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The Age of Not Believing: Week Two
October 16, 1967 - The Jungle BookHave you ever seen Richard Williams' The Thief and the Cobbler? And by that I mean the fuller, unexpurgated versions floating around online, not the dreadful dub n'...
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The Age of Not Believing: Week Three
February 8 1968 - Blackbeard's Ghost"I, Captain Teach, affectionately known as Blackbeard, was not... all bad."I've been singing the praises of director Robert Stevenson time and again these past few...
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The Age of Not Believing: Week Four
Thought for the week:"Movies are terribly easy to make. It's much harder to put on a play. Oh yes.What's hard to do is to make a very good movie. Even a good movie is easier to make, because if you...
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The Age of Not Believing: Week Five
Week Five of the "Age of Not Believing" is now upon us, so it's time to collect some thoughts before the midterm break.I began thinking about the idea for this series after seeing The One and Only,...
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Cap'n Jack Casts Off
Article updatedSeptember 12, 2013 with additional information about Jack Olsen."Savor fresh seafood treasures and frozen Strawberry Margaritas in this nautical oyster bar surrounded by Buena Vista...
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The Age of Not Believing, Week Six
December 15, 1970 - The Wild Country What is a "Disney" movie anyway?We can't pretend this isn't a problem the studio itself was never without - not when something like Victory Thru Air Power sits...
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My California Adventure
Part One: Back from the West It's become something of a tradition on this blog to wrap up the year around the holidays with what I call the Year End Report, an annual accounting and grading of the...
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The Age of Not Believing, Week Seven
June 22, 1971 - Scandalous JohnTo cop a Roy E. Disney-friendly nautical allusion here, if up until now this series has ridden smoothly over various waves and bumps and mediocre movies, with Scandalous...
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The Age of Not Believing: Week Eight
"The Age of Not Believing" is a movie review series tracing the history of Disney in the years following the death of Walt Disney. It covers three films a week in an effort to see all theatrical Disney...
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The Age of Not Believing: Week Nine
"The Age of Not Believing" is a movie review series tracing the history of Disney in the years following the death of Walt Disney. It covers three films a week in an effort to see all theatrical Disney...
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The Age of Not Believing: Week Ten
"The Age of Not Believing" is a movie review series tracing the history of Disney in the years following the death of Walt Disney. It covers three films a week in an effort to see all theatrical...
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The Branch Beyond the Window and Other Details
The experience of a theme park is pretty similar to that of a well-made film, isn't it?Well, yes it is. But even if we move beyond the convenient fact that this idea is the main crux of most of my...
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Walt Disney World in Late 1978: Part One
Searching through old Disney photos and slides and home movies is often more disheartening than it is fun. Just as the average tourist often returns today with little to show than some shots of the...
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Walt Disney World in Late 1978: Part Two
Boxes of old slides can be full of surprises. I tend to decide to purchase if the seller happens to scan an unusual view, but even the least ambitious amateur photographers of the 70s tended to take a...
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The Music of the Matterhorn
When we're inside theme parks, our perceptions change radically. Things which may seem to be noteworthy anywhere else - a perfect sky, for example - become not so important, a mere backdrop to the...
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Chasing Captain Cook
Captain Cook's Hideaway, I thought I was done with you.Back in June 2010, I wrote - and ammended - a series of articles about Captain Cook's Hideaway, the earliest place for Cast Members to drink in...
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The Year of the Frog
I've been actively seeking out Walt Disney World history for around ten years now. In relative terms of the community, that makes me a little-bitty baby researcher. It's okay. Ten years sounds like a...
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Stitch's Great Escape: Ten Years
“What we do here is to throw a challenge at you – not a real menace, but a pseudo-menace, a theatricalized menace – and we allow you to win.” - John HenchGood Morning! If you're reading this on...
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Announcing: "Another Musical Souvenir of Walt Disney World"
Back in summer 2011, I came across a single file that would more or less determine my hobbies for the next three and a half years. It was a decent quality source copy of the original soundtrack to "If...
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Another Musical Souvenir of Walt Disney World
I'm pleased to announce the availability of the shiny, new-and-improved Another Musical Souvenir of Walt Disney World. Today marks the end of a 3.5 year journey for me, although I may time and again...
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