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Walt Disney's Timeless Tales
''Walt Disney's Timeless Tales'' is a series of DVDs by Walt Disney Home Entertainment. Each release features around one-hour of ''Disney'' animated short films featuring classic fairy tale adaptations. In contrast to the chronological nature of the ''Walt Disney Treasures'' line, each release includes cartoons in no particular order. The series appeared in two waves of releases: on August 16, 2005, and January 3, 2006. Releases Wave one The first wave of two releases was on August 16, 2005. Volume One #''Three Little Pigs'' (1933) #''The Tortoise and the Hare'' (1935) #'' The Grasshopper and the Ants'' (1934) #''The Pied Piper'' (1933) #''The Prince and the Pauper'' (1990) Volume Two #''The Wind in the Willows'' (1949) #''The Ugly Duckling'' (1939) #''Ferdinand the Bull'' (1938) #''The Country Cousin'' (1936) Wave two The second wave of two releases was on January 3, 2006. Volume Three #''Casey at the Bat'' (1946) #''Little Hiawatha'' (1937) #''The Wise Little Hen'' (1934) # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., doing business as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, is the home entertainment distribution arm of The Walt Disney Company. The division handles the distribution of Disney's films, television series, and other audiovisual content across several home media formats, such as Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray discs, DVDs, and digital media, under various brand labels around the world. The division was legally incorporated as Buena Vista Home Video in March 1988. It was renamed to its current legal name in 1997. The division adopted the current Walt Disney Studios-branding in its public name in 2007, but retained the Buena Vista-branding within its legal corporate name. History Background Before Disney began releasing home video titles itself, it licensed some titles to MCA's DiscoVision label for their newly developed disc format, later called LaserDisc. Disney's agreement with MCA ended in December 1981. In 1980, Disney established its own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand The Bull (film)
''Ferdinand the Bull'' is a 1938 American stand-alone animated short produced by Walt Disney Productions and released on November 25, 1938 by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Dick Rickard and based on the 1936 book ''The Story of Ferdinand'' by Munro Leaf. The music was by Albert Hay Malotte, most known for his setting of The Lord's Prayer, commonly sung at weddings. It was remade in 2017 by Blue Sky Studios with John Cena as the titular bull. Plot The scene starts with many bulls, romping together and butting their heads, however, Ferdinand is different; all he wants to do all day is go under a shady cork tree and smell the flowers. One day, his mother notices that he is not playing with the other bulls and asks him why. He responds, ‘All I want to do is to sit and smell the flowers!’ His mother is very understanding. Ferdinand grows over the years, eventually getting to be the largest and strongest of the group. The other bulls grow up wanting to accomplish one go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Video Lines
A home, or domicile, is a space used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for one or many humans, and sometimes various companion animals. It is a fully or semi sheltered space and can have both interior and exterior aspects to it. Homes provide sheltered spaces, for instance rooms, where domestic activity can be performed such as sleeping, preparing food, eating and hygiene as well as providing spaces for work and leisure such as remote working, studying and playing. Physical forms of homes can be static such as a house or an apartment, mobile such as a houseboat, trailer or yurt or digital such as virtual space. The aspect of ‘home’ can be considered across scales; from the micro scale showcasing the most intimate spaces of the individual dwelling and direct surrounding area to the macro scale of the geographic area such as town, village, city, country or planet. The concept of ‘home’ has been researched and theorized across disciplines – topics ranging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney Animated Short Films
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment industry, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney, Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Studio; it also operated under the names the Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions before changing its name to the Walt Disney Company in 1986. Early on, the company established itself as a leader in the Animation, animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, who is the company's mascot, and the start of Animation, animated films. After becoming a major success by the early 1940s, the company started to diversify into Live action, live-action films, television, and Amusement park, theme parks in the 1950s. Following Walt's death in 1966, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben And Me
''Ben and Me'' is a 1953 American animated two-reel short subject produced by Walt Disney Productions and released theatrically on November 10, 1953. It was adapted from the children's book written by author/illustrator Robert Lawson and first published in 1939. Though both book and film deal with the relationship between a mouse and American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, the book, with illustrations by Lawson, focused more heavily on actual historical events and personages, and included incidents from Franklin's French career at Versailles. The short received an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. This short was also notable for being the second release on the Buena Vista Distribution label, with the first being ''Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom'', released on the same day. On its release, ''Ben and Me'' was packaged with the True-Life Adventure documentary ''The Living Desert''. When Disney's regular distributor RKO Radio Pictures resisted the idea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris The Midget Moose
''Morris the Midget Moose'' is a 1950 Walt Disney animated short, based on a 1945 picture book published by G.P. Putnam's sons, written and illustrated by Frank Owen, originally released to theaters on November 24, 1950, from Walt Disney Productions, originally released by RKO Radio Pictures and then, Buena Vista Distribution for its re-release. Plot This cartoon is a two heads is better than one parable. The bootle beetle (from Donald Duck cartoons, such as Bootle Beetle, The Greener Yard and Sea Salts) tells two younger beetles, who are fighting to reach a piece of fruit that is out of their reach, the story of Morris, a four-year-old moose, who has not grown beyond the stages of a child and is the laughing stock among the other moose. Morris is a small moose with large antlers, and meets up one day with Balsam, a large moose with embarrassingly small antlers. Morris and Balsam become good friends. Thunderclap the strongest bull moose is constantly challenging and defending hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Touch (film)
''The Golden Touch'' is a Walt Disney Silly Symphony cartoon made in 1935. The story is based on the Greek myth of King Midas, albeit updated into a Medieval setting. Plot The extremely rich King Midas never cares for women nor wine, and he never gets enough of his gold, wishing that one day, everything he touched would turn to gold. An elf named Goldie appears beside him and offers him the Golden Touch, demonstrating its magical powers by turning Midas’s cat to gold, and then clapping his hands and snapping his fingers to change it back. Midas tries to offer everything he owns in exchange, but he is warned by Goldie that the Golden Touch will prove a golden curse. Midas derides this by exclaiming, "Fiddlesticks! Give me gold! Not advice!" So Goldie gives him the Golden Touch. At first, Midas is happy with his newfound power. He turns his cat and several things in his garden to gold. Then he talks to himself in his mirror about turning the Earth, and then the universe, to gold. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wise Little Hen
''The Wise Little Hen'' is a 1934 Walt Disney's ''Silly Symphony'' cartoon, based on the fable ''The Little Red Hen''. The cartoon features the debut of Donald Duck, dancing to the Sailor's Hornpipe. Donald and his friend Peter Pig try to avoid work by faking stomach aches until Mrs. Hen teaches them the value of labor. Though distributor United Artists gave June 9, 1934 as the cartoon's release date, it was actually first shown on May 3, 1934 at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles for a benefit program, while it was later given its official debut on June 7 at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. It was animated by Art Babbitt, Dick Huemer, Clyde Geronimi, Louie Schmitt, and Frenchy de Tremaudan (with assistance from a group of junior animators headed by Ben Sharpsteen) and directed by Wilfred Jackson. The story was also adapted in the ''Silly Symphony'' Sunday comic strip by Ted Osborne and Al Taliaferro, which was Donald Duck's first appearance in Disney comics. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Hiawatha
''Little Hiawatha'' (also called ''Hiawatha'') is a 1937 animated cartoon produced by Walt Disney Productions, inspired by the poem ''The Song of Hiawatha'' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It does not appear to have historical correlation to legendary Mohawk leader and peacemaker Hiawatha. It is the last ''Silly Symphonies'' short to be released by United Artists. Plot Over opening narration, a Native American boy named Little Hiawatha is seen paddling his canoe down a river – at one point backwards – on his way to hunt game. Upon reaching land, he steps out and immediately falls down a hidden hole in the water, bringing about the laughter of the animals in the forest. Hiawatha gives chase to them – with his pants often falling down as the cartoon's running gag. Hiawatha pursues a grasshopper, but is foiled when it spits in his face, much to the amusement of the other animals. He chases them again and manages to corner a baby rabbit on a tree stump; he finds, however, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Make Mine Music
''Make Mine Music'' is a 1946 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the eighth Disney feature animated film, released on April 20, 1946. During World War II, much of Walt Disney's staff was drafted into the army, and those that remained were called upon by the U.S. government to make training and propaganda films. As a result, the studio was littered with unfinished story ideas. In order to keep the feature film division alive during this difficult time, the studio released six package films including this one, made up of various unrelated segments set to music. This is the third package film, following '' Saludos Amigos'' and ''The Three Caballeros''. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Film segments This particular film has ten such segments. ''The Martins and the Coys'' The popular radio vocal group The King's Men sings the story of a Hatfields and McCoys-style feud in the mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Country Cousin
''The Country Cousin'' is a Walt Disney animated short film released on October 31, 1936 by United Artists. The winner of an Oscar at the 9th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film, the film was produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, and animated by Art Babbitt and Les Clark. As is true for most cartoons in the ''Silly Symphonies'' series, ''The Country Cousin'' was built around a musical score, which was written by Leigh Harline. The film's story was based on one of Aesop's Fables, ''The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse''. It was accompanied by a storybook for young children, which was common for many of the ''Silly Symphonies''. Plot ''The Country Cousin'' tells the story of a mouse from "Podunk" (an American English name denoting a place "in the middle of nowhere") coming to visit his relative in the city. The opening shot/title card is of the mouse in question, Abner, staring up at the city skyscrapers, with the sign directing him to Podunk facing the oppos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ugly Duckling (1939 Film)
''The Ugly Duckling'' (''Ugly Duckling'' in reissues) is an animated film from 1939 by Walt Disney, based on the 1843 fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen. The film was directed by Jack Cutting and Clyde Geronimi, and released in theaters on April 7, 1939. Music was composed by Albert Hay Malotte, who was uncredited for the film. The animated short was first distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.The Ugly Duckling . ''www.bcdb.com'' An earlier '''' animated short based on this fairy tale had been produced in black and white in 1931. The 1939 color fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
