12 – “Cendrillon”

CinderellaCinderella

Premiere: March 4, 1950

Budget: $2,900,000

Box Office: $85,000,000 (Original Release)

Released by: RKO Radio Pictures

Nominations/Awards:

  • Academy Award – Best Sound (Nominee)
  • Academy Award – Best Original Music Score (Nominee)
  • Academy Award – Best Song “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” (Nominee)

Running Time: 74 Minutes (1 hr, 14 min)

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9 – The Legend of Happy Valley

Fun and Fancy FreeFun and Fancy Free

Premiere: September 27, 1947

Budget: None Reported

Box Office: None Reported (Original Release)

Released by: RKO Radio Pictures

Nominations/Awards:

  • None

Running Time: 73 Minutes (1 hr, 13 min)

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5 – A Life in the Woods

BambiBambi

Premiere: August 13, 1942

Budget: $1,700,000

Box Office: $1,640,000 (Original Release)

Released by: RKO Radio Pictures

Nominations/Awards:

  • Academy Award for Original Music Score (Nomination)
  • Academy Award for Best Original Song (Nomination) “Love is a Song”
  • Academy Award for Best Sound (Nomination)

Running Time: 70 Minutes (1hr 10min)

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2 – Pleasure Island Fears

Pinocchio

Pinocchio

Premiere: February 7, 1940

Budget: $2,289,247

Box Office: $1,900,000 (Original Release)

Released by: RKO Radio Pictures

Nominations/Awards:

  • Academy Award for Best Original Song (“When You Wish Upon a Star”)
  • Academy Award for Best Original Score

Running Time: 88 Minutes (1hr 28min)

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This Week: Vol.1

This is the first of a weekly Monday post that will let you know what’s going on here every week.

This week, we’ve got Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and  Pinocchio. That’s right, the first two movies in the cannon in the same week! Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will post on Tuesday and  Pinocchio will post on Thursday.

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