Popular music gets the Fantasia treatment

DVDs:

	• Make Mine Music (Disney Gold Classic Collection) Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore Walt Disney Video, 2000 average customer review:based on 63 reviews view larger image
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***""Casey at the Bat" and "Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet" feel self-conscious and unfunny" Charles Solomon***
This guy obviously is under 40 and doesn't understand the art of animation or the feelings placed on in-animate objects. I thought Both Casey at the Bat and Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet were wonderfully presented. He doesn't understand that the animation was done before he was born. He should produce his own animation with the same tools they had in 1946 and see how long it takes him to create a classic worth watching. I know, I know, he'll probably tell me you don't have to know how to cook a steak in order to know you've got a bad one. I understand not everyone will like the Disney style of presenting a cartoon. I do, and I appreciate the work that went into it. You have to remember the audience in 1946 really loved these classics. Remember 1946! My kids (now in their 40s) loved them. Still do. It's worth it. Nothing to offend anyone. Not like todays animation that has to include objectionable body noises and call that funny. Disney must be rolling in his grave.

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Classical music, nostalgia

We purchased this DVD in order to get the Peter and the Wolf segment, Prokofiev's (sp?) musical narrative. It still delights: our four year old grandson is fascinated each time.

My husband and I watched the other segments, which are truly of another era or eras. All in all, pleasurable viewing. The Peter and the Wolf portion alone made it a worthwhile purchase.

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Popular music gets the Fantasia treatment

With the typical superior Disney animation, the studio here brings to life several popular 1940's songs plus Serge Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf," Ernest Thayer's classic baseball poem "Casey at the Bat," and the fantasy-ballad "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" (one of my favorite segments), together with an original sequence about Willie, "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met." Young viewers of toady will probably need some explanation as to who the human singers (Nelson Eddy, the Andrews Sisters, Dinah Shore, et al.) were and why they were so popular at the time, but the music is sweet and the overall production values excellent.

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Gold Classic

Another Gold Classic with beautifully restored cartoons from the middle of the past century. They never stop amusing generation after generation.

an old man relives his youth

the dvd reminded me of the first time i saw the movie at the loew's ave. b on the lower east side as a child. it brought a tear to my eye.

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Share in Walt Disney's extraordinary vision of pairing imaginative stories with spectacular music in Disney's 8th full-length animated classic, available for the first time ever. In the tradition of FANTASIA, MAKE MINE MUSIC is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as "Peter And The Wolf," narrated by the beloved voice behind Winnie The Pooh. In addition, you'll enjoy such classic cartoon hits as "Casey At The Bat," "The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At The Met," and "Johnnie Fedora And Alice Bluebonnet," the whimsical adventure of two hats who fall in love in a department store window. Every member of your family will have a favorite in this musical medley of fun and fantasy from Disney!

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