Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey Mouse in Living Color
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Actor: Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, Walt DisneyDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 217 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-04
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
DVD Reviews of Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey Mouse in Living Color
DVD Review: We love Mickey!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like Disney you will love this Mickey in living color. Mickey Mouse is such a loveable little guy. He's even a hero on the classic favorite "Brave Little Tailor". I totally love this volume and I'm so glad I have it. Classic Mickey Mouse in color is truly enjoyable. It's nice to see the team too, I mean of course Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto. One hilarious bit I can think of is the angel and devil pluto in "Mickey's Elephant". The bits of history and behind the scenes with Leonard Maltin are great too. They increase your appreciation for Disney and his team on these funny and delightful cartoon shorts. DVD Review: Mickey Bursts Forth in Fun and Color
Summary: 5 Stars
By 1935, Mickey Mouse was an institution. Surprisingly, Walt Disney had resisted featuring his main star in color up to that point, reserving color for his Silly Symphonies. But that year he changed all that. And this two disc set features the first four years of Mickey's color career.
26 shorts were made in those years, and all of them are in this set. And we've got some real winners. The set opens with "The Band Concert," the famous piece in which Mickey tries to conduct a concert despite Donald's interruptions and a tornado. Also famous is "Thru the Mirror" inspired by Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. "Clock Cleaners" finds Mickey, Goofy, and Donald high in the air cleaning a clock. "Lonesome Ghosts" features the trio as ghost hunters brought to a haunted mansion by the ghosts themselves. And the set ends with "Brave Little Tailor" in which Mickey plays a tailor mistakenly hired to fight a giant.
Very few are the cartoons where Mickey is all by himself. Most of the time, he is joined by Donald and Goofy or Pluto. But "On Ice" finds Mickey with the entire gang including Minnie as they go skating. They all get to go on the "Hawaiian Holiday" as well.
Mickey's first color appearance was actually for the Oscars introducing the nominees one year. That very short piece is included here as are pencil tests from three of the 1935 shorts. Disc two features a gallery of promotional art from the time and a brief documentary from Leonard Maltin talking about Mickey's career in the era.
As much fun as these cartoons are, they don't all hold up. "Pluto's Judgment Day" was rather boring. And I don't care for cartoons were a bunch of kids run around wrecking havoc like in "Orphan's Picnic."
The truly bad cartoons are few and far between, however. For the most part, this is a collection of cartoons that will entertain any fan of classic animation.
DVD Review: Classic Disney
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this DVD. It is all of the cartoons I grew up watching.DVD Review: Thank You, Mr. Disney
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best of the original four Walt Disney Treasures collections, and by far one of the finest in the series. Masterpieces such as "The Band Concert," "Thru the Mirror" and "Brave Little Tailor" are a living testimony to why Mickey Mouse was such an instant hit when Disney introduced him back in the 1930s. And he continues to delight to this day, even when he's relegated to the background, as he is in some of these shorts. But with supporting players like Donald Duck, Goofy, Clara Cluck (hilarious in "Mickey's Grand Opera") and Clarabelle the Cow (an indignant hoot in "Mickey's Fire Brigade"), that's not always a bad thing. The colors and attention to detail are amazing (the first 30 seconds of "The Worm Turns" being some of the most breathtaking animation I've ever seen), and there is genuine humor here, not just a reliance on slapstick (although there's plenty of that as well!). Disney and the artists working under him pretty much invented modern animation, and that's abundantly clear when you lose yourself in this remarkable collection. DVD Review: A wonderful collection
Summary: 5 Stars
Everyone has a child inside, some of which are harder to get to than others, but it is there none the less. Walt knew this, and tried to bring that innosense to the screen. This collection is the perfect example. These delightful short cartoons are a wonder to behold, and worth well more than the usual thrity dollar asking price. They show a mouse defending a cat from a dog, and a mouse take on a giant with nothing more than a needle, things of wonder to children. This set is worth every penny, and then some.
Description of Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey Mouse in Living Color
A collection of twenty-six animated shorts in color starring everyone's favorite, Mickey Mouse, released between 1935 and 1938. Introduction by Leonard Maltin.Cartoons: The Band Concert, Mickey's Garden, Mickey's Fire Brigade, Pluto's Judgement Day, On Ice, Mickey's Polo Team, Orphan's Picnic, Mickey's Grand Opera, Thru the Mirror, Mickey's Rival, Moving Day, Alpine Climbers, Mickey's Circus, Mickey's Elephant, The Worm Turns, Magician Mickey, Moose Hunters, Mickey's Amateurs, Hawaiian Holiday, Clock Cleaners, Lonesome Ghosts, Boat Builders, Mickey's Trailer, The Whalers, Mickey's Parrot, Brave Little Tailor.
During the mid-'30s, Mickey Mouse's fans ranged from the more than one million children who were members of the Mickey Mouse Club to Franklin Roosevelt, Mary Pickford, and the Nizam of Hyderabad; theater marquees announced "A Mickey Mouse Cartoon" with the feature titles. These wonderful shorts, many of which have never been released to the home market, remind viewers just how charming Mickey was before his popularity and role as a corporate symbol restricted his behavior. In these cartoons Mickey's personality was boyish, appealing, and slightly mischievous. The superb animation emphasizes that impish appeal. When Mickey dances with a deck of cards in "Thru the Mirror," he displays a stylish grace Fred Astaire might envy; in "Brave Little Tailor," his expressions and body language reveal his thoughts as he outwits Willie the Giant. It's virtually impossible to watch him without smiling. These shorts overflow with color and motion, and their lavish visuals pack an increased impact in an era of minimal television animation. Only Walt Disney would spend the money to animate a full deck of cards, a band flying through the air in a tornado, or a clutch of semitransparent ghosts, and only his animators could make those characters live on the screen. The prints have been lovingly restored without pumping up the color too much: the nuances of the delicate watercolor backgrounds still come through. Parents, Disney buffs, and animation fans will want this superb collection in their home libraries. Unrated: suitable for all ages. --Charles Solomon
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