Ben Sharpsteen

Fantasia (1940)

Cast: Bill Roberts Lester Novros Samuel Armstrong   

Tags: Children's Fantasy Musical Fantasy Family Fantasy Musical Animated Musical 

Length: 116min

Fantasia, Walt Disney's animated masterpiece of the 1940s, grew from a short-subject cartoon picturization of the Paul Dukas musical piece &The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Mickey Mouse was starred in this eight-minute effort, while the orchestra was under...

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Pinocchio (1940)

Cast: Mel Blanc Ben Sharpsteen Evelyn Venable T. Hee   

Tags: Family Fantasy Animated Musical Children's Fantasy Fairy Tales & Legends 

Length: 88min

When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto (Christian Rub) builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio (Dick Jones), is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving...

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Mickey's Trailer (1938)

Cast: Walt Disney   

Length: min

Mickey Mouse owns a remarkable state-of-the-art trailer that converts into a bungalow (and vice versa) at the flick of a switch. Goofy drives the trailer into the great outdoors, while Mickey prepares the meals (even unto milking a passing cow). The...

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Cast: Marc Davis Wilfred Jackson   

Tags: Animated Musical Fantasy Fairy Tales & Legends Children's Fantasy Family 

Length: 83min

It was called "Disney's Folly." Who on earth would want to sit still for 90 minutes to watch an animated cartoon? And why pick a well-worn Grimm's Fairy Tale that every schoolkid knows? But Walt Disney seemed to thrive on projects which a lesser man...

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