Hello and welcome to the first episode of Dream With Mind And Heart: A Podcast for Every Disney Movie Ever! In this project, your hosts, Ryan Silberstein and Meagan Bojarski will be covering every theatrically released feature-length film from Walt Disney Studios.

In this episode, we cover the history of the Walt Disney Studios from its beginning up to the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. To do so, we are stepping through the shorts included in the first ever feature release by Disney, The Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons.

Included in this release were five Silly Symphonies shorts:

• Flowers and Trees (1932)

• Three Little Pigs (1933)

• The Tortoise and the Hare (1934)

• Three Orphan Kittens (1935)

• The Country Cousin (1936)

We are also covering two additional shorts to provide additional context:

• The Band Concert (1935)

• The Old Mill (1937)

All are available on Disney+, except Three Orphan Kittens and The Country Cousin, both of which can usually be found on YouTube.

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Thanks also to Rosalie Kicks for our artwork and The Honey Badgers for our theme song!

Primary Works Consulted:

• Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries that Inspired the Golden Age of Animation by Reid Mitenbuler

• The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt

• The Walt Disney Film Archives: The Animated Movies 1921-1968, edited by Daniel Kothenschulte

• Walt Disney: An American Original by Bob Thomas

• The Disney Films (4th edition) by Leonard Maltin