Tag: Disney
Bambi
That's Thumper the Rabbit talking to Bambi's mother in the beautiful opening sequence of Walt Disney's 1942 film when all the gentle animals of the forest come to see the newborn deer.
Mary Poppins
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-New-Mary-Poppins.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/23/2005 Mary Poppins Transcript Nannies seem to be everywhere these days — they’re on TV and writing books, and you can spot them looking after the children of two-career families, and the kids of the stars. But there’s something quintessential about the Nanny who’s […]
Between the Lines of Animated Films
We don’t usually think about the presence of ideas of race and racial supremacy even in apparently progressive animated movies.
Disneyland Opens
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Disneyland-Beginnings.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/15/2004 Disneyland Opens Transcript On July 17, 1955 Walt Disney opened the doors to Disneyland and turned his cartoon world into a three-dimensional experience. Disney’s interest in fantasy takes us to the root of understanding what he was trying to achieve with his theme […]
Robin Hood
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Robin-Hood.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/12/2003 Robin Hood Transcript In today’s world, where children have so many events organized for them, where the activities of childhood begin to mountain into a stack of soccer schedules and field trip permissions, you begin to wonder, perhaps, if anyone still plays at […]
Walt Disney and Mary Poppins
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Walt-Disney-and-Mary-Poppins.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 12/5/2002 Walt Disney and Mary Poppins Transcript If one wishes to understand Walt Disney-or at least understand how Walt Disney perceived himself, one might take a close look at the lead character in one of Disney’s most popular productions, Mary Poppins. Mary, like Uncle […]
Inventions: Tivoli Gardens
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Tivoli-Gardens-The-First-Theme-Park.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 8/15/2002 Tivoli Gardens Transcript Tivoli Gardens — the famous amusement park in Denmark, which took its name from a much older Tivoli Gardens in Italy — opened its gates in the late summer of 1843. It was the brainchild of an entertainment entrepreneur named […]
Donald Duck
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Donald-Ducks-First-Quacks.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/12/2002 Donald Duck Transcript Today we sing the praises of a Hollywood personality who has been acting on screen now for sixty-eight years. He has been nominated for eight academy awards. He was drafted in World War II and won an Oscar for his […]
Carl Stalling
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Carl-Stalling-Pioneer-Animator-.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 10/09/2001 Carl Stalling Transcript One of the great unsung heroes of Warner Brothers cartoons was composer, Carl Stalling. In the early 1920s, Stalling met Walt Disney at a theatre in Kansas City where Stalling was employed as a piano accompanist for silent films. At […]
Sherman Brothers
It's the anniversary this week of the premiere of Disney's animated musical Mary Poppins, and Kevin Shortsleeve has some thoughts about the brothers who composed the score for that film.