Archive for the '1947' Category

Film #096 - Fun and Fancy Free (1947)

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Showing how important he had already become, Jiminy Cricket returns to act as presenter (and sings a great new song, “I’m a Happy-Go-Lucky Fellow”) for the two stories in Disney’s 1947 “package” release Fun and Fancy Free. Jiminy is wandering about again (as he was at the beginning of Pinocchio) and comes upon a […]

Bela In Living (?) Color: Day #292 - Scared to Death (1947)

Monday, October 30th, 2006

Viewed October 19, 2006
Scared to Death has the distinction of being one of only two films that Bela Lugosi made in color and the only one to have a color print survive to the present day. The story of the film is told from the perspective of a corpse (who was, no doubt, “scared […]