The years that the probable contents were released, as well as some info on the various works.
FILMS
1943
VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER - This film was basically propaganda with some entertainment and some worthy animation. Mainly championed Major Seversky’s 1942 book of the same title with the theory that long-range air power could defeat the WWII enemies. The scene of an American eagle attacking the Japanese octopus is very much, spirited animation.
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ENTERTAINMENT/PROPAGANDA SHORTS
1942
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DONALD GETS DRAFTED-always enjoyed the concept of Donald reporting to the draft board in his sailor suit.
THE ARMY MASCOT-Pluto schemes to steal over the job of a mascot goat, with hilarious results.
THE VANISHING PRIVATE-Donald goes crazy with invisible paint, leading to war with his sergeant Pete, with a perfect, amusing ending.
SKY TROOPER-Donald wants to be a pilot, and his sergeant Pete gives him more than Donald bargained for.
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1943
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DER FUEHRER’S FACE-the famed and contaminated cartoon in which Donald dreams he is in Naziland where he is forced to work in a munitions plant.
EDUCATION FOR DEATH-very strong propaganda about Germany’s totalitarian site which turns an innocent young boy into a robotic soldier.
PRIVATE PLUTO-Pluto has a war with the chipmunks in guarding the station.
FALL OUT - Tumble IN-Donald experiences some of the trials of Army life, such as super-long hikes.
REASON AND EMOTION-entertainment and propaganda aged in a memoir about reason and emotion working together for the war anguish, delectable animation.
VICTORY VEHICLES-Goofy shows off alternate transportation due to the wartime rubber and gasoline shortage, settling on the pogo stick.
THE Outmoded ARMY GAME-Sergeant Pete catches Donald sneaking relieve into spoiled after a gradual night on the town, leads to a merry shuffle.
HOME DEFENSE-Donald’s nephews conflict with Donald after he sleeps during his duty of watching for enemy attack.
CHICKEN LITTLE-The classic “the sky is falling” fable, originally planned to have more wartime references.
1944
HOW TO BE A SAILOR-Goofy’s account of the history of sailors, ending with him using himself as a torpedo to sink Japanese ships.
COMMANDO DUCK-Donald is sent on a suicide mission to wipe out an entire Japanese air infamous, with hilarious results.
EDUCATIONAL SHORTS
* = Created for Canada to sell their war bonds.
** = CIAA films (Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs) created to combat the German Nazy influence that was widespread in Latin American in the early 1940s.
1941
THE THRIFTY PIG * - animation from Three Shrimp Pigs cartoon adapted, with the Gigantic Unpleasant Wolf wearing a Nazi hat and armband.
THE SEVEN WISE DWARFS * - animation from Snow White adapted to display dwarfs buying war bonds.
1942
DONALD’S DECISION * - uses animation from 1938 Donald Duck cartoons “Donald’s Better Self” and “Self Control” to convince Donald to rob war bonds.
ALL TOGETHER * - uses animation from several sources, including The Band Concert (1935) and Mickey’s Amateurs (1937) to expose several Disney characters in a parade to sell war bonds.
THE Recent SPIRIT - Donald is encouraged to pay his income tax to encourage the war anguish.
FOOD WILL Salvage THE WAR - Stresses the importance of farmers to the war distress. Includes the Three Miniature Pigs leading a long line of pigs.
OUT OF THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRING LINE - Minnie & Pluto star in an wretchedness to explain how critical it was for housewives to build kitchen fats and greases for the war anguish.
1943
THE GRAIN THAT BUILT A HEMISPHERE ** - Tells the history of corn and its importance to the world.
THE SPIRIT OF ‘43 - Donald Duck resists Nazi propaganda and pays his taxes to befriend the war exertion.
WHE WINGED SCOURGE ** - The Seven Dwarfs point out ways to defeat the malaria-carrying mosquito.
DEFENSE AGAINST INVASION ** - Shows the human body’s ability to fight off germs through vaccination.
1945
CLEANLINESS BRINGS HEALTH ** - The dissimilarity between the Well-kept Family that is blissful and healthy and the Careless Family that is melancholy and unhealthy.
WHAT IS DISEASE ** - Shows what causes disease and how to protect against disease.
1946
PLANNING FOR Gracious EATING ** - Careless Charlie is obsolete to jabber a family about suited dietary habits.
TRAINING FILMS
1942
FOUR METHODS OF FLUSH RIVETING - basic animation for education purposes
STOP THAT TANK (BOYS ANTI-TANK RIFLE) - a big deal of live action but fun, exquisite animation of Hitler being blown to Hell by the rifle
1942-1945?
TRAINING FILM MONTAGE - A selection of scenes from various training films, I select.
There are a few war-related entertainment shorts not listed here - one or more might be added to this collection instead of what is listed above.
1943
DONALD’S TIRE Grief - most likely short. Donald has continual anxiety with flat tires due to the wartime shortage of rubber.
PLUTO AND THE ARMADILLO - little connection to the wartime. Short releated to the Latin Armerica scoot and the Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros films developed from that dawdle.
1944
THE PELICAN AND THE SNIPE - same info as for Pluto and the Armadillo.
1945
DOG Study - Pluto is a watchdog for a Navy ship.
The war years were a demanding time for the Disney Company. Most of their meager resources were devoted to the war concern. But this era contained a expansive deal of creative distress that might not have existed if not for the war.
I have seen most of these war works, and I believe them appealing and among the best of all of Disney’s work. I remarkable watch forward to owning them on DVD.
In the early 1940s, when the United States joined a second World War against the forces of inappropriate, it was critical that all Americans did their share. Walt Disney was no exception, and he and his artists took on the task fearlessly! This important entry into the Walt Disney Treasures Collection limited-edition DVD line compiles the Disney Studios’ war-themed involving shorts from that era along with the feature film “Victory Through Air Power,” which is accompanied by some gigantic interviews, galleries, and training film samples and clips. Considerable of this intellectual material has gone unseen since the 1940s, making this position a “Must Have” for Disney and WWII buffs all over! Here’s a hurry through of what you’ll earn in this Disney dream-come-true!
Disc 1
Propaganda and Entertainment Shorts:
This is the first of three sections into which the shorts of disc one are divided. Each portion is kicked off with a nice intro by film critic and historian Leonard Maltin, whom we can thank for this astonishing Disney Treasures DVD series. Leonard puts each group of films into satisfactory historical context for the viewers, hands out viewer warnings when well-known, and often gives nice details about individual films. Leonard also provides an introduction to both discs in each Disney Treasures 2-disc collection.
“Donald Gets Drafted” (1942) - In our first short, one of the funniest in this group, Donald gets a first hand lesson in what it’s really like to join the army. The short begins with Donald, draft card in hand and dreams of flying military aircrafts in his head, getting jazzed up on the thought of being a soldier from the alluring advertisements on the sidewalk. Many feature 1940’s style pinup girls fawning over the fresh recruits, and who could resist that? If women like Priscilla Lane were around today and doing military ads, I’d join-up fair now! Or, at least, I’d be tempted. As Donald enters the recruiting office, he is immediately save through a hilarious physical examination and uniform fitting, and the Duck is in! He gets a obnoxious wakeup call, however, when he meets his current drill sergeant, Pete!
“The Army Mascot” (1942) - Pluto is sniffing around outside an army camp when he notices how extraordinarily well fed two mascot dogs are! Pluto immediately disguises himself as the third mascot, Gunther Goat, in hopes of receiving a juicy steak of his fill. To Pluto’s horror, he instead receives a pile of empty tin cans for dinner. What’s worse, Gunther catches Pluto in the act and rapidly retaliates. Pluto makes another attempt at winning a mascot region by outdoing Gunther in tobacco chewing. While this conception works to a fault, Gunther again takes action.
” The Vanishing Private” (1942) - Private Donald doesn’t seem to regain the point of shroud painting, but after a scolding from Sergeant Pete, he becomes a puny TOO generous at it. Donald’s snooping around in an experimentation lab leads him to a can of invisibility paint, and soon, Pete is looking “not all there” himself.
“Sky Trooper” (1942) - Donald is stuck in the kitchen peeling potatoes as he dreams of being in the clouds. Sergeant Pete notices the duck’s obsession and comes up with an understanding. He agrees to let Donald coast after one more pile of potatoes is peeled, and soon he is giving the Duck equilibrium tests and preparing him for the skies. What he isn’t telling Donald is that once the Duck gets in the air, he’ll be coming down under a parachute.
“Private Pluto” (1943) - In their first cartoon appearance, Chip ‘n’ Dale are storing their nuts in a military cannon and using the barrel to crack their nuts. Following orders to guard the titanic gun, Pluto the Pup takes them on!
“Descend Out; Tumble In” (1943) - Donald Duck is marching at the wait on of a line of soldiers on a long hike to a campsite, suffering from fatigue and hunger, and being tormented by all kinds of weather. When the troop finally arrives, Donald must acquire his tent up before he can eat and go to bed. Naturally, his efforts are futile.
“Victory Vehicles” (1943) - This classic Goofy short makes light of the gas and rubber shortages of WWII in a highly bright contrivance. With an intro portraying the transportation troubles that have advance about, we recede on to a cavalcade of ideas from the public (all reenacted by the Goof) for ways to collect around the predicament. Various incarnations of Goofy move up and down the streets of America in a variety of absurd inventions, but the final solution to the transportation demand appears to be a mere child’s toy: the pogo stick! This short features a comical recent song that will likely procure stuck in your head for a while!
“The Worn Army Game” (1943) - Sergeant Pete discovers Donald and some other soldiers have snuck out one night, and he’s there waiting when the Duck returns. Donald pulls some clever tricks, but eventually, Pete catches up with him. A mid-chase encounter with a saw leads Don to believe he’s been carve in half. The short is a small dismal, as it’s one of those that uses attempted suicide humor (these frail cartoons did that sometimes), when a despairing Donald puts a gun to his head and a sobbing Pete asks him to do it in the bushes so he won’t have to sight. Of course, they realize he’s in one section before then raze.
“Home Defense” (1943) - Donald is manning a listening site, while Huey, Dewey, and Louie standby as the gun crew. The boys salvage their kicks by playing pranks on their abominable uncle, but will they be ready for a actual attack?
“How to be a Sailor” (1944) - A typically hilarious Goofy “How to” short, this cartoon gives us a history of seafaring, Goofy style, all the diagram up to today, and includes some standard Goofy “How to” info in the lesson as well.
“Commando Duck” (1944) - This highly bewitching morale booster gets a lot of its humor from Japanese stereotypes depicting the enemy, as Donald is dropped from a plane on a mission to ruin an enemy sinister. The daring duck succeeds only after a series of dangers and mishaps which involve some very Indiana Jones-ish action scenes! This was a first time viewing for me, as best I could remember, and I consider it’s one of my faves in the place (though I have many) .
Educational Shorts:
The 14 shorts in this group, as Maltin tells us in the intro, were created to yell and support the public to be healthy, pay their taxes on time, and rob war bonds. Recycled animation and classic characters were sometimes customary in these surprisingly exciting shorts made not only for us, but for Canada and the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs as well.
“Thrifty Pig” (1941) - This short features mostly recycled footage from the new “The Three Shrimp Pigs,” though you won’t miss the Broad Poor Wolf dressed as a Nazi officer this time around! This twist on the classic legend features a house made not of regular bricks, but of war bonds! Like many of these shorts, this one ends with a straightforward message. In this case, the message is to lift Canadian war bonds.
“Seven Wise Dwarfs” (1941) - In this second short delivering the same message and also ending with a dramatic “Withhold Your Money Fighting!” finale, footage of the Seven Dwarfs from “Snow White” is reused with an edited version of the song “Heigh Ho.” This time, the song goes off on a verse about winning the war with “five for four.” The dwarfs turn in their jewels for war bonds in the runt bit of current footage blended in with the rest. At only 3 minutes and 46 seconds, this is an example of how short these “message sending” cartoons can sometimes be. Exquisite nonetheless!
“Food Will Fetch the War” (1942) - One of the most attractive and original shorts in the station, “Food Will Rep the War” is an informative portion supervised by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. There’s no legend here. Instead, the short begins by showing us the destruction the Axis powers are causing overseas, and how the hope for victimized nations lies in our abundant food supplies in the United States. Depicting American farmers as heroes, the bulk of the short is weak to demonstrate the audience fair how mighty food we manufacture here in America. This is done with laughable analogies and art depicting giant corn cobs and fruit pies, a sweater made of spaghetti that could be old-fashioned by the planet Earth, and other such bizarre concepts to illustrate our expansive agricultural production.
“Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Firing Line” (1942) - This spellbinding 3 and a half tiny short brings us Minnie Mouse cooking breakfast at her stove and offering Pluto a gravy of hot bacon grease for his dog biscuits. Unbiased then, a instruct on the radio cuts in to yelp “housewives of America” to end throwing out their musty kitchen fats! The speaker teaches Minnie and a reluctant Pluto about how such traditional greases can be made into ammunition for the boys on the front lines (cue photo of Mickey in his uniform on the wall) . As in the previous short, we are treated to an in depth discover at how kitchen fats can collect the war for us. The film rounds out with a demonstration by Minnie and Pluto about how to turn in their bacon grease to the local “meat dealer” in exchange for cash (or, in Pluto’s case, sausages) . This short also ranks as one of my favorites, not only because it’s so spellbinding, but also because it really makes you feel like you’re in 1942 when you stare it!
“Donald’s Decision” (1942) - This cartoon made for Canada uses previous Donald Duck footage, mostly from “Donald’s Better Self,” to help people to become regular war savers. Donald’s devilish half encourages him to use his money, while his angel urges him to set it. Considering that it is reused footage of a cartoon that was shown frequently on the Disney Channel throughout the years, it is not the most provocative selection on the disc; however, runt touches here and there do originate it worth a gape.
“All Together” (1942) - This last short made for the National Film Board of Canada is really fair a parade of Disney favorites running impartial under 3 minutes in length. It shows us Mickey, Goofy, Donald, his nephews, Pluto, the seven dwarfs, Pinocchio, and Geppetto marching down a street, playing music, and carrying signs to promote war bonds. Though there’s nothing more to it than that, it’s improbable what a delight it is unprejudiced to behold these classic characters onscreen together!
“The Original Spirit” (1942) - The yelp on the radio saves the day again in this classic short, encouraging Donald Duck to pay his income tax on time and instructing him on how to do it. The film takes Donald through the simplified manufacture for folks who made less than 3,000 dollars this year (yikes), and it’s really quite fun to recognize, unfamiliar as that may seem. There’s impartial something about seeing Donald Duck doing these very human things, like filling out his income tax acquire, that is too delectable. Amazingly, the commissioners of the film didn’t want Donald to be primitive in it to narrate the “every man.” Walt had to verbalize on it!
“The Spirit of `43″ (1943) - Apparently, Walt’s concept was a hit. The following year, another short was made to assist paying taxes on time. In this short, Donald is encouraged to expend his money by one side of his personality, and to set it for his taxes by the other (represented by a Scottish duck) . The spendthrift half is eventually revealed to be a Nazi agent, and Donald promptly agrees to set for tax day. Like many of these shorts, this one ends with a “Taxes to sink the Axis” montage. Very exquisite stuff, if only to wax nostalgic on patriotic WWII propaganda.
“The Winged Scourge” (1943) - Public Enemy Number One: Anopheles the Malaria Mosquito! This short will apprehension you straight about leaving any standing water around your home! After a disturbing intro to the world of mosquitoes carrying malaria, the announcer calls for 6 or 7 audience members to aid fight the fiendish foe. The seven dwarfs pop up from their seats, and we are soon treated to all fresh footage of the incredible seven spraying their cottage with bug poison, draining standing water, cutting weeds, treating water containing “wigglers” with oil and chemicals, placing screens and netting over barrels and beds, and using a first-rate, aged sail swatter. I’m not determined how agreeable for the environment all that stuff is, but I say it’s okay if it kills mosquitoes… This short is highly involving due to its recent drama and anxiety tactics, but also due to its all-new footage of the seven dwarfs!
“Defense Against Invasion” (1943) - This short offers something different, in that there’s a obedient amount of live-action footage to it. The short begins with a group of cramped boys (and their dog) waiting to be vaccinated in a doctor’s office. An aptly named child, Rotund, goes in first. When the doctor and nurse leer how nervous he is, the short becomes a very clever lesson on blood and invasion by disease, depicting both as armies within the human body. These sequences within the bloodstream are the sharp half of the display. It’s all very curious and informative, despite the very bland casting, and everyone is proud to have their vaccinations in the raze.
“The Grain That Built a Hemisphere” (1943) - This short is all about corn; the history and uses of it. If you cherish corn (and I do), it’s blooming consuming. Actually, this short, along with the previous one and the 3 that follow, would be factual at home in one of the “Future World” pavilions at EPCOT Center. Especially in the old-fashioned days, when the region wasn’t alarmed to house fun education instead of thrill rides.
“Cleanliness Brings Health” (1945) - This film, pitting a tidy family against a “careless,” dirty one, uses fun animation to illustrate the benefits of super living and the hardships that reach from “going in the cornfield.” These “careless” vs. super shorts are quite inspiring in their disgusting education style.
“What Is Disease? (The Unseen Enemy) ” (1945) - An average man is outmoded as an example of how disease can attack him without warning through microbes in the water, air, and everywhere!
“Planning for Grand Eating” (1945) - Careless Charlie and his rundown family need to eat more than objective beans and cornbread. This short teaches Charlie, and the audience, that the design to a healthy life is eating three types of food: meat for muscles, breads and roots for energy, and vegetables for strong bones and teeth. Later, milk is also mentioned as the “perfect” food. By the raze, Charlie’s farm has been altered to accommodate animals and vegetables as well as beans and corn. Now, he’s known as “Careful” Charlie.
From the Vault:
Leonard Maltin introduces each of the following 4 shorts individually, as they are the most though-provoking and controversial of anything in this 2-disc location. I’m told you can’t expeditiously forward or skip the intros, though I haven’t tried. These four shorts develop no apologies for showing the cruelty and inhumanity of the nazis and their beliefs in masterfully done animation.
“Der Fuehrer’s Face” (1942) - It’s no surprise that this short has been locked away for so long. Dream or not, it does depict Donald Duck as a downtrodden citizen of Nazi Germany, wearing a swastika on his arm and declaring “Heil Hitler!” nearly every other second to avoid being shot. He spends most of his time on an assembly line screwing the tops onto shells. It is, of course, a nightmare, and our beloved duck wakes up in the obedient musty U.S. of A., incredibly thankful for it. This cartoon is unforgettable, as are all these “From the Vault” selections, and there is a astronomical deal of Chaplin inspiration found within it. Of course, that was just of considerable of Disney’s veteran cartoons. This short also features an current song by the same name that become a large hit at the time!
“Education for Death” (1943) - This has to be the most memorable, the most poignant of anything you’ll acquire in this collection. This is the account of one of “Hitler’s children.” In the beginning, the film asks, “What Makes a nazi? ” The rest of the cartoon short is the acknowledge to that expect. It starts off with a couple proving their Aryan heritage to the German government through documentation so that they will be allowed to withhold and name their modern baby, Hans. Petite Hans becomes sick as a child, and his mother fears the government will reach to purchase him away. Such children were never heard from again. Luckily, Hans gets better, and is off to school, where he learns the hooked nazi fairytales that create Hitler a hero and democracy a villain, and where Hans learns that he must be cruel to survive. Time marches on, and as it does, Hans is brainwashed to scrutinize, hear, and mediate only what the fuehrer tells him to. Books are burned, churches are destroyed, the irascible replaced with the sword and the Bible replaced with Mein Kampf. Hans becomes a worthy nazi soldier, (his marching image like a flash replaced by a inappropriate in a graveyard), having completed his education for death. This is probably the darkest, most disturbing thing you will ever gawk from Disney. Of course, it is meant to be so.
“Reason and Emotion” (1943) - Within the mind of a child sits the extinct, thrill-seeking characterization of “Emotion.” Appearing a bit later is “Reason,” the nerdy, still one. The two argue for decision making control throughout the child’s life, though when he has grown into a man, it is Reason that sits in the driver’s seat…most of the time. Within a woman’s mind goes on the same struggle. This short proceeds to note us how gossip and rumors, particularly those about what is going on overseas, can have a negative affect on the individual who allows emotion to dominate his brain. This piquant and imaginative short is fantastically delectable WWII propaganda.
“Chicken Diminutive” (1943) - No, this isn’t the stout CGI film that came to theaters last year. This is the new classic one might have imagined was a Comic Symphony in the past. It was, in fact, a wartime parable about how Hitler uses psychology to control the masses. However, unlike most of the other cartoons in this situation, we don’t rep any Hitler caricatures this time around. Aside from the suspicious quotes Foxy Loxy reads from his psychology book, everything appears to be a straight up animal tale. Foxy tricks Chicken Minute into thinking that the sky is falling, and he eventually has the whole farm believing it. Foxy gets Chicken Slight to lead all the chickens, ducks, turkeys, and whatever else into a nearby cave, where we discover fair how cheerful an ending you collect when the atrocious fox is given total control. Here’s a hint - It’s not gratified. It’s magnificent humorous though!
Disc 2
This Disney Treasures DVD state is special for many reasons, but one of those is that it combines several classic Disney shorts with a full-length feature film. Previous Disney Treasures sets containing shorts have contained the shorts ONLY. Here, you have the pleasure of getting several short cartoons AND a main feature together!
“Victory Through Air Power” (1943) - As Maltin states in the intro, this is the most fresh film Walt Disney ever made. “Victory Through Air Power” is less of a “aged” movie and more of a documentary of sorts. It begins with a dedication to Billy Mitchell, an Army general who was ignored and ridiculed by the nation for his advice to witness into aerial assaults after the events of WWI. This is followed with a fun and informative sharp history of the airplane, starting with the Wright brothers’ legendary first flight approach Kitty Hawk, and coming all the draw up to today. The animation here is sportive, amusing, and typical Disney. After this share of the film, we are introduced to Major Alexander de Seversky, a Russian born conventional pilot and aviation expert who had become an American citizen and U.S. Army officer and wrote the book “Victory Through Air Power,” which inspired Walt Disney to manufacture this very film. From here on out, the film goes help and forth between Seversky’s live-action hosting and grand more realistic fascinating sequences under his narration, as Seversky explains the power and potential of point to day aircraft and how Mitchell’s dream of major aerial assaults would be the deciding factor of who would regain WWII. This is the whole purpose of the film, to convince the viewer that we must focus on aerial attacks, taking out the source of the enemy’s power by heavy bombing from above. The film is high on military tactics and shrimp else, so it is not for everyone. Once the history of aviation sequence is over, I could only recommend the rest to the Disney fanatic (such as myself) or the military or aviation buff, but for those eager, it is distinct to be a rewarding viewing experience. The finale features an American eagle taking out a villainous octopus that holds several nations in its arms. Once the octopus is defeated, the eagle flies off to perch atop a flagpole where an American flag waves triumphantly. It’s a very movie allotment of animation.
Disc 2 includes 2 training films as well, plus a training film montage and all the bonuses of the situation.
“Four Methods of Flush Riveting” - This is a training film on honest what it says, four methods of flush riveting. It is tedious after a very short time. It is what it is. It was appealing to inspect, though, as a novelty from the Disney studios.
“Discontinuance That Tank” - This training film made for Canada is a bit different. It incorporates droll Disney animation, such as one of those hilarious Hitler caricatures, in a training film about how to utilize and smart an anti-tank rifle. There’s not a LOT of animation, but what it has is sizable. We even pick up to gaze Hitler go to Hell. The quality of this short is aesthetic poor compared to those on disc one, but it’s composed very watchable. Far more consuming than the “Flush Riveting” short.
“Training Film Montage” - Leonard Maltin narrates this montage of scenes from the over 200 training films Disney made for the army. It contains some provocative animation, including a gorgeous pinup girl that must have been drawn by Fred Moore. While I can indulge in Maltin not bombarding us with a lot more training films like the “Riveting” film, you tend to wonder impartial how considerable radiant animation you are missing out on (or how many spirited pinup girls) .
The Bonus features, which are all on Disc 2, are good. We receive a trailer for “Victory Through Air Power,” plus some calm gradual the scenes footage. There are several top-notch galleries for both “Victory Through Air Power” AND the shorts we saw on disc one. Several images advance with narration from Leonard Maltin. Really treats were the galleries not directly related to the films. For example, there are galleries of insignias Disney created for the war disaster, military posters, Joe Grant’s sketchbook, Dispatches from Disney’s (a very short-lived Disney publication), and my personal fave, the gallery on Disney’s abandoned “Gremlins” project with author Roald Dahl. The feature film for “Gremlins” (the Dahl Gremlins, that is) never happened, though some Disney Gremlin merchandise is peaceful out there, like the distinguished prized children’s book. Also, the Gus Gremlin character from the line-up did go on to minor Disney silly book fame (something not mentioned on the DVD) . An consuming designate from Maltin is that Dahl’s time exhaust with Walt Disney at the studio was reportedly his inspiration for “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Lastly, we also salvage 3 interviews among the bonus features: “A Conversation with John Hench,” “A Conversation with Joe Grant,” and “A Conversation with Roy Disney.” The two Disney artists give gigantic insight into what it was like in and out of the studio during wartime, while Roy gives his boyhood memories of the same. Very luscious stuff!
“Walt Disney Treasures - On the Front Lines” comes in the usual pretty tin case with a cover, paper I.D. band. Within is the snapcase, which holds the two discs, as well as the bonuses of a numbered Certificate of Authenticity, a booklet, and the obsolete collector’s card, this one featuring poster art for Donald Duck’s “Descend In; Descend Out.” This is simply an outstanding collectible DVD. This sort of release is the reason DVD exists! It’s a masterpiece! Positive, the audience for these films is probably not as wide as for.. say…Bambi or Cinderella, but the work is no less spectacular. If you are a Disney fanatic, you simply MUST lift this up!
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