED BY: Sam Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson. WITH: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor. 1940. 125 min. USA. Color. English. Rated G. DCP.
RETURN TO OZ (1985)
Return to Oz Sun, Jul 23 | 7:30pm | DGT Walter Murch, the legendary film editor and sound designer, made his feature film directing debut with this visually stunning and boldly imagined sequel to L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Back in Kansas after her amazing adventure, Dorothy (9-year-old Fairuza Balk) finds that no one believes her story of the magical land, and upon returning to Oz she meets a new group of friends and is menaced by the Nome King—voiced by Nicol Williamson, and created by Will Vinton with Claymation, just one of the film’s Oscar-nominated visual effects. DIRECTED BY: Walter Murch. WRITTEN BY: Walter Murch, Gill Dennis. WITH: Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie, Fairuza Balk. 1985. 109 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Alice in Wonderland Sun, Jun 25 | 7:30pm | DGT
Lewis Carroll’s dazzling literary classic gets an equally dazzling visual translation, with Disney’s “Nine Old Men” team of master animators bringing the classic characters and hallucinatory imagery to life in eye-popping Technicolor. The cast features such memorable voice talents as Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter and Sterling Holloway as the Cheshire Cat, the songs include the popular title tune, and Oliver Wallace was nominated for Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture). DIRECTED BY: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson. WITH: Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Hayden, Sterling Holloway. 1951. 76 min. USA. Color. English. Rated G. DCP.
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