Groundbreaking on several counts, not the least of which was an innovative use of animation and stereophonic sound, this ambitious Disney feature has lost nothing to time since its release in 1940. Classical music was interpreted by Disney animators, resulting in surreal fantasy and playful escapism. Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra provided the music for eight segments by the ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, James MacDonald (II), Walt Disney, Julietta Novis
Directed By: Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Ford Beebe, Bill Roberts, Samuel Armstrong

For those who never thought Disney would release a film in which Santa Claus is kidnapped and tortured, well, here it is! The full title is Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, which should give you an idea of the tone of this stop-action animated musical/fantasy/horror/comedy. It is based on characters created by Burton, the former Disney animator best known as the director of ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video/Touchstone Home Video
Starring: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix
Directed By: Henry Selick

Manufacturer: Sony
Starring: Michael Jackson, Dion Basco, Kimberly Duncan, Maurissa Tancharoen, Dove Dellos
Directed By: Jerry Kramer (II), Jim Blashfield, Colin Chilvers

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Rene Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Paddi Edwards
Directed By: Ron Clements, John Musker

When New York theatrical producer Joseph Papp decided to bring Gilbert and Sullivan to Broadway, he added typically broad, bold strokes to make their singular operetta format meaningful to 1980s audiences. In The Pirates of Penzance, Papp had a story that offered a mixture of potential action and comedy that was less arcane than other G&S chestnuts, which Papp's production underlined by ...

Manufacturer: MCA Universal
Starring: Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt, George Rose, Rex Smith
Directed By: Wilford Leach

Disney's 1967 animated feature seems even more entertaining now than it did upon first release, with a hall-of-fame vocal performance by Phil Harris as Baloo, the genial bear friend of feral child Mowgli. Based on fiction by Rudyard Kipling, the film goes its own way as Disney animation will, but the strong characters and smart casting (George Sanders as the villainous tiger, Shere Khan) make it ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway
Directed By: Wolfgang Reitherman

Barbra Streisand made her directorial debut with this 1983 adaptation of the Isaac Bashevis Singer story about a young Eastern European woman (Streisand) who disguises herself as a male at the turn of the century in order to get an education. Except for an excessive musical score with too many songs and Streisand's tiresome tendency to play characters who suppress their beauty, the film is crisp ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Robbie Barnett, Lynda Baron, Danny Brainin, Renata Buser, Allan Corduner

This restored, animated valentine to the Beatles offers viewers the rare chance to see a work that's been substantially improved by its technical facelift, not just supersized with extra footage. Recognizing that its song-studded soundtrack alone makes Yellow Submarine a video annuity, United Artists has lavished a frame-by-frame refurbishment of the original feature, while replacing its ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: The Beatles, Paul Angelis, John Clive, Dick Emery, Geoffrey Hughes
Directed By: George Dunning (II)

There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the books by P.L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an Oscar as the world's most magically ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley
Directed By: Robert Stevenson

The film that officially signaled Disney's animation renaissance (following The Little Mermaid) and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the ...

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Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers
Directed By: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale