Synopsis
Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."
Contains memorable scenes from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Fantasia," "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "One Hundred and One Dalmatians," and "The Sword in the Stone."
Hal Douglas Bobby Driscoll Peggy Lee Bing Crosby Cate Bauer Kathryn Beaumont Billy Bletcher Adriana Caselotti Paul Collins Pinto Colvig Hans Conried Walt Disney Verna Felton Marcellite Garner Betty Lou Gerson Lucille La Verne Junius Matthews Clarence Nash J. Pat O'Malley Karl Swenson Rod Taylor Bill Thompson Martha Wentworth Frederick Worlock
Got a good deal and scored the VHS at long last! When I was really little (like, our tv in our newly built house in the middle of the woods had rabbit ears and we watched this on a station that came to us, in the lower-most part of Alaska from, I think, Canada) we (my mom, dad, brother and I) would carve pumpkins and roast the seeds on the earth stove. This is possibly one of my earliest memories, the one I hope my misfiring brain will linger on last when I die. Even if seeing them waiting for me in that place is only an illusion, there are nights I'd settle for that. I hope everyone had a truly magical Halloween.
"100 Days Of Halloween"
It's officially Halloween season! 100 days till Halloween! Gonna try to watch 100 films, shorts, or TV specials in 100 days.
So... Halloween, as you can imagine, means a lot to me. But it's also one of the few traditions to have hooked me within the actual 80's itself. I was alive for 7 full years during the decade (my first year of school was 1988) and this is perhaps the only thing I actually remember from it. That and going to Disney World in December, 1989. Sometime around then, my family started paying for The Disney Channel. (Anyone remember when that was a pay channel?) And, sometime around 1990-91, Disney re-aired this special. And... yes, from the intro, I nearly melted. I already had a thing for The Wizard of Oz, decorations, costumes, I loved Halloween and became enamored with…
First off, I have to say that I love love love the theme song here, which you hear at the beginning and at the end. Perfectly sets the mood for all that follows and sends you off with a smile.
As for the special itself, this was designed to fill an hour-and-a-half of programming space, and I think that it may have been a victim of its own runtime. That is, at the time this was made, there was only enough spooky/scary stuff that either explicitly fits a Halloween theme or tangentially comes across as material that would be perfect for the season.
Given all the focus on villains throughout, this might have worked better as a retrospective special on…
A childhood favorite. I guarantee I’ll watch this at least 1-2 more times this spooky season!
DISNEY'S HALLOWEEN TREAT (1982)
"Contains memorable scenes from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Lady and the Tramp, Peter Pan, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and The Sword in the Stone."
For a Halloween-themed compilation of scenes taken from Disney films, I'm kind of disappointed with the content here. I mean, I loved that they had scenes from The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad, strictly The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (1949) portion, and the opening & closing credits are set against an orange colorized print of The Skeleton Dance (1929) which was great. But they should have just had Disney's wide range of scary cartoons available instead of taking clips from movies like Peter Pan (1953) or Lady And…
The essence of coziness from yesteryear.
Black cats and bats and ghosts
Make most attractive hosts
They're dying for a dance with you
So play that haunting refrain
Tricks and treats to try tonight
You'll be riding high tonight
Your spirits gonna fly tonight
Disney's Halloween Treat
Dis-ney's Halloweeeeen Treeeeeat!!!!
Every time I see this poster flash up on Letterboxd, I hear that damn song! It’ll be in my subconscious forever!
Baby’s first anthology horror!
I had a recorded VHS copy of this when I was 4
. I’d watch this on loop not knowing - or really understanding - that all these re-contextualied clips of famous animated movies existed outside of this special. To me, everything shown in here were fully fleshed out, original short stories — and honestly, it still works like that if you let it. The 101 Dalmatians segment and the Sleepy Hollow segment come off as pretty chilling, even as an adult. It’s like when people on YouTube chop and screw trailers to make famous movies look like something from a different genre.
A clip show that still feels like bottled nostalgia. I can taste the cider and donuts we’d eat after trick or treating, while watching this.
Love that talking pumpkin.