Originally Posted By ecdc >>you can practically imagine the crew and workers behind the camera waiting around to eat their lunch, checking their watches.<< Spot on.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan FWIW, Ray Bolger does have this neat creepy laugh in Babes in Toyland -- kind of a sinister whimper -- that is very close to the sinister laugh of little possessed Regan in The Exorcist.
Originally Posted By darcy-becker I have 17 Walt Disney Treasures and wish I had more but now you can only get them from places like EBay and they're so expensive. I do have a few direct to video sequels and a few older live action but no Disney Chanel TV movies. I also have all of Pixar including their collections of shorts and all of Disney Nature.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Films that are overlooked that are worth checking out are "Summer Magic", "So Dear to My Heart", "Song of the South", "Westward Ho, The Wagons!", "The Great Locomotive Chase", "Johnny Tremain", "The Light in the Forest", "Third Man on the Mountain", "Toby Tyler", "Kidnapped", Greyfriar's Bobby", "Miracle of the White Stallions", "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones", "Three Lives of Thomasina", "Follow Me Boys", "Bullwhip Griffin", The and only genuine original family band", "Rascal", and some others, but I think those are the best places to start with the live-action films that are outside the known classics.> I'm old enough to have seen a lot of those on WWOC. Some of them were really quite good - Thomasina was a particular favorite of mine at the time, and it's one that makes me wonder if I'd still like it today. I went to see B&B in the theatre when it was new. I remember a). generally liking it; b). wondering if the Portobello Road sequence would EVER end; c). thinking my copy of Disney News kind of oversold it as the second coming of Mary Poppins.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>thinking my copy of Disney News kind of oversold it<< LOL! Disney News is not on tri--- oh, I give up. Guilty as charged, and often!
Originally Posted By LVdisneyfan Live action, some of my favorites (involving animals) were, "Charlie, The Lonesome Cougar", "The Bears And I" and "Sammy The Way out Seal"
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Did you get DN too, 2oony? Magic Kingdom Club, baby!!<< I did indeed! Back then, it was like getting secret insider memos from the front. By the time the next issue would publish, I'd pretty much have memorized the previous one. I'd confidently tell friends on the playground about upcoming Disney movies and parades at the parks. Which somehow didn't make me the coolest guy in school. Never did figure out why not. Buncha losers.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA I got Disney News too! And yes, it was time to geek out on all things Disney. Articles with titles like.... 'Pop-pop-popcorn!' (About the popcorn machines at the parks) 'Bell, Book and Cheeseburger' (about the candle shop on Main Street) Real heavy stuff
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I also remember that Disney News was essentially re-packaged in SoCal as "Vacationland" - which was given away for free at certain hotels, travel agencies, etc. It was basically Disney News minus any articles on WDW or movies, and with the occasional article (and certainly advertising) for other SoCal attractions like Knotts and Japanese Village and Deer Park, and sometimes even natural SoCal attractions like Anzo-Borrego or Joshua Tree.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.etixland.com/DisneyNews/disnews.htm">http://www.etixland.com/Disney...news.htm</a> Note the identical covers for Summer '69.
Originally Posted By Tikiduck I think I have a couple of those issues in my collection. Digging them out would be a chore though. No Disney nerd here.
Originally Posted By Brad crazycroc re: post 33 - what a FANTASTIC story! Thank you for sharing. It was fascinating learning what effect these films, when watched in their entirety and in order did to you. Something for us all there.
Originally Posted By Bellella >I have 17 Walt Disney Treasures and wish I had more< Somebody's loaded!!!!!
Originally Posted By darcy-becker Hardly. I probably got half of them while they were still available. One I even got for free as part of Disney Movie rewards. Otherwise, I watch for good deals on them on Amazon. But that's harder and harder to do.
Originally Posted By Bellella I paid over $100 for my "Disneyland: Secrets, Stories and Magic." Not that I regret it. It is so choice. "Davy Crockett" was $70. As for the other Treasures I don't have, I'm either not that interested or I don't like them as much to buy them.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "I paid over $100 for my "Disneyland: Secrets, Stories and Magic." Not that I regret it. It is so choice." I hope that's not the one I watched on Netflix a thousand times.
Originally Posted By DBitz2 >>crazycroc - One other point that I forgot to bring up...The Golden Oak Ranch. It's everywhere, it's every climate, it's every time period. The amount of work they did out there is impressive.<< As a movie ranch historian, I'm delighted that you brought up Golden Oak Ranch! Buying that property was very, very smart on Walt's part. It benefited the Studio back then and it still benefits them to this day. And, many other productions besides Disney ones have used the ranch over the years. Once location ranches were all over Southern California. Now, very few remain. Walt forsaw that that would happen. Thankfully, a couple of them, Century Ranch (the Fox Ranch)and Paramount Ranch (the one that I am involved with) have been preserved as parks, with the Fox Ranch now Malibu Creek State Park and Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills part of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreational Area. Having done 30+ years of research and documentation along with observation of many film shoots at Paramount Ranch, I can vouch for how a location ranch can stand in for many different locales and time periods! That is a part of film history and I'm happy that it continues to this day at Paramount Ranch, as the Park Service encourages filming. We have a Western web series shooting in our Western town set as I write this! For many years I longed to find a Disney connection to Paramount Ranch, finding nothing to my disappointment. Then, I made some pretty cool discoveries. But, that's a story for another day! ; )
Originally Posted By ecdc >>As a movie ranch historian<< Seriously? That's all kinds of awesome! >>with the Fox Ranch now Malibu Creek State Park<< I keep telling myself I need to hike out to the M*A*S*H set, but my understanding is there's next-to-nothing left.
Originally Posted By DBitz2 <<>>As a movie ranch historian<< Seriously? That's all kinds of awesome!>> Yep! And, you have no idea how awesome it has been. Surreal at times. The experiences it's brought me, the Hollywood greats that I've had the chance to watch at work and, in some cases, meet, and so on. Just the Dr. Quinn years alone was an amazing, amazing unbelievable time. I'm even "memorialized" on high def video in Huell Howser's show on Paramount Ranch, as I'm in it briefly! <<>>with the Fox Ranch now Malibu Creek State Park<< I keep telling myself I need to hike out to the M*A*S*H set, but my understanding is there's next-to-nothing left.>> You are correct, there's not much left at the MASH site, but it has been given some TLC and a volunteer made a recreation of the iconic sign, which is often put out on weekends. It is worth a visit anyway, in my opinion. It's quite a trek to get to it from the park's parking lot. I almost didn't make it last time I did it when they had an event where many of the cast and people involved in the show attended. Thankfully, one of my NPS ranger friends drove me out in his vehicle along with one of the show's directors! I do know an easier way to get to it that bypasses the park entrance. You can get to it from Paramount Ranch, too, but even that is a long trek that I can't do anymore in my "old age".
