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Snow White's dance in the clouds
One dream that Walt Disney took over twenty years to materialize was a dance sequence in the clouds between one of his Princesses and her Prince. Since the very first feature film, a lyrical scene was...
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Betty Balfour
BFI has just announced the discovery of a British masterpiece called Love Life and Laughter by George Pearson. Maybe this will throw a little light on its forgotten star.When BFI restored "the...
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The Three Masks, the first French talking picture.
The Jazz singer was presented in Paris on January 24, 1929, more than one year after its huge success in the USA. It took another 10 months for a French-speaking film to hit the screens (RCA...
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How Pinocchio learned to speak French
February 1940. Pinocchio has just been released nationwide. That was the time to repeat an international success. I don't know if Disney had plans to repeat the process used two years before with Snow...
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Theda Bara, Queen of Caesars
Theda Bara's name still rings a bell for some people. She was the iconic vamp of the silent era. Also she portrayed iconic characters such as Juliet (from Romeo & Juliet), Camille, Carmen, Madame...
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The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous work is the creation of detective Sherlock Holmes, and indeed the first screen adaptation came in 1900. However, one of the most successful adaptations of his novels...
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Snow White in France. Chapter 1 : 1938 -1943
If the fairest one of all stays eternally young, it is no secret anymore that she was born a long time ago. The date commonly given is that of the premiere at the Carthay Circle Theater on December 21,...
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Snow White in France. Chapter 2: 1944 -1951
As Paris has just been liberated, and before the war is even over, life goes on in the French Capital City. But French films are soon insufficient: one can read in Le Film Français that there are 220...
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Snow White in France. Chapter 3: 1962.
As Snow White has been released in the USA in 1958 through Buena Vista, the studio prepares an international Christmas 1962 release. Since new American credits had to be created to erase the name RKO...
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Snow White in France. Chapter 4: 1973.
For their 50th anniversary, the Disney studios want to to celebrate in a big way.In September 1973, "Si Disney m'était conté"[Once Upon A Time Disney] is released in France. It is a package of shorts...
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Snow White in France. Chapter 5: 1983 - 1987
One clue proves the high esteem in which the Disney studios holds Snow White after so many years and so many new features films: the re-releases in France (and other countries) almost always coincide...
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Snow White in France. Chapter 7 : 1992.
1992 is a special year for Walt Disney in France : the EuroDisney resort opens that year and its grand opening will be televised live in the entire world on April 12. The animation studios have started...
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Snow White in France. Chapter 7 : 1994
For Disney to allow their masterpiece to be released in a format that will potentially enable anyone to scrutinize every frame, they need an image drastically cleaner that the photochemical restoration...
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Snow White in France. Chapter 8: 2001
With this new millennium, the world of animation as Snow White knew it on its first release has changed very much: features are now the norm, shorts are more common on TV where Disney is now a company...
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Snow White in France. Chapter 9: 2009 - 2014
On September 16, 2006, The exhibit"Once upon a time Walt Disney : the Disney studios artistic sources"opens at the Grand Palais in Paris. Vintage documents are on display, as well as pieces of art used...
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Andrée Brabant: The Wild French Mary Pickford
Andrée Brabant, "raised with Champagne" even since her birth in Reims, France on May 23, 1901, decides to escape from home with her mother when they find out that her father, a train manager, has a...
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The Rescuers
After the smash hit of The Jungle Book and the relative success of Robin Hood, the Disneystaff worked on a story based on Margery Sharp’s novels about two little mice that Walt Disney had begun...
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Snow White premiere magazine
76 years ago, Walt Disney's Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs premiered at the Carthay Circle Theater. Here is a Christmas treat for you: I scanned the theater's magazine "The Playgoer" presenting the...
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The Fortune Teller
Lili Damita and Georges MelchiorLast month, actor Paul Walker died before he could complete filming of Fast & Furious 7. Yet Universal already announced that the film would still be released. You...
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Woman to Woman
Last year saw the re-release of The White Shadow, a 1924 film directed by Graham Cutts which had been thought lost for almost 90 years. Only half the film has been recovered (Three reels out of 6), but...
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