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If I ask you when it comes to Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, I am sure you know them very well. Yes, they are Disney characters. But who are Walt Disney actually? How could he formulate a lot of characters that are very famous among children and even adult? This article is going to tell you some little pieces of his life. His full name is Walter Elias Disney, born in Chicago Illinois in December 5, 1901. Disney is without doubt a legend in 20th century entertainment. His wondrous imagination and creative thinking in creating characters has touching emotion and heart of numerous people. Since he was a kid, he was very fascinated to arts and drawing. Disney was student of McKinley High School, Chicago. He loved drawing and learning photography, consequently he likewise learned drawing in Academy of Fine Arts. Compared with other assignments, he was very good in drawing animal and nature. He even had made miniature of train with it is railways. He was a fan of Charlie Chaplin. Therefore, he likewise learned acting when his family moved to Kansas. Three years after he married Lillian Bounds in 1925, he invented the reputation of Mickey Mouse. From this starting point, he was continuously creating other characters and making innovation in amusement world. There were a big number of characters of animation movies had been formulated by Disney, and those characters and movies were accepted by American and almost the entire humans in the world. In 1955, he transformed his animation characters into an amusement park called Disneyland. It cost 17 million dollars and it reached it is success to be the biggest amusement park in the world. As a Pioneer and innovator in entertainment, in particular in animation, Disney has been received more than 950 awards, including 48 from Academy Awards and 7 from Emmy Awards. Not to mention numerous titles given by a good deal of universities such as Harvard University, Yale University, California University, and also UCLA. With his contribution he had given to the world, unquestionably he deserved to achieve it. Most helpful customer reviews 63 of 64 people found the following review helpful. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment are now releasing a few of these shorts on DVD for the first time (some have appeared on past Disney DVD releases). Now the seventh volume of the Walt Disney Animation Collection will be released and the theme for this volume is Christmas. In past volumes, we saw many of the Silly Symphony shorts from the 1929-1939 featured in each volume but this time around, we have a volume featuring animation shorts released in the 80′s. Also, the following shorts are much longer with most shorts in the past being around under 10 minutes, in this volume, the first two “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” and “The Small One” are over 20 minutes long. The seventh volume “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” includes four shorts. Included are: 1. Mickey’s Christmas Carol – (25:47) This popular Disney animated cartoon is from 1983 and has been featured on several DVD’s in the past. In an animated retelling of the Charles Dickens masterpiece, Scrooge McDuck plays Ebenezer Scrooge who is tight with money and puts money above everything. Even on Christmas Eve, his poor employee Bob Cratchit (Mickey Mouse) is docked pay for Christmas vacation. But its when the Ghosts of Christmas past pay a visit to Ebenezer and show him that he should have compassion for people. VIDEO & AUDIO: “Walt Disney Animation Collection” is featured with an aspect ratio of 1:33:1. These classics are available on DVD for the first time but its important to mention that these animated shorts have not been digitally remastered or cleaned up. As a matter of fact, you will see a lot of the dust and scratches of the film and some of the animation look fine for being nearly 70 years old but others look grainy and a bit aged. Granted, these are not classic full featured films but I hope one of these days, many of these classics do get cleaned up or even digitally remastered. As for the audio, audio is featured in Dolby Digital Surround Sound. I found that on my home theater system, the best selection on my receiver to view these animated shorts was to switch it to mono or (if you have this capability) select stereo for all channels. SPECIAL FEATURES: There are no special features included on this DVD. But this volume does come with a litho print from “Mickey’s Christmas Carol”. JUDGMENT CALL: As mentioned earlier in my review, my prized possession as a child was a Walt Disney booklet that covered the Walt Disney animated shorts in chronological order and had the opportunity to watch these classics. Having these classic animated shorts from the past is great but also to have animation that I watched as a child during the Holidays, included on this DVD is awesome. But most importantly, now that I can share these classics with my son. These four animated shorts (and all previous volumes) are great for the families and in this volume’s case, definitely worth sharing with the family during the holidays. Of the released “Walt Disney Animation Collection” volumes, this volume is different in the fact that the past volumes featured shorts that had no dialogue (a few did but many didn’t). Mainly music and sound effects but with this volume, “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” and “The Small One” are two fantastic animated Disney cartoons that have a touching storyline, beautiful animation and although more recent than the Silly Symphony shorts featured on previous volumes, they are definitely Disney classics! For those who owned the 2005 DVD release of “Walt Disney’s Classic Cartoon Favorites, Vol. 09 – Classic Holiday Stories (1952-1983)”, may not need this volume as all animation from this DVD are included on the 2005 DVD release with the exception of “Santa’s Workshop”. Unless you are diehard fan, then to have that DVD with the Silly Symphony short may be worth it to you. I know that there are some who wish these classics were digitally restored or remastered but I doubt that Disney will do that for a lot of their animated shorts for now (although they are really doing a fantastic job on the Disney feature films such as “Sleeping Beauty”, “Pinocchio” and “Snow White” for the Blu-ray release). But overall, these collections are offered for a low price and if you are a Disney fan, it’s a no-brainer that this volume is definitely worth it. “Walt Disney Animation Collection Vol. 7: Classic Short Films – Mickey’s Chritmas Carol” is definitely recommended! 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Additionally I was excited about this DVD because I remembered loving “Pluto’s Christmas Tree” and “The Small One”. They were even better than I remembered! Pluto finds himself irked when Chip and Dale end up in the Christmas tree Mickey just cut down and The Small One is a very enchanting story about a boy who must sell his beloved donkey because he’s getting too old to do chores. I must admit I cried at the end! “Santa’s Workshop” I didn’t remember, but it was a fun animated journey through Santa’s preparations for the big night. Overall this is an AMAZING collection of short film. The only thing that bothered me was how cheap the main menu was. It had to have been put together on the Paint program, because it looks terrible. I’m sure this might have been done on purpose to give the deluxe edition they’ll release in 10 years a better look, but it was still sad. Nonetheless I’ll be watching these movies every Christmas, multiple times no doubt! 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Still, this is something that I can easily recommend to people of all ages. All four films (except maybe Santa’s Workshop which looks a bit outdated) are excellent for the holiday season. In fact, you can see all four of them along with the other Christmas classics. You know, there are so many Christmas films and specials that I think I would lose count if I named all of them at once. Overall, these are the ones that make us feel and revel in the spirit of the holidays. Whether it’s Mickey’s Christmas Carol or A Charlie Brown Christmas, whether it’s Miracle on 34th Street or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, or whether it’s Home Alone or A Christmas Story, you can never go wrong with “the most wonderful time of the year.” |
Although released before on a precious DVD, for those who want a Holiday Disney DVD of classic animation will dig this release!
The greatest dickens adaptation, and more christmas fun!
