Animation
The Mouse Who Taught the World to Whistle
New York, Sunday, November 18, 1928. It is cold outside, and in the Colony Theatre on Broadway the smell of damp overcoats mixes with cigarette smoke and poster paint. The audience has come for the feature film. Before it comes a short cartoon, seven and a half minutes that most viewers will forget by the time they reach the coat check.
How Film Tastes Changed Through the Decades (3): From Disney to Superheroes
In the first two instalments of this series, we traced the journey from the gangsters of the Great Depression, through Hitchcock’s thrillers and the rebellion of the 1960s, to the moment when Spielberg and Lucas discovered that a film could become an event larger than the story itself - and Hollywood in the 1980s turned that idea into an industrial model.
The Five Disney Animated Films That Changed the World
For more than a century, The Walt Disney Company has created far more than animated films. Its stories have shaped generations, influenced popular culture, transformed filmmaking, and redefined what animation could achieve. While dozens of Disney classics have become beloved worldwide, only a handful have fundamentally changed the history of cinema.
