Despite the resemblance, I think it’s probably safe to assume that the next version of Apple’s iPad will not include a 3D display, facial recognition, 360° location scanning, or a self-destruct capability.

I enjoy watching Dinosaur Train every morning with my son. At first, I found the premise of the show to be thoroughly preposterous. Over time, however, I came to recognize the brilliance of your fine program. So much so, that I’ve decided to pursue a new career in childrens’ television programming. I’ve written a number of Dinosaur Train story treatments, which I would like to pitch to your producers:

1. The pteranodon family accidentally travels through the wrong time tunnel and beholds the horror of their own impending extinction.
2. Buddy learns a valuable lesson about rail-yard safety when he loses his tail in a train coupling accident.
3. Tiny, Don, and Buddy learn about the hobo code when they encounter a hobosaurus riding the rails by boxcar.
4. The pteranodon family travels back in time six-thousand years to witness God’s six-day creation of the earth.
5. The pteranodon family travels forward in time to witness the Golden Spike ceremony at Promontory Summit as the Transcontinental Railroad is completed on May 10, 1868 AD. Buddy eats Leland Stanford.

Please let me know if you are interested in developing any of these treatments.

Sincerely,

PJ Doland

P.S. I also have a series of stories that involve mammoths traveling via cable car, if you’re looking for a new direction.

These films are included on Walt Disney Treasures: On the Front Lines

Back in the days of black radio stations and white radio stations (i.e. segregation), if a black act had a hot record the white kids would find out and want to hear it on “their” radio station. This would prompt the record company to bring a white act into the recording studio and cut an exact, but white, version of the song to give to the white radio stations to play and thus keep the black act where it belonged, on black radio. A “cover” version of a song is a racist tool. Many examples can be found from “Sha Boom” to “Good Lovin’” It is NOT a term intended to be used to describe a valid interpretation of an old song. In that case every pop singer is nothing more than a cover artist (a derogatory description if ever there was one). I am not a “cover” artist and I do not do “covers”. The Crewcuts were cover artists.

The first three shorts listed above are included on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1. “The Prince and the Pauper” appears on Walt Disney’s Timeless Tales: Volume 1. “The Truth About Mother Goose” is included on the second disc of Walt Disney Tresures: Disney Rarities, Celebrated Shorts: 1920s–1960s.

This full-length animated feature is available on DVD.

To be clear, I’m not saying they should have removed this from the DVD release. I just think Disney’s standards for editing questionable content seem incomprehensible.

This film is available on DVD, bundled along with Saludos Amigos.

I find that a hairless Yosemite Sam looks a bit like a much younger and premyopic version of Quincy Magoo.

Yosemite Sam in “Ballot Box Bunny”

Yosemite Sam in “Big House Bunny”

These shorts are included on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1.

These shorts are included on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1.

These shorts are all included on Walt Disney’s Timeless Tales: Volume 3.

These shorts are included on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1.

Here’s short a student pencil test from the project:

These shorts are included on Walt Disney’s Timeless Tales: Volume 2.

This full-length animated feature is available on DVD and Blu-ray.

I particularly like the rhythm and pacing of Tofield’s shorts. The cat, it should be said, has perfect comedic timing.

These shorts are all included on Walt Disney’s Timeless Tales: Volume 1.

This short is included on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1.