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Chris Fries
Master Film Handler
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From: Ohio, US
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posted February 25, 2012 04:41 PM
In the 1940's during World War II, Walt Disney Animation put feature films on hold while they made propaganda shorts and films for the military. When the war was over, several package films like "Make Mine Music" and "Melody Time" were released. In 1950, Disney released its first full-length animated film in eight years. "Cinderella" was the studio's first major hit since "Snow White". If "Cinderalla" had not been successful, the studio, deep in debt, may have closed.
Here are two of my favorite Disney 200's. "Cinderella's Surprise Dress" and "Cinderella's Fairy Godmother". The one thing that does bother me about this digest is the song So This is Love has been replaced with two different songs. Cinderella and the waltz version of A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes. I have always wondered why WDHM did this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxk01jy2QmQ&feature=youtu.be
I love it when two digests sync up perfectly with no break in the story. There are other Disney 200's, like "Lady and The Tramp", that match up like this.
Those will be posted soon.
Stay tuned!
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Chris Fries
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posted February 26, 2012 02:24 PM
Ken Films released several classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals on super 8. "The Sound of Music", "The King & I" and this film from 1956.
"Carousel" stars Gordon MacRae as Billy Bigelow and Shirley Jones as Julie Jordan. They co-stared in R&H's "Oklahoma!" (not on super 8) the previous year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTDx546AdLM
It features the classic songs The Carousel Waltz, If I Loved You, June Is Bustin' Out All Over, Soliloquy, A Real Nice Clambake, What's The Use Of Wond'rin and You'll Never Walk Alone. This digest, like "The King & I", does not include the end of the actual film. It stops about halfway through the story.
The color, originally by DeLuxe, has held up well on this print and the sound is standard magnetic mono. It is a good digest but could have been better if a 2x400 had been released. Unfortunately, apart from the Star Wars films and "The Towering Inferno", Ken did not make multiple reel digests.
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Chris Fries
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posted February 29, 2012 01:12 AM
Now, back to the wonderful world of Disney.
A year after the triumph of "Cinderella", Walt Disney released "Alice in Wonderland". Disney had been trying for years to put this story on film. In fact, he had chosen it to be his first full length animated movie. Writers tried for many years to come up with a treatment that Disney liked. Even after the film was released, he was not satisfied with the end result. He thought "Alice had no heart." It did not do well when it first came out. It found a new audience in the the late 1960's, had several re-releases in the 70's and was the the first animated Disney film the be released on beta and VHS. Today, it is considered a classic.
The film has beautiful art direction by Mary Blair. It also holds the record for the most number of songs in any Disney feature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqDMeqDrD0A&feature=youtu.be
Like the rest of the Disney animated digests, "Alice in Wonderland" has two reels.
The first digest, "Alice and the White Rabbit", has some fade but "The Mad Tea Party", processed by Buck Labs in the U.K., still has great color.
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Osi Osgood
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posted March 02, 2012 12:53 PM
You are truly to be commended for putting all of these up, and you are probably the best "advertiser" for super 8 collecting to the non super 8 world!
My advice when it comes to collecting the Disney Digests in go to the UK printings of the Disney digests as, as a general rule, they used either Fuji or Agfa film stock, and while the Fuji mikght be fading (I have heard from one UK collector that his Fuji prints are starting to "purple" a little, mine are spot on), the Agfa prints are beautiful.
I bought all my 400ft Disney cartoon collection on agfa and fuji and I just gave up trying to find really good US copies of these same digests.
Happy hunting!
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Chris Fries
Master Film Handler
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posted March 10, 2012 08:03 PM
Winbert, I've said it before an I'll say it again. How Youtube works is a great mystery.
These next two digests are from the last Disney animated film to use hand-inked cels. It was in production for eight years. Chuck Jones, uncredited, worked on his film.
Originally released in Super Technirama 70 is "Sleeping Beauty" from 1959.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sj9ua__9E
The first digest, "Once Upon a Dream" is pretty faded but reel 2, "The Prince and the Dragon", still has color. Another import processed by Buck Labs in the U.K.
Brad,
This digest was listed as a private. Still, it did not go unnoticed. It was not blocked anywhere but it, like most of the Disney films, "Matched third party content".
If anyone wants to watch the entire film, here it is in two parts. Complete with the copyright warning posted at the beginning of the VHS. The warning that states"broadcast without the consent of the... owner... carries a penalty" and can result in a fine up to "50,000 pesos". ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_qf8IPTq0o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyH9bNIuf0Y&feature=related
[ March 11, 2012, 11:23 PM: Message edited by: Chris Fries ]
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