Author(s): Dave Smith and Steven Vagnini
"If you're curious about the Walt Disney Company, this comprehensive, newly revised, and updated encyclopedia is your one-stop guide! Filled with significant achievements, short biographies, historic dates, and tons of trivia-worthy tidbits ad anecdotes, this newly updated collection covers all things Disney - from A to Z - through more than nine thousand entries. The sixth edition includes all major Disney theme park attractions, restaurants, and shows; summaries of ABC and Disney television shows and Disney+ series; rundowns of all major films and characters; the latest and gretest from Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm; key actors, songs and animators from Disney films and shows; and so much more!"
Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide: The Modern Era (2017)
Author: Leonard Maltin
"THIS CAPSTONE EDITION of Leonard Maltin's beloved movie guide covers the modern era, beginning in 1965, along with timeless classics from Hollywood's golden age. Here are films you can't afford to miss - and those you can - from box office smashes to cult classics to forgotten gems to forgettable bombs, listed alphabetically, and complete with the essential information."
The Disney Films (2000)
Author: Leonard Maltin
America's best-known and most admired film critic and historian offers the only one-volume guide to Walt Disney's greatest individual achievements in film and television. In the fourth edition of his successful book The Disney Films, author Leonard Maltin updates his classic tribute to the genius of the man who brought Mickey Mouse, Snow White, Dumbo, Davy Crockett, Cruella De Vil, and Mary Poppins to movie and television screens all over the world. After examining Walt Disney's career from his early days as an entrepreneurial commercial artist up to his triumphant years as the head of an entertainment kingdom, The Disney Films presents a fascinating overview of every Disney film, both animated and live-action. Included are plot summaries, production credits, and insightful critical commentaries for all of the projects released under Disney's leadership, as well as interviews with notable Disney staff members who provide recollections of the creative process and of their influential and inspiring mentor, Walt. Maltin includes such memorable recent motion pictures as The Lion King, Armageddon, and Tarzan.
As each new generation discovers the Disney classics, The Disney Films is the perfect introduction to the amazing and amusing stories of how these cherished movies came to be, and to the man whose creations will continue to delight the world for years to come.
Author: Gijs Grob
"In this definitive book about the cinematic career of Mickey Mouse, animation historian Gijs Grob analyzes each of Mickey's theatrical films, in chronological order, with introductory essays, plot summaries, and notes about the talented creatives who brought Mickey to the silver screen.
Grob divides Mickey's filmography into seven parts, beginning with his first primitive efforts in 1928 and continuing through Get a Horse! in 2013, with substantial sections about Mickey's "barnyard" years, the introduction of his friends and rivals, and his "settling down" to cartoon prosperity, as Goofy, Pluto, and Donald eclipse his fame.
The book also includes a look at Mickey's "doppelgangers," the little-remembered Foxy, Milton, and Rita; a list of Mickey's Academy Award nominations; comprehensive "show notes" that include release dates and the names of the animators, storymen, layout artists, musicians, directors and others who created each Mickey film; and extensive notes and index.
Throughout, Grob stays opinionated, pointing out flaws where he finds them, and not letting Mickey (or Disney) off the hook for a poor performance.”
Author: David A. Bossert
"Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was created in 1927 by Walt Disney and his team through twenty-six cartoon shorts. Not without fits and starts, the series and its impish title character were an instant hit with audiences. At the end of that initial run, Walt lost the contract to Oswald, which prompted the creation of Mickey Mouse.
Over the years, Oswald became a footnote in the Disney story . . . until 2006, when The Walt Disney Company recovered rights to Walt's twenty-six shorts. Behind-the-scenes, a complex and labor-intensive search developed for the physical film footage of some Oswald cartoons deemed "lost to time."
For anyone interested in Disney origins, fascinated by early cinema, or entertained by a feisty little rabbit, this engaging and accessible volume delivers an in-depth look at Walt's first animated success and the journey to reclaim the Disney films."
Author(s): Russell Merritt and J.B. Kaufman
"During the Roaring Twenties - from 1921 through 1928 - Walt Disney and his friends made more than ninety silent cartoons, turning them out as often as one or two per month. Years before Mickey Mouse, the young entrepreneur recruited and nurtured an extraordinary array of talented people. Drawing on interviews with Disney's coworkers, Disney's business papers, promotional materials, scripts, drawings, and correspondence, the richly illustrated Walt in Wonderland reconstructs Disney's silent film career and places his early films in critical perspective."
Edited By: Daniel Kothenschulte
"One of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney created a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe. Like scarcely any other classics of cinema, his astonishing collection of animated cartoons revolutionized storytelling on screen and enchant to this day.
This expansively illustrated publication on Disney animation gathers hundreds of images as well as essays by Disney experts, taking us to the beating heart of the studio's "Golden Age of Animation." We trace Disney's complete animation journey from the silent film era, through the first full-length feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) right up to his last masterpiece The Jungle Book (1967).
With extensive research, editor Daniel Kothenschulte curates some of the most precious concept paintings and storyboards to reveal just how these animation triumphs came to life. Masterful cel setups provide highly detailed illustrations of famous film scenes while rare pictures taken by Disney photographers bring a privileged insider's view to the studio's creative process.
Each of the major animated features that were made during Walt's lifetime - including Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians - is given its own focus chapter, without forgetting less-familiar gems such as the experimental short films of the Silly Symphonies series and under-appreciated episodic musical films such as Make Mine Music and Melody Times."
Author(s): Russell Merritt and J.B. Kaufman
"Launched by Walt Disney in 1929 as a "musical novelty" series to complement his recent success with Mickey Mouse, the Silly Symphonies soon became much more. This line of delightful, innovative, animated cartoons ran for ten years and produced such classics as Three Little Pigs, The Tortoise and the Hare, Music Land, and The Old Mill.
Silly Symphonies won every Academy Award given to animation shorts throughout the 1930s. Here in one richly illustrated volume is the complete history of the series, with thoughtful commentary and individual entries for all the films.
From the authors of the prizewinning Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney. "
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