Grrrreat! My fave is “Pinocchio in Outer Space!”

Love the riff-raff!

What’s the scoop on that Torbellino thing? When and where was it made? Is it any good?

Man, that’s one big cricket, by jiminy!

Some of the choices of still frames are perplexing. Like that long shot from Ave Maria used to “sell” Fantasia. I’m sure this was one of a series of stills used to represent the film, but it looks a bit odd next to the huge magical Mickey.

For all those who love Mexican cinema art, the Cine Mexicano books by Rogelio Agrasanchez are well worth checking out:
http://www.amazon.com/Cine-Mexicano-Poster-Carteles-1936-1956/dp/0811830586/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219756415&sr=1-6

Ooh, gotta love the Silly Symphony re-release poster with a shot of the comics’ Li’l Bad Wolf.

The three little pigs meet Cri-Cri el gruillito cantor (Cri Cri the little singing grass hopper) (sorry Jimchig it is not Jimminy Cricket). Cri-Cri- is a very popular story teller in Latin America and its creators contracted Disney to produce a segment using the Three little pig characters. I think it is on Youtube. Very catchy song.

That is indeed Cri Cri, the singing cricket. That was the characterization of a children song composer/singer that was very popular.

As for the little pig animated sequence, i really don’t know who made it. And it is in youtube as Yazir said.

This is the link i found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSkbZArXSXI

The Brewmasters already talked about this piece of animation (it is one scene from the biopic of Francisco Gabilondo Soler, “Cri Crí”) in a previous blog entry (before they allowed comments in their posts).

Cri-Cri segment was done by Disney. I found these posts on Disney History Blog. Very interesting, they tell the story of Disney being contacted for a charity project and also have a link to the you tube video excerpt.

http://disneybooks.blogspot.com/search?q=cri+cri

To Eric Graf: “Torbellino va a la guerra” is actually an animated feature made in Italy in 1968 by brothers Gino and Roberto Gavioli; the original Italian title is “Putiferio va alla guerra” (literally, “Putiferio Goes to War”; Putiferio -Italian for ‘ruckus’- being the name of the heroine, an ant). It was released in the U.S. on home video some years ago as “The Perils of Problemina”.

Boy, that grasshopper looked like he was on steroids.