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Hazel (1952)
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Outfit: Witch's Hat / Witch's Cloak Tagline: "All hail the Guardians of the Watchtower!!" Plot summary: Witch Hazel, aside from a couple of random appearances on Mickey's House of Mouse and in some old Disney comic books has appeared in only one Disney film, a short from 1952 entitled Trick or Treat, where, along with her magic broom Beelzebub, she helps Huey, Dewey, and Louie play some Halloween pranks on their Uncle Donald. After this period work at Disney was scant. After all, how many Halooween shorts with witches do you need? So she quit, dyed her face green, gained 100 lbs, and reappeared two years later in a Warners Brothers cartoon chasing Bugs Bunny and making giant hair monsters. (more) User Comments: Witch Hazel is a Disney flash in the pan at best, though she is a fun character, in an evil sort of way. To be honest though, I prefer her Warner Brothers incarnation best, especially how she always left hair pins flying in mid-air whenever she took off. She didn't really do anything for the advancement of the witch look. Her look is pretty much how most movie witches looked from The Wizard of Oz on up. This didn't really change until the early nineties, when Disney updated the witch look in Hocus Pocus, moving from a horn-nosed, black clad old hag, to a new hipper look: The chipmunk-toothed Streisand wannabe, the 300 lb flying nun, and the insane giggling Manhattan gutter whore. Bottom line, there are only two truly notable animated witches, in my opinion. The first can be found in the opening credits for Bewitched (hey, that wiggling nose is just cute.) And the second is from one of my own personal childhood memories, an ABC Weekend Special from 1980...
Now is that sexy or what?
The Trouble With Miss Witch doesn't get the credit it deserves. And shame on all you youngsters for never having heard of it! I'll cast a spell! Yes, yes, a spell! Back, back, OVER THE FALLS!!!! ...God I'm such a geek for EPCOT... User Rating:
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