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wdwleesa wrote:Sure wish I could see Song of the South again on the big screen. At that age, I didn't realize what a masterpiece it was and now, that masterpiece is locked away. Really sad.

It is sad, especially for us that have never even seen Song of the South or So Dear to My Heart.

Captain Hook wrote:

wdwleesa wrote:Sure wish I could see Song of the South again on the big screen. At that age, I didn't realize what a masterpiece it was and now, that masterpiece is locked away. Really sad.

It is sad, especially for us that have never even seen Song of the South or So Dear to My Heart.

you can always get a bootleg but So Dear To My Heart is coming soon this year or early next

Bootleg??? I can't believe that you would suggest such a thing!!! Anyway, can you rent either, or are they unavailable on VHS also?

Captain Hook wrote:Bootleg??? I can't believe that you would suggest such a thing!!! Anyway, can you rent either, or are they unavailable on VHS also?

So Dear to my Heart has been available on VHS before, SOTS hasn't.

I think it's a shame that Disney should lock away its movies. If I owned Disney the first movie to come out would be the unedited Fantasia along with Song of the South!

Okay, thanks for the info MMB. I'll check out SDTMH (I didn't feel like writing it all out)

gosh this is a tough question...really tough! I mean wow...um...I'd say prolly..hmmm lemme go ask...well mum is asleep, I'm thinkin the Little Mermaid....but yea hard question!

Welcome to the forums, Reagan!

Maerj wrote:

Captain Hook wrote:Okay, that's good to know. The reason I asked is becaues the VHS copy of Pocahontas was better than the DVD version - it wasn't in widescreen but it was much less grainy and a better color quality.

I now really want to see Black Cauldron! I'll go rent it sometime.

That is really weird about the crappy Pocahontas quality on the DVD. I noticed it too, there are bootleg DVDs out there that are better.

Black Cauldron was one of Disney's stranger Animated Classics... it just has a very different feel than all the others. It's definitely interesting to see although you may not like it.

Just a side note on this film and other from that time period and before. Has anyone else noticed that the Disney animated films from the 1970's and early 80's have really weird sound? It sort of sounds like it is muffled or something, I don't know. I just noticed that they sound different for some reason. Anyone else notice it?

you must remember, it where straings times back then. haha

not everyone was out of the sky with their head.
But yes the sound is a bit of.
but,... that mean not that the movies are, the movies are (and allways willl be) great stuff.

The first Disney movie I ever saw was The Litte Mermaid in 1989 when I was two. I loved it so much...many of my kindergarden drawings were of Ariel. (My mom recenty found them). Mom also said she took me to see Beauty and the Beast a few years later, but funny thing is, I don't remember it. (Recently though, I bought the dvd and now it is one of my favorite movies ) I also remember loving Aladdin and the Lion King when I got a little older, and Pocahontas during middle school. Now, as a high schooler, it seems I am almost referring back to my childhood since The Little Mermaid has become my favorite once again.

Mermaid Kelly wrote: Now, as a high schooler, it seems I am almost referring back to my childhood since The Little Mermaid has become my favorite once again.

You're never too old for Disney Magic.

I loved the film then (as a High School senior), but the memories faded a bit. I bought the LE DVD in 2000 for my daughter (then a month shy of being born) and over the last year she has watched it no less than 200 times...and I never get tired of it. She'll be three in a few weeks and I pray she loves the movie (and other Disney classics) as much when she's my age (31) as I do.

my first disney film seen in a theater was bambi. i was very young, it was a re-release sometime in the early 80's. my second one was sleeping beauty. i remember that one better, i was 7 or 8. there is nothing like viewing the classics on the big screen. i feel lucky i can say that these treasures were my first 2 big screen disney views

I can't remember if it was The Great Mouse Detective or The Little Mermaid. Either way, I was a both fan of both as a youngin'.

in the theater my first was "the great mouse detective" i loved that movie. and on tv every saturday Walt Disney Presents would come on and i'd watch it religiously. also, every sunday, the wonderful world of Disney came on. i really do miss those days. that was just the 1980's. why aren't Walt Disney Presents and Disneyland and all the other shows still in syndication? i guess so they can charge us to buy the dvds/videos. (that is if they ever release all that great stuff)

donaldduckfan wrote: ... and on tv every saturday Walt Disney Presents would come on and i'd watch it religiously. also, every sunday, the wonderful world of Disney came on. i really do miss those days. that was just the 1980's.

As a fellow "child of the 80s" (born in '72) I know exactly how you feel. I loved those Saturday-Sunday viewings!

indianajdp wrote:

donaldduckfan wrote: ... and on tv every saturday Walt Disney Presents would come on and i'd watch it religiously. also, every sunday, the wonderful world of Disney came on. i really do miss those days. that was just the 1980's.

As a fellow "child of the 80s" (born in '72) I know exactly how you feel. I loved those Saturday-Sunday viewings!

I wish I had seen them. Hopefully someday they'll come on DVD.... hopefully in my lifetime!!!

The first Disney movie I saw was Beauty and The Beast in 1991 or 1992,I don't remember.Now I'm 13 years old,and have seen these Disney movies
in theatres in this order:

Beauty and The Beast
Toy Story
Oliver and Company(Re-issue)
Mulan
Lilo and Stitch
Treasure Planet
The Jungle Book 2
Spirited Away(Re-issue)
Finding Nemo

G'Day!

my first disney movie that i watched in the theaters was "Beauty and the Beast." i saw it twice that year because i fell in love with the movie. as far as the first disney movie i ever saw, i reallly can't remember but i do remember watching "Cinderella" a lot when i was little. so i would have to say "Cinderella" was my first disney movie ever.

i can tell you the last disney movie i saw most recently. i just sat through "the rescuers" for the first time just yesterday. i got it from DMC.

My parents took me to see a rerelease of Cinderella as an infant. It was my first ever trip to a theater. Coincidentally, Cinderella was the first movie I ever saw on VCR! The first Disney film I remember seeing in the theater was the Aristocats.

This is such a difficult question to answer!!

I'm 32, a kid of the 70s, coming of age in the 80s, entering adulthood in the 90s. I grew up watching (and loving) The Wonderful World of Disney, Sunday nights on NBC. From there I pretty much got most of my first exposures to Disney movies. I distinctly remember watching The Sword in the Stone, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Cinderella (among others) on that show. I also saw a lot of Disney's "Double Features" in the theaters (my favorite having been a two-fer of The Rescuers and Three Caballeros).

And as we lived (and still do) in Florida, we vacationed at WDW every year. The resorts would always have screenings of the animated films as well as some of the live action; I remember going to the "Child Care" center in the Contemporary Hotel and watching 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea in their theater, as well as Ichabod Crane and a *ton* of animated shorts.

So what was my first Disney movie? I haven't the slightest.

But I will tell you my first Disney movie experience that was truly magical to me: seeing a double-feature of The Jungle Book and Unidentified Flying Oddball at a drive-in theater near Waterbury, Connecticut when I was 8. I kind of like Oddball a lot, but I was bugf**k crazy over Jungle Book. Still am!

Alice in Wonderland was my first Disney movie, on video to be precise. The first Disney movie (or all-round movie) I saw in cinemas was Cinderella during a re-release in England in March 1991 when I was almost three.