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Rating:  - Hope they do more like this!While not a big fan of The 1923 "Alice in Wonderland" or "Alice comedies", I love Disc 2 with the shorts and some of my favorite cartoons. I love Humphey the Bear and this disc has two with Ranger Woodlore. It also contains "Ben & Me" which is probably my number 1 for Disney shorts. I would recommend it, but really only for Disc 2. Rating: - This Is a Real TreasureMy whole family has enjoyed this video. It's not only entertaining it's educational in its own way. It's interesting to see how television has evolved and changed throughout the years. Rating:  - Wonderful memories!Used to watch these cartoons, one in particular in the late '50s. Quality is terrific and well worth the buy. Glad this was available to pass along to my granddaughter. Rating: - Pure DelightThis is a wonderful collection for anyone who appreciates Disney cartoons. Those of us who are old enough to have seen them the first time around will enjoy falling back into the familiarity of delightful storytelling and simple animation. This comes in a lovely tin for safekeeping. Rating: - Treasures is the right word for this set!If you watched the "Wonderful World of Disney" (or any of its variants) on television during the Baby-boom-gen x years or are old enough to remember the pre-VCR and DVD years when it was a special event to bring a movie projector to your church, school, or community centers to see some good cartoons and kid movies, then you already know most of this stuff even if the titles don't ring a bell. First off, the Alice Comedies. These are known mostly to the most hardcore fans of Uncle Walt. While most cartoons from the silent era were woefully flat and unfunny, Uncle Walt and co. were in a class by themselves with high-quality funny stuff. The Alice toons predate the mouse formerly known as Mortimer by several years and featured the adventures of a real girl named Alice and her adventures in a cartoon world with her buddy Julius the cat. A couple of films, "Alice's Wild West Adventure" and "Alice gets in Dutch" feature an Our Gang copy of live action friends in the mix. Two mostly animated episodes, "Alice's Egg Plant" and "Alice's Mysterious Mystery" are real knee-slappers. In the former, a Communist rooster named "Little Red Henski" does some barnyard rabble-rousing, agitating the chickens to go on strike! In the latter, dogcatchers wearing Ku Klux Klan outfits kidnap the pooches for a sausage factory. Both are as bizzare as they sound! "Ferdinand the Bull" is a thinly disguised antiwar tale about a bull who refuses to fight that was said to be hated by Hitler and loved by Gandhi. The version of "Chicken Little" (1943) is like none-other. Here, Foxy Loxy uses a psychology book to propagandize and mislead the chickens to his lair. Children (like myself when I saw this at age 12) will be amused and the implications of the theme of thought control will go over their heads. But adults will find the surprise ending a tad unsettling, if thought provoking. See it and you'll understand. "Casey Jones," featuring the voice of forgotten radio comedian Jerry Colona is another belly-laugh inducer. As we did when we saw this at a local community center when I was a kid, expect the children to yell "EGAAAAD!" every few seconds after watching this. The same is true of the title song from the wonderfully hilarious IN THE BAG, a staple on the old "Wonderful World of Disney." Here, the ranger tries to trick the bears into cleaning up the park by singing,"Pick pick it up, put it in the bag, bump bump." The small frys will not stop doing this after they see this delightfully catchy song and dance. "Paul Bunyan" and "Ben (Franklin) and Me" are delightful Disney detours into American folklore and history. "Goliath II," about a midget elephant, is a variation on the "Ugly Duckling" theme. But Ludwing Von Drake's "Symposioum on Popular Music" has some wild moments. The PC thought police will have fits over the (admittely offensive) Asian stereotype in the Andrews Sisters' parody and this segment would be censored if aired today, but the ending where Ludwig rocks out on guitar and spins on his head will have you rolling on the floor! This collection is a MUST for lovers of GREAT cartoons! Uncle Walt rules, (excuse me, I mean "ruled") and so does this collection! |
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