VHS : Melody Time (Fully Restored 50th Anniversary Special Edition) (Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection)
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starring: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dennis Day, The Andrews Sisters, Fred Waring and His Pennsylvaniansdirected by: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney, Wilfred Jackson
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780788812446
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, THX
ISBN: 0788812440
Label: Walt Disney Home Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video
Release Date: June 02, 1998
Running Time: 72 minutes
Sales Rank: 7221
Studio: Walt Disney Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 27, 1948
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This is another collection of Disney shorts set to music, but this time the formula works. That's predicated on the inherent strength of the individual pieces and almost all of them come through. Surprisingly, two American folk heroes, Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill, are the stars of this show, with rousty little tunes, humor, and compelling linear story lines (a rarity in most of these shorts). Even the shorts that are weak in one area, thematically or musically, make up for it in another. There's very little of the Disney animators attempting to be 1940s modern, thank goodness, and there's a sterling quality in the depth of the art work. A definite plus to an animation (or Disney) collection. --Keith Simanton
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Melody Time
It is a great video for going down memory lane,and also a great educational video of great music and artistry of great cartoons. Real creativity, education, and entertainment all wrapped up in one package.
Rating: - Why, Disney, WHY???
I was SO looking forward to this. I was born in the late 50's and grew up watching Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill on The Wonderful World of Disney. The opportunity to introduce my son to a cowboy who rode the cyclone was just too good to be true. Turns out, it really WAS too good to be true.
Why has Disney decided to hack up all their old stuff? Why can't they leave the old films as they were created? Everyone KNOWS the times were different. What's next? Will the ever-present ... Read More
Rating:  - Pecos Bill
It was great fun seeing and hearing Pecos Bill again. About 55 years ago I had a "book" with pictures to follow the story of Pecos Bill while listening to 45 records. I had never seen the short movie. I don't remember his cigarette until reading other reviews. The other shorts were fun too.
Rating: - LOVE THIS ONE, BOUGHT IT, BUT...PLEASE, ENOUGH
political correctness which is so lame today anyway (removing Pecos Bill's cigarette), if anyone knows about or has seen some of the video games out now that show hearts being ripped out, massacres everywhere, this is a kitten's picnic by comparison, even with the cigarette.
As I sat writhing in agony watching the Whoopie Goldberg apologia before the start of every single Looney Tunes cartoon on one DVD set I own, I just had to wonder; WHY???? YES< we KNOW about the older times and the way things ... Read More
Rating:  - Clipped wings can't fly
They've cut it up - it's not the real deal. Unless you like watching R movies cut for TV, or eating cereal without milk, or non-alcoholic beer, or "mild" salsa, don't buy this desecration.
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