Ollie Johnston Movies
The Pixar Story
2007
Famed cartoonist Ub Iwerks's granddaughter Leslie turns the camera lens on the artists and storytellers behind some of the most widely hailed animated films of the modern...
Walt: The Man Behind the Myth
2001
Few men have had as great an impact on American popular culture as Walt Disney. Starting with a handful of cartoon characters, Disney created an entertainment empire that...
The Iron Giant
PG 1999
A boy's best friend is his robot in this animated adventure from Brad Bird, best known for his TV work on such series as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and The...
Frank and Ollie
PG 1995
This documentary profiles Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the two artists responsible for the Disney style of animation. The two close friends are responsible for making 23...
The Fox and the Hound
G 1981
The Disney animated feature The Fox and the Hound tells the story of a friendship between traditional enemies. Tod is a fox whose parents have died. His best friend is a...
The Rescuers
G 1977
Two fantasy novels by Margery Sharp were combined for in the Disney animated feature The Rescuers. The title characters are a pair of mice, Bernard and Miss Bianca. A little...
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
G 1977
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an hour-long compendium of the three Disney "Winnie" animated short subjects produced between 1966 and 1974. Sterling...
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
1974
This third entry in Disney's animated-featurette series based on A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh tales was also the first directed by someone other than Wolfgang...
Robin Hood
G 1973
Robin Hood is one of the first animated films produced by the Walt Disney Company after Walt Disney's death in 1967. For the film, the studio's animators took the...
The Aristocats
G 1970
The Aristocats was the first Disney Studios animated feature to be produced after Walt Disney's death. A wealthy woman leaves her vast fortune to her four cats: the...
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
1968
Winnie The Pooh & the Blustery Day was the second Disney animated featurette based on characters created by A. A. Milne. It was released December 20, 1968, two years and ten...
The Jungle Book
G 1967
The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The story takes...
Mary Poppins
G 1964
Long resistant to film adaptations of her Mary Poppins books, P.L. Travers finally succumbed to the entreaties of Walt Disney, and the result is often considered the...
The Sword in the Stone
G 1963
1963's The Sword in the Stone is Disney's animated take on Arthurian legend. In the midst of the Dark Ages, when England has no rightful ruler, a sword imbedded in a...
101 Dalmatians
G 1961
This Disney animated classic is based on the children's story by Dodie Smith. The story involves the canine pets of a struggling composer and his wife: Dalmatians Pongo (male)...
Sleeping Beauty
G 1959
Disney produced this lavish animated fairy tale, the most expensive cartoon ever made up to its release with a budget of $6 million. When the young princess Aurora is cursed at...
Disneyland: The Tricks of Our Trade
1957
In one of the best-loved and mostly fondly remembered episodes of the TV anthology Disneyland, host Walt Disney discusses the nuts and bolts of animation, and how individual...
Disneyland: Where Do the Stories Come From?
1956
In answer to viewer requests, Disneyland host Walt Disney explains how his story men come up with the ideas for their various cartoon shorts and features. In the first...
Lady and the Tramp
G 1955
Lady and the Tramp represented two "firsts" for Disney: It was the studio's first Cinemascope animated feature, and it was their first full-length cartoon based on an original...
Peter Pan
G 1953
A pet project of Walt Disney's since 1939, this animated version of James M. Barrie's Peter Pan reached full fruition in 1953. Eschewing much of Barrie's gentle whimsy...