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When The Cat’s Away
Director: Walt Disney Release Date: May 3, 1929 Stars: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse Rating: ★ Review: Awkwardly, in this sixth Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey and Minnie are portraited as real mice. They are...
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Scaredy Cat
Director: Chuck Jones Release Date: December 18, 1948 Stars: Porky Pig, Sylvester Rating: ★★★ Review: Chuck Jones was the only director to pair Porky Pig with Sylvester. His Sylvester is very different...
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The Rescuers
Director: John Lounsberry, Wolfgang Reitherman & Art Stevens Release Date: June 22, 1977 Rating: ★★★★½ Review: ‘The Rescuers’ was a joint venture of an old and a new generation of animators at the...
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By Word of Mouse
Director: Friz Freleng Release date: October 2, 1954 Stars: Sylvester Rating: ★★★ Review: In the mid-fifties Friz Freleng directed three propaganda shorts celebrating the American capitalistic system....
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The Secret of NIMH
Director: Don Bluth Release date: July 3, 1982 Rating: ★★★★ Review: Dissatisfied with the studio’s policies, Don Bluth left the Walt Disney Studio in 1979, taking some fellow animators with him, thus...
View ArticleToy Time
Directors: John Foster & Harry Bailey Release Date: January 27, 1932 Rating: ★★★½ Review: ‘Toy Time’ is another typical Silly Symphony-like short by Van Beuren, trying to beat Disney at his own...
View ArticlePolo Match
Directors: Harry Bailey, John Foster, Frank Moser & Jerry Shields Release Date: June 2, 1929 Rating: ★★★ Review: Long before ‘Mickey’s Polo Team’ (1936) or Walt Disney took on playing polo himself,...
View ArticleIt’s Got Me Again!
Director: Rudolf Ising Release Date: May 14, 1932 Rating: ★★★ Review: ‘It’s Got Me Again!’ finds Harman and Ising at their most Disney-like. This Merrie Melodie is very similar to contemporary Silly...
View ArticlePudgy the Watchman
'Pudgy the Watchman' opens with an alley cat driving a mouse-like car in a beautiful 3D landscape, conceived with Max Fleischer's unique tabletop technique. This cat, called Al E. Katz, stops at Betty...
View ArticleJapon de fantaisie (Fantasy Japan)
Somewhere before or after his groundbreaking 'Fantasmagorie' Cohl explored the older animation technique of stop motion. 'Japon de faintasie' is an ultrashort venture into this technique, and the only...
View ArticleYou Said a Mouseful
'You Said a Mouseful' builds on two ideas: Katnip suddenly is an Italian chef, making pizza, while Herman runs a gym for mice, to keep them in shape enough to escape the cat.
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