Barbie’s First Movie Changed Me

Barbie in the Nutcracker was Barbie’s very first movie. It began a bizarre legacy of crunchy computer-animated Barbie movies that currently total 42 entries, but it is, in many ways, the most iconic. Come with me on this journey of exploration through impeccable girl’s cinema. *Featuring:* - Nutcracker fun 🥜 - sticking it to the man ✌️ - MANY CGI ballet sequences 🩰 - Tim Curry evil mouse 🐁 - woodphobia 🪵🚫 *Sources include:* 1. A. Michael Noll’s ’Computer Ballet’ (1965), & BBC Documentary on his work, via @computerartist | 2. A Michael Noll’s website, detailing his computer work | 3. Zipes, J. (2007) ‘Introduction by JACK ZIPES’, in Nutcracker and Mouse King. New York, New York: Penguin Books, p. 10. [note: this book was used for sourcing quotes from both . Hoffman’s original ’Nutcracker and Mouse King'