Disney ‘Silly Symphonies’ on Super 8

[Phil Moors]

I recently purchased the book Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies’ A Companion to the Classic series’ and wondered how many were actually released on Super 8. I know Derann released quite a few,

I own,

The Skeleton Dance 1929
Flowers and Trees. 1932
Santa’s Workshop. 1932
The Night Before Christmas 1933
Little Hiawatha. 1937
The Old Mill 1937
Wynken, Blynken and Nod 1938
Mother Goose Goes Hollywood 1938
The Ugly Duckling 1939

These are all Derann releases with the exception of The Ugly Duckling, which is a Walt Disney Home Movie.

I imagine the Three Little Pigs, Lullaby Land, Grasshopper and the Ants, The Tortoise and the Hare, Water Babies, Music Land, would have been released. Does anyone know what was released?

[Brian Fretwell]

Dearnn also released Misicland and Cookie Carnival.

[Mike Newell]

As well as the above. These titles were released. I would suspect some had small print runs

Three Little Pigs The Old Mill Tortose & the Hare Disney & Derann.

I only came across Flying Mouse and Elmer the Elephant very recently. I have a feeling sequel to Three Little Pigs. The Big Bad Wolf was released the 2nd sequel The Little Wolves definitely was.

Derann only

Three Little Wolves
Flying Mouse
Merbabies
Farmyard Symphony
Broken Toys
Elmer the Elephant
Who Killed Cock Robin
Three Blind Mouseketeers
Woodland Cafe
Three Orphan Kittens

Classic released

Just Dogs black & white sound

[Osi Osgood]

I have cookie carnival as well. My wife loves it. "The Old Mill" is an odd bird of a print. It appears that the negative sent by the Disney studio to Derann was a composite of two sources. Approximately a minute into the short, (after the establishing shot of the bluebirds), when it cuts to the close up of the bluebirds, it switches for the rest of the print to a much more bluish print. The original WDHM version, had the same negative from beginning to end, though not printed on LPP.