Reel Rankings: The Silver Age (Part 2): 1956-1967

The Silver Age takes a slight dip in tone as Ray and I rank and discuss Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, and The Jungle Book. Wolfgang Reitherman steps up to direct these films, thereby taking us out of fairyland and into the wide wilderness. It was like something "once upon a dream," the likes of which we may never see again. References:Ameel, Gene. “Film Reviews: The Sword in the Stone.” Internet Archive, 2 Oct. 1963, https://archive.org/details/sim_variety_1963-10-02_232_6/page/6/mode/1up.Andréa. “I Wan’na Be Like You (the Monkey Song) (Instrumental Version) | The Jungle Book Ost.” YouTube, 7 Nov. 2022,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZld61Oy4uI. Metcalf, Greg. “‘It’s A Jungle Book Out There, Kid!’: The Sixties in Walt Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book.’” Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 14, no. 1, 1991, pp. 85–97. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23413919. Accessed 22 June 2023.Moon Bird, Patrick. “Sleeping Beauty Once Upon a Dream Lofi Remix.” YouTube, 20 Aug. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89-JgQlXsJs. Solomon, Charles, and Mary Costa. "Chapter Three: Aurora." The Disney Princess: A Celebration of Art & Creativity, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 2020, p. 65. Book.“The Making and Impact of One Hundred and One Dalmatians.” The Walt Disney Family Museum, 21 Mar. 2022, https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/making-101-dalmatians.The Story Teller. “Walt Disney & John Canemaker Audio Commentary for ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ (1937).” YouTube, 20 Dec. 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFJ7j-uIkEc&t=3063s. 21:08-21:31.Send us Fan Mail