#melody time

[filmgifs]

Melody Time (1948) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney and Hamilton Luske

[thebarroomortheboy]

A memory of wintertime long ago, of clear, crisp air, of new fallen snow, of an etching of frost on a windowpane, an echo of sleighbells heard from the lane. Here in this wonderland, romance is the theme for this is the story of love's young dream.

CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN DAY 7 : MELODY TIME - ONCE UPON A WINTERTIME (1948) | dir. Hamilton Luske

[vampirecorleone]

"You know, you worry too much. In fact, everybody worries too much."

Disney + Color Palettes: Shades of Blue

[retrodisneydaily]

Melody Time (1948)

(requested by anonymous)

[tomoleary]

Mary Blair "Once Upon a Wintertime" Melody Time Concept Painting (Walt Disney, 1948)

[sweet-caress-of-twilight]

2026 IS THE YEAR OF THE HORSE

Happy Chinese New Year

[hyzenthlayroseart]

I wanted to save these for when I was done with the whole project but I have a feeling the next few entries will take a long time to make since each era has so many movies (Renaissance Era, Experimental Era and the Modern Era) and I got impatient with myself so I'm posting what's done so far.

So I decided to do a project where I draw films from each Disney era together. For those who don't know about Disney's animation eras, here's a good guide: https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/many-merry-eras-disney

Disney's Package Era (aka The Wartime Era) was, as its wartime name implies, the films produced during WWII. Of course war made this a complicated time for the company as many workers were drafted into war, the European market was cut off and budgets were cut, not to mention that Walt was dealing with the Disney animator's strike in 1941. As a result of all these hardships, the films released during this time were shorts packaged together as anthology films.

An interesting part of this era's history is that in 1941, President FDR commissioned a Disney goodwill tour to South America as part of the Good Neighbor Policy since several Latin American countries had close ties to the Axis powers that the US government wanted to sever, and the films Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros were created as a result.

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949, Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi and James Algar)

05/04/2025