- Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to get the gold out of the county unseen. Complicating matters is the arrival of pretty Barbara Morgan who has come to claim her inheritance - the ranch the outlaw gang is usi…
- A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of t…
- Uncle Walt then dwells on how anything is possible in the animated medium during “The Plausible Impossible” (1956, 51:07). Specially created animation of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck is used to show how the laws of physics can be ignored. …
- “The Tricks of Our Trade” dwells on animators studying real life to create their illustrations. Examples are given from Fantasia on following a live ballerina to draw the animals’ movements in “Dance of the Hours,” and copying actual bubbl…
- Walt serves as the delightful host, tracing the history of animation back through time, including a look at some of the primitive mechanical contraptions that were used in the 1800s to experiment with the art form.Also featured are a dramatization of the historical non-Disney “Gertie the Dinosaur” short subject that he…
