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21 January 2012 6:45 AM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

The Love Bug

Directed by Robert Stevenson

Written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi

Starring Dean Jones, David Tomlinson, Michele Lee, Buddy Hackett

Live-action films at Walt Disney Pictures have always occupied an interesting place, not only within cinema as a whole, but within the company. Even during the dark days of the 1960s and 1970s—basically the period from when Walt Disney passed away in 1966 to when Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg joined the company in 1984—live-action was a moneymaker without being anywhere near as iconic as the animation output. Granted, the studio often fell back on re-releasing its older animated films, but they treated animation as something to be respected, while live-action was just there to get kids in the theater.

In some ways, I wonder if that’s why Walt Disney Pictures was able to have such a tight-knit system comprised of directors, writers, composers, and so on. »

- Josh Spiegel

1 item from 2012