About this episode
Part 2 of our Christmas donkey double feature takes a deep dive into Don Bluth’s last Disney project, a short film released in front of the 1978 re-release of Pinocchio . **** 🎙 Guests: Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames). Brandon Medley ( @brandmed , Blessed are the Geek ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Like so many Disney movies, it’s based on a book — The Small One: A Story for Those Who Like Christmas and Small Donkeys . 2. Dragon’s Lair . 3. The Land Before Time toys from Pizza Hut . 4. Mouse in Transition: When Everyone Left Disney , detailing Don Bluth’s exit from Disney. 5. Don Bluth visited Walt Disney Animation Studios 40 years later . 6. Assistant director Richard Rich went on to direct all 8 Swan Princess movies . I’m sorry to have just informed you that there are 8 Swan Princess movies. 7. Wikipedia’s entry for The Small One includes a very strange line about the other donkeys. 8. One piece of silver, adjusted for inflation . 9. Edits for home video include the Merchants’ song, and the Star of Bethlehem getting extra rays of light to look less cross-shaped. To avoid too much foreshadowing, I guess. 10. Gordon Jump , the voice of Joseph, was on a very special episode of Diff’rent Strokes . Yeah. Sorry. **** “The Small One” © 1978 Walt Disney Productions. Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Say hi on Twitter @adventcalhouse . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .