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Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics
 
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Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics

Billy Bletcher (Actor), Pinto Colvig (Actor), Ben Sharpsteen (Director), Burt Gillett (Director) | Rated: Unrated | Format: DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)

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In 1928, when Walt Disney's artists completed "The Skeleton Dance," the distributor of the Mickey Mouse shorts rejected the first "Silly Symphony" with a two-word telegram: "MORE MICE." Disney arranged to screen "Skeleton Dance" at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles, where it received an enthusiastic response, and the series took off. Seven "Silly Symphonies" won Academy Awards, beginning with "Flowers and Trees." Disney used these musically themed shorts to train young artists and test new styles, effects, and technologies: every film represented an innovation of some sort. In "Three Little Pigs," characters who looked alike demonstrated different personalities through the way they moved. "The Old Mill" showcased the newly invented Multiplane camera. The Sugar Cookie Girl in "Cookie Carnival" was one of several female characters the artists created while learning to animate a believable heroine for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The well-chosen selections in this set demonstrate how quickly Disney advanced the art of animation during the '30s. Only eight years separate the crude black-and-white version of "The Ugly Duckling" (1931) from the moving Technicolor Oscar-winner of 1939. Over 60 years later, these films have lost none of their charm. The jazz-dancing insects in "Woodland Café," the wonderfully animated caricature of Mae West in "Who Killed Cock Robin," and the instrument-characters in "Music Land" remain as delightful as ever. Leonard Maltin makes a genial host, and two hidden cartoons include Walt's introductions from the old Disneyland program. --Charles Solomon

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Fables and Fairy Tales: Mother Goose Melodies, Babes in the Woods, Lullaby Land, The Flying Mouse, The Golden Touch, The Robber Kitten, Elmer Elephant, The Country Cousin, and The Tortoise and the Hare.
Favorite Characters: Three Little Pigs, The Wise Little Hen, Three Little Wolves, Toby Tortoise Returns, and The Big Bad Wolf.
Leonard Maltin's Picks: The Grasshopper and the Ants, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Flying Mouse, The Country Cousin, Wynken Blynken and Nod, and The Three Little Pigs.
Accent on Music: The Skeleton Dance, The China Plate, Egyptian Melodies, Flowers and Trees, The Cookie Carnival, Music Land, and Woodland Café.
Nature on the Screen: Birds of a Feather, The Busy Beavers, The Ugly Duckling (1931), Just Dogs, Father Noah's Ark, Funny Little Bunnies, Peculiar Penguins, Mother Pluto, The Old Mill, and The Ugly Duckling (1939).
Leonard Maltin's Picks II: The Skeleton Dance, Flowers and Trees, Music Land, and The Ugly Duckling.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classics is too weak a word for these, Mar 31 2011
This review is from: Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics (DVD)
Thanks to Leonard Maltin, we're able to re-live our youth AND appreciate the golden age of character animation, all in one treasures set.

One thing I found with THIS dvd is that some of the shorts are "hidden" (*I guess for parental advisory) For a second there I thought there were shorts missing! Haha

Love these treasures.
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5.0 out of 5 stars something missing?, Jun 10 2004
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This review is from: Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics (DVD)
GREAT STUFF!
But where is Ferdinand and the Santa Claus Workshop?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential for any animation fan, Jan 9 2004
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cowboybawb "cowboybawb" (BURLESON, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics (DVD)
Essential - and enjoyable. Fantastic animation from the people who basically wrote the book on animated shorts.

The only drawback that I found was that several cartoons are hidden as "Easter Eggs". In an archival type product like this, making these cartoons only viewable if you arrow around and hit the right pixel seems like a bad idea.

I'm still waiting for the rest of the Silly Symphonies - they made around 70. (and where's Ferdinand?)

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