The original title cards to the shorts released by Celebrity Productions and Columbia Pictures were all redrawn after Walt Disney stopped distributing his cartoons through them. "Walt Disney Treasures Silly Symphonies" is a priceless collection of historical Disney cartoons ranging from the more primitive black and white animated shorts of the early 1930's to Disney's more sophisticated color cartoons which began to appear in the mid-1930's. For instance, the original Dumbo VHS included Father Noah's Ark, The Practical Pig and Three Orphan Kittens as bonus shorts to make up for the film's short length. I only gave this product a 4 star review because when I accessed some features found within the DVD, it seemed that the commentary by Walt Disney jumped too quickly to the cartoon it was introducing. Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2006. Great to have these classic cartoons with my SILLY SYMPHONIES vol 2!!! (There's a great caricature of May West in that short!
Within a year, the now-in-Technicolor Silly Symphonies series had popularity and success that matched (and later surpassed) that of the Mickey Mouse cartoons. (There is a Region 1 ‘More Silly Symphonies’ set out there that has the rest. Amazon's Choice recommends highly rated and well-priced products.
[1] As such, the films usually had independent continuity and did not feature continuing characters, unlike the Mickey Mouse shorts produced by Disney at the same time (exceptions to this include Three Little Pigs, The Tortoise and the Hare, and Three Orphan Kittens, which all had sequels). These are classic Disney, NOT Eisner, Katzenburg Disney!! Only one of these cartoons, Merbabies, ended up being bought by Disney, the remaining two Harman-Ising Silly Symphonies were then sold to MGM who released them as Happy Harmonies cartoons. 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. To anyone wanting to introduce young viewers to classical music though, Disney's Fantasia is definitely the way to go! [13] By the third issue, there was almost no Symphony-related material in the book; the stories and activities were mostly based on other Disney shorts and feature films. Columbia Pictures (1930–1932) agreed to pick up the direct distribution of the Mickey Mouse series on the condition that they would have exclusive rights to distribute the Silly Symphonies series; at first, Silly Symphonies could not even come close to the popularity Mickey Mouse had.
In 1937, Disney signed a distribution deal with RKO Radio Pictures to distribute the Silly Symphony cartoons, along with the Mickey Mouse series.
Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Due to production delays, this film was postponed from its original announced release date of June 5th. I had, just last week, bought Vintage Mickey for £5 and didn't want to waste my money. There's an appendix on Unproduced Silly Symphonies, music and books. A Sunday Silly Symphony comic strip ran in newspapers from January 10, 1932 to July 12, 1942. Having said that, they are all very clever in their own way and some others do contain classical music, so I was overall very happy with this product. Due to problems related to Disney's scheduled productions of cartoons, a deal was made with Harman and Ising to produce three Silly Symphonies: Merbabies, Pipe Dreams, and The Little Bantamweight. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, + $21.23 Shipping & Import Fees Deposit to Malaysia. ), Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 15, 2014.