Jon Ellison

No, I don't refer to Walt Disney himself, but the organisation he founded back in 1923, which has since become one of the most famous movie organisations worldwide. Therefore, it gives me great pleasure to wish a very happy anniversary to Walt Disney Pictures. Many people around the world have grown up with Disney and I can honestly say that, I'm one of those people. I have great fond childhood memories of some of the many projects that Disney has brought us. I can remember when we, my family, taped Pinocchio , Dumbo , Mary Poppins , Robin Hood , Sleeping Beauty and The Sword In The Stone off the TV; most of them from ITV, except Robin Hood which was off BBC1.  Remember this? I also had some of the original VHS tapes, one of being Fantasia , which I believe may have been the first feature film I ever saw (my memory's rather bad). I can recall the time when we saw The Lion King in cinemas when I was 4, and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame two years later - I even had the fig...

 Although my main speciality is writing, some readers may not know that I possess experience in animation. It does sound ironic, but it's true. As a matter of fact, the first time I experienced making animated films was at the age of nineteen. When I studied a music course at a local college, one of my assignments was to write an essay on production companies. It was a course that followed when I achieved an A-Level in Film Studies, plus an AS in Photography, and I'd missed studying film. Therefore I decided to write the essay on film production companies, despite my obsession with film-making annoying some of my classmates who were very focused on music. One of the companies I studied was Aardman Animations. I bring this up because Aardman stayed in my thoughts since then as did how stop-motion animation worked and it led to the very first animated short I produced. The Coils Of A Blue Snake As you can see, this film is very basic and centers on a snake performing a brief sway...