Talk:Silly Symphony/Archive 1

Removed a couple of shorts from Walt Disney Specials
Walt Disney Specials is as far as I know supposed to be the descriptions of those cartoons that doesn't fit into Silly Symphonies, Pluto, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Disney's educational cartoons and all those cartoons who can be placed in their own category. For this reason I removed Education for Death, which is an aducational cartoon (a category that deserves its own article), and the following shorts which was not theatrically released (either TV or direct-to-vdeo); Sport Goofy in Soccermania, Three Little Pigs and The Little Matchgirl. But also these special cartoons would deserve their own sections or articles. There is probably some more that can be removed (or added), but that's all for now, unless someone else decide to clean up a bit. 193.217.194.19 05:00, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

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"Mickey Mouse presents"
''The original title cards on these shorts stated "Joseph M. Schenck Presents A Silly Symphony". When Disney began to distribute his cartoon with RKO Radio Pictures the title cards were all replaced with the words "Mickey Mouse presents a Silly Symphony"''

Any reasnonable proof of this? The poster placed on this very article has the "Mickey Mouse presents" as well. Also, if they were to edit the titles, wouldn't they remove the text "United Artists Picture" as well? Something just isn't right about this... --Mégara (Мегъра) - D. G. Mavrov (talk) 21:29, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Plot plea
If anyone is out there, could there be plot additions to each individual Silly Symphony's page, those that don't have a plot section, plz? Visokor (talk) 10:44, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

release dates
For the two that I've looked at, the table here disagrees with the respective articles as to dates of release. —Tamfang (talk) 06:07, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Academy Award total?
according to an official Disney book about the Silly Symphonies, the series won eight, not seven awards. any chance of this being mentioned? Visokor (talk) 20:55, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Does the book specify which ones? Based on our list of Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, the films are:


 * 1) Flowers and Trees (1932). The first commercially released film to be produced in the full-color three-strip Technicolor.
 * 2) Three Little Pigs (1933).
 * 3) The Tortoise and the Hare (1934).
 * 4) Three Orphan Kittens (1935).
 * 5) The Country Cousin (1936).
 * 6) The Old Mill (1937).
 * 7) The Ugly Duckling (1939). The last of the Silly Symphonies.

Disney also won the award in 1938, with Ferdinand the Bull (1938). But the film was not released as a Silly Symphony and is not counted as part of the series. (Though to be honest, I have seen various sources comment that it is Symphony-like in style, and others who think that all Disney one-shot shorts are unofficial Silly Symphonies.) Dimadick (talk) 18:09, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Silly Symphony Feature Films
Walt Disney begin plan full-length animated films in 1927, which was still in production on Steamboat Willie:


 * Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
 * Pinocchio (1940)
 * Fantasia (1940)

Note: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio and Fantasia are Walt Disney's first three regular feature-length animated films as the Silly Symphonies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.64.247.95 (talk) 00:38, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Midnight in a Toyshop
According to Wilfred Jackson he did not direct Midnight in a Toyshop, The Castaway released the following year was Jackson's directional debut. Jackson said Ub Iwerks might have directed it however the director of it must be Burt Gillett since he was Disney's solo director once Iwerks left the studio and Walt Disney took a 5-year hiatus from directing actual cartoon shorts until Jackson started directing cartoons