Walt Disney Treasures: Wave 7 DVDs Press Release

[Mr. Toad]

As it happens I know what a complete list of educational shorts looks like

1955 You and Your…Five Senses Educational
1955 You and Your…Food Educational
1955 You and Your…Sense of Smell and Taste Educational
1955 You and Your..Sense of Touch Educational
1955 You…The Human Animal Educational
1955 You…The Living Machine Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…As A Pedestrian Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…In A Car Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…In an Emergency Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…In Unsafe Places Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…In Unsafe Places II Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…In Water Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…On Wheels Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…With A Bicycle Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…With Electricity Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…With Fire Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…With Safety At School Educational
1955 I'm No Fool…Having Fun Educational
1956 The Nature of Things Educational
1956 You and Your…Ears Educational
1957 You and Your..Eyes Educational
1962 A Storm Called Maria Educational
1964 Four Artists Paint One Tree Educational
1964 The Restless Sea Educational
1966 One Day at Teton Marsh Educational
1967 Family Planning Educational
1967 Ceramic Mural Educational
1968 Of Cats and Men Educational
1968 Of Horses and Men Educational
1968 The Deer Family Educational
1968 The Weasal Family Educational
1968 The Wild Cat Family - The Cougar Educational
1968 The Wild Dog Family - The Coyote Educational
1968 Triangle of Health Educational
1969 Physical Fitness and Good Health Educational
1969 The Social Side of Health Educational
1969 What Should I Do the Flight? Educational
1969 What Should I Do the Game? Educational
1970 The Bear Family Educational
1970 The Beasts of Burden Family Educational
1970 What Should I Do? The New Girl Educational
1971 Get The Message Educational
1971 Teeth Are for Chewing Educational
1972 History Alive! - Democracy - Equality or Privilege? Educational
1972 History Alive! - Impeachment of A President Educational
1972 History Alive! - State's Rights Educational
1972 History Alive! - The Right of Dissent Educational
1972 History Alive! - The Right of Petition Educational
1972 Leonardo Da Vinci - First Man of the Renaissance Educational
1972 Mrs. Peabody's Beach Educational
1972 The Great Search - Man's Need for Power and Energy Educational
1972 The Magic Whistle Educational
1973 Alaska's Bush Pilot Heritage Educational
1973 Henry O. Tanner: Pioneer American Black Artist Educational
1973 How Alaska Joined the World Educational
1973 John Muir: Father of Our National Parks Educational
1973 The Alaskan Gold Rush Educational
1973 V.D. Attack Plan Educational
1974 Magic and Music Educational
1974 Sequoya Educational
1975 A Day in Nature's Community Educational
1975 Barbara: Inside Out Educational
1975 History of Animation Educational
1975 If the Fergi Fits, Wear It Educational
1976 Filming Nature's Mysteries Educational
1976 The Reunion Educational
1976 Fergi Diversifies Educational
1977 Fergi Goes Inc. Educational
1977 The People on Market Street - Cost Educational
1977 The People on Market Street - Demand Educational
1977 The People on Market Street - Market Clearing Price Educational
1977 The People on Market Street - Property Rights and Pollution Educational
1977 The People on Market Street - Scarcity and Planning Educational
1977 The People on Market Street - Supply Educational
1977 The People on Market Street - Wages and Production Educational
1978 Eyewitness to History - the Events Educational
1978 Eyewitness to History - the Lifestyles Educational
1978 Eyewitness to History - the People Educational
1978 Fergi Meets the Challenge Educational
1978 Tricks of our Trade Educational
1979 Incident at Hawk's Hill Educational
1979 The National Student Fire Safety Test Educational
1979 The National Student First Aid Test Educational
1979 The National Student Recreational Safety Test Educational
1979 The National Student School Safety Test Educational
1979 The National Student Traffic Safety Test Educational
1979 The Truly Exceptional: Carol Johnston Educational
1979 The Truly Exceptional: Don Haley Educational
1979 The Truly Exeptional: Tom and Virl Osmond Educational
1979 Understaning Alcohol Use and Abuse Educational
1979 The Restless Sea Educational
1980 Fit to be You: Flexibility and Body Compisition Educational
1980 Fit to Be You: Hearts and Lungs Educational
1980 Fit to be You: Muscles Educational
1980 Foods and Fun: A Nutricianal Adventure Educational
1980 Rick, You're In: A Story About Mainstreaming Educational
1980 The Sky Trap Educational
1980 The Atom: A Closer Look Educational
1981 Coments: Time Capsules of the Solar System Educational
1981 Reaching Out: A Story about Mainstreaming Educational
1981 Smoking: The Choice is Yours Educational
1981 The Cookie Kid Educational
1981 The Nick Price Story of Non Malipulative Selling: A Better Way To Go Educational
1981 The Nick Price Story of Non Malipulative Selling: An Intro to NMS Educational
1981 The Nick Price Story of Non Malipulative Selling: Flexible Behavior Educational
1981 The Nick Price Story of Non Malipulative Selling: The Voice Educational
1982 America Works…America Sings Educational
1982 Buyer Be Wise Educational
1982 Close Up on the Planets Educational
1982 Computers: The Friendly Invasion Educational
1982 Fitness for Living: How to get Fit Educational
1982 Fitness for Living: Measuring Up Educational
1982 Fitness for Living: What is Physical Fitness? Educational
1982 Get it Right: Following Directions With Goofy Educational
1982 Speaking of Weathers Educational
1982 The Energy Savers Educational
1983 A Goofy Look at Valentine's Day Educational
1983 Computers: The Truth of the Matter Educational
1983 Decision Making: Critical Thought in Action Educational
1983 Disney's Haunted Halloween Educational
1983 Disney's Wonderful World of Winter Educational
1983 Fun to be Fit: Getting Physically Fit Educational
1983 Fun to be fit: Physical Fitness Educational
1983 Fun to be fit: Why by Physically Fit? Educational
1983 Futurework Educational
1983 Jiminy Crickett, PS(Problem Solver) Educational
1983 Skills for a New Technology: What a Kid needs to Know About Communication Skills Educational
1983 Skills for a New Technology: What a Kid needs to Know Today: Living With Change Educational
1983 Skills for a New Technology: What a Kid needs to Know Today: Living with Computers Educational
1983 The Time Travellers' Guide to Energy Educational
1984 Child Molestation: Breaking the Silence Educational
1984 Destinations: Careers Educational
1984 Destinations: Communications Educational
1984 Destinations: Excellence Educational
1984 Destination: Science Educational
1984 Energy in Physics Educational
1984 EPCOT Advanced Information System Educational
1984 Ethics in the Computer Age Educational
1984 Fitness and Me: How to Exercise Educational
1984 Fitness and Me: What is Fitness Exercise? Educational
1984 Fitness and Me: Why Exercise? Educational
1984 Harold and His Amazine Green Plants Educational
1984 Lights! Camera! Fractions! Educational
1984 Now I Can Tell You My Secret Educational
1984 The Challenge of Survival: Chemicals Educational
1984 The Challenge of Survival: Land Educational
1984 The Challenge of Survival: Water Educational
1985 A Time To Tell: Teen Sexual Abuse Educational
1985 Advice on Lice Educational
1985 Before It's Too Late - A Film on Teenage Suicide Educational
1985 Decimals- Whats the Point? Educational
1985 Economics By Choice Educational
1985 Expectations - A Story About Stress Educational
1985 Flight! Educational
1985 On Your Own Educational
1986 Aids Educational
1986 Simple Machines: A Moving Experience Educational

[Mr. Toad]

Armed Forces shorts

1942 Aircraft Carrier Landing Signals Armed Forces
1942 Aircraft Carrier Mat Approaches and Landings Armed Forces
1942 Aircraft Riveting Armed Forces
1942 Approaches and Landings Armed Forces
1942 Battle of Brittain Armed Forces
1942 Bending and Curving Armed Forces
1942 Blanking and Punching Armed Forces
1942 Forming Methods Armed Forces
1942 Icing Conditions Armed Forces
1942 Know Your Enemy, Germany Armed Forces
1942 Prelude to War Armed Forces
1942 Protection Against Chemical Warfare Armed Forces
1942 The Nazi's Strike Armed Forces
1942 US The Army Identification Series - WEFT Armed Forces
1942 US The Army Identification Series - WEFT and Warships Armed Forces
1943 Aeronca Project Armed Forces
1943 Air Masses and Fronts Armed Forces
1943 A Transport Command Armed Forces
1943 Aircraft Carrier Landing Qualifications Armed Forces
1943 Aircraft Welding Armed Forces
1943 Battle of China Armed Forces
1943 Battle of Russia Armed Forces
1943 Beechcraft Maintenance and Repair Armed Forces
1943 British Torpedo Plane Tactics Armed Forces
1943 Carrier Rendezvous and Breakup Armed Forces
1943 Divide and Conquer Armed Forces
1943 Fast Company Armed Forces
1943 Fixed Gunnery and Fighter Tactics Armed Forces
1943 Fog Armed Forces
1943 Glider Training Armed Forces
1943 Heat Training Armed Forces
1943 High Level Precision Bombing Armed Forces
1943 Know Your Enemy, Japan Armed Forces
1943 Lofting and Layouts Armed Forces
1943 Mnnepolis Honeywell Project Armed Forces
1943 Mock Up and Tooling Armed Forces
1943 Rules of the Nautical Road Armed Forces
1943 Substitutions and Conversion Armed Forces
1943 Template Reproduction Armed Forces
1943 The Aleutian Islands Armed Forces
1943 The Cold Front Armed Forces
1943 The Mark 13-Modification 1 Aerial Torpedo Armed Forces
1943 The Occluded Fronts Armed Forces
1943 The Warm Front Armed Forces
1943 Thunderstorms Armed Forces
1943 V.T.B. Pilot Training Armed Forces
1943 Basic Electricity Armed Forces
1944 A Few Quick Facts #7 Armed Forces
1944 Air Breaks, Principles of Operations Armed Forces
1944 Attack in the Pacific Armed Forces
1944 Automotive Electricity for Military Vehicles Armed Forces
1944 Basic Map Reading Armed Forces
1944 Battle for Cape Gloucester Armed Forces
1944 Carburation, Basic Principles Armed Forces
1944 Electric Brakes, Principles of Operation Armed Forces
1944 Flying the Weather Map Armed Forces
1944 Fundamentals of Artillery Weapens Armed Forces
1944 Howitzer, 105mm M2A1 and Carriage M2, Priciples of Ops. Armed Forces
1944 It's Your War Too Armed Forces
1944 Operations and Maintenance of the Electronic Turbo… Armed Forces
1944 The Case of the Tremendous Trifle Armed Forces
1944 The Equatorial Front Armed Forces
1944 The Howgozit Chart Armed Forces
1944 Theory of Simples and Phantom Circuits Armed Forces
1944 Tuning Transmitters Armed Forces
1944 Two Down and One to Go Armed Forces
1944 Ward Care of Psychotic Patients Armed Forces
1944 Weather at War Armed Forces
1944 Weather for the Navigator Armed Forces
1944 Your Job in Germany Armed Forces
1945 Another Chance(UN Peace Charter) Armed Forces
1945 Barma Challenge(The Stilwell Road) Armed Forces
1945 Dental Health Armed Forces
1945 On To Tokyo Armed Forces
1945 War Comes to America Armed Forces

[Mr. Toad]

Sponsor Shorts

1939 The Standard Parade Sponsor
1939 Mickey's Surprise Party Sponsor
1940 The Volunteer Worker Sponsor
1942 Four Methods of Flush Riveting Sponsor
1942 South of the Border with Disney Sponsor
1942 Food Will Win the War Sponsor
1942 Out of the Flying Pan and Into the Fire Sponsor
1943 Defence Against Invasion Sponsor
1943 The Spirit of '43 Sponsor
1943 The Winged Scourge Sponsor
1943 The Grain that Built a Hemisphere Sponsor
1944 The Amazon Awakens Sponsor
1945 Health for America: What Is Disease Sponsor
1945 Hold Your Horsepower Sponsor
1945 The New Spirit Sponsor
1945 Infant Care Sponsor
1945 Light is What You Make It Sponsor
1945 Portugese Reading Film #1 Sponsor
1945 Portugese Reading Film #2 Sponsor
1945 Prevention and Control Distortion in Arc Welding Sponsor
1945 Something You Didn't Eat Sponsor
1945 The Dawn of Better Living Sponsor
1945 The Human Body Sponsor
1945 The Right Spark Plug in the Right Place Sponsor
1945 The Unseen Enemy Sponsor
1945 Tuburculus Sponsor
1945 Health for the Americas: Cleanliness Brings Health Sponsor
1945 Hookworm Sponsor
1945 Insects as Carriers of Disease Sponsor
1945 How Disease Travels Sponsor
1946 Bathing Time For Baby Sponsor
1946 Environmental Sanitation Sponsor
1946 Health for the Americas: Planning for Good Eating Sponsor
1946 Jet Propolsion Sponsor
1946 The ABCs of Hand Tools Sponsor
1946 The Building of the Tire Sponsor
1946 Treasure from the Sea Sponsor
1946 A Feather In His Collar Sponsor
1946 The Story of Menstration Sponsor
1951 How to Catch A Cold Sponsor
1986 Portraits of Canada Sponsor
1965 Steel and America Sponsor
Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios Sponsor
1943 Water, Friend or Enemy Sponsor

[Mr. Toad]

Theme Park Shorts

1989 Back to Neverland Theme Park
1989 Cranium Command Theme Park
1989 The Makng of Me Theme Park
2004 Mickey's Philharmagic Theme Park

[Mr. Toad]

National Film Board of Canada shorts

1941 Thrifty Pig NFBC
1941 The Seven Wise Dwarfs NFBC
1942 Boys Anti-Tank Rifle NFBC
1942 Donald's Decision NFBC
1942 All Together NFBC

Nothing like encouraging Boys to use anti tank guns.

[MK Sharp]

Somehow I can't see a DVD set made up of those films being a particularly riveting viewing experience (even if it does include Four Methods Of Flush Riveting).

I'm with Lars on this one. The priority is getting the theatrical shorts released. Anything after that is a bonus.

But if Disney are having difficulty shifting sets of Donald Duck, I can't see that they'd have much faith in the sales potential of a batch of films like Hygiene In Germany: Now Wash Your Hans...

[chadhobbick]

I think educational shorts would work better as an exclusive, like from the Disney Movie Club. They could break them up into 2-disc volumes, of course there would be a lot of volumes, but that would work. I just don't see the public demand being there in the Treasures line or any other line.

[bambi_nl]

I think educational shorts would work better as an exclusive, like from the Disney Movie Club. They could break them up into 2-disc volumes, of course there would be a lot of volumes, but that would work. I just don't see the public demand being there in the Treasures line or any other line.

I would be quite disappointed if I didn't have the chance to even think of buying these shorts. I live in The Netherlands (Europe), so I am not able to join the Disney Movie Club and order any DMC exclusives.
So for that matter, I would rather have them in a Treasures release or any other form available to the general public.

[Billy Moon]

Oh, you thought I was talking about those. Nope.

But I'd love to get the "theatrical semi-educational" shorts as well as the Jiminy Cricket "I'm No Fool" etc. cartoons on DVD.

[musicradio77]

The Oswald DVD's are the ones that I've never seen before. These were all the Oswald cartoons from 1926 until 1927 where Walt Disney first did Oswald. After Walt gave up the character, he created Mickey Mouse.

After Walt created Mickey, the Oswald cartoons continued where Universal brought in Walter Lantz to do the later shorts until 1943. Lantz created such characters as Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda and Chilly Willy after he was doing the later Oswald cartoons from the post-Walt era.

The Oswald shorts from both the Walt and post-Walt eras including a bio could be found on the Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia site:

http://lantz.goldenagecartoons.com/profiles/oswald

There was only one Oswald cartoon that it is in the Public Domain which is "The Mechanical Cow". It had the TV titles featured the post-Walt Oswald. It was made by Walt Disney, and as I said, it's still in PD.

[Big Disney Fan]

I have a feeling the Donald set will be arranged thus:

DISC ONE
1. Straight Shooters (1947)
2. Sleepy Time Donald (1947)
3. Donald's Dilemma (1947)
4. Bootle Beetle (1947)
5. Wide Open Spaces (1947)
6. Chip an' Dale (1947)
7. Drip Dippy Donald (1948)
8. Daddy Duck (1948)
9. Donald's Dream Voice (1948)
10. The Trial of Donald Duck (1948)
11. Inferior Decorator (1948)
12. Soup's On (1948)
FROM THE VAULT
13. Clown of the Jungle (1947) (Scenes with attempted suicide and gunplay)
14. Crazy With the Heat (1947) (Scenes with Arab)
15. Three For Breakfast (1948) (Chinese stereotypes)
16. Tea For Two Hundred (1948) (African stereotypes)

DISC TWO
17. Sea Salts (1949)
18. Winter Storage (1949)
19. Honey Harvester (1949)
20. All In a Nutshell (1949)
21. The Greener Yard (1949)
22. Slide, Donald, Slide (1949)
23. Lion Around (1950)
24. Crazy Over Daisy (1950)
25. Trailer Horn (1950)
26. Hook, Lion and Sinker (1950)
27. Bee At the Beach (1950)
28. Out On a Limb (1950)
FROM THE VAULT
29. Donald's Happy Birthday (1949) (Smoking scenes)
30. Toy Tinkers (1949) (Gunplay scenes)

What do you think?

[ichabod]

I would be quite disappointed if I didn't have the chance to even think of buying these shorts. I live in The Netherlands (Europe), so I am not able to join the Disney Movie Club and order any DMC exclusives.
So for that matter, I would rather have them in a Treasures release or any other form available to the general public.

The chances of the Jiminy Crickets and the educational shorts featuring Donald etc are the most likely to see the light of day, but to be honest I doubt the other films will ever see the light of day, and we should be glad to have the couple on the "On the Front Lines DVD".

Most were the 40s/50s equivalents of "How to manuals" and hold little enetertainment value, most consisting of basically a simple run through of how people should do their job.

Quite frankly I get bored reading the Ikea instruction manuals or how to insert FlugenHerfen A into Spaarts Borgen B, so a DVD of about 50 shorts along the same line I doubt would get much replay

Most have never been seen by the public and short of a miracle I doubt they'll appear.

[bambi_nl]

I would be quite disappointed if I didn't have the chance to even think of buying these shorts. I live in The Netherlands (Europe), so I am not able to join the Disney Movie Club and order any DMC exclusives.
So for that matter, I would rather have them in a Treasures release or any other form available to the general public.

The chances of the Jiminy Crickets and the educational shorts featuring Donald etc are the most likely to see the light of day, but to be honest I doubt the other films will ever see the light of day, and we should be glad to have the couple on the "On the Front Lines DVD".

Most were the 40s/50s equivalents of "How to manuals" and hold little enetertainment value, most consisting of basically a simple run through of how people should do their job.

Quite frankly I get bored reading the Ikea instruction manuals or how to insert FlugenHerfen A into Spaarts Borgen B, so a DVD of about 50 shorts along the same line I doubt would get much replay

Most have never been seen by the public and short of a miracle I doubt they'll appear.

I agree on the fact that most of these educational shorts are not entertaining enough to be released. It is nice to see some of this work on the On The Frontlines set, but I cannot say that "Four methods of flush riveting" is quite entertaining. It is nice as an example of the work the studios did during WOII, but I do agree that a complete set with this sort of material is not something I would request.
On the other hand, the Jiminy shorts (though I haven't seen any) can be entertaining I guess.

But I do stand at my point that when these shorts are released, I want to have the option to buy them or not. Releasing them as a DMC exclusive does not give me the option. "Officially" any R1 release is out of my reach, but long live region free DVD players

[slave2moonlight]

Theme Park Shorts

1989 Back to Neverland Theme Park
1989 Cranium Command Theme Park
1989 The Makng of Me Theme Park
2004 Mickey's Philharmagic Theme Park

Not sure if they'd be called shorts, but I'd want to see Captain Eo on this list and any other films as they become availabe (as in, not being used anymore), like the current Star Tours Footage, Honey We Shrunk the Audience, atc... I definitely would love to see this stuff on some kind of a DVD release!

[slave2moonlight]

Of course, a lot of that educational stuff might not be worth owning, but I'd have to say some of it definitely needs to be released, like the stuff that was considered worthy of Disney Channel airings. In other words, the Jiminy Cricket shorts, the What Should I Do series, Harold and his Amazing Green Plants, and two that aren't on the list for whatever reason (unless I missed them), Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons and Scrooge McDuck and Money. I thought at least the Pooh one fell under the educational shorts list, and I think the McDuck short could be called appropriate for an educational shorts DVD set. Anyway, all those titles are on my "must have" list, but there are others I wouldn't mind seeing from that list for curiosity's sake. Not to mention I have heard there was an educational short with Alice (in Wonderland), and I'd love to get that one if it's true. Not sure if it's on the list, as I forget the title.

[edigrieg]

@BigDisneyFan

With your Fault-Fiction for disc one I agree ... Maltin loves to pick out even the tiniest bits of stereotypic things. In some "vault-stuff" I still search for the reason why And this Araquan short really has violent parts.

For disc two, well ... in my eye this smoking scene expresses that smoking IS bad for you, similar to "Donald's better self", so maybe Maltin will have "good thoughts" about it. And for the gunplay-thing : There's much weapon-handling in many cartoons, for example the nasty lion and the tons of lead in his private part After all, they're CARTOONS, damn !!

>>from A German, who can't stand that L.Martin babbling

[Gurgi30]

Assuming we get a Vol. 4 of Donald Duck, which we should, do you think it will include his animated features like Mickey's 4th disc did? I certainly hope so but with Disney you never know.

I'm thinking of his roles in Saludos Amigos, Three Caballeros, Melody Time, and Donald in Mathmagic Land. I have the last one and I missed out on the first two (err).

Anyways, what do you guys and gals think?

[yamiiguy]

Anybody know the best way to get one without a dent or the best site? I usually get my WDT's from DVDPacific.com for about £10.94 + P&P to the UK but one came with a dent...

[Mr. Toad]

Assuming we get a Vol. 4 of Donald Duck, which we should, do you think it will include his animated features like Mickey's 4th disc did? I certainly hope so but with Disney you never know.

I'm thinking of his roles in Saludos Amigos, Three Caballeros, Melody Time, and Donald in Mathmagic Land. I have the last one and I missed out on the first two (err).

Anyways, what do you guys and gals think?

There have been less average cartoons per set with Donald than Mickey and there are a couple of more Donald cartoons than Mickey so no room for features. Might have room for Donald in Mathmagic land.

[Mr. Toad]

@BigDisneyFan

With your Fault-Fiction for disc one I agree ... Maltin loves to pick out even the tiniest bits of stereotypic things. In some "vault-stuff" I still search for the reason why And this Araquan short really has violent parts.

For disc two, well ... in my eye this smoking scene expresses that smoking IS bad for you, similar to "Donald's better self", so maybe Maltin will have "good thoughts" about it. And for the gunplay-thing : There's much weapon-handling in many cartoons, for example the nasty lion and the tons of lead in his private part After all, they're CARTOONS, damn !!

>>from A German, who can't stand that L.Martin babbling

Actually I have been able to figure out why each and every cartoon belonged in the Vault and as a parent of a 1 and 4 year old I appreciate the effort of the Vault and the explanation of why the depictions enclosed is wrong. I still find myself watching the other cartoons in advance to screen them in advance/