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Mickey Mouse in Living Color [Import]

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Review 1 of 4 for the "Walt Disney Treasure Series"

Mickey, the mouse that started it all, comes to life in color. These were the first 28 color cartoons featuring Mickey. Mickey Mouse was the mouse that started it all, and he made and overnight star of himself and his creator, an alter ego, Walt Disney. His first color cartoon was the minni masterpiece, "The Band Concert." This collection starts when you put in the first disc. After the "Walt Disney Treasures" preview, you are in the theater and the curtian lifts on Mickey Mouse. Leanord Maltin will be your host, and will tell you the things you will be seeing at the corner of Mickey Avenue and Dopey Drive on the Disney Studio lot. When you get to the menu, you may play all, go to 1935 or the 1936 cartoon years. You may also choose to play the Easter Egg, "Walt and Mickey" T.V. excerpted from the Disneyland Story. There is also an extra cartoon named "Parade of Award Nominees" for the 1935 Oscar ceramony. Then you may use captions, and play the introduction. The cartoons on this disc are: "The Band Concert," "Mickey's Garden," "On Ice," "Pluto's Judgement Day," "Mickey's Fire Brigade," "Thru the Mirror," "Mickey's Circus," "Mickey's Elephant," "Mickey's Grand Opera," "Mickey's Polo Team," "Alpine Climbers," "Moving Day," "Mickey's Rival," and "Orphan's Picnic." The final thing on disc one is the pencil tests for "Mickey's Fire Brigade," "On Ice," and "Pluto's Judgement Day." After that, disc two goes in. The curtains part and you see a menu featuring the play all, 1937 and 1938 cartoons, captions, gallery of art, theatrical posters, and photos, and the "Mickey In Living Color" eaturette with Leanord Maltin. The featurette discusses the mouse that started it all. There is another eater egg here. It is the cartoon shown at the 1939 World's Fair. It was a promotional film for Nabisco named "Mickey's Surprise Party." The cartoons on this disc are: "Hawaiian Holdiay, "Moose Hunters," "The Worm Turns," "Magician Mickey," "Mickey's Amateures," "Clock Cleaners,"Lonesome Ghosts," "Mickey's Parrot, "Boat Builders," "The Whalers," "Mickey's Trailer, and "The Brave Little Tailor." This set comes with a booklet. This has a letter from Leanord Maltin and a list of features and "Treasures." The final thing is a postcard size lithograph. It is a reproduction of the 1935 theatrical poster for the short "The Band Concert." All of this comes packaged in a tin case. This set is limited. There are only 150,000 copies. So get yours before it runs out. You and your children will love "Mickey Mouse in Living Color." It is a "Treasure," for any DVD collector.

Review 5 of 7 for the set reviews

Mickey, the mouse that started it all, comes to life in color. These were the first 28 color cartoons featuring Mickey. Mickey Mouse was the mouse that started it all, and he made and overnight star of himself and his creator, an alter ego, Walt Disney. His first color cartoon was the minni masterpiece, "The Band Concert." This collection starts when you put in the first disc. After the "Walt Disney Treasures" preview, you are in the theater and the curtian lifts on Mickey Mouse. Leanord Maltin will be your host, and will tell you the things you will be seeing at the corner of Mickey Avenue and Dopey Drive on the Disney Studio lot. When you get to the menu, you may play all, go to 1935 or the 1936 cartoon years. You may also choose to play the Easter Egg, "Walt and Mickey" T.V. excerpted from the Disneyland Story. There is also an extra cartoon named "Parade of Award Nominees" for the 1935 Oscar ceramony. Then you may use captions, and play the introduction. The cartoons on this disc are: "The Band Concert," "Mickey's Garden," "On Ice," "Pluto's Judgement Day," "Mickey's Fire Brigade," "Thru the Mirror," "Mickey's Circus," "Mickey's Elephant," "Mickey's Grand Opera," "Mickey's Polo Team," "Alpine Climbers," "Moving Day," "Mickey's Rival," and "Orphan's Picnic." The final thing on disc one is the pencil tests for "Mickey's Fire Brigade," "On Ice," and "Pluto's Judgement Day." After that, disc two goes in. The curtains part and you see a menu featuring the play all, 1937 and 1938 cartoons, captions, gallery of art, theatrical posters, and photos, and the "Mickey In Living Color" eaturette with Leanord Maltin. The featurette discusses the mouse that started it all. There is another eater egg here. It is the cartoon shown at the 1939 World's Fair. It was a promotional film for Nabisco named "Mickey's Surprise Party." The cartoons on this disc are: "Hawaiian Holdiay, "Moose Hunters," "The Worm Turns," "Magician Mickey," "Mickey's Amateures," "Clock Cleaners,"Lonesome Ghosts," "Mickey's Parrot, "Boat Builders," "The Whalers," "Mickey's Trailer, and "The Brave Little Tailor." This set comes with a booklet. This has a letter from Leanord Maltin and a list of features and "Treasures." The final thing is a postcard size lithograph. It is a reproduction of the 1935 theatrical poster for the short "The Band Concert." All of this comes packaged in a tin case. This set is limited. There are only 150,000 copies. So get yours before it runs out. You and your children will love "Mickey Mouse in Living Color." It is a "Treasure," for any DVD collector...

I wish I could give this great set five stars, but. . .more on that in a second. These Mickey Mouse cartoons look great on DVD! They'll never look or sound better. The menus are designed nicely as well, giving you the option to select an individual short or a "play all" feature that will play everything on the disc. A few extras would have been nice, like a documentary on how Walt Disney got started, etc. But this set's about the cartoons and the lack of extras is a minor complaint. And it isn't the reason this set gets four stars instead of five.

Personally, as excited as I am to have Disney release their shorts, I'm very disappointed in the random format they've selected. Why start out with the Mickey color shorts? Where are the black and whites with Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willy? This set covers the years 1935-1938. But guess what? There were also black and white Mickey Mouse cartoons released during those years. Will we ever see those? It just seems like it would make much more sense to release these in chronological order, starting with Plane Crazy and moving right on down the list. Disney has stated that they would eventually like to release ALL their shorts on DVD (Mickey, Donald, Goofy - all of them), so now it seems like they've already made it more confusing for consumers by taking this approach rather than a much more logical, easy to follow chronological approach.

Otherwise, this really is a terrific set and I can't see anyone who likes Disney shorts being disappointed! Let's hope for more shorts from more characters soon. If Disney lifts the long moratorium on their war propaganda shorts (especially "Der Feuhrer's Face w/ Donald Duck) and releases those as well, I'll be the first in line.

A well-done set. Some of the source material is less than stellar, though, especially The Brave Little Tailor, in which one very important sequence contains enough dirt and dust to become a genuine distraction.

I just can't say that I am all that fond of this collection. I am glad to be able to add wonderful films like The Band Concert and Lonesome Ghosts to my collection, but I found a lot of the material to be rather bland. Mickey is, to me, entirely too nice and passive to be terribly interesting.

I find myself watching for Pluto, who always makes me smile, and Donald Duck, whose great sputtering rages are by turns hilarious and disturbing. Watching Donald being tortured by a group of violent brats in The Orphans Picnic isn't exactly my idea of fun. It's enough to make you wonder whether the kids are really orphans, or if their parents just abandoned them for being ill-mannered monsters.

On the whole, I much prefer the Silly Symphonies collection.

And they can keep Leonard Maltin's introductions. They aren't especially informative, and his pop-eyed stare and gee-whiz-aren't-these-films-grrrrrreat? attitude gets rather tired after a while.

Its a great collection of shorts! And really great pencil test cut-togethers of three different cartoons!

BLAH! The menu's are really ignorantly layed out with a lot of the shorts not listed, but 'hidden' as icons -- so you have to search to find the short you want to watch -- Really foolish! The annoying film critic, Leonard, keeps popping up all the time too! It turns out he doesn't have much to say, but he's in front of almost every cartoon blabbering!!!!

Kids of all ages will love this DVD "collectors edition." Lots of those cartoons you remember from either the Mickey Mouse Club (on TV) or the Saturday matinee at the Strand.

My favorite is "The Band Concert," followed closely by "Lonesome Ghosts" and "Mickey's Fire Brigade." Okay, and "Mickey's Moose-Hunters" is pretty great, and "Mickey's Caravan" does make me laugh...You caught me -- I love them all!!

Leonard Maltin's intros I can do without, but Mickey is why you bought this DVD in the first place, right?? Donald and Goofy show up plenty, too, even Clarabelle Cow (in the bathtub!). One nice feature is something I didn't even know existed -- pencil tests of whole cartoons! They have pencil tests of a couple of cartoons, showing how the finished films would look, albeit without the brilliant color.

Actually, my absolute favorite cartoon on the 2-DVD set is one the public wasn't supposed to see. It was originally shown to the attendees of the Academy Awards (before TV) in 1935, and caricatures several of the major stars nominated that year. It is fabulous.

but i HATE leonard maltin. he is a very annoying self-appointed "film historian" who seems to show up on way too many dvds. i'd rather have my eyes gouged out with a shrimp cocktail fork than watch him. thank goodness the dvd format allows quick forwarding through his sections, but it did ruin this (and the other) disney box sets for me.

These are some of the greatest cartoons ever. I particularly love the 1935 ones, they have the best action. THe band concert is amazing. THe bit when the tornado lifts the band up-awesome. MIckey's garden is trippy, there's a great sequence when the garden grows like a jungle. This is 30 years before haight ashbury! THen mickey's fire brigade, which is chock full of action. The cartoon starts brilliantly with the intro title burning up! On ice is another gem, still funny today. Great music as well. THe attention to detail in these cartoons is scary. THe amount of work that went into each one, the artistic creative juices and the sweat and toil. A different era. THe quality of disney shorts went down after they began making features and also the strike of 1941 , when walt disney didn't supervise everything as much as he used to. So these cartoons are from the golden age and are 'treasures'. There are some real gems in the 1936 list. Mickey's polo team is great action, with the marx bros and charlie chaplin and laurel and hardy. THru the mirror is particularly fine, almost perfection. Some great stretch animation of mickey . Moving day has donald duck filled up with gas (propane maybe) and he is propelled around the house. THen pete lights up his cigar and bang. Mickey's rival has some great action too. 1937 - clock cleaners and lonesome ghosts shine, especially clock cleaners with the goofy skyscaper routine. Incidentally, there is a part in this cartoon when donald originally says to the spring, 'says who'.... Now they have him say something completely unintelligible. A minor quibble.
1938 has brave little tailor and a rare minnie mouse appearance. The whalers has a funny bit when goofy throws cold water onto a flaccid cannon and it hardens up. They left that bit in.

Overall, it's a great set. Buy.

My father told me how when these films were new, he and his pals would erupt with joy, and how when the theater didn't show one they chanted "What! No Mickey Mouse!"

Now, in another century, my late father's two year old grandson can enjoy them all over again.

These are art for the ages.

I picked up all four of these Disney Treasures collections and absolutely LOVE them! Disneyland, USA could have included much more, but the others, such as Mickey Mouse in Living Color, were WONDERFUL! This is what I'd like to see more of! Complete sets of Disney Cartoons, uncut and including Easter Eggs! I pray that we get more sets like this! Sets for Donald, Goofy, and Wartime shorts, Mickey's other cartoons, everything, no matter how controversial, that Disney has ever animated! No Mickey Mouse fan, or Disney fan, should be without this two disc set! It features Mickey's early color cartoons. Now, if you're bothered by the different look that Mickey Had in the early years, and are only comfortable with the way he looks today, this isn't for you. But if you just plain love Mickey, don't wait around! Don't hesitate to pick up all four of the currently available, limited edition, Walt Disney Treasures Collections: Disneyland, USA, Mickey Mouse in Living Color, Davy Crockett, and Silly Symphonies. And I hope we get sets like this of Duck Tales, Gummi Bears, and all those other great Disney TV shows too! And we're still waiting for unedited versions of Make Mine Music, Melody Time, and various other films that have been made PC for the whining babies of our time! I won't hold my breath for Song of the South!