Good morning, all! Where were all the usual suspects at Chat last night? DRs Noel, Robin, Laura and Emily, with the late addition of our host BK, seemed to be it. ROBIN, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
I vaguely recall A WRINKLE IN TIME, but since I have no memory of anything about it, it clearly left no impression, so I didn't care about the broadcast last night. I remember reading THE WIZARD OF OZ long before seeing the film, and being so enchanted with it that I reread it several times. I also never liked the Narnia series; it's dubious charms escaped me.
TOD: my first fairy tale/fantasy memories are the Disney films, SNOW WHITE, (shwing around 1950-51?), ALICE IN WONDERLAND, CINDERELLA, and PETER PAN, and my first books were Little Golden Books of the films. I recall a short chunky book of CINDERELLA that I loved, with text on one side and a black & white drawing on the other. 1954 was the PETER PAN broadcast with Mary Martin, and I've always preferred that to Duncan's and Rigby's versions, not that the ladies didn't have good moments, but that Jerome Robbins' concept was very special (the Indian dances based on children's games for example) and no later director has come up to Robbins' level. I'd like to see the play performed, once, with a few songs, the mermaids, and more James M. Barrie.
I was also fond of the 1954 animated HANSEL AND GRETEL, the soundtrack of which drove my mother to major despair; I remember it played a double bill with a Ma & Pa Kettle movie, which will attract the attention here of DR MBarnum, but I've no memory of the Kettles now, except for THE EGG AND I, both book and film.