This is Disney's fourth feature film, originally
titled The Reluctant Dragon. Released theatrically in 1941 at
73 minutes. Only the final 20 minute animated segment was released on
laserdisc in the U.S. (394AS). This is one of Disney's neglected classics, part live action
and part animation. It starts off in black and white, then turns to
color as they describe the Technicolor process. It's a
behind-the-scenes look at how they create sound and use their multi-plane
process for animating Bambi. It's interesting to see Walt and the
famous animators when they were very young, going through the creative
process of storyboarding their animated classics. The Japanese title
is, "Sorcery Animation Heaven". Although this disc has no
English, it includes some rare alternate animation from Dumbo and Bambi
which has no dialog, and never made it to the finished films. The
hilarious segment of Clarence Nash recording Donald's voice is in English (I
guess it couldn't be translated). It also includes the famous Baby
Weems short and the Goofy cartoon, How To Ride a Horse, which
started the whole Goofy "How To" series. This is a very rare
and hard to find disc. Not available on laserdisc in the U.S.
