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Blog Post: Volume 9 of the “Walt’s People” series features some great behind-the-scenes stories

Jim Hill

Good God. Are we really already be up to Volume 9 in the “Walt’s People” series? I can recall when Disney Historian Didier Ghez initially proposed these books (which – if I’m remembering correctly – was sometime back during the Pleistocene Epoch) that would collect & then reprint the very best Mouse...

on5 May 2010
Blog Post: "To Infinity and Beyond!" is an entertaining look back at Pixar's first two decades

Jim Hill

There's this genuinely eerie passage in Karen Paik 's " To Infinity and Beyond! The Story of Pixar Animation Studios " ( Chronicle Books , November 2007), which talks about how a single book basically changed the course of John Lasseter 's life. In ninth grade, Lasseter was searching the art section...

on28 Nov 2007
Blog Post: "Walt Disney's Cinderella" is a picture-perfect picture book

Jim Hill

This is probably going to seem like a very weird request. But -- if you could -- I'd really like it if you guys could buy up a bunch of copies of " Walt Disney's Cinderella " (Disney Press, August 2007) Copyright 2007 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved "And why should we do that?," you ask...

on3 Oct 2007
Blog Post: "Walt's People -- Volume 5" is an entertaining addition to this ongoing Disney history series

Jim Hill

If you've been reading JHM for a while now, you already know that I'm a very big fan of Didier Ghez 's "Walt's People" books . So -- that said -- is it really all that big a surprise that I enjoyed reading " Volume 5 " of this ongoing series. Mind you, at 443 pages in length, this paperback is the heftiest...

on24 Jul 2007
Blog Post: "The Art of Ratatouille" gives its readers a glimpse of the picture that Pixar Animation Studios almost made

Jim Hill

It is one of the more intriguing aspects of the production history of Pixar 's latest, " Ratatouille ." The fact that this animated feature started off with one director (I.E. Jan Pinkava , who helmed this animation studio's Academy Award-winning short , " Geri's Game ") yet wound up being completed...

on26 Jun 2007
Blog Post: "Cartoon Modern" takes a witty & informed look back at animation's not-so-distant past

Jim Hill

This past Friday, Amid Amidi (Who -- along with noted animation historian Jerry Beck -- rides herd on the always-entertaining-and-informative Cartoon Brew ) was singled out for a pretty amazing honor. You see, the Theatre Library Association declared that Amid's latest book -- " Cartoon Modern: Style...

on5 Jun 2007
Blog Post: "The Dream Team" serves up some intriguing insights about how the New Hollywood really operates

Jim Hill

In October of 1994, when Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg first announced that they were about to launch a brand-new entertainment company ... Well, this trio of show business vets was thought to be so unstoppable that the Hollywood press corps dubbed them the Dream Team. But 11...

on17 Apr 2007
Blog Post: "The Animated Man" offers an intimate, more immediate look at the life of Walt Disney

Jim Hill

I've been getting a lot of e-mail lately about Michael Barrier 's new book, " The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney " (University of California Press, April 2007). Particularly from Disneyana fans who just purchased Neal Gabler 's " Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination " and are now...

on10 Apr 2007
Blog Post: A special behind-the-scenes version of Why For

Jim Hill

Karen M. writes in to ask a special favor: Dear Jim -- I just want to send you a quick e-mail to thank you for writing about Charlie Ridgway 's new book, " Spinning Disney's World ." On your recommendation , I picked up a copy and found that Mr. Ridgway's biography was just as you said it would be: Loaded...

on29 Mar 2007
Blog Post: "The Art of Meet the Robinsons" puts preproduction artwork in the spotlight

Jim Hill

Given that it's only 64 pages long, " The Art of Meet the Robinsons " (Hyperion, February 2007) can hardly be called an in-depth look at the creation of Walt Disney Feature Animation's next release. Copyright 2007 Disney Editions But -- then again -- given that making-of books aren't selling all that...

on20 Mar 2007

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Blog Post: Volume 9 of the “Walt’s People” series features some great behind-the-scenes stories

Blog Post: "To Infinity and Beyond!" is an entertaining look back at Pixar's first two decades

Blog Post: "Walt Disney's Cinderella" is a picture-perfect picture book

Blog Post: "Walt's People -- Volume 5" is an entertaining addition to this ongoing Disney history series

Blog Post: "The Art of Ratatouille" gives its readers a glimpse of the picture that Pixar Animation Studios almost made

Blog Post: "Cartoon Modern" takes a witty & informed look back at animation's not-so-distant past

Blog Post: "The Dream Team" serves up some intriguing insights about how the New Hollywood really operates

Blog Post: "The Animated Man" offers an intimate, more immediate look at the life of Walt Disney

Blog Post: A special behind-the-scenes version of Why For

Blog Post: "The Art of Meet the Robinsons" puts preproduction artwork in the spotlight