Walt Disney on BBC 2 was a wonderful insight into the world of Walt Disney, we delve into Disney's fascination with creating art, as well as the creation of Cinderella, Dumbo, Bambi and Fantasia, we are also introduced to his new dream, Disney Land in the second of the two parter.
In the second part of the documentary, we are shown Walt Disney's fascination with creating animation as a new form of art, he was adamant that animation could and should be appreciated as forms of art, however, Hollywood still saw them as children's cartoons. After creating Snow White, he wanted to create animations which were completely different from one and other, Dumbo is completely different from Fantasia, Bambi is also completely different from Pinocchio, he wanted to keep creating something new, fresh and different.
I feel that nowadays, this is an issue that hand-drawn animation is facing, Walt Disney was so adamant that his films were to be perfect, that out of all the films he created, he only considers Snow White to be a masterpiece, the first feature cartoon he created. He then went of to try something different, playing with special effects in Pinocchio, focusing the beauty and terror of nature in Bambi and focusing on music and having music as the main narrative. He also created the Silly Symphony series as a way of experimenting with animation, and viewing the potential of hand-drawn animation. This is something I feel should be happening nowadays, as hand-drawn animation is at a standstill in mainstream cinema, Walt Disney was adamant that hand-drawn animation had potential, and now, hand-drawn animation is being overshadowed by CG animation.
This was a fantastic documentary, it opened up many doors to Walt Disney's life until his death, all the hardships he faced during his career as an animator, and innovator. I would recommend this documentary to anybody to watch.
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