David Hand was an American animator and director who played a key role in Disney's early animated features, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi. I have reviewed 6 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 2.5★
There are films that reshape what cinema thinks it can do, and Fantasia (1940) is one of them. Released at a moment when animation was still widely regarded as a novelty medium, a thing for children and Saturday mornings, Walt Disney's production arrived as a deliberate provocation: a
Rating: 3.0★
There are few cinematic experiences as universally scarring as sitting down with a bucket of popcorn, only to have your childhood innocence absolutely shattered by a woodland creature. I still remember the collective, stunned silence in the room the first time I watched Bambi. Not a word. Not a sound.
Genre Fantasy
★★★ — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Genre Animation
★★½ — Mickey's Steam Roller (1934)
Genre Animation
★★★ — Camping Out (1934)
Genre Animation
★★½ — Mickey's Kangaroo (1935)
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