Wilfred Jackson was a director at Disney during the studio's golden age, helming sequences for animated classics including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella. I have reviewed 6 of his films on the site so far.
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 Fantasy
★★★ — Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Genre Animation
★★★ — Barnyard Olympics (1932)
Genre Animation
★½ — Dumbo (1941)
Genre Animation
★★★ — Pinocchio (1940)
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