Toon Talk: Mickey Mouse in Living Color Volume 2 DVD
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Behind the Shorts
- Tidbits and Trivia:
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Easter Egg Hunt:
There are at least two Easter Eggs (‘hidden’ DVD extras) found on disc one of this collection:
- From the main menu, highlight the cane underneath Mickey’s suitcase to see extremely rare footage of Walt voicing Mickey, along with Billy Bletcher as Pete, for Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip.
- From the bonus feature menu, highlight the musical note to the right to see another rarity: a promotional film produced for the Standard Oil Company titled Standard Parade for 1939. Similar to the Parade of the Award Nominees short seen on Volume One, this short features the Fab Five, along with the Seven Dwarfs, the Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf and Toby Tortoise touting an upcoming advertising agreement between the oil company and the Disney Studios … who knew that corporate sponsorship went back so far?
The Toon Talk Top 10 - Mouse
Works: Through the years, Mickey has amassed quite the resume of interesting jobs, both in film and on television:
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Coming Soon in Toon Talk:
- Parts 2 through 4 of the long awaited ‘third wave’ of Walt Disney Treasures DVDs, available May 18th: The Chronological Donald Volume 1 (35 shorts from 1934 to 1941), Tomorrowland: Disney in Space and Beyond (six nostalgic episodes featuring vintage Ward Kimball animation and Walt’s introduction of EPCOT) and, last but certainly not least, Walt Disney: On the Frontlines, a collection of rarely seen shorts from the infamous ‘war years’, including the Oscar-winning Der Fuehrer’s Face and the full-length feature Victory Through Air Power.
- Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz are joined by John Cleese, Julie Andrews and Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots in DreamWorks’ Shrek 2, the sequel to the blockbuster Oscar-winner, opening May 21st.
- Return for another trip Around the World in 80 Days, the latest re-telling of the Jules Verne classic, starring Ella Enchanted’s Steve Coogan, Shanghai Knights’ Jackie Chan and Iris’ Jim Broadbent, June 16th.
And Coming Soon from Buena Vista Home Video:
- May 11th: Jackie Chan wrote, directed and stars in Dragon Lord, while Anna Faris and Charlie Sheen spoof such contemporary horror classics as The Ring and Signs in Scary Movie 3.
- Also available May 18th, the special edition two disc DVD release of this year’s hockey crowd-pleaser Miracle, starring Disney Legend Kurt Russell.
- June 1st: From the vaults, such Disney favorites as Candleshoe (starring Jodie Foster and David Niven), A Far Off Place (Reese Witherspoon and Maximilian Schell), Flight of the Navigator (Joey Cramer and Sarah Jessica Parker), the original Freaky Friday (Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris) and the classic Sherman Brothers musical The Happiest Millionaire (Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Leslie Ann Warren, John Davidson, Greer Garson and Geraldine Page), as well as a Freaky Friday two-pack DVD set (including both the original and the remake) and the Herbie the Love Bug Collection, a five disc set including the Love Bug Special Edition and it’s three theatrical sequels. Also available: Ernest Goes to School (Jim Varney), A Saintly Switch (Vivica A. Fox), Power Rangers: Dinothunder and special edition sets for Miramax’s Flirting with Disaster (Ben Stiller), Cop Land (Sylvester Stallone) and the contemporary classic Trainspotting (Ewan McGregor).
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-- Posted May 2, 2004