The Walt Disney Adventure

For as long as I can remember, I have watched and loved the animations from Disney Animation Studios.  My experience with the films as a child was in no way unique.  I watched them, I loved them, and I imagined myself as part of the stories just like thousands of other children my age. I don't even remember the first time I watched my favorites The Lion King and The Fox and the Hound, they were just always there. There was never a time in my memory where they didn't exist.

However, looking back, I watched the same set of films over and over again.  They became part of my weekly movie nights with my best friend and my go-to sick day movies. I missed a majority of the potentials along the way.  Many films got brushed to the dusty, far-off corner, never to be watched again. The remenants live in hazy memories of "I think I watched that."

This year is a year of complete uncertainty for me.  I am currently enrolled in the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College.  I will be entering the second semester of my junior year in the upcoming weeks, and my senior year in the fall.  In the fall, I will also be spending three months in Los Angeles, where I will have an internship somewhere that I don't know quite yet.  I have decided that, while I will be in a state of constant movement and change over the course of 2014, I need a project to keep one thing constant in my life.  Thus begins: The Walt Disney Adventure.

There are fifty-three (soon to be fifty-four) films from Disney Animation Studios.  I have decided that this year, I will watch one film every Tuesday (and a Thursday here and there), from Tuesday, 7 January, until Tuesday, 30 December.  I will start at the beginning with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and go through the timeline of Disney movies all the way to Big Hero 6 which will be released this coming November.  I plan on looking not only at the films themselves, but the history, production, and the cultural context of the films as well.

While it would be nice to gain some followers, and potentially some companions along the way, this project is mainly a journey for me to discover the foundation upon which I grew up and try to gain a little insight into the powerhouse that is Disney Animation Studios.