The Sword in the Stone is one of Walt Disney's least artistically successful movies - it was the last Disney animated feature released in Walt's lifetime, and was made at a time when he had pretty much neglected the animation unit completely, in favor of putting all of his efforts into the theme park projects and live-action movies like Mary Poppins. As IMDB points out, it is "the only animated Disney movie from the 1960s not to have a Platinum DVD, a sequel, a TV show, or a live-action remake."
After the lavishly produced Sleeping Beauty (1959) was a financial disappointment, Disney turned to the cheaper Xerography process to cut costs, and personally put much less attention into the writing and story process - especially compared to his hands-on approach during the golden age.
101 Dalmatians (1961) is the only enduring classic that came out of this period, as the illustrators took advantage of the Xerography process to give the film a funky, modern look that proved highly effective. But the other films of the period - The
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The Once and Future King is on my list of Read-Many-Times Books. I have a separate copy of The Sword in the Stone which is read to rags. Any mention of hedgehogs makes me all teary because I immediately think of the hedgehog, whom Arthur had met during one of his stints as an animal, giving King Arthur a few leaves as a coronation present because he hadn't anything else to give.
My friend Laura Erickson, who's an ornithologist and has an animal rehabber license, has an owl. I was thrilled to learn she'd named him Archimedes, and she was thrilled that I got the reference.
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After the lavishly produced Sleeping Beauty (1959) was a financial disappointment, Disney turned to the cheaper Xerography process to cut costs, and personally put much less attention into the writing and story process - especially compared to his hands-on approach during the golden age.
101 Dalmatians (1961) is the only enduring classic that came out of this period, as the illustrators took advantage of the Xerography process to give the film a funky, modern look that proved highly effective. But the other films of the period - The ( ... )
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My friend Laura Erickson, who's an ornithologist and has an animal rehabber license, has an owl. I was thrilled to learn she'd named him Archimedes, and she was thrilled that I got the reference.
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