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Showing posts with label Zorro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zorro. Show all posts

Sunday, December 20, 2009

The Princess, The Frog, and D23


The Winter 2009 issue of disney twenty-three magazine naturally has an in-depth cover story on The Princess and the Frog, Disney's triumphant return to hand-drawn animation. This fourth issue of the Magazine for the Official Community for Disney fans also features a Christmasy article about holiday celebrations by the Walt Disney Archives' Becky Cline and collaborator Graham Allan on holidays at Disneyland Park; a not-to-be missed visit to Walt's (and my) favorite restaurant, the Tam O'Shanter, also written by Becky; an excellent report on Walt Disney's Zorro by Paul F. Anderson (which includes many an awesome photo); and as always the historical column "A Walk With Walt," this time covering the early Silly Symphonies, written by Jim Fanning (that's me). It's still not too late to get a Charter Membership (including a subscription to disney twenty-three) for this first year of D23—head on over here (or here, if you want to buy a Membership as a gift) for more details.

Friday, November 6, 2009

The Sign Of The Z

Just the other day, on Tuesday, November 3, the latest "wave" of the Walt Disney Treasures DVDs was released, featuring the entire series (in two sets) of Walt Disney's Zorro. When the series originally aired in prime time on ABC from 1957 through 1959 (the DVDs also include the rarely seen hour-long episodes that aired on the Walt Disney Presents anthology series), Zorro was all the rage with viewers, including Donald Duck, and (as Carl Barks might say) so too Hu, Dew and Lou, as evidenced by this May 1959 cover of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, Number 224, drawn by Tony Strobl.