What's fascinating is that if you watch the accompanying documentary they actually say that the first time they did it it worked perfectly, but the camera wasn't rolling that time.

That's strangely unsurprising and wonderful.

It's one of the few documented places where you get to see how hard it was to make the movies that look so effortless and joyful. I am forever grateful for the perfectionism and the love.

Yes. I love being able to see behind the scenes of that kind of art.

I really, really wish the live-action reference films from the heyday of Disney animation survived.

Also, on this year's viewing of Emmet Otter I realized that Harvey is the same character as in Harvey's Hideway that I read to pieces as a kid. I was fascinated with the secret clubhouses aspect.

I don't know if I've read Harvey's Hideout! I'll have to look for it.

I don't think I wanted a secret clubhouse, but I tied all my belongings (all right, a book, a sandwich, and a stuffed animal) up in a kerchief and carried it around on my shoulder as soon as I read Calvin and Hobbes' Yukon Ho! I wanted very much to run away and ride trains.