Once Upon a Time... Walt Disney: Sources of Inspiration At Disney Studios

Once Upon a Time... Walt Disney: Sources of Inspiration At Disney Studios
Once upon a time...there was a genius of American mass culture who was captivated and inspired by classical European art. Walt Disney was a gifted storyteller who surrounded himself with brilliant artists from Sweden, Denmark and England, all of whom helped to cultivate and animate his fertile imagination. Like a journey through WONDERLAND, filmmaker Samuel Doux tells the Disney story with bravura vividness. He merrily weaves various interviews with specialists and excerpts from Disney's most celebrated works together with a dazzling array of stills, as well as numerous 2 and 3D animated sequences. In addition to chronicling the creation of Disney Studios, Doux offers fresh insight into the font of Disney's creativity as he examines the influence on the imagery of such Disney classics as SNOW WHITE, PINOCCHIO and FANTASIA by such artistic masters as Doré, Daumier, Bruegel and many others. This documentary is 47 minutes. BONUS FEATURE: SNOW WHITE, the 63 minute 1916 silent film by J. Searle Dawly that inspired Walt Disney to make the first full-length animated feature in cinema's history.