Decades later...the five year old in me hears this, and starts to tear. I loved everything about babes and toyland circa 1961. Disney at it's greatest.
Oh dude same! Hearing and seeing the toys in Disneyland marching around I'm like "don't tear up, don't tear up!" Seriously, literally every time I see them, and I go a lot!
I love this movie, Can you imagine all the hours in stop motion it took. True pioneers with a lot of these old movies, Who says computer animation is better..not me.
Not me. I submit that CGI is inferior to stop motion photography. It somehow seems cold and heartless. EDIT: Did you notice how the toy drummers were in perfect time with the live drums? I wonder how long it took them to do that! This whole scene is a masterpiece of art!
This was the best part of the movie for me. This and the battle that followed. When I was a little kid, watching our recording of this movie on VHS, this part just drove me insane. I loved it so much I was begging my parents to tell Santa I wanted the toy boat with the cannon on it, the one that you pulled the sailor's head and it fired. Even now, over twenty years later, I still love this scene to death. It's just...so awesome.
Personally it gives me tremendous excitement to see these scenes, mainly because my grandfather (already deceased) was a military man and also a musician (he even directed the Valdivia War Band in southern Chile). For the same reason, I dedicate to him with much affection (I write this post with tears in my eyes).
The look and feel of it --- even to those who weren't around then -- let's everyone know that it's from THAT ERA where imagination was key in the enjoyment of toys... that amazing time of Lionel trains, Flexible Flyer, Lincoln Logs, Hula Hoops etc...CGI may produce it quicker and more efficiently but when you look at it you pause and say, " Oh....this is CGI...." Knowing that it was done with such care,time and meticulousness is part of the charm!!
@@dannybuck5911 Yeppers, growing up in the early to mid 50s was a wonderful time to be a kid. And real rubber tired Tonka toys too.. And the Great Northern Railroad which ran in front of our house was still running large articulated steam locomotives.
The toy soldiers also made an appearance in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (1964) in the nursery sequence and are favorite features of holiday parades in Disney Parks to this day. Disney animator Bill Justice made sure the Park soldiers were identical to the movie counterparts. The stop-motion wooden soldier segment took more than 6 months to film.
Well done fellows!! Decades later...the five year old in me hears this, and starts to tear. I loved everything about babes and toyland circa 1961. Disney at it's greatest.
When i was a kid i just had to have a horse like that. I wouldn't believe my dad when he said there was none available. He tried to have one made out of a broom for the head and a steel drum for the torso, but it wasn't the same. He put me on it and turned on this musical piece and it was Toyland after all. Magical moments. Thanks for the post i hope this never is removed from RU-vid. The best scene of my childhood, ever.
I can't tell what it was with you all... This movie changed everything at home. My parents loved it and so did my sister and I. My father taught me all there was about savings and economics with it. He taught me to save my money and go down to a toy store where the soldiers were on sale and I bought quite a number of them. I can still remember what t was to open the box and take out the flashy guy with that smooth brand-new odor. I remember all my toys... but these in particular made history. It was definitely the most beautiful toy-prone-time ever. And we'd have to be thankful about that. We appreciated our toys and they were good real toys for real. Not goofy soldiers, stupid costumes, boring fun-less games, wrestling hodge podge, dumb monsters and vampires and ugly-idea trash in plastic you find today. Nothing against wrestling... just such a sad way to market the thing... Boy those were the days...
A different time and era. The time when you got ice skates or wooden roller skates. Dolls, train sets, mechano sets , blocks, crayons, colouring books.
Wonderful things like the above video are so missed in today's world of 3D animation and other "wonders of the age" to a certain generation. No matter how hard today's animators try to impress 21st century audiences, to this writer, while some efforts are good, the overall scope pales in comparison to what I saw years ago. Those memories will last forever.
If Disney continued to do live action reimaginings, then they should make a sequel out of this! I mean they've got a lot of Oscar potential in the tech categories! Best costume design, production design, visuals, the possibilities are endless!
I was seven years old, living in Garden Grove California when this film was released to the theaters. I had no idea that the villain Barnaby Barnacle was Ray Bolger, who played the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. I recognized Henry Calvin, and Gene Sheldon from the Zoro TV series. Annette Funicello was the only name I actually recognized, besides Moochie. (Kevin Cocoran). My Mom worked at Disneyland, consequently, it was to me like my own back yard. Disneyland was like a part of life as I never knew life without it.
Ray Bolger plays a terrible “bad guy.” Through out this movie you just laugh at him. You cannot dislike him, you just laugh at him.,And you’re not even being mean when you laugh at him, he’s just too “cleanly comical.” Imagine Rodney Dangerfield trying to be as mean as Adolf Hitler, the whole idea is not even ludicrous, it’s just funny.
+Luke Garner I've watched this movie growing up, one of my childhood memories. Disney is my life. LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE!❤️💛💚💙💜 Did you know this was the very first Disney musical? 🎶At least, that's what it said on the back of the video box when I had this on VHS, I could be wrong.
This was worked on by Roy Seawright who was at one point head of animation at Hal Roach Studios and who grew up working at that studio lot in Culver City. Very talented man.
I played either Gonzorgo or Roderigo (I can't recall which) in our Babes in Toyland school play 60+ years ago. For the performances that my understudy played my role, I played a toy soldier. This brings back happy (and somewhat tearful) memories.
1:49-2:20 We’re marching upon the NODDY Shop! Right to the end We’re saving our friends! Together we’re gonna make ‘em stop! There’s more of us and less of you! We’re comin’ on through! We’ll never surrender NODDY Shop! We’ll stay to see Our victory! So onto the rescue Guess who? Brave toys of the NODDY Shop are we!
@RGN07 A great story. RU-vid appear to have withdrawn their "thumbs" system from comments (why can't they leave well alone? In a few weeks they will ruin everyone's homepages as well) - so consider this a GREEN thumb!
I want to thank KUSC in Los Angeles for reminding me of this long-ago memory. This was my favorite way back then, and it still is!! Support classical music. Please.
Tommy Sands on his wooden horse with the wobbling spring neck... this is as primitive genius as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer from 1964. Sure wish Disney would put the horsey out as a toy.
The Wonderful World Of Disney (aka Disney's Wonderful World Of Color) ran this in two parts in late December/Early January on NBC at 7 PM Sundays. Some years, following the second part of 'Babes' finishing up, they would show a segment voiced over by the 'Wonderful World' announcer. In it, he would thank the viewers for being with the show all year and ask them to stay in the New Year. As he spoke, a still animated image of a large group of animated characters would pan by, starting with an engine - Dumbo's Casey Jr. - piloted by Donald. Apparently, this image became the basis for a kids-room wall decoration made by a company named Dolly. I have never been able to find video of that sequence. The only other clue I can offer is that it sometimes also played after 'From All Of Us To All Of You', depending on the calendar that year. This is a wonderful sequence, but my heart always goes out to the primitive, cheesy effects of the Laurel + Hardy version.
Brothers and Sisters, as it is written in the Book of the Prophet Zechariah: "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold your King is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is He, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt the foal of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and He shall speak peace to the nations; His rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth." (Zechariah 9:9-10) Brothers, be rejoiceful and shout for the King of kings, the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, The LORD God of hosts for He has given us His salvation by His blood. Beloved, Our LORD and Savior, Jesus Christ does this for us because He loves us, for He was taken up on the cross where He died and He was taken to the tomb where He was resurrected that death may have no dominion over Him. Brother, repent therefore of sin and be steadfast in the faith of Our LORD and Savior, Jesus Christ who is The Way, the Truth, and The Life. -Ezekiel
@@mrfamous333 Relevance? Hmm, let's see here uh relevance... How's this: God made man -> Babes in Toyland was produced by Walt Disney which is run by men. Ergo the relevance of this comment is explained as such. -Ezekiel
0:36 So Disney did do Stop Motion Animation some years earlier. Before Dragonslayer, My Science Project “Rod Puppet mostly”, Honey I Shrunk the kids, The Nightmare Before Christmas & James & The Giant Peach came. Did I miss any other Disney Feature with Stop Motion Animated Sequences & Rod Puppet Counterparts?
this is the Babes in Toyland that i grew up watching, thanks to the comments i know it's the 1961 version, thank you everyone, i'm gonna find this somehow.
Did you think Disney’s take on Alice in Wonderland was too subtle? Then this is the movie for you! Gosh I love how ridiculously, unapologetically goofy this flick is! XD
I remember flipping through the channels back in the early 2000s, then stopped. On one channel was CNN footage of Soldiers marching in Iraq and Afghanistan, the other was this scene on TCM. I thought the juxtaposition was poetic.
The one thing I'm upset about about the soundtrack for the film that is available is that this version of "March of the Toys" isn't the one on the album.
The one that you can get on iTunes at least has the Vocal music with the original performers. Yet still only a generic orchestral piece of march of the toys.
I like the 1934 original the best with Laurel and Hardy. That's the one they still play every Thanksgiving across the country. Whenever they make a remake it usually ruins it! This one has had about six remakes. Just like miracle on 34th Street has had about 20 remakes. An the 1947 original with Natalie Wood is still the best. A lot of old movies have been remade multiple times and they are always terrible! Just like A Christmas Carol has been remade several times. And the 1938 original with June Lockhart, and her real parents, is still the best and the one they play every year.
