Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 17, 2024

Every once in a while you come across a gem of an album that you never even knew existed. This one caught my attention because Annette Funicello was on the cover but then I saw the subtitle "and other Walt Disney serials" and my heart skipped a beat. This album...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on January 7, 2017

This edition of our Behind the Screen - The Hidden Masters of the Golden Age of Filmmaking series was going to be a feature on one of my favorite art directors - Carroll Clark. But it is very difficult to praise the work of an art director without giving due...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on September 30, 2016

Marc Davis was a veteran animator and storyteller whose career at the Walt Disney Studios spanned over 45 years. He is probably one of the most famous of the "Imagineers" at the studio and justly so, because he contributed greatly to Disney’s animation classics as well as to many of...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 7, 2013

“ I will say the seven pictures I made at the Disney Studio were the pleasantest times I’ve had in the picture business—and I’ve been around quite a while ” This was what Fred MacMurray said during a 1973 television special for Walt Disney’s Golden Anniversary.   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 7, 2013

“ I will say the seven pictures I made at the Disney Studio were the pleasantest times I’ve had in the picture business—and I’ve been around quite a while ” This was what Fred MacMurray said during a 1973 television special for Walt Disney’s Golden Anniversary. A   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 7, 2013

“ I will say the seven pictures I made at the Disney Studio were the pleasantest times I’ve had in the picture business—and I’ve been around quite a while ” This was what Fred MacMurray said during a 1973 television special for Walt Disney’s Golden Anniversary.   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on August 7, 2013

“ I will say the seven pictures I made at the Disney Studio were the pleasantest times I’ve had in the picture business—and I’ve been around quite a while ” This was what Fred MacMurray said during a 1973 television special for Walt Disney’s Golden Anniversary.   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on February 2, 2012

In May of 1922, one Mr. Walt Disney opened a little animation studio in Kansas City Missouri. Laugh-O-Gram studios hobbled along with not much money, teetering on the edge of survival. A local dentist name Thomas McCrum extended the life of the studio for a short while with a $500...   read more