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Director: Hamilton Luske

Hamilton Luske co-directed Pinocchio, Cinderella, Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp, and supervised the animation on Snow White. He was among the small group who established how Disney features were made.

Fantasia (1940) film posterBen Sharpsteen

Fantasia (1940) Review

Fantasia is one of the great animated films in cinema history and one of the foundational documents of the entire American animation tradition. The film consists of eight animated segments set to classical music compositions.

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Alice in Wonderland (1951) film posterClyde Geronimi

Alice in Wonderland (1951) Review

Alice in Wonderland is one of the substantial mid-century Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful engagement with Lewis Carroll sourc. Various preproduction attempts had failed across multiple decades partly because of the substantial creative challenges that the Carroll…

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101 Dalmatians (1961) film posterClyde Geronimi

101 Dalmatians (1961) Review

One Hundred and One Dalmatians is one of the great Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful early 1960s feature. Sleeping Beauty had been the most expensive animated production Disney had attempted and had generated substantially disappointing initial commercial…

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