I just watched Melody Time on Disney+ and was surprised to see that the Pecos Bill segment is not censored! They left the cigarette in and even the scene where he rolls one and uses lightning to light it is still included.
YES!!!!!!! I'm so glad you're back!!!!!! So, I have to say I think I'd consider Melody Time to be my favorite film from the wartime era. To think that the segments are almost completely different, yet each of them had the ability to keep my interest. I think my favorite segment would be the Legend of Johnny Appleseed. Anyway, glad you're back!
Glad to be back, and hopefully the mail won't mess with my stuff anymore! And yeah, Melody Time really is a cool blend of a lot of different styles, and like I pointed out in the review, it's sort of a compilation of all of the best elements of the other Wartime Era films
You should mention the influence of Mary Blair on this production, whose art influenced many of the sequences, including Trees, Johnny Appleseed, and Once Upon a Wintertime. Indeed, this film I think best illustrates and articulates her artistic vision.
Again, as a package film, Melody Time can only remind me of what World War 2 did to Walt Disney's movies. It only reminds me of events happening that should never have happened. This time, for Melody Time, the projects I prefer are Johnny Appleseed, Little Toot and Pecos Bill. Little Toot stars a child tugboat, which again I wish could have had a child voice like Pinocchio did. Johnny Appleseed kind of reminds me of westerns, but gives away why Pecos Bill is the project I like the most from Melody Time. Pecos Bill is clearly a cowboy, and he is clearly riding a horse in what is clearly a desert. I also find it impressive that one cowboy is able to stop a tornado. As for the smoking, Pinocchios' scene wasn't supposed to "glamorize" smoking. It was supposed to show the symptoms of smoking: watery eyes, shortness of breath and dizziness. These symptoms show children WHY smoking is so bad, and gives them reason to AVOID smoking. Pecos Bill made smoking look like a perfectly fine pastime with no bad side effects whatsoever. This made Pecos Bill's smoking a bad influence.
Joe, I agree with you on the "Sing About Something." I mean I think he would've gotten away with it because it was a kid's film, but is definitely the most uncreative name I have ever heard in my entire life.
Well you've convinced me another stack of musical shorts is worth tracking down. But I'll still be grateful to get back to your reviews of full feature films. LOL.
Ironically, the reason why Once Upon a Wintertime was familiar to me before I had ever seen Melody Time years ago was because clips from the short were used in a sing along of Jingle Bells that I had on VHS as a kid.
Baby Dogson Well for the forseeable future, I'm good through Cinderella, so that gives me about a month of cushion. Surprisingly my DVD collection is smaller than you'd imagine, mainly because I grew up in the VHS era (had juuuuust about every movie on VHS), but I do have a majority of the more modern films on DVD.
Joe The Disney Guy Yay! And in the meantime, until you get Alice in Wonderland, will we, perhaps, be seeing any more episodes of Disney History or Influential People?
Baby Dogson Oh most certainly. Sometime this week I'll be making my schedule for the next 3 months or so, which will give me a better idea of exactly what and when things are happening
i was honestly surprised by how good this movie is. much better than Make Mine Music Once Upon A Wintertime: 9/10 (starts off a little slow, but when the instrumental part kicks in, it's like "oh yeah, Fantasia time! WOOOOOH!") Bumble Boogie: 9/10 (like After You've Gone from Make Mine Music, it's a little bit too short, but it is an awesome short with awesome animation, a trait of this movie, and awesome music) The Legend Of Johnny Appleseed: 9/10 (great music, great animation, great story, just love it) Little Toot: 8/10 (not a big fan, but still good) Trees: 8.5/10 (would have given it an 8, but the animation is so superb) Blame It On The Samba: 8/10 (a little too The Three Caballeros for me, but still good) Pecos Bill: 8.5/10 (a little weird at times, but it's still really good) overall, i give Melody Time an 8/10. i'd give it a bit higher, but the choppiness of the movie drops it a little
Full Voice Actor List Dennis Day: Johnny Appleseed - Dallas McKennon: Johnny's Angel - Buddy Clark: A Narrator - Clarence Nash: Donald Duck - Jose Oliviera: Jose Carioca - Pinto Colvig: The Aracuan Bird - Frances Langford: Another Narrator - The Andrews Sisters: Three Narrators
Oh wow that was fast considering you're DVD was lost, I love the documentary style of these video's :) Thinking on starting my own DVD collection now after I see how much time and energy the creators behind these movies put in those movies, i think it's well worth the money
Thanks, and I'm glad you thought it was a short turnaround because it felt like forever for me haha. And yeah, one of the major benefits of doing these is that I can, in effect, add to my collection, which is totally fine by me
Joe The Disney Guy Can you do your next video on Clarence Nash or just a video on Donald's history as a character? It'd be a great tie in to Donald's 80th anniversary being this month. Thanks for bringing us good videos. Keep em' comin'.
Someone's been reading my notes.....haha Actually yes, I am planning on doing something Donald themed for his 80th birthday (it'll likely be towards the end of the month. Making my schedule this week so I'll know more in a few days). And I'm also planning a series where we look at the histories and characteristics of specific characters, so once that gets more finalized, you'll start to see those coming out
+BigBossMan538 To a point. Obviously it's various shorts tied together, but the idea of it being a concert, I think, puts it into a separate category, though I'm not going to tell anyone they're wrong if they classify Fantasia as a package film either
Fantasia is definitely a package film. It is just a bunch of shorts combined together in a film. Then it adds an orchestra as a framing device. Three Caballeros is package film, and that seems more cohesive to me. Fantasia is released before Dumbo and Bambi though. So it is a Golden Age Disney movie. The other package movies are in the next age, which is the Wartime Age.
Great review; I remember seeing the Once Upon a Wintertime segment as a kid, but I don't think I saw the rest. Might check them out sometime. 5:55 The reason why the smoking wasn't cut out was because of the time period. When 101 Dalmatians and films like that were made, a kid seeing someone light up wasn't a big deal. It wasn't until the 80s and especially the 90s when the laws got strict. In fact, if you show someone smoke on a show or movie now, it could aim up the rating to PG 13 or higher. It put the creators in hot water, even risking cancellation if it was intended for a family audience (in fact, Alex Hirsch, the creator of Gravity Falls, wanted to show Grunkle Stan smoke on the show, but couldn't because that exact reason. Alex even joked about some of the absurd rules he had to follow while making the show like making sure arrows in one scene did not look like the Target logo...I am not kidding about that). Because of this, you either don't show it at all or edit it out. Even 4Kids is famous for this exact kind of things since when they brought over shows like Yu-Gi-Oh DM, they had to edit out things like guns and cigarettes, making for some funny edits. Mainly the invisible guns. Honestly, I think it's a complicated situation, but I don't blame creators for it. Sometimes you have to make hard choices when it comes to these sorts of situations. I do agree; there should be a uncensored version, so adults and teens can see the original if they so desire. (I wish they did that with YGO, but that's another topic). As for why smoking wasn't cut out in the other movies you mentioned (Pinocchio, The Three Caballeros , etc) , my guess is that they were from older copies of the movies that came out before these laws were put in place. If they were rereleased to Blu-ray or turned live-action like they are doing with a lot of the other movies, they would be forced to censor it or scrap that aspect completely.
Yes I remember Pecos Bill years ago when watching on Disney Channel along with Two Gun Goofy and El Gaucho Goofy that was bundled with Pecos Bill on a The Wonderful World of Color called "How the West was Lost" episode with a cowboy duck named Ruff Old Timer. It was aired on September 24, 1967. Overall, Melody Time was a great Disney Film. If anyone has the episode, let me know.
What 1998!? I thought it had been released at the latest the early '90s. So I was 6 when I first saw it, I still remember distinctively watching it over and over with my sister, then watching it again by myself cause I loved it so much lol.
I hope if/when Make Mine Music and Melody Time get released on blu-ray that they are uncensored. If not I will stick to my uncensored dvds I imported from the UK. Sadly it's hard to imagine The Martins and the Coys being included on the blu with all the mass shootings these days.
Oh man, that would be something. I actually have a pretty hefty VHS collection from my childhood, but now that I make my own money, my DVD collection is something to behold haha
Thanks, and oh man, there were about 37 Disney animated classics, I'm saying I had somewhere in the neighborhood of 28. I probably still have a majority of them at home somewhere
Joe The Disney Guy If Tarzan is 37, then I think I had them all except for Saludos Amigos. I watched the crap out of them to. They're all fading away so I need to start replacing my library on Blu-Ray/DVD.
Right? I had to extra fact check that one just to make sure it was real. They definitely were getting a bit lazy with names in this time period it seems
