One Hundred And One Dalmatians (1961) - Screencaps

 

I still think to this day that One Hundred And One Dalmatians is one of Disney's best looking movies ever made and is one of their best films period. 

Here's some screencaps I saved onto my phone gallery, these will hold a special place in my heart.

Enjoy!

All credits goes to Ralph Hulett, Anthony Rizzo, Bill Layne, and Walt Peregoy. 

You can explore more screencaps from this and other movies on this website.

https://animationscreencaps.com/

Here awaits a true 101 Dalmatians fanatic. 🐾

Paintings Galore/Vintage Goodies

 

I love a good bit of vintage and old paintings and my favorites seem to be pin-up model art. These are absolutely glorious, they have had wide appeal for generations and it's time for me to be able to talk about these once more.

Al Buell is probably my favorites when it comes to this style. He designs one of the best pin-ups. I love this one here where we get to see the fully watercolored portrait of the woman, but the other 2 are minimal sketches.

 

I never knew why I was so drawn to artists like this, but there's one thing I can consider myself saying when it comes to this style of artistry, it's eloquent, authentic and peaceful. There's not a ton of action or nonsense about, it's all plain simple. 

Al Buell alongside other artists I admire knew the truth about self-realization.

Here's something ambitious and massive, one of my favorites from Al.

Next is Pearl Frush, it's such a rare circumstance to explore a female glamour artist, but I'm glad I'm able to talk about her because she's extremely overlooked and not alot has been said about these paintings. They're highly influential and handsome.

I absolutely adore these portraits. It's dreamy and fancy but in a very cute way. Simple yet extremely captivating. 

The colors to this one is giving off honey-sweet visual appeal. To me it feels like an absolute blessing to have someone draw you in a more polished and exquisite style in hand-drawn fashion.

I actually have a drawing of one of my female characters, Magsie that resembles Frush's drawings but this was made even before I knew about her art.

Alexander Sharpe Ross has had a collection of remarkable paintings, his art is interesting, like both Frush, and Buell, alot of realism and soft natural textures help gain instant appeal, to me at least.

Ross has variety in his artistic skills, I love how in this painting, both the man and woman have a grayish tone than the usual colors applied to their realistic values.

Finally, Andrew Loomis, he's a portrait expert in almost every single turn he fabricates. I need to know more about him. I love his sense of realism. It's to a perfect extent if I'm totally being honest with you.

If I can experience this man full flight I'll definitely be making a singular post on his work.

I absolutely love these colors!

The blue skies are really nice, I love the bright but natural yellow dress, and I love the extra addition of adding butterflies and flowers to the illustration. This guy's got a thing for mother nature.

Well, I'm outta here, hopefully learning about these new sets of artists makes you want to explore more about them, they deserve attention and recognition in that regard.

I got some posts related to this specific topic you don't wanna miss! 

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/natural-artists-swinnerton-and-rabiers.html?m=1

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/my-2-new-favorite-people.html?m=1

Nostalgic Appeal - The Threequel (Childhood TV Shows)

 

This is Part 3 Of Nostalgic Appeal

This part I'll be talking about a genre of shows I watched that feel warm inside, these TV shows I watched over countless of times. 

This is a rare show that aired on Nick Jr, called Blue's Room, I remember this show and I watched a few of the episodes, and just coming back to it, this show looked absolutely gorgeous and highly enjoyable. Such an appealing show. 

I absolutely love the colors in this shot, there's a ton of purple, but it's not blended in and has a ton of different tones like with the girl's skin, and the treasure box. These colors are really unique but natural.

This is the episode I remember the most where they chat about If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, classic book and great colors, seriously these shots hit me.

I don't think this show aired at all on the Nick Jr. channel when I was born, but I did like Blue's Clues and one time, I recieved a DVD, and was watching the episodes from there.

This is the one.

This show alongside others I watched had the same, going on an adventure, solving problems and using imaginations premise. This was so popular on kids television programs when I was very young and lets just say that was for the best.

The next show you probably seen me mention before in my Thank You TV post.

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/thank-you-tv.html?m=1

This show was really fun. The entire production felt nostalgic and pleasing. I also liked the characters and the songs. 

The colors are out of the ordinary. I don't think you'll ever see such a unique set of colors in any other show except this one. This makes the show more entertaining if you ask me. 

Pajanimals had alot of potential. I didn't watch this show as much as the previous ones but I still liked it and have sweet memories for it.

The cast of characters are also colorful and memorable. For instance this image, the sky looks absolutely stunning. I also love the calm atmosphere, I wish I would live in this place, I bet there's no bustling and busy shenanigans, and it's all so soft and whimsical.

 

The entire premise of this show was genius. 

This is what it feels like when they turn the lights off. Love it.

This is a random frame I captured. It's a really great shot. This feels like your sucked into simpler times. The baby blues, the little toys on the shelf, the line pattern on the walls, this scene is perfect to observe.

Sprout was my all-time favorite channel as a kid and I would remember watching a little of Sesame Street, wasn't the biggest fan of the entirity of the show, but I did like some of the segments, there was this one series called Ernie and Bert's Great Adventures and always recalled the intro, this is nostalgic to the max.

I love the things going on in the theme song. The claymation is also really well animated.

I love this type of stuff, it really sucks you into another world but the characters are still authentic and actual.

Here's links Parts 1-2.

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/nostalgic-appeal-looney-tunes-disney.html?m=1

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/nostalgic-appeal-sequel.html?m=1

Betty Hutton - A New Favorite

 

For now this will be an ongoing series of posts. 

The first time I ever truly knew about this actress was just yesterday. I was exploring around various 40s music, until I stumbled across her song, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief. The version I watched was her appearance in movie The Stork Club (1945). 

I was absolutely amused by her performance and I needed to know more about her immediately. Later as I realized, I really associate her eccentric personality, usually when a person sings, they just go along with it in a normal perspective, when she sings she does these zany movements it makes it even more entertaining. 

I'll prove it to you.

When I first watched this, I was laughing, she was so full of spirit it's hard to dislike it because she's having fun with her performance and y'know that makes me extremely contented. 

Observe as she sings "I'm Just A Square In A Social Circle" Great song!

Normally, I love old songs, the people sound gentle, and the rhythm, melody is all whimsical and calm, sometimes the song can go over-the-top ridiculous in many great ways like with my favorites from Glenn Miller, and Tony Pastor. My favorite music decades are the 30s and 40s and almost every song sounds comforting to listen to. 

But in that vain of normal goodness, it's always rare to see a music number be so astonishing and impressive to me, I have a playlist on YouTube with all my favorite songs and there's only a course of 30 I put in so far I could listen on repeat. That's saying alot from a person who listens to over a million songs. 

However with Betty Hutton's performances, all I seen so far, she's perfect in all of them. I'm not kidding. How did I not grow up with this actress? 

This is another great one!

She was one of the most comedic, most overlooked entertainers in the 20th century if you ask me.

There are over hundreds of actors/actresses/musicians I have admired, I can go all day telling all about them, but if you were gonna ask individuals I think nailed classic entertainment and had influence on me the most it would be quite a few.

The Three Stooges were more than just a comedy group, they had unique and distinct voices for each stooge, the slapstick was absolutely hilarious, each short is like an adventure only for it to be taken in normal society, and the characters had such influential and comedic force. If you want to watch any of their short films, good for you, YouTube has all 190 of the shorts free to watch, my favorites are We Want Our Mummy, Disorder In The Court, and A Pain In The Pullman.

Billy Gilbert astounded me the most when I first experienced him, his favorite roles were in The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy shorts. Reasons why I honor him is that he's got alot of strength whenever he gets enraged like with The Music Box (1932), still one of the best outrageous performances in film history. 

Bing Crosby is arguably the most important, and most influential singers of the 20th century, while he's most notable for his songs, his acting is just phenomenal too. He makes a few funny facial expressions here and there, and he's got the most perfect personality I seen in an actor. His laid-back demeanor and unique calm voice really shows how entertaining his films can be. 

Gene Kelly's dancing is like nothing I ever seen, while Fred Astaire is magnificent and enormously talented, there's just something more to Gene's dancing than others. He adds alot more variety to his dance numbers, instead of the usual tap-dance and foxtrot routines. His dances are extremely sharp, has a fine voice and is geniuely reliable.  

Just like I said with other talents I mentioned, Betty Hutton will always be remembered and not to be forgotten, it's no wonder as to why I never experienced her until now. She's absolutely marvelous. I would recommend to check out her stuff.