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[Detail] Disney: The Magic of Animation, ACMI, Melbourne. Photo: Phoebe Powell.

Disney: The Magic of Animation
  • Audrey Schmidt


17 Jul 2021
Australian Centre for the Moving Image 13 May - 17 Oct 2021

Melbourne is littered with bright yellow flags. They bear the recently updated ACMI logo in bold red and a selection of pre-CGI Disney sketches. The warm, happy hues of the flags with the homely faces of millennial childhoods billow in the cool Melbourne winter wind, advertising ACMI’s would-be triumphant return with a two-year and $40 million redevelopment, as well as a winter masterpieces exhibition—Disney: The Magic of Animation.

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