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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

One Hundred and One Dalmations (1961)

An American animated adventure directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske and Clyde Geronimi.
A man and his dalmation meet a woman and her dalmation. They all get together and the dogs reproduce. The woman's "friend" wants to buy the puppies to make a fur coat, but is denied. She sends her thieves to steal them and the parent dogs must find their puppies. The woman who wants dog coats has accumulated many dalmations by that point and they try to evade her together.
I count this among the good Disney films. The animation style is very traditional. An interesting casting not is that the maid is voiced by the same woman who voiced Mad Madam Mim in The Sword and the Stone (1963), another Wolfgang Reitherman masterpiece. The video on WRD (Wolfgang Reitherman Disney) films looks (and probably is) Technicolor. In contrast to the super-saturated colors of live action Technicolor, the animated ones have more subdued palettes, with lots of green, brown and grey. They still retain the augmented contrast and "old film" grit as live action. My new revelation recommendation on Disney films is to watch the WRD ones and ignore the rest. Nothing can compare to these. This is originally in 4:3 aspect ratio or close enough to look the same. I rate this good because I will soon be watching and writing about more and better ones. Watch this anyway.

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