Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Vintage Mickey a Must Have:
Walt liked to claim that it all started with a mouse. Of course before it started there was a rabbit, and before that a little girl named Alice, and even before that a cat named Puss-N-Boots.
I just picked up the DVD Vintage Mickey at Target - $14.95. For years I have made due with The Spirit of Mickey edited version of Steamboat Willie. The scene where Mickey uses the mother pig`s undercarriage as an accordion was sadly missing from the earlier version. (above on the left)
What Walt failed to say when he was talking about it all starting with a mouse was that said mouse was a bit of a rat when he first hit the screen. In Plane Crazy, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon animated and also on the Vintage Mickey disk, Mickey tries to force himself on Minnie.
Minnie slaps him and he dumps her out of the plane, catches her by doing a loop and tries to force himself on her again. So she jumps out of the plane to get away from him and uses her bloomer as a parachute. Not the Mickey I remember from my childhood.
This is a very important cartoon. This singlehanded Ub Iwerks animation (700 pages of straight ahead animation per day) was created in 2 weeks time with Walt and Roy and their wives working all night to do the ink and paint and Ub working all day and night to save the studio after Mintz ripped off Oswald the not so lucky for Walt or Mintz Rabbit.
This is a great DVD with a lot of very early Mickey Mouse cartoons. A Mickey you are not use to seeing. The disk is not as flashy as the Disney Treasures disks but it is filled with hard to find early Mickey Black and White cartoons. Pick up the disk and see how it really all started with the mouse. ¶ 10:36 AM
Walt liked to claim that it all started with a mouse. Of course before it started there was a rabbit, and before that a little girl named Alice, and even before that a cat named Puss-N-Boots.
I just picked up the DVD Vintage Mickey at Target - $14.95. For years I have made due with The Spirit of Mickey edited version of Steamboat Willie. The scene where Mickey uses the mother pig`s undercarriage as an accordion was sadly missing from the earlier version. (above on the left)
What Walt failed to say when he was talking about it all starting with a mouse was that said mouse was a bit of a rat when he first hit the screen. In Plane Crazy, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon animated and also on the Vintage Mickey disk, Mickey tries to force himself on Minnie.
Minnie slaps him and he dumps her out of the plane, catches her by doing a loop and tries to force himself on her again. So she jumps out of the plane to get away from him and uses her bloomer as a parachute. Not the Mickey I remember from my childhood.
This is a very important cartoon. This singlehanded Ub Iwerks animation (700 pages of straight ahead animation per day) was created in 2 weeks time with Walt and Roy and their wives working all night to do the ink and paint and Ub working all day and night to save the studio after Mintz ripped off Oswald the not so lucky for Walt or Mintz Rabbit.
This is a great DVD with a lot of very early Mickey Mouse cartoons. A Mickey you are not use to seeing. The disk is not as flashy as the Disney Treasures disks but it is filled with hard to find early Mickey Black and White cartoons. Pick up the disk and see how it really all started with the mouse. ¶ 10:36 AM
