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Topic: Mickey Mouse the First Fifty Years
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Paul Adsett
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posted January 10, 2008 02:18 PM
Mickey Mouse - the First Fifty Years
Collectors Edition
400ft, 20 mins, color and B&W
By now we are all used to getting special edition DVD’s with packaged extras, but here is a super 8 film that started this trend over 25 years ago! This special collectors edition of Mickey Mouse excerpts comes with packaging that rates a 10 on the Peckham scale ! The 400ft reel is contained within a beautiful book- type, very rugged red cardboard box embossed with gold lettering and a picture of Mickey, and even has a slip-off clear plastic cover with the contents of the film highlighted in white! Inside the box is a very nice 14 page booklet with information and photos about the film and Mickey’s career. Very cool! Probably the best packaging I have ever seen on a super 8 film.
But no matter how great the packaging, it’s the film itself that counts. And here we are not disappointed. The various excepts include Mickey’s first talkie, ‘Steamboat Willie’, ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’, plus many other film highlights, and The Mickey Mouse Club, all centered around the theme of Goofy preparing a cake for Mickey’s birthday party.
A fabulous 20 minute reel that will delight any audience . Like all Super 8 Disney prints, the quality is superb, with beautifully rich color and pin sharp resolution. Here again, we see that, for whatever reason, the Disney prints look so much better on super 8 than DVD. The print on my copy was by Bucks Labs in the UK, who have even tacked on their own personal happy birthday greeting to Mickey at the end of the movie – a nice touch, and also indicative that Bucks were very proud of being selected to print this film. My print must be 20 years old or more, and still the color is beautiful.
This movie pops up a lot on dealers lists, often at ridiculously low prices. I paid 5 pounds for my NEW print from Derann! If you see one, grab it.
Print A+
Sound A
Content A+
Packaging : 10 on the Peckham scale
[ January 10, 2008, 03:40 PM: Message edited by: Paul Adsett ]
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Osi Osgood
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posted January 10, 2008 04:32 PM
"Peckham scale" Hmm Funny.
This is great release. I like your Red cover with not only the gold lettering, BUT ALSO, white lettering too. That isn't on my Silver box edition. Also, the "Happy Birthday Mickey at the end of the film, that's certianly a rarity, as mine doesn't have that.
Do you still have the additional card that was included in this release originally, which stated that there were clips from assorted black and white films in this release and therefore asked the owner to expect that? I have that and it is usually lost, though I wish I had that certian release. Mine is on Eastman, but it must be a good grade as there is no fade on mine as well. Perfect blacks and, as you said, a lovely sharp print!!
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Osi Osgood
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posted January 11, 2008 08:48 AM
Okay Doug, you've got me curious, what's "M31"?
My favorite part of this Mickey 50 is the whole Mickey Mouse Club theme in stunning color!
The only part I think it could have done without, is the 30 or so seconds, (thankfully, they limited this) of live action Mickey, which takes it briefly out of the realm of magical cartoons.
Exzellent wraparound story in "Mickey's Birthday party" as the story that surrounds it. You actually get most of that six minute cartoon!
Later on, as most will remember, they continued to release this, but in a regular 400ft. clamshell with "Happy Birthday Mickey" with different images of MIckey over the years and was a far cry from the special boxing.
I wonder if anyone out there still number #1 of all the limited release?
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Osi Osgood
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posted January 12, 2008 12:23 PM
The card wasn't absolutely necessary, but a nice little ad on. It seems that up to that point, Disney hadn't personally released any black and white ...
wait, I'm wrong, (i think).
Didn't Disney release a 200ft B/W edition of "The Mickey Mouse Club"?
I think I've seen one on ebay once, but it must be extremely rare!
I just pulled out my copy of Mickey 50th" and it still has that great color. The other folks are right, there was nearly not a person who equaled Disney for quality of it's releases. At least, when it came to thier cartoons. MGM and especially Warner Brothers, were released with some Gawd-awful prints. With the advent of Derann releases we got a lot sharper prints.
Though he optical prints were very good.
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all the different coloured boxes and the "Limited Editions" that are around.![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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