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Disney rarities : celebrated shorts, 1920s-1960s.

Call Number

  • DVD ANIMATION (CEN)

Languages

Closed-captioned.

Publication Information

Burbank, Calif. : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2005.

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (326 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([6] p. : col., ill. ; 16 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A collection of rare animated films by Walt Disney Productions.

Notes

Originally produced as 32 short animated films between 1923-1962.

Collective title from disc menu & container; individual titles from screen.

Special features (disc 1): introduction by film historian Leonard Maltin (4 min.); "Alice's cartoon world : an interview with Virginia Davis" (12 min., interviewed by Leonard Maltin); "From Kansas City to Hollywood : a timeline of Disney's silent era" featurette (8 min.).

Special feature (disc 2): introduction by film historian Leonard Maltin (3 min.); 7 animation art galleries (for Ferdinand the bull; The little house; The story of Anyburg, USA; Chicken Little; Paul Bunyan, The truth about Mother Goose; A cowboy needs a horse).

Booklet includes an essay by film historian Leonard Maltin.

Contents

  • Disc 1 (162 min.). Alice's Wonderland (1923)
  • Alice's wild West show (1924)
  • Alice gets in dutch (1924)
  • Alice's egg plant (1925)
  • Alice in the jungle (1925)
  • Alice's mysterious mystery (1926)
  • Alice the whaler (1927)
  • Ferdinand the bull (1938)
  • Chicken Little (1943)
  • The pelican and the snipe (1944)
  • The brave engineer (1950)
  • Morris, the midget moose (1950)
  • Lambert the sheepish lion (1952)
  • The little house (1952)
  • Adventures in music : melody (1953)
  • Football now and then (1953)
  • Toot, whistle, plunk and boom (1953)
  • Ben and me (1953)
  • Disc 2 (164 min.). Pigs is pigs (1954)
  • Social lion (1954)
  • Hooked bear (1956)
  • Jack and old Mac (1956)
  • In the bag (1956)
  • A cowboy needs a horse (1956)
  • The story of Anyburg, USA (1957)
  • The truth about Mother Goose (1957)
  • Paul Bunyan (1958)
  • Noah's Ark (1959)
  • Goliath II (1960)
  • The saga of Windwagon Smith (1961)
  • A symposium on popular songs (1962, with optional audio commentary by film historian Leonard Maltin & composer Richard Sherman)
  • Bonus cartoon: A feather in his collar (1946).

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