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‘Return To Oz’ Presented A Wickedly Different View 40 Years Ago

By the mid-1980s, top brass at Disney was faced with a dilemma. Do they continue to make just family movies or do they branch out and do what all the other movie studios have done and embraced the change that has been happening since the late 1960s? It didn’t help matters that many of their top animators left with Don Bluth who went on toContinue reading “‘Return To Oz’ Presented A Wickedly Different View 40 Years Ago”

The Awkward Darkness Of ‘The Life and Adventures Of Santa Claus’

All good things must come to an end sometimes. By the close of the 1970s, the Rankin/Bass Christmas holiday specials looked very atrocious in comparison to their earlier productions. In 1979, Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July was released and it’s about as bad as it looks. Even at an hour and a half, it’sContinue reading “The Awkward Darkness Of ‘The Life and Adventures Of Santa Claus’”