Walt Disney's Treasury of Cartoon Classics

Title

en_US Walt Disney's Treasury of Cartoon Classics

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Edited by Darlene Geis

Creator

en_US Geis, Darlene See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Disney, Walt

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:03Z

en_US 2008-05

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US Copyright 1981 by Walt Disney Productions. This volume includes sections devoted to Tales, Fables, Animal Stories, Nature Stories, and Poems and Rhymes. The fables section includes GA, TH, TMCM, and The Wise Little Hen. There are opening and finishing sections on how Silly Symphonies came to be and a filmography of them. Seventy-six Silly Symphonies appeared between 1929 and 1939. After twenty-eight in black and white, the rest were in full color. Seven, including The Tortoise and the Hare, won Academy Awards. This book offers a good combination of narrative and visuals taken from the films. The latter are not outstanding for their visual definition. Around each pair of pages is the same frame of a musical score, infrequently broken by a picture that extends beyond the usual margin. I see in reading GA carefully that, though Disney bypasses the traditional fable's harshness, he has his own teaching to offer. The ants do play now, and the grasshopper's play is also work, since he is playing for the ants. TH is Toby Tortoise vs. Max Hare. It features Toby's exasperation with Max's boasting, the wager in an attempt to stop his boasting, Max's training quarters, and Toby's modest attempt to shake hands before the race. Straight and steady does it. Just keep going is Toby's mantra. Some snails pass him on the road. Max actually wants to nap. Once Toby passes him, Max takes off but stops to chat with the girls at the school. Toby plods by and turns down the girls' offer to stop and chat. Toby shows off by being both the shooter and apple-carrier in a bow-and-arrow trick and by playing tennis with himself. There is no baseball in this version. Toby extends his neck to win. Country Cousin is Disney's version of TMCM. The first move here is an invitation to Abner in the country to join Monte in the city. Monte has to warn Abner four times not to make so much noise, e.g., by crunching celery. Abner gets into mustard and champagne. The tipsy Abner is ready to fight the sleeping cat on the way to the mousehole. Abner kicks the cat's backside, and Monte runs to his mousehole and shuts the door. The fables section also includes The Wise Little Hen. Peter Pig and Donald Duck beg off, supposedly sick, when it is time to plant and to harvest the corn. When it comes times to eat the goodies, they get castor oil! These fables are enjoyably presented.

Identifier

en_US 9780786830855

en_US 6341 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81669

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Disney Press

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ5.D64 Tre 1995 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole