tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34647587.post762611602933856826..comments2023-10-31T05:13:39.415-04:00Comments on 2719 HYPERION: The Old Mill - November 5, 1937Jeffrey Pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00990997892044489714noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34647587.post-13482797617708377012007-11-09T12:12:00.000-05:002007-11-09T12:12:00.000-05:00JEFF - somewhere along the way I saw a "Special Fe...JEFF - somewhere along the way I saw a "Special Feature" on a DVD that highlighted the Old Mill and the multiplane camera. Do you recall off hand where I might have seen that? (Not to treat you like Dave Smith or anything . . . )Johnny Jackhammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12549584759248940104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34647587.post-68950502285424579062007-11-07T00:01:00.000-05:002007-11-07T00:01:00.000-05:00YES! I'm in total agreement with the prior commen...YES! I'm in total agreement with the prior commentators. This film is so sublime. I love the momentum and tension that builds as the story plays out. It really creates a palpable, immersive experience that has been the hallmark of the greatest of Disney's efforts since then. Amazing!!<BR/><BR/>By the way Jeff, your blog is a consistent favorite of mine. Thanks for the hard work you put into it.Eric Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00310836026536981443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34647587.post-31107409808847133742007-11-06T08:54:00.000-05:002007-11-06T08:54:00.000-05:00Wow... The Old Mill has always been one of my fav...Wow... The Old Mill has always been one of my favorite early films. Sure, it stands with others as a benchmark in film, but unlike many of those others, this one plays to todays aesthetic requirements.<BR/><BR/>Great post.Doc Terminushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00940374943832177967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34647587.post-17627706046403734712007-11-05T22:43:00.000-05:002007-11-05T22:43:00.000-05:00Wonderful post!I was so pleased to find a nod to T...Wonderful post!<BR/><BR/>I was so pleased to find a nod to The Old Mill in the mill on Tom Sawyer's Island - I wonder how many people ever get the reference to this amazing short.Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12126781526636146412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34647587.post-76239487649343073802007-11-05T22:38:00.000-05:002007-11-05T22:38:00.000-05:00Excellent review! The Old Mill is easily one of my...Excellent review! <I>The Old Mill</I> is easily one of my favorite Disney films... Perhaps even my favorite short subject, just as <I>Fantasia</I> is my favorite Disney film. And this is probably for the same reason: the pure craft of animation as art in its real peak, classic era. <BR/><BR/>There is a plot, as you outline, but it's mostly a fig-leaf. It's as deep a plot as "dinosaurs fight", "demons celebrate a bacchanal" or "fairies bring the seasons". It's just the art up there... the few minutes of full, intricate, sublime, beautiful, watercolored, incredible moving art. <BR/><BR/>Somehow or other, my Halloween Disney viewing ritual works itself into a kind of order of increasing artistic significance. I'll start off with <I>The Skeleton Dance</I> and <I>The Haunted House</I>, go on to <I>Lonesome Ghosts</I> and <I>Legend of Sleepy Hollow</I>, and then top it off with <I>The Old Mill</I> and <I>Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria</I>... Perhaps the three (2? 2.5?) most astonishing pieces of animation ever.Cory Grosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12141983255020503557noreply@blogger.com