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.005 - 1950 to 1985
1950 and on was that time of Pop Art, if I'm not mistaken. Amazing things were coming around but as far as actual paintings go I consider it a downfall. Any section where Soup Cans are considered a highlight has be moving away from it in terms of art.

So let's talk about what I love during the period, which obviously is more Disney Movies. 1934 came Snow White as the first animated feature film followed by Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi --- but they really got good post WWII even if they films around then are less critically acclaimed. This is where they got themeparks and finally hit television and turned into that huge monster people think of it today.

1950 brings everyone Cinderella, which while Snow White was the first Disney princess -- Cinderella really kickstarted that entire thing and it was also the first feature-length animated film they tried after the war. (Bambi was the last in '42 so that's a long time.) They used a live action model for reference to animate -- and she's the same one that would be used for Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians.

It had a lot of deleted things (the prince originally had a large role but in the end his dad ended up having more dialog than the poor guy), the story is really simplistic, the characters don't really have much personality, and by today's standards it really wouldn't hold out story wise as the most interesting thing but the end product was a huge success, the animation is gorgeous -- the scenery in particularly makes everything looks huge and you get an amazing feeling of how small Cinderella is. Most of it's memororability comes from music -- for which it won three Academy Awards for and if anyone starts singing Bibbity Bobbity Boo at you you know you're going to end up humming along.

It was really their first hit after Snow White. The film's profits and money they made off of record sales, music publishing (The first music they actually owned!), publications and other merchandise got Disney off the ground and gave him enough to establish his own distribution company, enter television production, make more films, and try a hand at theme parks. ...So while it's probably the film I'd consider pretty damn boring in comparison to the others it really is what revolutionized the entire thing and made everything else possible.

Now Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland came out here too in '53 and '51 respectively. Both being number 2 and 5 in my favorite books of all time and number 2 and 3 in my favorite Disney films of all time. Peter Pan alone just being one of my favorite films period even if they don't follow the books to a T. --- And I'll be damned if the Disney versions of the characters aren't the ones everyone immediately thinks of when they think of Peter Pan or Alice. TinkerBell ended up becoming the mascot of Disney overall and I could really write an entire 20 page paper on how that little fairy matters to the world and those TinkerBell movies that they're still making are horribly underrated and have CGI styles I like better than some theatrical films.

To spare this a little bit and not going into Lady and The Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, lots of dalmatians, and how xerography was first used here (every animation cell used to be hand inked. Animators have the biggest patience!) --- Let's talk about comic books.

1962 in a 15th issue of Amazing Fantasy was Spiderman. I have to point out he's a really really really big deal -- just alone for making Marvel a big deal by being their top selling comic of all time and their poster child (and the reason everyone in the class gets to watch an Avengers movie this year.) And that's all thanks to him being extremely ground-breaking. Design wise it's mostly just typical of how comics were drawn then (Current days they are miraculously detailed works of art!) -- the real art lies in the story.

Spiderman was the first comicbook character that was a teenager and not immediately regulated to sidekick. He's one of those characters that was able to relate to adolescence and had relateable struggles that got to the readers. He had to learn on his own instead of having some mentor around the entire time. I can't think of any media before him actually that related to anyone in a teenage age group as much. Spiderman brings about a lot of art and touches every single form of media. Every. single. form now. I'm not kidding -- and one can't really argue why he wouldn't be. It's the first or perhaps the first noticed thing to appeal to that age-group in a relateable way.