Disney comics related videos on YouTube

[Francesco Spreafico]

Daniel van Eijmeren wrote:

> I didn't know that Romano Scarpa did animations. Can someone tell
> more about that?

Yep. Some time ago I made a page about the "Camminata Disney" on my 
site, it's in Italian, though: 
http://www.dimensionedelta.net/scarpa/cartoni/camminata.html

In short, there was this tv show in Italy in 1982 called "Topolino 
Show", it aired once a week on Saturday (if I remember correctly) and it 
always began with this short animation by Scarpa. After, they always 
aired a Disney movie (that explains the final part of the toon, with 
Mickey and Bruto) before the real show (often featuring a Disney artist 
drawing live... I think it was Marco Rota).

The other video you can find there, "La piccola fiammiferaia", is a 
non-Disney animation Scarpa made in 1951 (before starting working for 
Disney) based on Andersen's "Little Match Girl".

There are more (not on You Tube): "The Fourth King" (1977), aired in 
Italy and in the US at Chrismas (in 1977) [this one is generally 
available on Amazon's marketplace, in VHS], "Ainhoo of the Icebergs" 
(1972, never released) and a Duck Tales test, a few seconds long.

-- 
Francesco