Mickey Mouse in Black and White

This set displays a variety of Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio. Mickey is an anthropomorphic black mouse and typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves...

 cartoon shorts released in black and white.

125,000 sets produced.

Disc one

1928

• Steamboat Willie
  Steamboat Willie
  Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by The Walt Disney Studio and released by Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse, and as his girlfriend Minnie, but the characters...
  
  
• The Gallopin' Gaucho
  The Gallopin' Gaucho
  The Gallopin' Gaucho was the second short film featuring Mickey Mouse to be produced, following Plane Crazy and preceding Steamboat Willie. The Walt Disney Company completed the silent version on August 2, 1928, but failed to distribute it widely...
  
  
• Plane Crazy
  Plane Crazy
  Plane Crazy is an American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, produced in 1928 by The Walt Disney Studio, was the first to feature the character Mickey Mouse. It was made as a silent film and given a test screening to a theater audience on May 15, 1928, but...
  
  

1929

• The Karnival Kid
  The Karnival Kid
  The Karnival Kid is a 1929 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by The Walt Disney Studio and released to theaters by Celebrity Productions. It is the ninth film in the Mickey Mouse but it is the first in which Mickey speaks...
  
  
• Mickey's Follies

1930

• The Fire Fighters
• The Chain Gang
  The Chain Gang
  The Chain Gang is a Mickey Mouse animated film produced in 1930 by Walt Disney for Columbia Pictures. It is one of a group of shorts of strikingly uneven quality produced by Disney immediately after Ub Iwerks left the studio. The cartoon was primarily drawn by Norm Ferguson, and featured a pair...
  
  
• The Gorilla Mystery
• Pioneer Days

1931

• The Birthday Party
• Mickey Steps Out
• Blue Rhythm
• Mickey Cuts Up
• Mickey's Orphans

1932

• The Duck Hunt
• Mickey's Revue
  Mickey's Revue
  Mickey's Revue is a 1932 Walt Disney cartoon, directed by Wilfred Jackson, which features Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow performing a song and dance show.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Mickey's Nightmare
• The Whoopee Party
• Touchdown Mickey
• The Klondike Kid

• Bonus Features
  • Frank and Ollie... and Mickey: A fascinating interview between Maltin and two of the most legendary Disney artists of all time, Frank Thomas
    Frank Thomas (animator)
    Franklin M. "Frank" Thomas was an American animator. He was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as the Nine Old Men....
    
     and Ollie Johnston
    Ollie Johnston
    Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989...
    
    . Even though they joined the Disney team towards the end of Mickey's days in black and white, they have a lot to say about what the character meant to them, both before and during their days with Disney.
  • Two Story Scripts: These scripts first provide a look at a complete panel and then a close-up of the text and the picture on each panel. The two scripts are for "Steamboat Willie" and "Mickey Steps Out".
  • Story Sketches: Various story sketch sequences from some of the cartoons presented on this disc.
  • The Mickey Mouse Club: Easter egg bonus involving the Mickey Mouse Club, not the more familiar TV show of the 1950s, but an actual club popping up across the nation in 1930's. This supplement takes viewers inside those club meetings via a newsreel profiling them during the era. There's also a short that was created by Disney exclusively for these clubs: a sing-along to "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" with Mickey Mouse, complete with a second verse.

Disc two

1933

• Building a Building
• The Mad Doctor
  The Mad Doctor
  The Mad Doctor is a classic Mickey Mouse cartoon which was released in 1933.- Plot :The plot centers on the title character, a mad scientist, Dr. XXX, who has captured Mickey's dog, Pluto...
  
  
• Ye Olden Days
• The Mail Pilot
• Mickey's Gala Premier
• Puppy Love
• The Pet Store
• Giantland

1934

• Camping Out
• Gulliver Mickey
• Orphan's Benefit (1934)
• The Dognapper
• Two-Gun Mickey

1935

• Mickey's Service Station

• Bonus Features
  • Pencil Test From The Mail Pilot: The cartoon short played in the preliminary pencil phase.
  • Story Sketches: More story sketch sequences from some of the cartoons presented on this disc.
  • Poster Gallery: A variety of posters of many of the cartoons presented on this set.

The Complete Goofy

This set provides a look at all of the cartoons involving the career of Goofy

Goofy

Goofy is a cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog, and typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora. Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck...

 except for How to Ride a Horse (1941) (although the original theatrecal poster is included in the Disc 2 gallery), El Gaucho Goofy (1943) (a segment from the package film Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos

Saludos Amigos is a 1942 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the 6th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. It is the first of six package films made by the Disney studio in the 1940s...

), Freewayphobia #1 (1965), Goofy's Freeway Trouble (1965), Sport Goofy in Soccermania (1987) and obviously How to Hook Up Your Home Theater

How to Hook Up Your Home Theater

How to Hook Up Your Home Theater is a 2007 theatrical cartoon from Walt Disney Animation Studios, directed by Kevin Deters and co-directed by Stevie Wermers-Skelton. This is the first theatrical Goofy solo cartoon short made in 46 years, since Aquamania...

(2007) being made and released after the initial DVDs set came out.

Note also that "Donald & Goofy" shorts Polar Trappers (1938), The Fox Hunt (1938), Billposters (1940), No Sail (1945), Frank Duck Brings 'em Back Alive (1946), and Crazy with the Heat (1947) are instead included on The Chronological Donald, Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3, respectively, because they have always been put under Donald Duck

Donald Duck

Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Donald is most...

's filmography, not Goofy's.

In addition to the commentary provided by Leonard Maltin for some of the galleries on Disc 2, Goofy himself (voiced by Bill Farmer) provides some comments on others.

125,000 sets produced.

Disc one

• 1939
  • Goofy and Wilbur
    Goofy and Wilbur
    Goofy and Wilbur is a cartoon produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures on March 17, 1939. It was the first cartoon which featured Goofy in his first solo role without Mickey Mouse and/or Donald Duck. In this cartoon Goofy goes fishing with his pet grasshopper, Wilbur,...
    
    

• 1940
  • Goofy's Glider

• 1941
  • Baggage Buster
  • The Art of Skiing
  • The Art of Self Defense
    The Art of Self Defense
    The Art of Self Defense is a cartoon made by the Walt Disney Company in 1941.-Synopsis:After a brief history on the many different forms of manly arts through the years, Goofy demonstrates the different methods of boxing, as well as punching the bag and shadow boxing - literally - until finally he...
    
    

• 1942
  • How to Fish
  • How to Play Baseball
    How to Play Baseball
    How to Play Baseball is a cartoon released by Walt Disney Animation Studios in September 1942, produced at the request of Samuel Goldwyn and first shown to accompany the 1942 feature film The Pride of the Yankees.-Synopsis:...
    
    
  • The Olympic Champ
  • How to Swim
    How to Swim
    How to Swim is a cartoon made by Walt Disney Productions in 1942.-Synopsis:In this cartoon, Goofy provides an educational treatise on swimming and diving with questionable results....
    
    

• 1943
  • Victory Vehicles

• 1944
  • How To Be a Sailor
  • How To Play Golf
  • How To Play Football

• 1945
  • Tiger Trouble
  • African Diary
  • Californy'er Bust
  • Hockey Homicide
    Hockey Homicide
    -Synopsis:Narrator Doodles Weaver explains the rules of ice hockey in satirical format. The narration's emphasis on good sportsmanship is countered by the violence of the players...
    
    

• 1946
  • A Knight For a Day
  • Double Dribble

• 1947
  • Foul Hunting

• 1948
  • They're Off
  • The Big Wash

• Bonus Features
  • The Essential Goof: Using a montage of clips from the various Goofy shorts on this set, the analysis of the character, as spoken by the one who originally drew him, Art Babbitt
    Art Babbitt
    Arthur Harold Babitsky , better known as Art Babbitt, was an American animator, best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company. He received over 80 awards as animation director and animator, but is most famous for creating Goofy...
    
     (who also created the Big Bad Wolf and the balletic mushrooms in Fantasia
    Fantasia (film)
    Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions. The third feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are...
    
    ) is repeated here. You can view the entire analysis on the article on Goofy by clicking here. Incidentally, Art's narration is actually spoken by Earl Boen
    Earl Boen
    Earl Boen is an American actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known as criminal psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in the Terminator series...
    
    .
  • The Man Behind the Goof: A mini-biography about the original voice of Goofy, Pinto Colvig
    Pinto Colvig
    Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig was an American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer whose schtick was playing clarinet off-key while mugging....
    
    . This biography reveals that in his youth, Colvig loved to travel with the circus, where he'd perform as a clown. He spent much of his life at Disney
    The Walt Disney Company
    The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
    
     where in addition to voicing Goofy, he'd also voiced Pluto
    Pluto (Disney)
    Pluto, also called Pluto the Pup, is a cartoon character created in 1930 by Walt Disney Productions. He is a light brown , medium-sized, short-haired dog. Unlike Goofy, Pluto is not anthropomorphic beyond some characteristics such as facial expression...
    
    , the Practical Pig, the Grasshopper in The Grasshopper and the Ants
    The Grasshopper and the Ants (film)
    The Grasshopper and the Ants is a 1934 American animated short film directed by Wilfred Jackson. Part of the Silly Symphonies series, the cartoon was produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on February 10, 1934 by United Artists.The story is a retelling of The...
    
     (where Colvig, as the grasshopper, sang "The World Owes Me a Livin'", which he'd later add to Goofy) and two of the Seven Dwarfs
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, as well as the first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full...
    
     (specifically, Grumpy and Sleepy). He also left Disney temporarily to voice Gabby at Max Fleischer
    Max Fleischer
    Max Fleischer was an American animator. He was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios...
    
    's studios, but later returned to Disney where he'd spend the rest of his life voicing Goofy. He also was the original Bozo the Clown
    Bozo the Clown
    Bozo the Clown is a clown character very popular in the United States, peaking in the 1960s as a result of widespread franchising in early television.Originally created by Alan W...
    
     for Capitol Records
    Capitol Records
    Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
    
     on records, radio and television.

Disc two

• 1949
  • Tennis Racquet
  • Goofy Gymnastics

• 1950
  • Motor Mania
  • Hold That Pose

• 1951
  • Lion Down
  • Home Made Home
  • Cold War
  • Tomorrow We Diet
  • Get Rich Quick
  • Fathers Are People
  • No Smoking

• 1952
  • Father's Lion
  • Hello Aloha
  • Man's Best Friend
  • Two-Gun Goofy
  • Teachers Are People
  • Two Weeks Vacation
  • How To Be a Detective

• 1953
  • Father's Day Off
  • For Whom the Bulls Toil
  • Father's Week End
  • How To Dance
  • How To Sleep

• 1961
  • Aquamania
    Aquamania
    For the computer game and the game mode, see PacMania IIIAquamania is a cartoon produced by The Walt Disney Company in 1961.This cartoon was the last from Disney's "Golden Era" which featured Goofy as a solo star, and the first time the xerography animation-technique was used in a Goofy cartoon...
    
    

• Bonus Features
  • A Conversation With Goofy's Voice: Bill Farmer: As the title implies, Maltin interviews the present voice of Goofy, Bill Farmer
    Bill Farmer
    William "Bill" Farmer is an American voice actor and comedian, best known for being the current voice of the Disney characters Goofy, Pluto and Horace Horsecollar.-Early life:...
    
    , who had been voicing Goofy since 1986. Farmer reveals his origins and how he came to voice Goofy. It is revealed that Farmer had voiced Goofy in more than 3000 different Disney projects, not only cartoons, but also albums, telephones, commercials and many others.
  • Poster Gallery: Many of the posters of the Goofy shorts are presented here. Curiously, Maltin does not provide commentary as he usually does on the sets; instead, it's Goofy who provides the occasional comment/exclamation.
  • Memorabilia Gallery: This gallery shows off various Goofy memorabilia, such as books and albums. Maltin does do the commentary here.
  • Goofy Through the Years Gallery: This gallery reveals storyboard sketches, animation drawings and background paintings of many of the Goofy shorts presented. Again, Maltin does not provide commentary; once again, it's Goofy.

Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studios

This set covers the process of producing films at the Walt Disney Studios from the as well as tour the studios themselves.
Most of the contents are from Walt Disney anthology series.

125,000 sets produced.

Disc one

• A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios
  A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios
  A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios was a documentary made in response to requests from members of RKO Radio Pictures for a behind the scenes look at Walt Disney Studios. The film was never intended for public showing; it was only shown to executives at RKO...
  
   (1938): This short film, made by Disney from the request of Disney's distributor at the time, RKO Radio, was included on the Snow White
  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, as well as the first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full...
  
   Platinum DVD. This film talks about the promoting of the film in general, as well as give an inside look on the inner workings of the Disney Studio, which back in the 1930s was on Hyperion Avenue. Viewers not only got to see the process of making Disney cartoons, but also the faces of some of the artists who brought them to life, many of whom went on to become famous animation legends.

• How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made (1939): This film, also released as part of the Snow White DVD, is a more family-friendly version of A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios, as well as be used as an even bigger way of promoting Snow White.

• The Reluctant Dragon
  The Reluctant Dragon (film)
  The Reluctant Dragon is a 1941 American combined live action and animated film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Alfred Werker, and released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 20, 1941...
  
  : The crown jewel of this disc, this film shows off actor and humorist Robert Benchley
  Robert Benchley
  Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor...
  
   as he wanders the new and improved Disney Studios in Burbank
  Burbank, California
  Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, north of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population in 2010 was 103,340....
  
   to try and sell Walt the idea of making a film of Kenneth Grahame
  Kenneth Grahame
  Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows , one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films....
  
  's book, The Reluctant Dragon. He explores an art class, dialogue stage, sound effects stage, multiplane camera department, the paint department and finally, the story and animation departments until finally he discovers Disney has finished the cartoon version of his story.

• Bonus Features
  • Leonard Maltin's Studio Tours: Actually, Maltin does not provide a tour of the studio; instead, he provides a history of the place, from the days of the Alice Comedies
    Alice Comedies
    The "Alice Comedies" are a series of animated cartoonscreated by Walt Disney in the 1920s, in which a live action little girl named Alice and an animated cat named Julius have adventures in an animated landscape....
    
    right up to the present day.
  • Behind the Boards of Baby Weems: A rare interview with long-time Disney storyman and artist Joe Grant
    Joe Grant
    Joe Grant was a Disney artist and writer.Born in New York City, New York, he worked for The Walt Disney Company as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1933 on the Mickey Mouse short, "Mickey's Gala Premiere". He was a Disney legend. He created the Queen in Snow White and the Seven...
    
    . Maltin discusses how Grant got his start at the studio and the unusual story-reel format of the "Baby Weems" short seen in The Reluctant Dragon
    The Reluctant Dragon
    The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame , which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions. The story has also been set to music as a children's operetta by John Rutter, with words by David Grant...
    
    . Grant reveals that "Weems" and the "Dragon" shorts from the film were both originally considered for full-length theatrical releases, but ultimately didn’t warrant the longer running time.
  • The Reluctant Dragon Gallery: Several black and white stills in this gallery reveal the promotional shots of the film and its actors.
  • Studio Gallery: A gallery showing off photos of the old Hyperion lot.

Disc two

• The Story of the Animated Drawing
  The Story of the Animated Drawing
  "The Story of the Animated Drawing" is an episode of the Disneyland television program. Originally aired in 1955, it shows Walt Disney explaining the history of animation throughout the ages, starting back in prehistoric days and working its way up to some primitive mechanical animation...
  
  : On this 1955 episode of the Disney anthology series, Walt serves as the delightful host as he discusses the history of animation from the days of the caveman to the days of some primitive mechanical animation contraptions in the 1800s that were used to experiment with the art form. Then it moves on to more advance types of animation experiments, such as in J. Stuart Blackton
  J. Stuart Blackton
  James Stuart Blackton , usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an Anglo-American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation...
  
  's Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
  Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
  Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton released in 1906. It features a cartoonist drawing faces on a chalkboard, and the faces coming to life. It is generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film. It features movements as where a dog jumps through...
  
  , Winsor McCay
  Winsor McCay
  Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator.A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and others in later decades...
  
  's Gertie the Dinosaur
  Gertie the Dinosaur
  Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 American animated short film by Winsor McCay. Although not the first feature-length animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality...
  
  and even a demonstration of how music was synchronized into cartoons way back in the early days of the cinema.

• The Plausible Impossible
  The Plausible Impossible
  "The Plausible Impossible" is an episode of the Disneyland television program. Originally aired in 1956, it shows Walt Disney explaining how drawings and animation have things that are impossible seem plausible, as evidenced in ancient history and various cartoons with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck...
  
  : On this 1956 episode of the anthology series, Walt explains how his animators make the impossible seem realistic through various cartoons with Mickey and Donald. This episode also includes a pencil-test form of one scene from Snow White that was ultimately not used in the final film.

• Tricks of our Trade: On this 1957 episode of the anthology series, Walt dwells on how animators study real life to create their illustrations. Examples are given from Fantasia
  Fantasia (film)
  Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions. The third feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are...
  
  on following a live ballerina to draw the animals' movements in Dance of the Hours
  Dance of the Hours
  Dance of the Hours is a short ballet from Act 3, Scene 2 of the opera La Gioconda composed by Amilcare Ponchielli. It depicts the hours of the day through solo and ensemble dances. The opera was first performed in 1876 and was revised in 1880...
  
  , and copying actual bubbles to produce the boiling lava in The Rite of Spring
  The Rite of Spring
  The Rite of Spring, original French title Le sacre du printemps , is a ballet with music by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky; and concept, set design and costumes by Nicholas Roerich...
  
  . The groundbreaking multiplane camera is shown off, demonstrating how it is used to mimic real landscapes, since plain animated backgrounds seem to be too plain and create a false effect.

• Bonus Features
  • Kem Weber Gallery: This gallery has architectural concept art for the Burbank lot.
  • Tour of the Disney Studio: This is a rare half-hour radio broadcast from Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
    
     in 1946, in which studio personnel Homer Brightman, Harry Reeves, Eric Larson
    Eric Larson
    Eric Larson was an animator for the Walt Disney Studios starting in 1933 and was one of the "Disney's Nine Old Men."...
    
    and Walt himself offer general information on the making of the animated films at the time.