Disney Treasures DVD #7

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The Walt Disney Company is unleashing another DVD box set in its Disney Treasures line. This is coming out just in time for the Christmas rush, on December 11th. You can find out more by reading the official press release below.

Rare Gems From the Disney Vault

The Newest Additions to the Popular Walt Disney Treasures

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Chronological Donald, Volume 3

Disneyland: Stories, Secrets, and Magic

Each 2-Disc DVD Set Includes Authenticity Certificate And Collectible Lithograph Available in Limited Supply December 11

BURBANK, Calif., March 30, 2007 – "Walt Disney Home Entertainment continues the popular Walt Disney Treasures series with three new 2-Disc DVD sets featuring rarely seen footage presented with amazing color and sound.

The seventh installment of Walt Disney Treasures will be available December 11, 2007 in a limited supply just in time for the holidays.

Predating even Mickey Mouse, the legendary and rarely-seen Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was Walt Disney’s first big animated star, and having recently returned to the Disney fold, comes out of the vault for the first time ever on DVD. The silent shorts made from 1926 to 1927 with Walt’s personal touch, are revitalized with a brand-new score specifically made for Walt Disney Treasures, Wave VII.

Chronological Donald, Volume 3 features the most prolific of “Walt’s Fab Five,” the short-tempered but hilarious Donald Duck in rarely seen solo shorts dating 1947 through 1950.

Disneyland: Secrets, Stories and Magic is a comprehensive look at the “Happiest Place on Earth.” The centerpiece of this volume is a new documentary with archival footage, including Walt’s own words, as well as new interviews that reveal the magic and manpower behind one of the world’s most famous destinations.

Each volume features noted film historian, author, and critic Leonard Maltin. Each volume is individually numbered, with an authenticity certificate, and an exclusive lithograph in the collectible, unique packaging tins and available just in time for the holidays, in a limited supply only."

Fun Fact: The so-called "Happiest Place on Earth" was hammered by a bitter, five-week long animators' strike in 1941. Disney, as one of the largest studios, was an obvious target for the newly-formed Screen Cartoonists' Guild, who were trying to improve the lot of animators. Disney animators, despite being some of the best-paid in the industry, were increasingly unhappy with their situation. Many of them had worked hours of uncompensated overtime to get 1937's Snow White to the big screen, and were now being rewarded by getting laid off. The salary structure was also "crazy quilt," to quote historian Richard Schickel.

The situation finally exploded when Walt Disney fired animator Art Babbitt, who Disney regarded as a troublemaker. Union organizer, and Hollywood scenery painter, Herb Sorrell called for a strike 3 days later, on May 29, 1941.

After a federal mediator found for the animators on nearly every issue, Disney Animation became a union shop, and has been one ever since. Walt Disney was forced to rehire Art Babbitt in 1945, after Disney lost an unfair labour practices suit brought by Babbitt.

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