- Description:
- DVD - Region 1.   viewing copy.   2 videodiscs of 2..
color.  
fullscreen.   sound - Dolby digital monaural.  
- Notes:
- Supplemental materials: “Alice’s Cartoon World: An Interview with Virginia Davis”; “From Kansas City to Hollywood: A Timeline of Disney’s Silent Era, 1923-1928” featurette; audio commentary for A SYMPOSIUM OF POPULAR SONGS; art galleries; informational booklet.
Titles
+ Alice’s Wonderland
- Alternate Title:
- Alice
- Director:
- Disney, Walt
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1923
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. With Virginia Davis. Disney’s first “Alice” short, mixing live-action and animation. Alice visits Walt Disney’s animation studio where the cartoon characters jump off the page. Later on, she sleeps and dreams that she has gone to Cartoonland where she is able to interact with the characters.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Alice’s Wild West Show
- Director:
- Disney, Walt
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1924
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. With Virginia Davis. A mixture of live-action/animation. Alice and her friends put on a Wild West Show for the neighborhood kids in which she regales the audience with her tales of cowboys and indians.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Alice Gets In Dutch
- Alternate Title:
- Alice In Dutch At School
- Director:
- Disney, Walt
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1924
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. With Virginia Davis. A mixture of live-action/animation. Alice misbehaves in school and is forced to sit in the corner. She falls asleep and dreams, but schoolwork intrudes even into her dreams.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Alice’s Egg Plant
- Director:
- Disney, Walt
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1925
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. With Dawn O’Day. A mixture of live-action/animation. Julius, the boss of Alice’s chicken farm, has to find a way to deliver 5,000 eggs.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Alice In The Jungle
- Director:
- Disney, Walt
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1925
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. With Virginia Davis. A mixture of live-action/animation. Alice and Julius go on safari in Africa. Alice gets chased by a lion after playing with a lion cub and Julius has to come in and rescue her.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Alice’s Mysterious Mystery
- Director:
- Disney, Walt
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1926
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. With Margie Gay. A mixture of live-action/animation. Detectives Alice and Julius investigate the disappearance of a school of puppies.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Alice The Whaler
- Director:
- Disney, Walt
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1927
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. With Lois Hardwick. A mixture of live-action/animation. Alice and Julius are on board a whaling ship where they have to deal with a temperamental cook as well as harpooning a whale.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Ferdinand The Bull
- Director:
- Rickard, Dick
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1938
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- Ferdinand is a quiet, peaceful young bull who only wants to stop and smell the flowers. But when he is stung by a bee, the townspeople believe he is violent and ferocious, and they take him into the bullfighting ring.
+ Chicken Little
- Director:
- Geronomi, Gerry
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1943
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- Hungry Foxey Loxey convinces the dim-witted Chicken Little and other tasty farmyard animals that the sky is falling, and the fox’s cave is the only safe place.
+ Pelican And The Snipe, The
- Director:
- Luske, Hamilton
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1944
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- Monte is a sleepwalking pelican whose talents come in handy when he has to rescue his friend from a wartime bombing raid.
+ Brave Engineer, The
- Director:
- Kinney, Jack
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1950
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works, Musical
- Notes:
- A fanciful resetting of the tale of Casey Jones.
+ Morris, The Midget Moose
- Director:
- Hannah, Jack
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1950
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- Morris is a small moose with gigantic antlers who is ostracized from the group until he meets his match, an oversized moose with tiny antlers.
+ Lambert The Sheepish Lion
- Director:
- Hannah, Jack
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1952
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- Lambert is a lion cub who is mis-delivered to a flock of sheep. Because he is different, he is ostracized from the rest of the lambs. But things change when he grows up and a wolf attacks the flock.
+ Little House, The
- Director:
- Jackson, Wilfred
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1952
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- A small, anthropomorphized house must try to compete with the progressive encroachment of the big city.
+ Adventures In Music: Melody
- Alternate Title:
- Melody
- Director:
- Nichols, Charles; Kimball, Ward
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1953
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works, Musical
- Notes:
- Originally produced in 3-D. Disney’s first 3-D film. Professor Owl teaches his music class about melody and its importance to the world of music.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Football Now And Then
- Director:
- Finney, Jack
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1953
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- An elderly man and his grandson argue about the relative merits of the the way football is currently played versus the old way.
+ Toot, Whistle, Plunk And Boom
- Alternate Title:
- Adventures in Music: Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
- Director:
- Nichols, Charles; Kimball, Ward
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1953
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- Professor Owl presents a history of music through the ages, from prehistoric man to the modern symphony orchestra. The first animated film released in CinemaScope.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Ben And Me
- Director:
- Luske, Hamilton
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   21 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1953
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- A revisionist version of American history in which a small mouse comes to live with Benjamin Franklin, and ends up being responsible a many of Franklin’s most influential ideas, including the beginning of the Declaration of independence.
+ Pigs Is Pigs
- Director:
- Kinney, Jack
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1954
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- Flannery, a railway agent, does everything by the book. He gets into a scrape with a customer who wants to pay 44 cents freight for two guinea pigs that he considers pets. Flannery, however, considers them to be pigs, which carry a higher freight charge. He begins to regret the decision when the animals start to reproduce.
+ Social Lion
- Director:
- Kinney, Jack
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1954
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- A lion decides to get a taste of civilization by letting himself be captured.
+ Hooked Bear
- Director:
- Hannah, Jack
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1956
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- Ranger Woodlore makes an attempt to stock the lake, much to the delight of Humphrey the Bear as he tries to intercept a meal intended for the fishermen.
+ Jack And Old Mac
- Director:
- Justice, Bill
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1956
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works, Musical
- Notes:
- A musical telling of the story of “The House that Jack Built” along with a rural family performing a spirited re-interpretation of an old standard with “Old MacDonald Had a Band.”
+ In The Bag
- Director:
- Hannah, Jack
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1956
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- After the summer visitors have finally left, Ranger Woodlore sets upon a plan to get the bears to help him clean up the park. He gets them cleaning and dancing to a snappy worksong, but once the bears realize that they are being tricked, he is forced to find another strategy.
+ Cowboy Needs A Horse, A
- Director:
- Justice, Bill
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1956
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- A child dreams of being a cowboy in a stylized, surreal western world.
+ Story Of Anyburg, U.S.A., The
- Alternate Title:
- The Story Of Anyburg, USA
- Director:
- Geronimi, Clyde
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1957
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- Anyburg, U.S.A. has a problem with autombile accidents, a hapless car is put on trial in a courtroom. In the end, however, the real culprit turns out to be the nut behind the wheel.
+ Truth About Mother Goose, The
- Director:
- Justice, Bill; Reitherman, Wolfgang
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1957
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- The surprising historical background of three nursery rhymes (”Little Jack Horner”, “Mary Mary Quite Contrary” and “London Bridge”) are revealed.
+ Paul Bunyan
- Director:
- Clark, Les
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1958
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- A telling of the legend of the giant Paul Bunyan and his partner Babe, the blue ox, who became the greatest logging team in American folk history.
- Link to:
- FII catalog |
+ Noah’s Ark
- Director:
- Justice, Bill
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   21 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1959
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- A retelling of the Biblical story of Noah and his Ark.
+ Goliath II
- Director:
- Reitherman, Wolfgang
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   15 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1960
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- Goliath, a miniature elephant, is ostracized from his herd because of his size. But his size comes in handy when he has to rescue the herd from an invader: a mouse.
+ Saga Of Windwagon Smith, The
- Director:
- Nichols, Charles
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   13 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1961
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works
- Notes:
- Windwagon Smith blows into town with a strange contraption: a Conestoga wagon outfitted with a wind sail. The town fathers figure that since a small windwagon does so well, a big one must do even better. They set out to build one (while Smith woes the mayor’s daughter) and launch it on its maiden voyage to very unexpected results.
+ Symposium On Popular Songs, A
- Director:
- Justice, Bill
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1962
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Children’s Works, Musical
- Notes:
- Ludwig Von Drake lectures lectures on the state of popular music, punctuated by stop-motion musical numbers. Supplemental material: audio commentary.
+ Feather In His Collar, A
- Production Co:
- Walt Disney Productions
- Running Time:
- Short.   2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1965
- Language:
- English
Closed Captioned
- Genre:
- Animation, Propaganda
- Notes:
- Made for the Community Chests of America. Pluto the dog demonstrates his community spirit by donating his collection of bones the local Community Chest.