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50 Great Animated Films

50 Great Animated Films

Screenshot from Disney's Fantasia (1940)

Walt Disney Pictures has a long history of producing quality animated feature films dating all the way back to 1937 with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  For those of us who grew up with Disney on Home Video, there are dozens of films from our childhoods which played an integral role in shaping who we are as adults – from our imaginations to our aspirations.  But the real question is… which of Disney’s films rank among the best animated films of all times?

If you were to go by the American Film Institute’s Top 10 Animated Films, then Disney (and collaborator Pixar) has made nine of the ten best American animated films, with rival Dreamwork’s Shrek sneaking in at position number eight.

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August 30, 2010 Post Under Latest News, Movies - Read More

Pinocchio Celebrates 70 Years

Pinocchio Celebrates 70 Years

Pinocchio has been re-released by Disney on DVD and Blu-ray for its 70th Anniversary.

It’s hard to believe that the Disney animated classic, Pinocchio, about a puppet’s journey to become a real boy, was made in 1940, 70 years ago. 1940…that was five years before the end of World War II, 25 years before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 29 years before man first walked on the moon (and 46 years before the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion), and 68 years before Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States of America.

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August 30, 2010 Post Under History, Latest News, Movies - Read More