Category: Directed by Wilfred Jackson

  • The Goddess of Spring (1934, Wilfred Jackson)

    The Goddess of Spring is the story of Persephone and Pluto. She’s the Goddess of Spring, he’s the Lord of the Underworld. He kidnaps her, life on Earth gets very cold. The cartoon’s striking because of the movement. It’s hard to describe the animation. The figures are problematic (Persephone doesn’t have working elbows) but the…

  • Lady and the Tramp (1955, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske)

    Mostly enchanting Disney tale of a snobbish Cocker Spaniel named Lady who meets a below-her-station Standard Schnauzer named Tramp and, through a series of adventures and misadventures, falls for him. The film relies a little too heavily on the songs, letting them take over when they shouldn’t, and the finale ignores its stars for the…