Clyde Geronimi was an animator and director who worked on early Disney animated shorts, including some of the studio's most celebrated cartoons from the 1930s and 1940s. I have reviewed 4 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 2.5★
There are certain films that loom large in the collective memory simply by virtue of existing at the right moment in history, and Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959) is a fairly textbook example. Based on the centuries-old fairy tale made famous by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm,
Rating: 3.0★
By 1950, Walt Disney Productions was in a complicated position. The studio had spent much of the 1940s producing package films, anthology features stitched together from shorter segments, largely as a financial necessity born out of the Second World War disrupting overseas markets. Features like Dumbo had shown the studio
1950s
Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) is the studio’s middle-period work par excellence: technically polished, commercially tested, narratively cautious, and just slightly off. Made between two of Disney’s commercial successes (Cinderella in 1950, which had rescued the studio from one of its periodic financial near-misses, and
Genre Adventure
★★½ — One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
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