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Walt Disney Treasures – Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts, 1920s – 1960s Streaming.
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It’s not exactly a set secret that the “Disney Treasures” DVDs have been mammoth money-makers for the company. So how do you squeeze a dinky extra cash out of a cash cow? Why, commence throwing intriguing shorts onto DVD without remastering them, that’s how!
Yep, the bulk of these cartoons are presented in vintage 20-year-old transfers. The images are soft and low-res, colors are frequently washed-out (I defy you to rep the color tan anywhere in “Paul Bunyan”), and Cinemascope films such as “Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Divulge” are presented in non-anamorphic widescreen. If you have a 16X9 TV, prepare yourself for a joyless experience.
The shorts themselves are largely second-tier Disney, with a few bona fide masterpieces such as “Ferdinand the Bull.” Others point to that when the Disney artists tackled a fresh field (such as UPA-style miniature animation in “A Cowboy Needs a Horse,” or dimensional animation in “Noah’s Ark,” with its fanciful found-object animals) they could do it better than impartial about anybody else. Kids may become a tad restless at times, but animation fans and Disney completists will be in heaven.
Bottom line: If Disney’s going to call these shorts “Treasures” they should treat them as such.
Among the four Disney Treasures DVD sets that came out this year for Wave 5 of the current collection, Disney Rarities, Chronological Donald Volume Two, Legendary Heroes, and Trot and Marty, I do bear this is the situation I was most anticipating. “Disney Rarities: Distinguished Shorts” collects some of the most loved one-shot Disney shorts honest alongside some of the most unseen! Starting all the intention aid with Walt’s early Alice films and carrying all the design through to 1962′s “A Symposium On Accepted Songs,” the mixed bag that is this 2-disc collection provides treat after treat of blooming animation, charming stories and songs, and fond childhood memories! Here’s what you catch in this glowing DVD region!
Disc 1:
Alice’s Wonderland (1923) : The first of Walt’s soundless Alice Comedies that combined live-action and animation, this charming short stars the adorable limited Virginia Davis and costars a young Mr. Disney himself! In it, Walt gives Alice a tour of a magical animation studio which leads to an engrossing dream sequence for Alice that night.
Alice’s Wild West Reveal (1924) : Probably the best of the Alice comedies I’ve seen, and Virginia’s current, the live-action sequences of this are very reminiscent of the early “Limited Rascals” films, and, of course, there are gripping sequences as well. Alice and her friends are putting on a wild west indicate, but when bullies hurry her costars away, Alice resorts to telling tales of her adventures with Indians and baddies.
Alice Gets In Dutch (1924) : Dinky Alice gets the dunce cap in school one day for playing with a balloon, and when she falls asleep on her stool, she has to deal with a cartoon teacher and her living schoolbooks!
Alice’s Egg Plant (1925) : Sadly, Virginia Davis is replaced by Anne Shirley in this short. Also, the charming live-action sequences give draw to total animation, aside from the inclusion of live-action Alice, of course. In this legend, there’s anguish on Alice’s egg farm when a fowl Russian bird incites a strike. Luckily, Alice and her cat Julius concoct a belief!
Alice In the Jungle (1925) : Virginia is wait on one more time for this account of animal hi-jinks and lion fighting adventure.
Alice’s Mysterious Mystery (1926) : Margie Elated plays Alice in this short where she and Julius go up against an early version of Pete who is an defective dogcatcher turning his captive mutts into sausage! Yes, this is a disturbing cartoon!
Alice the Whaler (1927) : Lois Hardwick plays a slightly older Alice, who sails the seas with her animal friends in a cartoon that features a potato peeling mouse in sequences seemingly identical to those in the following year’s “Steamboat Willie!”
Ferdinand the Bull (1938) : This cartoon is our sudden jump to color and sound (not including the music that accompanied the preceding Alice shorts) . This is the Oscar winning sage of Ferdinand, a pacifist bull that honest loves to sit and smell flowers, mistakenly chosen to fight in a bull ring when a bee sting makes him appear ferocious and wild! This is one of those classics you’ll likely remember from your youth, and it also features caricatures of Walt and his animators.
Chicken Runt (1943) : No, this isn’t Disney’s original, computer-animated feature, this is a classic short about not believing everything you hear and read, with a zigzag but very comical ending! I enjoy this is one of the several Academy Award nominees in this collection!
The Pelican and the Snipe (1944) : And, here’s another, I acquire. One of the many shorts Disney did with Obliging Holloway (the recent order of Winnie the Pooh) as narrator, this is the cute wartime sage of a sleep-flying Pelican and his precise and protective, sleep-deprived friend living together on a lighthouse in Uruguay. This was originally planned as portion of “The Three Amigos” but was instead released on its possess.
The Valorous Engineer (1950) : Here’s one of my many favorites, the rousing, musical account of Casey Jones, the fearless engineer! The singing narration from Jerry Colonna and crew obtain this a fun-filled American adventure!
Morris, the Midget Moose (1950) : Disney’s Bootle Beetle characters kick-off this classic short as an elder tells two younger bugs the memoir of two misfit moose…meese…mooses…. whatever. One is very itsy-bitsy, despite having chubby size antlers. The other is great, but his antlers are dinky. Together, they are a great force!
Lambert the Sheepish Lion (1952) : A celebrated for Disney fans all over, this is the classic record of a lion cub mistakenly delivered to an expectant mother sheep. He is mocked and shunned by his peers, not unlike Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but when he’s all grown up, he’s the only one who can withhold the mean ol’ wolf away!
The Minute House (1952) : This heartwarming classic, based on the children’s book, is very similar to the oddly absent from this residence “Susie, the Slight Blue Coupe.” It’s the narrative of a runt house who grows frail, lonely, and downhearted while the world around her changes, but in the extinguish gets cheered up by unique owners, a recent locale, and a modern coat of paint.
Adventures In Music: Melody (1953) : Originally released in 3-D (a first for an American exciting film), but honest as appetizing in 2-D, this is the first of the Professor Owl shorts where he teaches his class beefy of young birds all about the world of music. Very luscious animation.
Football Now and Then (1953) : Here’s a fun gripping short, even if you are like me and not really fervent in football! Grandpa and grandson peep a televised football match pitting a recent football time with one from yesteryear!
Adventures In Music: Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Advise (1953) : The other Oscar Winner in the bunch, here we learn the history of musical instruments in Professor Owl’s class! A good classic!
Ben and Me (1953) : A personal fave that is more of a featurette than a short, clear to be a hit with American history buffs that don’t recall it TOO seriously. This is the sage of Amos, a mouse voiced by Beneficial Holloway, who is the dependable brains tedious the legacy of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin!
Disc 2:
Pigs Is Pigs (1954) : Disc 2 kicks off with an extremely palatable, highly fun musical romp about Flannery, a railroad region clerk whose strict adherence to the rules lands him in deep inconvenience when a shipment of lovestruck guinea pigs arrives.
Social Lion (1954) : A lion captured on safari in Africa gets loose in the substantial city, but hardly anyone notices him! Very cute and humorous, light social commentary short!
Hooked Absorb (1956) : One of the two widescreen cartoons in this place, this Humphrey the Enjoy short is as droll as anything the Looney Tunes ever did! In it, Humphrey does his best to outwit the fish, the tourists, and Ranger Woodlore in his attempts to load up some fish of his enjoy!
Jack and Primitive Mac (1956) : This imaginatively engaging musical offering creatively illustrates jazzy renditions of “The House That Jack Built” and “Traditional MacDonald.” Nicely enthralling.
In the Bag (1956) : The other Humphrey the Acquire widescreen cartoon in this space, this hilarious short has Ranger Woodlore scheming to spend the park bears to shapely up after the tourists. When the reward becomes a appetizing dinner, Humphrey tries and tries but can’t seem to maintain his part desirable! This butt-bumping extravaganza even features a cameo by Smokey the Acquire!
A Cowboy Needs a Horse (1956) : This titillating, musical dream shows a small boy’s sleeping fantasy of being a right cowboy, battling bandits and Indians, and saving the damsel in damage. Always wanted this one in my collection!
The Narrative of Anyburg, USA (1957) : In a silly and hooked story of injustice and frivolous lawsuits, this short tells the sage of a town that places the blame for automobile accidents on the automobiles themselves!
The Truth About Mother Goose (1957) : This memorable weak fave is one of the gems of this station! Telling the grim, suitable tales slow the nursery rhymes “Runt Jack Horner,” “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary,” and “London Bridge Is Falling Down,” this highly moving short is shapely gloomy for a Disney cartoon!
Paul Bunyan (1958) : The bigger-than-life account of Paul Bunyan the giant lumberjack is told here from his infancy to his retirement in a improbable musty Disney well-liked!
Noah’s Ark (1959) : Stop-motion animation and household items are dilapidated for a change in this yarn from the pages of Genesis in the Bible. Noah builds a tremendous Ark to carry two of every animal, along with his family, through a flood that covered the entire globe in old-fashioned times. This reasonably dependable and jazzy cartoon is gargantuan fun, though maybe it runs a tad long when it gets into some unnecessary Hippo romance subject matter. Quiet, very apt slight short!
Goliath II (1960) : This Oscar nominated classic is the humorous fable of a runt elephant the size of a mouse born to the biggest elephant in the herd! Slight Goliath is nothing but anxiety until he wins the others’ respect by being the only one who can capture on their greatest panic!
The Saga of Windwagon Smith (1961) : Some may disagree, but I come by this to be another of the best shorts in the location! Windwagon Smith is the grand myth of a sea captain with dreams of sailing over the American plains in a covered wagon that is share sailing ship! It’s a very fun and imaginative legend!
A Symposium On Current Songs (1962) : And, finally, my common cartoon on this spot, simply because who doesn’t savor Ludwig Von Drake, especially coupled with tons of Sherman Bros. music! Also blooming mighty a featurette at 19 minutes and 44 seconds in length, “A Symposium On Celebrated Songs” is hosted by the oddball relative of Donald Duck who takes us through the history of approved music in America, until 1962 at least. He does this for the most allotment by playing timely songs that he wrote himself, running with visuals of stop-motion cut-out animation same as was veteran for the opening of the modern “Parent Trap.” For Ludwig fans, this cartoon is really the highlight of the discs! Paul Frees is hilarious!
As an obsessive Disney fan, I am likely to stammer you that ALL the Disney Treasures sets are a must have, and support `em coming! I certainly have them all! But, even for the collector who doesn’t bag every tin box that Disney puts out, “Disney Rarities: Well-known Shorts” is a must! Clear, there are some shorts that are oddly absent. Some of them are available on other Disney releases though. Many seem likely to appear in an educational shorts position in the future, hopefully. I’m dying for “Scrooge McDuck and Money,” “Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons,” the “What Should I Do” series, “Harold and His Fantastic Green Plants,” and Jiminy Cricket’s shorts, among others. I also am desperate for a trustworthy, unedited release of “Microscopic One,” Sport Goofy in “Soccermania,” and “Fluppy Dogs,” to name a few. And, to be just, even if they can score a bit redundant, I’d like to find as many of the over 50 Alice shorts (that have not been lost) as possible. Nevertheless, this plot is a Sincere care for! Extras include a amazing interview with the recent Alice, Virginia Davis, involved intros by Leonard Maltin that some salvage annoying but I have no scrape with (there is only one per disc this time, and we really should regard this man as a hero, anyway), the VERY short advertisement cartoon “A Feather In His Collar,” starring Pluto, a sparkling timeline featurette showing us Walt’s history up to the introduction of Mickey Mouse, a inspiring audio commentary for “A Symposium on Common Song” with Richard Sherman and Leonard Maltin, and, of course, a few selective art galleries. Yes, there is talk on the disc of an excerpt from a Disneyland episode detailing the making of the “Parent Trap” opening credits, however, it seems none of us have been able to locate that in the place except as snippets during Maltin’s intros. The state comes in the expected snapcase within glowing tin box, though they are continuing with not printing anything on the abet of the tin and not including the paper band, and within is the standard, handy booklet, the numbered certificate of authenticity, and a nice collectible card featuring Paul Bunyan promo art. It all makes for a lovely package for the Disney fanatic. Can’t wait for wave 6!
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