An old man and his grandson watch a football game between a modern team and a team of old-timers.An old man and his grandson watch a football game between a modern team and a team of old-timers.An old man and his grandson watch a football game between a modern team and a team of old-timers.
Dennis Day
- Grand Pa
- (voice)
Frank Bull
- Commentator
- (uncredited)
Sam Edwards
- Grandkid
- (uncredited)
- …
Dal McKennon
- Grandpaw
- (uncredited)
- …
Jack Rourke
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
Bill Walsh
- Coach
- (uncredited)
Jackson Wheeler
- Press Box Reporter
- (uncredited)
- …
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Whirling Dervish Dishwasher Salesman later makes a cameo appearance in the 1956 Donald Duck cartoon, "How to Have an Accident in the Home".
- GoofsWhen the dishwasher salesman reads the phone number "6-9784", the card he holds up reads "6-0784".
- ConnectionsEdited into The Magical World of Disney: The Goofy Sports Story (1956)
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A Walt Disney Cartoon.
To illustrate the differences between FOOTBALL NOW AND THEN a grandfather imaginatively details a game between the Moderns and the Oldtimers.
Although the usual gang of Disney cartoon characters do not appear in this little film, any fan of gridiron sports should find it very amusing. Both eras of the game are well depicted by the slightly stylized animation. The black & white TV commercials for the Whirling Dervish Dishwasher are hilarious.
Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work will always pay off.
To illustrate the differences between FOOTBALL NOW AND THEN a grandfather imaginatively details a game between the Moderns and the Oldtimers.
Although the usual gang of Disney cartoon characters do not appear in this little film, any fan of gridiron sports should find it very amusing. Both eras of the game are well depicted by the slightly stylized animation. The black & white TV commercials for the Whirling Dervish Dishwasher are hilarious.
Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work will always pay off.
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- Ron Oliver
- May 3, 2003
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Football Now and Then (1953) officially released in Canada in English?
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