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Rare Sherman Brothers 'Mary Poppins' tapes have been unearthed by a historian, featuring conversations about classic Disney songs.

The Disney animation team spent three years, $1.5 million—and nearly 2 million separate paintings—making its first feature film.

From its earliest honorees to the present, the Academy Award for Best Animated Short doubles as a kind of history of the ever-changing medium. We ranked them all — from animation’s golden age to the arrival of Pixar and beyond.

My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of an incredible Dixieland jazz band made up of mostly Disney employees, the Firehouse Five Plus Two. But along the way, I accidentally discovered an incredible lost song that was cut from Walt Disney's Cinderella. And you're about to hear it too. Let's go. Firehouse Five Plus…

The first of three essays written by noted historian, author, and educator Karl Cohen to bring awareness to the present state of indie animated shorts and to stimulate a discussion that might lead to improvements; we start with a discussion of the ways these shorts have reached the public since the decline of theatrical cartoons.