• Skip the Making the Movie feature (why a documentary on a documentary?) and go straight to the deleted scenes, divided into sections with such titles as The Early Days, Their Art and Gems from the Outtakes. You’ll find such supplemental goodies as Frank and Ollie’s Debut Scenes (Frank’s Pluto in Mickey’s Elephant and Ollie’s Mickey in Brave Little Taylor), a section where contemporary Disney animation greats Glen Keane and Andreas Deja review the work of their predecessors, an Evolution of a Sequence feature from The Rescuers (why wasn’t this on the that film’s DVD from earlier this year?), a montage of Ollie’s Drunks (including Smee, The Aristocats’ Uncle Waldo and Sir Hiss) and extended features devoted to Ollie and His Trains and Frank and the Firehouse Five plus 2 (including a rare TV performance from 1962’s Jazz Scene USA.)

• Frank Thomas’ credits as an animator include the shorts Mickey’s Elephant, Mickey’s Circus, More Kittens, Little Hiawatha, Brave Little Taylor, The Practical Pig, The Pointer, Education for Death, Victory Vehicles, The Winged Scourge, Donald in Mathmagic Land, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! and the features Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Bambi, The Three Caballeros (The Flying Gauchito segment), Melody Time (Johnny Appleseed segment), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow segment), Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Rescuers and The Fox and the Hound. He also appeared in Saludos Amigos, One Hour in Wonderland, Dateline: Disneyland (the latter two as part of the Firehouse Five plus Two), Tricks of Our Trade and Walt: The Man Behind the Myth. As a writer, Frank also contributed to The Aristocats, Robin Hood and The Rescuers.
• Ollie Johnson’s credits include an in-betweener on Mickey’s Garden and Mickey’s Rival, assistant animator on More Kittens, Little Hiawatha and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and as animator on the shorts Brave Little Taylor, The Practical Pig, The Pointer, Mickey’s Surprise Party, How to Play Baseball, Reason and Emotion, Chicken Little, The Pelican and the Snipe, Susie the Little Blue Coupe, Ben and Me, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! and the features Pinocchio, Fantasia (The Pastoral Symphony segment), Bambi, Victory Through Air Power, The Three Caballeros (The Flying Gauchito segment), Make Mine Music (Casey at the Bat and Peter and the Wolf segments), Song of the South, Melody Time (Little Toot and Johnny Appleseed segments), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow segment), Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Rescuers and The Fox and the Hound and the television series The Mickey Mouse Club. He also appeared in Tricks of Our Trade and Walt: The Man Behind the Myth.
• Frank and Ollie were both named Disney Legends in 1989.
• In addition to animation, the duo are also successful authors, including the indispensable Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life as well as Too Funny for Words, The Disney Villain and Bambi: The Story and the Film.
• Both Frank and Ollie had voice cameos in The Iron Giant as, fittingly enough, train engineers.

Coming Soon:

• Lots of “grim grinning ghosts�?, as well as Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Tilly, will show up for the movie adaptation of the classic Disneyland attraction The Haunted Mansion, opening November 26^th.
• The DVD debut of the blockbuster adventure Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl hits stores on December 2^nd.
• Lizzie McGuire fans take note: two DVD collections of favorite TV episodes will go on sale December 9^th: Lizzie McGuire: Growing Up Lizzie and Lizzie McGuire: Fashionably Lizzie. And no, I don’t know how to get in touch with Hilary Duff …
• On December 16^th get ‘freaky’ again with the DVD debut of another summer hit, Freaky Friday starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan.