Nostalgic Appeal - Looney Tunes & Disney Films

 

We had times where in part of our childhoods or just upon our nostalgia, we had a vibe we were going with at the time. 

I'm a Gen Z-er. My parents had loads of stuff like this similar to the Gameboy advance game you see here. You feelin' old yet?

Now I never played any of these games. I chose these because they fit my childhood really well. The colors are all moderate. Not too dark or too bright.

I used to have a lava lamp in my room when I was little, it was orange yellowish colors and I would sometimes look at the sunset. This painting summarizes everything I said. 

This is precious. Painting is called River At Ascutney made by Maxfield Parrish, 1942.

While I discovered some shots of the early Hanna Barbera episodes, I immediately was drawn to them. There's something about that simple charm to these that needs to rise back.

The solid dark yellow is really gorgeous. The natural colors to Yogi and the wolf fit the mood.

A few weeks ago I mentioned The Rescuers scenes involving Oliver, Bernard and Bianca flying and the yellow reminds me of the color palette they used in the classic Yogi Bear episodes. 

It also reminds me of the original 1941 Curious George drawings. 

While I really like natural colors, I do like a little bit of pinks, purples and blues here and there. 

These hit differently than the other color palettes. It gives off more personality and vibrancy to the whole thing. 

Fantasia has alot of great segments like The Sorcerer's Apprentice and The Rite Of Spring. I adore the colors to the Pastoral Symphony the best. Look at the pinks, and magentas. 

Like I was saying most of these colors feel like their too colorful and in your face. At least with so much colors there are in this scene, it's necessary. That's the problem with most of the content you see today. This pitches the right amount of brightness effect.

The neon colors never truly interest me that much. I know some people out there like it but here's a way I could edit it out for all of you.

ORIGINAL

Now I'll go deeper into films I actually find pleasent that fit my nostalgic vision very well. 

I always thought the best thing about the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons were the backgrounds. Especially in the early 50s. Tweety's S.O.S has some massive backgrounds. In my personal opinion, when Friz was making too much Sylvester and Tweety's the more shorts he made the less interesting the backgrounds looked.

My favorite besides Tweety's S.O.S is Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951). Not only does this have sweet and outgoing scenery to the whole thing but Carl Stalling's music is perfect especially with the scene involving people taking pictures of Tweety. 

The early 50s was always a good year for Looney Tunes and it's beautiful scenery. I wonder who did all of these.

Absolutely beautiful. Makes these cartoons a little bit better. 

When I was little I always liked Disney stuff even though the movies barely aired on my usual channels. I liked Disney Jr. though and had a bunch of toys. I even had Winnie The Pooh books that I still remember with all my heart. 

I lost my love for Disney when I was beginning to be a bigger kid but then I loved it again because it represents wholesomeness, joy, and creativity. 

Bambi is the most ambitious Disney movie I ever seen. I admire alot of the characters including the owl. He's hilarious, his movements and acting is marvelous and where he's living in seems so peaceful and laid-back.

Just like with Bambi, I have alot to say about Peter Pan. It's a really cute movie with an amusing story and memorable characters. One of the scenes I like are the forest scenes. The color palette to this is just BEAUTIFUL.

The trees, the green grass everything about this is really appealing. 

Audiences would mostly get distracted by the characters the most in the film, and I agree. But that's because I had to focus on what was happening. Usually at second viewing, I can examine more of the details.

My favorite colors to Dumbo are the scenes involving the crows. The blue yellowish skies are amazing. I also love the olive colored grass. It's simple without being too sensitive. The crows themselves are natural and witty characters and they fit really well with this atmosphere.

Every color is brashing with personality. I really miss when cartoon characters let loose, dance and sing, it just feels right for cinema to do that. 

Lady And The Tramp has to be my least favorite Disney film, but it's not bad in the slightest. I just find most of it nonsensical and boring, but not the visuals. I still like alot of the backgrounds and interactions with the two main leads. 

This movie barely had any breaks so when they do that, it's truly one of the better scenes in the movie. Tramp stares at Lady sleeping with a cute smile. 

Here's a great opening shot of Jiminy Cricket laying on a lily pad in Fun and Fancy Free (1947), really underrated movie.

I could imagine what people could do with their own art if it was inspired by their more simpler time experiences.

Reviewing Fantasia (1940)

 

I watched a few classic disney movies already like Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, The Three Caballeros, The Adventures Of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, and Alice In Wonderland, and now I recently watched Fantasia. And I thought it was incredibly massive.

This isn't going to be a long review. I'm simply just giving my own thoughts about every chapter in the movie. 

Toccata And Fugue In D Minor

The first music segment in the movie and I have to say it's my least favorite easily, but then again it's the start and there are alot of positives to it. The colors are really vibrant and even though I don't like to experience abstract art, it's very well animated here. It's an easy distraction.

The Nutcraker Suite

Now this is where it really begins. I really like the animation of the fairies, and the mushroom dance segment was cute. Everything else is just really comfortable to look at.

 

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Mickey gets his own scene in this segment and he's really enjoyable, this is easily the most iconic part in the whole movie. It's really unforgotten and has a good plot to it. I have nothing else to say than it's just perfectly good.

Rite Of Spring 

This is by far my favorite segment in the entire movie. I was astounded by the volcano and lava part, it just felt too professional but in a good way and the animation on the dinosaurs feels something not really by Disney. It's one of the best and still looks massive even after 80+ years. Love this one.

The Pastoral Symphony 

This is also among my favorite parts of this movie. The colors are absolutely amazing and the characters are really vibrant, playful and heartwarming. This is one of the more longer ones but it's really good for being this long. 

Dance Of The Hours

This one is solid even though it gets better once the crocodiles appear.

Night On Bald Mountain

People say that this is one of the best parts of the film, and while I don't agree too much on that, I can't disagree either. I love the animation and it feels a certain vibe. Could be good for halloween even. I saw a few clips of it and I'm glad I seen all of it.

Ave Maria

The last segment of the entire movie. It's a good way to end it. I like it. 👍 

This was such a great watch that it was just beautiful from start to finish. I'll have to admit it, it's not my favorite classic disney film, I tend to prefer a film with more realistic, and funny characters, but it's still a classic gem. I'm giving this an 8.5. The reason why I'm giving this a 8.5 instead of a 9, it's because it's not a movie I would want to watch again, and I kinda wished there was a little bit of sound effects or at least a word out of the characters especially the crocodiles in Dance Of The Hours, but you know what, they don't need to do that because it's perfectly good by itself. I'm planning to do more movie reviews in the future. 

Anyways have a good day and I will see you next time. Bye-a! 👋 

Classic Cartoon Cels

Another Classic Animated tool that people used back then were called Animation Cels. Yes, back then they pretty much drew the characters, had paint to color them in and put it on the background in every single frame. How cool is that? I'll show you what it looks like. 

I'm willing to watch Fantasia (1940) this month. I seen a few clips and it looks massive.

Animation Cels have been around since well, animation has started to exist. 

Sometimes you would focus on one object/character at a time. One cel you have the seal, and the 2nd cel you have Mickey Mouse. Making both of those cels stick onto the background. I learned that from a video I recently watched. 

Cell 1 - Teacup

Cell 2 - Teapot (without handle)

Cell 3 - Handle for teapot

Cell 4 - Pink Panther

The cels that were used there were pretty much used when animation was considered going through a downfall in the 60s to 70s.

This is what people say is the worst animation ever by that time period and to my expense to the animation I don't mind it.

This had huge effort somehow.

Nice. These are characters from Wind In The Willows (1949) my favorite Disney film.

You can tell that sometimes when you find cel animation online or whatever, there's a little bit of messy detail on the characters.

The old vintage camera is where it's at it when everything is ready to go and the animation starts to feel it's motion and prepares for what is behold on the movie screen, TV or whatever.

Throughout the 80s to 90s, cel animation was still used commonly with animators. However it came to a close when people were all over computers and modern era technology around the early 2000s. 

Behind the scenes, animation nowadays on the computer still has a pack of 2D films but also 3D to make it more realistic and vibrant. Its coming to an age where animation is a passion and involves in alot of different resources and genres, airing in movie theaters, now getting 100M-1B dollars at the box office with each and every animated film.

I had fun talking about this, since animation is literally striking again and having an audience far more than ever. I'm willing to animate in the future and making people happy. 

Hope you enjoy your day and I'll see you next time! Bye-a 👋