Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Touchstone Edition. Dick Tracy

  Welcome to my weekly discussion of the animated films of the Walt Disney Studio. I’m proceeding mostly chronologically. The title comes from a quote from Walt, “I never called my work an ‘art’ It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.” Title: Dick Tracy Year: 1990 Source materials : The comic strip created in 1931 by Chester Gould Budget: $46 million Box office: $162.7 million Plot: At an illegal card game, a young street urchin witnesses the massacre of a group of mobsters at the hands of Flattop and Itchy, two of the hoods on the payroll … Continue reading Building Entertainment: The Animated Films of the Walt Disney Studio. Touchstone Edition. Dick Tracy