The first wave of Walt Disney Treasures

Walt Disney Treasures

The Walt Disney Treasures is a two-disc DVD set of classic Disney works. They cover work from the studio's earliest days to their more recent work...

 was released on December 4, 2001. It includes four different DVD sets.

Mickey Mouse in Living Color

This set covers the first leg of Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio. Mickey is an anthropomorphic black mouse and typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves...

's color career, from 1935 to 1938.

150,000 sets produced.

1935

• The Band Concert
  The Band Concert
  The Band Concert is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on February 23, 1935 by United Artists. The film was the first Mickey Mouse film produced in color and remains one of the most highly acclaimed of the Disney shorts...
  
  
• Mickey's Garden
• On Ice
  On Ice (Disney)
  On Ice is a Mickey Mouse cartoon released in 1935.-Synopsis:The cartoon revolves around three different storylines that all take place on a frozen lake during wintertime. In the first, Mickey helps Minnie learn how to skate. The second storyline has Goofy attempting to catch fish by dropping...
  
  
• Pluto's Judgement Day
• Mickey's Fire Brigade

1936

• Thru the Mirror
  Thru the Mirror
  Thru the Mirror is a Mickey Mouse cartoon short film produced by Walt Disney Productions, released by United Artists in 1936. In this cartoon short, Mickey has a Through the Looking-Glass-type dream that he travels through his mirror and enter a topsy-turvy world where everything is alive...
  
  
• Mickey's Circus
• Mickey's Elephant
• Mickey's Grand Opera
• Mickey's Polo Team
  Mickey's Polo Team
  Mickey's Polo Team is a short animated film, directed by David Hand and first released on January 4, 1936. The short featured a game of polo between four of Disney's animated characters and four animated caricatures of noted film actors...
  
  
• Alpine Climbers
• Moving Day
• Mickey's Rival
• Orphans Picnic

Bonus features

• Parade of the Award Nominees
  Parade of the Award Nominees
  Parade of the Award Nominees is a Walt Disney short which was made for the 1932 banquet for the 5th Academy Awards.-Synopsis:It featues Mickey Mouse leading a parade of caricatured nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress. He is assisted by Minnie Mouse, Clarabelle Cow, and various anthropomorphic...
  
  (1932), a short short made especially the Academy Awards
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
   show
• Pencil-test versions of Mickey's Fire Brigade, Pluto's Judgement Day and On Ice

1937

• Hawaiian Holiday
• Moose Hunters
  Moose Hunters
  Moose Hunters is a 1937 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The cartoon stars Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy on a moose hunting expedition. It was directed by Ben Sharpsteen and features music by Paul J. Smith...
  
  
• The Worm Turns
• Magician Mickey
• Mickey's Amateurs
• Clock Cleaners
  Clock Cleaners
  Clock Cleaners is a 1937 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon follows Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy working as janitors in a tall clock tower. The film was directed by Ben Sharpsteen and features original music by...
  
  
• Lonesome Ghosts
  Lonesome Ghosts
  Lonesome Ghosts is a 1937 Disney animated cartoon featuring the Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy trio as members of the agency "Ajax Ghost Exterminators" .-Plot:...
  
  

1938

• Mickey's Parrot
• Boat Builders
• The Whalers
• Mickey's Trailer
  Mickey's Trailer
  Mickey's Trailer is a 1938 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon stars Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy on a near disastrous road trip in a travel trailer...
  
  
• The Brave Little Tailor

Bonus features

• Mickey in Living Color with Leonard Maltin, a short biography of sorts on the early portion of Mickey's cartoon career
• Mickey's Surprise Party (1939), Easter egg bonus, this cartoon was created for the 1939 New York World's Fair
  1939 New York World's Fair
  The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, which covered the of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park , was the second largest American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people...
  
   and was sponsored by Nabisco
  Nabisco
  Nabisco is an American brand of cookies and snacks. Headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey, the company is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Kraft Foods. Nabisco's plant in Chicago, a production facility at 7300 S...
  
  

Silly Symphonies

This set is more or less descriptive of "The Best of the Silly Symphonies

Silly Symphonies

Silly Symphonies is a series of animated short subjects, 75 in total, produced by Walt Disney Productions from 1929 to 1939, while the studio was still located at Hyperion Avenue in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles...

", with the cartoons presented here in arranged by theme. The U.K. release, unlike the U.S. release, has the original "Jewish peddler" visuals restored to Three Little Pigs

Three Little Pigs (film)

Three Little Pigs is an animated short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett. Based on a fairy tale of the same name, Three Little Pigs won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. In 1994, it was voted #11 of the 50...

.

150,000 sets produced.

Fables and fairy tales

• The Tortoise and the Hare (1935)
• The Country Cousin (1936)
• Babes in the Wood (1932)
• Elmer Elephant
  Elmer Elephant (Disney)
  Elmer Elephant is a Silly Symphonies cartoon short produced by The Walt Disney Company, directed by Wilfred Jackson and released on March 28, 1936....
  
  (1936)
• The Flying Mouse (1934)
• The Golden Touch (1935)
• The Robber Kitten (1935)
• Lullaby Land (1933)
• Mother Goose Melodies (1931)

Favorite characters

• The Wise Little Hen
  The Wise Little Hen
  The Wise Little Hen is a Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies cartoon, based on the fairy tale The Little Red Hen. This cartoon marked the debut of Donald Duck. Donald and his friend Peter Pig try to avoid work by faking stomach aches until Mrs. Hen teaches them the value of labor. This cartoon was...
  
  (1934)
• Three Little Pigs
  Three Little Pigs (film)
  Three Little Pigs is an animated short film released on May 27, 1933 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett. Based on a fairy tale of the same name, Three Little Pigs won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. In 1994, it was voted #11 of the 50...
  
  (1933)
• The Big Bad Wolf (1934)
• Three Little Wolves
  Three Little Wolves (film)
  Three Little Wolves is a Silly Symphonies cartoon. Released on April 18, 1936, and directed by Dave Hand. It was the third Silly Symphony cartoon starring the Three Little Pigs...
  
  (1936)
• Toby Tortoise Returns
  Toby Tortoise Returns
  Toby Tortoise Returns is an animated Technicolor cartoon in Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies series. It is a sequel to The Tortoise and the Hare. It premiered on August 22, 1936.This time the plot revolves around a boxing match...
  
  (1936)

Additional cartoons (via Easter eggs

Easter egg (media)

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)

• The Grasshopper and the Ants
  The Grasshopper and the Ants (film)
  The Grasshopper and the Ants is a 1934 American animated short film directed by Wilfred Jackson. Part of the Silly Symphonies series, the cartoon was produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on February 10, 1934 by United Artists.The story is a retelling of The...
  
  (1934)
• Water Babies (1935)
• Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935)
• Wynken, Blynken & Nod (1938)
• The Practical Pig
  The Practical Pig
  The Practical Pig is a Silly Symphonies cartoon. Released on February 24, 1939, and directed by Dick Rickard. It was the second-to-last Silly Symphony made, and the fourth and final cartoon starring The Three Pigs...
  
  (1939)

Leonard's picks

Note: They are repeated form other sections of the DVD.

• Three Little Pigs
• The Flying Mouse
• The Grasshopper and the Ants
• Wynken, Blynken & Nod
• The Tortoise and the Hare

Nature on screen

• Mother Pluto
  Mother Pluto
  Mother Pluto is a Silly Symphonies cartoon released on November 14, 1936, directed by David Hand. The cartoon features the adorable pup, Pluto.-Plot:...
  
  (1936)
• Peculiar Penguins (1934)
• The Old Mill
  The Old Mill
  The Old Mill is a 1937 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, scored by Leigh Harline, and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on November 5, 1937...
  
  (1937)
• Funny Little Bunnies (1934)
• The Ugly Duckling (1939)
• The Ugly Duckling (1931)
• Father Noah's Ark (1933)
• Birds of a Feather (1931)
• The Busy Beavers (1931)
• Just Dogs (1932)

Accent on music

• Music Land (1935)
• The China Plate (1931)
• Egyptian Melodies (1931)
• Flowers and Trees
  Flowers and Trees
  Flowers and Trees is a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 30, 1932...
  
  (1932)
• The Cookie Carnival
  The Cookie Carnival
  Cookie Carnival is an animated short made in 1935 by Walt Disney Productions. It is a Cinderella story involving a cookie girl who wishes to be queen at the cookie carnival....
  
  (1935)
• The Skeleton Dance
  The Skeleton Dance
  The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 Silly Symphonies animated short subject produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. In the film, four human skeletons dance and make music around a spooky graveyard. It is the first entry in the Silly Symphonies series...
  
  (1929)
• Woodland Café (1937)

Additional cartoons (via Easter eggs)

• The Old Mill
  The Old Mill
  The Old Mill is a 1937 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, scored by Leigh Harline, and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on November 5, 1937...
  
  (1937)
• Farmyard Symphony (1938)

Leonard's picks

• The Ugly Duckling (1931)
• The Ugly Duckling (1939)
• Music Land
• Flowers & Trees
• The Skeleton Dance

Bonus features

• Songs of the Silly Symphonies: Leonard Maltin meets with Richard M. Sherman
  Richard M. Sherman
  Richard Morton Sherman is an American songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert Bernard Sherman....
  
   to discuss some of the Silly Symphonies' songs, including "The World Owes Me a Livin'" and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".
• Silly Symphony Souvenirs: Leonard Maltin meets with Dave Smith
  Dave Smith (archivist)
  Dave Smith is the founder and former chief archivist at the Walt Disney Archives, which is located in the Frank G. Wells Building at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. He joined the company on June 22, 1970, as its first-ever archivist...
  
   at the Walt Disney Archives to discuss and describe some of the many merchandises about the series (including several alone of the Three Little Pigs
  Three Little Pigs
  Three Little Pigs is a fairy tale featuring anthropomorphic animals. Printed versions date back to the 1840s, but the story itself is thought to be much older...
  
  ).
• Still galleries: A gallery of various behind-the-scenes and promotional pictures of the Silly Symphony series.

Disneyland, USA

This set depicts various episodes of the Walt Disney anthology series that take place within / are about Disneyland. It includes also the very first episode from the series.

150,000 sets produced.

Disc one

• The Disneyland Story
  The Disneyland Story
  The Disneyland Story was first broadcast in the USA on October 27, 1954. It is the very first episode of Disney's long-running anthology series, then entitled Disneyland after the theme park on which the show was based....
  
  : First broadcast on October 27, 1954.
• Dateline Disneyland: First broadcast on July 17, 1955.

Disc two

• Disneyland After Dark
  Disneyland After Dark
  Disneyland After Dark was an episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color that aired on April 15, 1962. Later, it was released theatrically overseas as a short subject....
  
  : First broadcast on April 15, 1962.
• Disneyland 10th Anniversary
  Disneyland 10th Anniversary
  Disneyland 10th Anniversary, aired in 1965, begins with Walt showing viewers and Disneyland ambassador Julie Reihm plans for upcoming attractions, including It's a Small World, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion...
  
  : First broadcast on January 3, 1965.

Bonus features

• Still gallery: This gallery shows off images of various Disneyland attractions' posters, past and present.
• The Magic Kingdom and the Magic of Television: Although most of the content of this mini-history of Disneyland is repeated from other intros on these set with a montage of clips from all the episodes presented, it does feature some nuggets of information about Walt's view of the park as a tribute to Americana, his aspiration for the park to have the latest products technology and even a few world leaders that had visited the park.

Davy Crockett

This set contains the original five episodes of Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett (TV miniseries)

Davy Crockett is a five part serial which aired on ABC in one-hour episodes on the Disneyland series. The series stars Fess Parker as real-life frontiersman Davy Crockett and Buddy Ebsen as his fictional best friend, George Russel....

which were first shown on the Walt Disney anthology series from 1954-1955. This miniseries was re-released as a DVD Two-Movie Set on September 7, 2004.

150,000 sets produced.

Disc one

• Davy Crockett Indian Fighter: First broadcast on 15 December, 1954.
• Davy Crockett Goes to Congress: First broadcast on 26 January, 1955.
• Davy Crockett at the Alamo: First broadcast on February 23, 1955.

Disc two

• Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race: First broadcast on November 16, 1955.
• Davy Crockett and the River Pirates: First broadcast on December 14, 1955.

Bonus features

• "A Conversation with Fess Parker": Leonard Maltin interviews Fess Parker the guy who played Davy in the episodes.
• "The Davy Crockett Craze": Leonard Maltin interview Paul F. Anderson author of the book The Davy Crockett Craze.
• Easter egg: "The Ballad of Davy Crockett": The famous ballad sung by Fess Parker.
• Still gallery: Stills from various aspects of the product.