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Walt Disney: Silly Symphonies (?)

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Walt Disney: Silly Symphonies (?)

Description

2003 Walt Disney: Silly Symphonies (?). Chinese and English. SimaCulture. Epic Music Video. $7.50 from Alexlau1998 through Ebay, March, '04.

Though this DVD was sold as "Tortoise and Hare Disney's DVD," it contains over 76 minutes of a variety of "Silly Symphonies," including titles like "3 Little Wolves"; "Peculiar Penguins"; "Water Babies"; and "Father Noah's Ark." The first Silly Symphony here is in fact Disney's 1934 "The Tortoise and the Hare," featuring Max Hare and Toby Tortoise in the "Big Race." The second video was the big surprise to me: "Toby Tortoise Returns" from 1936. The two characters are back, this time in a boxing match. Max performs all of his tricks in the ring, many of them Disney's delightful fantasies, for example of Max's boxing gloves continuing to pound Toby while Max is doing other things. Max's last ploys turn on him, including filling Toby's shell with water and especially filling his shell with fireworks. The fireworks launch Toby in pursuit of Max, eventually driving Max into the ambulance he had ready for Toby. A Mae West character and the girls from the school are part of the boxing match audience. There is a typical slip-up in English on the back cover of the carton, speaking of "baller" where "ballet" is clearly called for.

Source

$7.50 from Alexlau1998 through Ebay, March, '04.

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Collection

Carlson Fable Collection

Citation

“Walt Disney: Silly Symphonies (?),” Creighton University Libraries: Archives & Special Collections, accessed January 18, 2025, https://creightonarchives.omeka.net/items/show/616.

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