August, 2026 Cosmopolitan/MGM, 1928. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Scenario: F. Hugh Herbert, adapted by Carey Wilson from a play by Jacques Deval. Camera: John Arnold. Film editor: Basil Wrangell. Cast: Marion Davies, Nils Asther, Jetta Gou…
Famous/Paramount, 1946. Director: Izzy Sparber. Story: Joe Stultz. Animation: Dave Tendlar, John Gentilella. Music: Winston Sharples. The Golden Age of American animation—which I would identify as, roughly, the 1920s through the 1940s—produ…
Universal, 1916. Directors: Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. Scenario: Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley, based on the novel by James Oppenheim. Camera: Allen Siegler. Cast: Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, Mary MacLaren, Edwin Hearn, Pauline As…
Biograph, 1908. Director: D.W. Griffith. Camera: Arthur Marvin. Cast: Harry Solter, Florence Lawrence, Marion Leonard, George Gebhardt, Linda Arvidson. In December I like to feature a Christmas movie in this space—an offbeat one, if possibl…
Edited by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh and Colleen Montgomery, this is an entry in the Oxford University Press Handbook series. It covers every aspect of the Disney musical, from the studio’s earliest musical cartoons to the lavish Broadway st…
Fantagraphics reprint of the volume first published in 2016 by the Library of American Comics, continuing the run of the delightful Silly Symphony Sunday comic pages, reproduced in full color. This second volume covers the period from summe…
Fantagraphics reprint of the volume first published in 2016 by the Library of American Comics, presenting the earliest years of the delightful Silly Symphony Sunday comic pages, reproduced in full color. This volume showcases the birth of t…
RKO Radio, 1933. Director: William A. Seiter. Screenplay: Maurine Watkins. Camera: Edward Cronjager and (uncredited) Robert De Grasse and George Diskant. Film editor: James B. Morley. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Norman Foster, ZaSu Pitts, Frank Mc…
Walt Disney’s Cinderella: Full Score Accomplished musician and musicologist Shawn Degenhart offers a landmark volume: the complete orchestral study score for the 1950 Walt Disney classic Cinderella. This extraordinary book offers not only t…
by David Gerstein and J.B. Kaufman, edited by Daniel Kothenschulte Following the publication of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History, Taschen, the distinguished European publisher, releases another huge, luxurious art book celeb…
Theodore Thomas, J.B. Kaufman, and Didier Ghez The newest entry in a series of Monographs published by the Hyperion Historical Alliance Press, this volume brings to life a remarkable chapter in Disney history. In 1941, with the backing of t…
Alongside his full-length books, J.B. Kaufman has been writing articles, essays, festival program notes, and other short-form pieces since 1987. Most of those short pieces are long out of print. Now the best of them, and some new ones, are