Wednesday, September 13, 2023

This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of our blog Silver Scenes. Looking back on all of the posts my sister Diana and I (Constance) have made over the years, we discovered that Walt Disney films were a common theme....in fact, we reviewed quite a large number of Disney productions! We also covered small bios on some Disney Legends, such as Bill Cotter, Marc Davis, and James Algar.

Since we are hosting The 100 Years of Disney Blogathon in honor of Walt Disney Studios' anniversary, we decided to round up all of our Disney posts into one large corral. This way you can browse through and pick and choose which posts you may want to explore.

The Disney Round-Up!

Disney Legends

It has been a long time since we ran this series which featured profiles of actors/directors/writers and other personnel from Disney, but looking back on it, I want to relaunch this (and this time include my favorite Legend - Richard Sherman).

Fred MacMurray - The Walt Disney Years

Editor-Cotton Warburton

Joe Flynn - A Frustrated Fellow

James MacArthur and Janet Munro - A Disney Duo

Tim Considine - A Disney Legend

Carroll Clark and Emile Kuri - Set Designers

Eustace Lycett - Special Effects

Marc Davis - Imagineer

Bill Walsh - Disney Legend

Hayley Mills - Disney Legend

James Algar - Imagineer and Director

Bill Thomas - Costume Designer

Disney Television Productions

Walt Disney Studios are known for their film work but the studio also did many many television productions, especially when Walt himself was alive and hosting The Wonderful World of Color. Here is just a selection of many of Disney's TV productions:

The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure

The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca (1958)

The Prince and the Pauper (1962)

Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

Ballerina (1966)

Way Down Cellar (1968)

Secret of the Pirate's Inn (1969)

High Flying Spy (1972)

The Child of Glass (1978)

The Secret of Boyne Castle (1969)

Bejewelled (1991)

The Disney Films

If you were to mention the name "Disney" most people would instantly link the thought with "animation"...and rightly so. Disney was a pioneer in the animation field. We thought that there were enough books and articles written about his animated work, but very few about the live-action films that the studio made over the years, so we have always put the spotlight on those, some of which were:

The Reluctant Dragon (1941)

Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue

The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)

Johnny Tremain (1957)

Perri: A True-Life Adventure (1958)

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

The Shaggy Dog (1959)

Third Man on the Mountain (1959)

Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961)

The Parent Trap (1961)

Summer Magic (1963)