''Walt Disney's It's a Small World of Fun!'' is a series of
DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kin ...
s by
Walt Disney 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, an ...
. Each release would feature around one hour of
Disney
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney (), is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California. Disney was originally founded on October ...
animated
Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most anim ...
short films
A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...
with international settings. As opposed to the chronological nature of the ''
Walt Disney Treasures
Walt Disney Treasures is a series of two-disc DVD collections of Disney cartoons, television episodes and other material. They cover material from the studio's earliest days to its more recent work. There were nine waves, each containing two t ...
'' line, each release would feature various cartoons in no particular order. The series featured two waves of releases, on May 16, 2006, and February 13, 2007.
Releases
Wave One
The first wave of two releases came on May 16, 2006.
Volume 1
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The Flying Gauchito'' (1945)
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In Dutch'' (1946)
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Goliath II
''Goliath II'' is a 1960 American animated comedy short film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and written by Bill Peet, it is narrated by Sterling Holloway and stars the voices of Kevin Corcoran, Barbara Jo A ...
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Mickey Down Under'' (1948)
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African Diary
''Goofy'' is a series of American animated comedy short films produced by Walt Disney Productions. The series started in 1939 with ''Goofy and Wilbur'' and ended in 1953 with ''How to Sleep''. An additional short, '' How to Hook Up Your Home Thea ...
'' (1945)
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A Cowboy Needs a Horse
This is a list of animated short films produced by Walt Disney and Walt Disney Animation Studios from 1921 to the present.
This includes films produced at the Laugh-O-Gram Studio which Disney founded in 1921 as well as the animation studio now o ...
'' (1956)
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Grievance of a Starmaker'' (2002)
Volume 2
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Pedro
Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter.
The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...
'' (1955)
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The Olympic Champ
''The Olympic Champ'' is a 1942 Goofy cartoon made by Walt Disney Animation Studios which explains the events in track and field at the Olympic Games.
Summary
It starts off with Goofy doing the Olympic torch relay to the cauldron and then explai ...
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Peter and the Wolf
''Peter and the Wolf'' ( rus, Петя и Bолк, r="Pétya i volk", p=ˈpʲetʲə i volk, links=no) Op. 67, a "symphonic fairy tale for children", is a musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. The narrator tells a children's s ...
'' (1946)
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Brave Little Tailor
''Brave Little Tailor'' is a 1938 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is an adaptation of the fairy tale ''The Valiant Little Tailor'' with Mickey Mouse in the title role. It wa ...
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Crazy with the Heat
Crazy with the Heat is a 1947 Walt Disney Animation Studios cartoon featuring Donald Duck and Goofy. This was the last Donald & Goofy short film produced.
Plot
The cartoon begins on a hot desert road, and Donald and Goofy's car breaks down and ...
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Susie the Little Blue Coupe
''Susie the Little Blue Coupe'' is a 1952 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 6, 1952. The eight-minute film was directed by Clyde Geronimi and based on an original short-s ...
'' (1952)
Wave Two
The second wave of four releases came on February 13, 2007.
Volume 3
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The Legend of Johnny Appleseed'' (1948)
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Pueblo Pluto'' (1949)
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Tiger Trouble
This is a list of Animated cartoon, animated short films produced by Walt Disney and Walt Disney Animation Studios from 1921 to the present.
This includes films produced at the Laugh-O-Gram Studio which Disney founded in 1921 as well as the anim ...
'' (1945)
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The Fox Hunt'' (1938)
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Alpine Climbers'' (1936)
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Hello Aloha
''Goofy'' is a series of American animated comedy short films produced by Walt Disney Productions. The series started in 1939 with ''Goofy and Wilbur'' and ended in 1953 with ''How to Sleep''. An additional short, '' How to Hook Up Your Home Thea ...
'' (1952)
Volume 4
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The Reluctant Dragon'' (1941)
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Polar Trappers'' (1938)
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The Goddess of Spring
''The Goddess of Spring'' is a 9-minute ''Silly Symphonies'' animated Disney short film. The Symphony is imbued with operatic themes and is often cited as melodramatic. It was released in 1934, and its production was important to the future develo ...
'' (1934)
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For Whom the Bulls Toil'' (1953)
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The Little House
''The Little House'' is a 1942 children's picture book written and illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1943.
Inspiration
Author Virginia Lee ...
'' (1952)
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Home video lines
Disney home video releases
2000s Disney animated short films
Short film compilations
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