Oscar-Winning and Nominated Disney Shorts Collection Coming

[Super Leviathan]

From Jerry Beck at CartoonBrew.com

Yesterday, Amid and I joined Roy Disney, Don Hahn, David Stainton, Leonard Maltin and several others at a preview screening of a wonderful new Disney short, THE LITTLE MATCHGIRL, based on the classic Hans Christian Andersen story. We'll discuss the film in a forthcoming post... but while there we heard some news we hadn't read elsewhere: Starting this summer, Disney will be making all its Oscar-winning (and Oscar-nominated) shorts available on iTunes - for Internet downloading to iPods and the like. Yes, Der Fuehrer's Face will be available to carry around in your hand - along with The Three Little Pigs and Destino. The films willl be released in waves and not all at the same. At the same time, a DVD boxed set will be released with the same content. This is great news. It'll be fun to have It's Tough To Be a Bird on my iPod.

This really IS great news,

[SATXMo]

Hello friends,

I just read this over at Cartoon Brew, posting from Jerry Beck. Note the hint about Destino on DVD:

DISNEY ON IPOD
Posted by JERRY at 09:03 AM

Yesterday, Amid and I joined Roy Disney, Don Hahn, David Stainton, Leonard Maltin and several others at a preview screening of a wonderful new Disney short, THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL. We'll discuss the film in a forthcoming post... but while there we heard some news we hadn't read elsewhere: Starting this summer, Disney will be making all its Oscar-winning (and Oscar-nominated) shorts available on iTunes - for Internet downloading to iPods and the like. Yes, Der Fuehrer's Face will be available to carry around in your hand - along with The Three Little Pigs and Destino. The films willl be released in waves and not all at the same. At the same time, a DVD boxed set will be released with the same content. This is great news. It'll be fun to have It's Tough To Be a Bird on my iPod.

[Super Leviathan]

Using Wikipedia.org, I was able to create a list of all the Relevant Films, All of Which Won or were Nominated for the Oscar in the Category of Animated Short films (The Only Exception is Donald in MAthemagic Land, which was nominated in the category of Documentaries)

1. Mickey’s Orphans (Nominee, 1931)
2. Flowers and Trees (Winner, 1932)
3. Three Little Pigs (Winner, 1933)
4. Building a Building (Nominee, 1933)
5. The Tortoise and The Hare (Winner, 1934)
6. Three Orphan Kittens (Winner, 1935)
7. Who Killed Cock Robin (Nominee, 1935)
8. The Country Cousin (Winner, 1936)
9. The Old Mill (Winner, 1937)
10. Ferdinand The Bull (Winner, 1938)
11. The Brave Little Tailor (Nominee, 1938)
12. Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (Nominee, 1938)
13. Good Scouts (Nominee, 1938)
14. The Ugly Duckling (Winner, 1939)
15. The Pointer (Nominee, 1939)
16. Lend a Paw (Winner, 1941)
17. Truant Officer Donald (Nominee, 1941)
18. Der Fuehrer’s Face (Winner, 1942)
19. Reason and Emotion (Nominee, 1943)
20. How To Play Football (Nominee, 1944)
21. Donald’s Crime (Nominee, 1945)
22. Squatter’s Rights (Nominee, 1946)
23. Chip an’ Dale (Nominee, 1947)
24. Pluto’s Blue Note (Nominee, 1947)
25. Mickey and the Seal (Nominee, 1948)
26. Tea For Two Hundred (Nominee, 1948)
27. Toy Tinkers (Nominee, 1949)
28. Lambert, The Sheepish Lion (Nominee, 1951)
29.Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom ( Winner, 1953)
30. Rugged Bear (Nominee, 1953)
31. Pigs is Pigs (Nominee, 1954)
32. No Hunting (Nominee, 1955)
33. The Truth About Mother Goose (Nominee, 1957)
34. Paul Bunyan (Nominee, 1958)
35. Noah’s Ark (Nominee, 1959)
36. Donald in Mathmagic Land (Nominee, 1959)
37. Goliath II (Nominee, 1960
38. Aquamania (Nominee, 1961)
39. A Symposium on Popular songs (Nominee, 1962)
40. Winnie The Pooh and the Blustery Day (Winner, 1968)
41. It’s Tough To Be a Bird (Winner, 1969)
42. Winnie The Pooh and Tigger Too (Nominee, 1974)
43. Mickey’s Christmas Carol (Nominee, 1983)
44. Runaway Brain (Nominee, 1995)
45. Redux Riding Hood (nominee, 1998)
46. Destino (Nominee, 2003)
47. Lorenzo (Nominee, 2004)

[I am the Doctor]

Like the idea of downloadable shorts, it might actually make go out and buy an IPod. Better yet, I like the idea of a DVD of all those shorts. Granted, many of them are already available on DVD, but there are several that are not (Three Orphan Kittens immediately comes to mind, along with Destino). I wonder if this will be included in the next wave of Treasures.

[matthewgb]

My interest is piqued for a release of Mother Goose goes Hollywood and No Hunting.

[deathie mouse]

maybe this may be a chance to get a few of the repeated shorts remastered in a better way than in the treasures too?

[Douglas Fir]

Can downloadable ipod videos be viewed on a PC? I don't have an ipod at the moment but would be willing to pay to download some of those shorts if I could watch them on my PC.

I would also definitely consider buying DVDs too - although I would prefer maybe a boxset with all of them on rather than several releases.

[PatrickvD]

I hope stuff like John Henry, Destino, Lorenzo, The Three Pigs and The Little Match Girl make it to this dvd. The general audience never really gets to see them. And I'm not paying to see crap like Raising Helen to get to see one.

[Tannerman]

Can downloadable ipod videos be viewed on a PC?

Yes, they can be watched via iTunes.