The man behind 'Anastasia,' 'The Land Before Time,' and more classics attended a meaningful film festival screening.

In a small nondescript theater in a quiet strip mall in central Scottsdale sits a giant. The walls adorned with drawings that would elicit familiarity and nostalgia from any kid that grew up in the ...

At Don Bluth Front Row Theatre the other day, the man for whom the theater is named stretched out across a row of seats for a midday nap. When a stranger stopped by to discuss Bluth’s storied career ...

Don Bluth was just a teenager when he got his first taste of working at Disney. He would go on to work for the entertainment juggernaut for roughly 10 years, putting his special touch on films like ...

When Don Bluth was a little boy he was not a dinosaur fan. But all that changed when the animator joined with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas to create the new animated feature ”The Land Before Time ...

“I bumped into him and I was playing volleyball with all the rest of the artists, and I had no idea that he was even in the animation building,” Bluth recalled. “I didn’t even know. I was all sweaty ...

Animation is an art – not the cookie-cutter-styled cartoons you see on Saturday morning, but classical animation like “Fantasia,” “Snow White,” “Pinocchio,” “Song of the South,” “Lady and the Tramp” ...

For the seventh year in its 10-year existence, the Plaza Classic Film Festival has teamed with the El Paso Museum of Art to showcase the filmmaking industry and behind-the-scenes movie artifacts. The ...

He’s not put his name to a movie since the turn of the century, but Don Bluth is still one of the most revered figures in animation history – and might still one day be a force to be reckoned with… In ...

From an early age, El Paso-born animator Don Bluth spent his time tracing comic books and going to the movies to see Mickey Mouse and his favorite Disney characters come to life on the big screen.

“We didn’t know anything about videogames–that’s God’s honest truth.” That’s veteran animation director Don Bluth describing his gaming expertise before his studio created the animation for the 1983 ...

The only reason he could say that is that in some sense Don Bluth is a Spielberg, or at least a peer, not an acolyte. Like Spielberg, he’s invented a world that he’s chronicled on film, to the massive ...