Description: I’m J.B. Kaufman, film historian and author. I’ve written extensively about Walt Disney animation history, American silent film, and other topics. If you want to find my books and other activities, this site will make it easy to find them, but I’ll also be sharing some of my favorite discoveries and other treasures from the golden age of classic films.
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Alongside his full-length books, J.B. Kaufman has been writing articles, essays, festival program notes, and other short-form pieces since 1987. Most of those short pieces are long out of print. Now the best of them, and some new ones, are collected in a two-volume anthology. Volume 1, pending copyright approvals, is currently delayed. Volume 2 is available now on Amazon. This second volume focuses on stories from the rich and endlessly varied world of American silent and early sound cinema. These articl
The inaugural entry in a series of Monographs published by the Hyperion Historical Alliance, this volume relates the story behind Fun and Fancy Free (1947), one of Walt Disney’s most delightful and underappreciated postwar features. This was a different kind of “package feature,” combining two featurette-length stories in a single film. Here for the first time is the full, absorbing story of its production, profusely illustrated with over 125 sketches, paintings, animation drawings, and photos, many never p
by David Gerstein and J.B. Kaufman, edited by Daniel Kothenschulte Taschen, the distinguished European publisher long renowned for luxurious art books, has already embarked on a series of outstanding volumes on Disney history. The latest in the series, Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse , is a sumptuous, lavishly mounted pictorial history of the world’s preeminent Mouse, from his scrappy beginnings in 1928 to the present day. Overflowing with a cornucopia of exciting, rare, and gorgeously reproduced images, the bo
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