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I was just wondering if anybody out there has ever heard of this release from Disney from 1964. I came across a pressbook for it in my searching the net, and I confess I've never heard of it before.
On the Classic Live Action Disney Films(Pre-1980) List on this website, it's not listed at all.
Anyway, I was just curious, as I thought I had known all of the live action titles that Disney had put out during that era.


Scott

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I have that pressbook, but for quick reference, I noted that Dave Smith has an entry in his Disney A to Z Encyclopedia. It was a 48-minute live-action featurette released in 1964.

Disney could do a whole series of Treasures with live-action featurettes such as this one. There were many others, along with the People and Places series in the 1950s.

disneyrecordfan wrote:I have that pressbook, but for quick reference, I noted that Dave Smith has an entry in his Disney A to Z Encyclopedia. It was a 48-minute live-action featurette released in 1964.

Disney could do a whole series of Treasures with live-action featurettes such as this one. There were many others, along with the People and Places series in the 1950s.

Thanks for the response! Well at least now I know that it was not a feature release that was missing from the Disney Live Action list.

Also, do you have projection instructions in that pressbook for that release? Over on the 60's and 70's Aspect Ratios thread, Disneyfella and I have been hunting for/ collecting pressbooks. We have been posting aspect ratio instructions from the pressbooks so as to get as much of a complete list of the feature films Disney put out in their correct theatrical ratios. If you have any other pressbooks with those instructions, do check out that thread and let us know.

Thanks,

Scott

I'll see if I can find it and see what is says about the projection aspect ratio. My guess is that it was not widescreen. The 48-minute running time suggests that this was one that was filmed for either TV release or theatrical release and they liked it enough to put it out theatrically. There were a number of 1960s productions that would be filmed and then where it ended up - tv or theaters - was decided post production.

disneyrecordfan wrote:I'll see if I can find it and see what is says about the projection aspect ratio. My guess is that it was not widescreen. The 48-minute running time suggests that this was one that was filmed for either TV release or theatrical release and they liked it enough to put it out theatrically. There were a number of 1960s productions that would be filmed and then where it ended up - tv or theaters - was decided post production.

Yeah, I went back and looked at those scans of the pressbook, and see that it was shown with the Disney feature Emil and the Detectives.

Anyway, thanks for looking into that pressbook of yours. Even though I have been concentrating on the feature films of that era, it makes you wonder how many, if not all, of those films had featurettes, whether live-action or animated, shown before the main presentation. And on DVD/blu releases of all these films, why can't they put the original featurettes that were shown before them. It should be a simple thing to do...


Scott

There were actually many featurettes or short films paired with the features, all the way through the early 1970s.

In fact, some of the package films were dissected and you could find rereleases into the "modern" era; for example, "The Madcap Adventures of Mr. Toad" was a featurette in front one of the 1970s releases.

I also have a list from the archives where you can match up the dates to see which rereleased short or which featurette was paired with a feature.

It's actually important to note or keep track of, although I guess most folks don't outside the archives, because for audiences who remember seeing those pictures, it was part of the overall experience. I was a little boy at the time, but my mom actually took me to see "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too" because it was paired with "Island at the Top of the World." Four-year-old me was frightened or confused by much of that one, but I'm sure I enjoyed Pooh!

I thought the title of this post was the new name change of "Rapunzel" to attract more boys............