Clyde Geronimi Archives

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)

Rating: ★★★

May 5, 2007Disney Animation Anthology

Likeable entry from the 1940s period when Disney was putting out animated anthologies, this conducts adaptations of The Wind in the Willows and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, James Algar

Actors: Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone

Category: Fantasy

5 May 200720 December 2021 by Roog

Cinderella (1950)

Rating: ★★

Jul 1, 1999Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale

A Disney animated film whose classic stature has been overrated. The fairytale is too familiar to hold much interest, while the cutsie talking animals get to take over proceedings

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, William Phipps, June Foray

Category: Fantasy

1 July 19992 January 2026 by Roog

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 7, 2003Disney Animation/Alice in Wonderland Adaptation

Disney's animated adaptation is usually hated by Lewis Carroll purists for its free and easy treatment of the story but for everyone else comes with a splendidly demented visual absurdism

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson

Actors: Kathryn Beaumont, Verna Felton, Ed Wynn, Sterling Holloway, …

Category: Fantasy

7 January 200315 February 2026 by Roog

Peter Pan (1953)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 7, 1999Disney Animation/Children's Adventures in a Magic Land

One of the animated Disney classics, if probably an overrated film. It throws slapstick and derring-do together in a likeable package

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson

Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conreid

Category: Fantasy

7 February 199918 April 2025 by Roog

Lady and the Tramp (1955)

Rating: ★★★★★

Nov 1, 1999Disney Animation/Talking Animals

A Disney animation classic about two talking dogs from different walks of life who fall in together. It is impossible not to be charmed by the plaintive delights and sweetly romantic tenderness of the film

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson

Actors: Verna Felton, Peggy Lee

Category: Fantasy

1 November 199919 June 2026 by Roog

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 5, 1999Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale

One of the finest of all Disney animated films, an adaptation of the fairytale made with the full artistic resources that studio could bring to bear

Director: Clyde Geronimi

Actors: Verna Felton, Eleanor Audley

Category: Fantasy

5 November 199911 January 2020 by Roog

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)

Rating: ★★★★

May 6, 1999Disney Animation/Talking Animals

The last really good animated film made during Walt Disney's lifetime and for the next couple of decades. Filled with cuddly anthropomorphism and charmed delights

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton S. Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman

Category: Fantasy

6 May 199923 April 2022 by Roog