Melody Time: Disney Gold Classic Collection

Melody Time is one hour and fifteen minutes and was released in theaters on May 27, 1948. This was the fifth package in war\post war era that Disney put out. Unlike Make Mine Music the film has some success in the theaters. Melody Time is composed of seven shorts and your Master of Ceremonies for this movie is Buddy Clark. The movie consists of seven shorts. Only the characters in the Legend of Johnny Appleseed have any spoken dialogue. The main bit of trivia about this movie is with Pecos Bill. In that short all of his smoking scenes are cut and if you want the uncut version then you has to buy the PAL version or region 2. One final note, this is the last movie that José Carioca stars in. Melody Time is a nice movie but no Fantasia and gets an A+. DVD FEATURES Bonus Material 1) Casey Bats Again 2) Donald Applecore 3) Lambert the Sheepish Lion Chapter Selection 1) Opening Credits 2) Once Upon A Winter Time 3) Bumble Boogie 4) The Legend of Johnny Appleseed 5) Little Toot 6) Trees 7) Blame It on the Samba 8) Blue Shadows on the Trail 9) Pecos Bill Play Preview Trailers 1) The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea 2) The Tigger Movie Set Up 1) Spoken Languages a. English b. French c. Spanish 2) Captions & Subtitles VHS PRVIEWS 1) The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars 2) The Spirit of Mickey 3) The Black Cauldron 4) Kiki's Delivery Service 5) The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

Good classic animated collection. Remember many from childhood and now enjoy with my child.

I am giving this retailer five stars because, they fulfilled every requirement in a timely manner. Be aware - this version is NOT USA compatible. This was my fault for not reading the description & not duplicity on the seller's part.

Wonderful collection of Disney shorts I remember seeing during my childhood. Sadly, the "smoking" portion of "Pecos Bill" ("...and while that cyclonr jumped and flitted Bill rolled up a smoke and lit it..."), I suppose to "save-rhe-tiny-tots" [I doubt that it was the original that turned my generation into smokers]. Still, glad to have the collection on any form.

A classic collection of animated shorts. A must-have for any Disney enthusiast.

This is a lovely film and I'm happy it is available so I can show it to my young children as they grow up. I have fond memories of watching many of these shorts when I was a child, so having this DVD is a benefit both for my kids and for myself. The quality of music and animation that Walt Disney put into his feature films and shorts 60 years ago is very rarely seen in the animation of today. Pecos Bill and the Bumble Bee Boogie are personal favorites. It is nice to get Lambert the Sheepish Lion and Casey Bats Again (as well as a good standalone Donald Duck / Chip N' Dale cartoon) as bonuses! Here's the reason I gave 4 instead of 5 stars: My only complaint is that the Region 1 U.S. version is edited. The rest of this review is just about that. I encourage people to buy the Region 2 U.K. version of this film instead, since that version is unedited. It will send a message to Disney that its customers prefer their classic animation uncensored and in its original form. Here is the link to the region 2 DVD. THIS IS THE ONE TO BUY! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Melody-Time-DVD-Roy-Rogers/dp/B00009XW7M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334078122&sr=8-1 (Note that in order to view the region 2 DVD you will need a region 2 DVD player or a region-free player. Most standalone players in the U.S. are region 1, but you can find region free players online. Or, if you plan to play your DVD on your computer, you will have a limited number of times you can change the region of your computer's DVD drive. It's 5 times for a Mac. For example, you can change your computer's region from 1 to 2, archive your legally purchased region 2 DVD to have it on your computer as a backup (NOT to copy, trade, or sell to others), and then change your DVD drive back to region 1, only using up 2 of 5 changes.) I live in the U.S. but I purchased the region 2 version of Melody Time because it was unedited. I don't understand what kind of warped logic the region 1 content managers at Disney were using when they decided it was unacceptable to show Pecos Bill with a cigarette in his mouth. I suppose it had something to do with not wanting young kids to want to smoke just like their hero Pecos Bill did. But then I wonder why they thought that was unacceptable for U.S. children, and yet acceptable for U.K. children? Just editing out the cigarette digitally would have been an acceptable annoyance, but to completely remove an entire verse from the central song of that story (the scene where Bill lasso's a tornado and uses a lightning bolt to light a cigarette), is going too far. It makes that song 1/6 shorter! Not to mention that these individual Disney shorts, and the entire Melody Time film taken together, represent a piece of classic animation art that is over 60 years old. It's up to parents to explain to their children that some beliefs and habits have changed over time. (Frankly I'm surprised that Disney went out of their way to censor the cigarette, yet left untouched a segment about Pecos Bill shooting up Native Americans.) But in my opinion the art itself should be made available in as close to its original form as possible. To give a non-Disney example, the character Wimpy in the Popeye cartoons gorges on hamburgers. If the content managers of that classic animation used the same logic as Disney did here, they would edit Wimpy out since there is an obesity epidemic in the U.S.! I'm glad Disney is not in charge of publishing classic book literature. Would we expect them to keep Huckleberry Finn in the "Disney Vault" because that book showed the treatment of slaves? You don't educate children about right and wrong by withholding examples of what is wrong. We buy these films for the nostalgia and because we are interested enough in Disney art that we want to see it as it was when it released. Children can be educated that habits like smoking, which were thought to be harmless 60 years ago, are now known to be disastrous for your health, and therefore should not be glorified. They can understand that times change. Thats up to the parents. Disney as a producer of great art, should provide it's beloved, classic vintage art in its original form, and leave it to parents what they are comfortable showing their kids.

I bought this DVD for Bumble Boogie and Pecos Bill, the rest were bonuses. This compilation was first released in theaters in 1948. It consists of seven segments and three bonus cartoons. It should be noted that The Legend of Johnny Appleseed also appears in another collection (Disney's American Legends). The seven segments are set to music of another era. Some are more successful at combining songs with images than others. The animation varies dramatically, sometimes in the same cartoon (the lovely stylized backgrounds featured in Once Upon a Wintertime as opposed to the doughy looking couple that relieves the woman of a nose while the man gets a big pink blob). As for the supposedly controversial editing done on Pecos Bill, if you weren't aware of the missing pieces/scenes beforehand, you won't notice the difference. It doesn't alter the story that radically. (Whether or not it was necessary to remove the offending elements is a moot point. It's done.) I am more than happy to include this in my Disney collection as is.

I got the dvd to replace the vhs we had when my kids were little ❤️. Great memories watching again!

Estaba inseguro en comprar este producto, ya que amazon no cuenta con la foto del mismo. Comento que sí es ésta la película de disney de Melody time de 1948. Es la versión dvd región 1 en inglés donde se encuentra Donald en la portada.

Directo a mi coleccion, no te dwbe faltar !!! :D

I’ve been trying to complete the Disney animated collection and this was a great addition to my collection

Lo compré para ver Casey bats again en español latino y ese corto solo esta disponible en inglés. Pero lo demás.... es una joya!