disney film on alchohol

I was interviewing artist Tad Stones a few days ago and realized that in the late '70s he had written and directed a Disney educational short that I had never seen, titled Understanding Alcohol Use and Abuse.

I just found it on YouTube and thought that some of you would enjoy it.

If like me you really want to watch ever single animated sequence ever produced by Disney, you might want to try and track down one more non-Disney movie: Three's a Family (1944) directed by Edward Ludwig and produced by Sol Lesser (above). Apparently, according to this article in the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette from June 19, 1944, the movie contains a sequence with storks animated by the Disney Studio. This is confirmed by the Disney records, which list the project as production number 2692.

I would love to see it!

We all know that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released in 1937 was the first hand-drawn animation feature.

There was at least one other animated full-length feature that preceeded it, however, the German movie The Adventures of Prince Ahmed by Lotte Reiniger.

Sébastien Durand has emailed me to let me know that this 1926 movie was just re-released in cinemas in France.

The movie does not feature hand-drawn animation but cut-out puppets. Sébastien mentions that it is a pure delight.

We might be expecting it in a few months on DVD.

Information in English on Prince Ahmed can be found here.