I recently had an opportunity to check out Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection.
Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection features 12 shorts, it features the never-before-released Frozen Fever, starring Frozen’s Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Sven and Kristoff, and the Oscar®-nominated Lorenzo. The Short Films Collection features contemporary shorts starring classic characters, including the 2012 groundbreaking Mickey Mouse cartoon, Get A Horse!, holiday treats like Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa as well as hailed Oscar® winners Paperman and Feast. Enjoy them together for the first time in this must-own collection, featuring all-new extras including an inside look at the Disney Animation shorts featuring interviews and introductions with the acclaimed filmmakers themselves.
The official list is
1. Frozen Fever (2015) – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho, Aimee Scribner
2. Feast (2014) – Academy Award® Winner, Patrick Osborne, Kristina Reed
3. Get A Horse! (2013) – Academy Award® Nominated, Dorothy McKim, Eric Goldberg, Adam Green
4. Paperman (2012) – Academy Award® Winner, Kristina Reed, Patrick Osborne
5. Tangled Ever After (2012) – Nathan Greno, Aimee Scribner, Mark Kennedy
6. The Ballad of Nessie (2011) – Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers-Skelton,
7. Tick Tock Tale (2010) – Dean Wellins
8. Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa(2010) – Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers-Skelton, Dorothy McKim
9. How to Hook Up Your Home Theater(2007) – Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers-Skelton, Ian
10. The Little Matchgirl (2006) – Academy Award® Nominated, Dave Bossert, Tom MacDougall
11. Lorenzo (2004) – Academy Award® Nominated, Mike Gabriel
- John Henry (2000) – Mark Henn
BONUS FEATURES:
- FILMMAKER INTROS – The filmmakers behind the shorts share their journeys and introduce their films.
- @DISNEYANIMATION: A SHORT STORY ON SHORTS – Continuing a legacy started in the earliest days of the Studio by Walt Disney, the Shorts Program is thriving today at the Animation Studios that bears his name, producing award-winning shorts that tell new stories and experiment with artistic and technical innovations. This latest chapter in the @DisneyAnimation series gives us an inside look at the process of developing and producing a short. Hosted by actor/comedian T.J. Miller (voice of “Fred,” Big Hero 6), we will meet a few of the artists and filmmakers who make the shorts, and learn why they are such an important part of the fabric of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Round Table Panelists include Lauren MacMullan (Get A Horse!), Mike Gabriel (Lorenzo), Kristina Reed (Feast, Paperman), Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (the team behind The Ballad of Nessie, Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa, How to Hook Up Your Home Theater).
- RUNAWAY BRAIN (1995) – DMA EXCLUSIVE – Academy Award® nominated short film released in 2004 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures Collection: Mickey Mouse in Living Color, Vol. 2 DVD set. This short was nominated for an Academy Award and screened during 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
- Run Time: 79 minutes
Review:
I found a few of the shorts absolutely hilarious! Tangled Ever After and Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa were my favorite. I want to give a short warning to parents of young children though. Lorenzo and The Little Match Girl are VERY VERY dark shorts. Lorenzo is about a cat who tail comes alive and in the end he ends up cutting off his own tail. I am 23 and my husband and I were watching it and kind of looked at each other in disbelief. I have a 17 year old step daughter but I cant imagine trying to explain that to a young child. The Little Match Girl is about a young girl who is homeless and trying to sell matches on the street. After no one buys them she ends up going in a alley, starts to light her matches to warm her self and she hallucinates images of grandmother. After her last match is gone she dies…Yes she dies from the cold. I was SHOCKED that Disney would include this on a DVD along side child friendly shorts like Frozen. As a parent I highly suggest skipping over these two as they can be easily upsetting to younger children. I understand death is a part of life but I don’t think it belongs next to thing like Tangled and Frozen.
I really liked the Filmmakers intros! They gave you a tidbit of information about each short and was not long at all.
Other then the two dark shorts I mentioned this DVD is a great collection.