MOST UNUSUAL AND singularly unique entry in the Disney yearly cartoon output, this never the less has to be rated right up at the top. When we first heard this title while working security at the old STATE & LAKE Theatre here in Chicago, we thought it was one of those GOOFY everyman/how to entries. It wasn't, but the title sure sounded like one. (The feature we had playing then was PAPPILLON with Steve Mc Queen and Dustin Hoffman, which would mean that the year was 1973.)
BY COMBINING SOME seemingly disparate elements and sticking to the successful formula of great artwork, top notch animation and befittingly matching original musical score, the success of the picture is assured as at least being acceptable. Of course we know that it went a great deal further than just being okay.
IN OUR STORY, a Grandfather and his young Grandson get into a difference of opinions about which is better, modern Football or the game as it was long ago. Magically, the TV set bring them a game between two colleges of different times. The contrasts are put right out on the field as one side of the stadium is today, the other is yesteryear.
THE WHOLE PREMISE is sort of like an episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE being played for laughs. And there were plenty of those laughs here with the Walt Disney crew giving us their inside look at the game that is arguably even more popular now than it was yesteryear.
NOW THAT WOULD appear to have started the whole argument all over again! NOTE: We see that the voice characterization of Grandpa was provided by Dennis Day, the long time Irish Tenor singer of THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM.
BY COMBINING SOME seemingly disparate elements and sticking to the successful formula of great artwork, top notch animation and befittingly matching original musical score, the success of the picture is assured as at least being acceptable. Of course we know that it went a great deal further than just being okay.
IN OUR STORY, a Grandfather and his young Grandson get into a difference of opinions about which is better, modern Football or the game as it was long ago. Magically, the TV set bring them a game between two colleges of different times. The contrasts are put right out on the field as one side of the stadium is today, the other is yesteryear.
THE WHOLE PREMISE is sort of like an episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE being played for laughs. And there were plenty of those laughs here with the Walt Disney crew giving us their inside look at the game that is arguably even more popular now than it was yesteryear.
NOW THAT WOULD appear to have started the whole argument all over again! NOTE: We see that the voice characterization of Grandpa was provided by Dennis Day, the long time Irish Tenor singer of THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM.