Walking in the Air Walking in the Air "Walking in the Air" is a song written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film of Raymond Briggs' 1978 children's book "The Snowman". The song forms the centrepiece of "The Snowman", which has become a seasonal favourite on British and Finnish television. The story relates the fleeting adventures of a young boy and a snowman who has come to life. In the second part of the story, the boy and the snowman fly to the North Pole. "Walking in the Air" is the theme for the journey. They attend a party of snowmen, at which
Escalation (1968 animated film) Escalation (1968 animated film) Escalation is a 1968 animated short film, directed by Disney animator Ward Kimball. It is an anti-Vietnam War cartoon mocking U.S. President, Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson. The short was made independently from the Disney Studios and is notable for being the only animated cartoon made in this matter by one of Disney's core animators, the "Nine Old Men." Kimball showed it at film festivals, college campuses during the US presidential elections year in 1968 and personally gave away copies of the film to whomever was interested. In a 2000 interview shortly before his death Kimball said