Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Volume Two

This set covers the remaining 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.

175,000 sets produced.

Disc one

• The Barn Dance (1928)
• The Opry House (1929)
• When the Cat's Away (1929)
• The Barnyard Battle (1929)
• The Plowboy (1929)
• Mickey's Choo-Choo (1929)
• The Jazz Fool (1929)
• Jungle Rhythm (1929)
• Wild Waves (1929)
• Fiddling Around (also known as Just Mickey) (1930)
• The Barnyard Concert (1930)
• The Cactus Kid (1930)
• The Shindig (1930)
• The Picnic (1930)
• Traffic Troubles (1931)
• The Castaway (1931)
• Fishin' Around (1931)
• The Beach Party (1931)
• The Barnyard Broadcast (1931)
• The Mad Dog (1932)
• Barnyard Olympics (1932)

Bonus features

• "Mickey Mania: Collecting Mickey Merchandise": Maltin visits Bernie Shine, collector extraordinaire. They discuss what makes Mickey so appealing, then Shine takes us on a tour of his vast amassing of Mickey memorabilia from all over the globe, most of it dating back to the 1920s and 30s.
• "Mickey's Portrait Artist: John Hench": Maltin interviews famed Disney artist John Hench about Mickey. Hench was the man in charge of painting Mickey for his birthdays throughout the years.

Disc two

• Musical Farmer (1932)
• Trader Mickey (1932)
• The Wayward Canary (1932)
• Mickey's Pal Pluto (1933)
• Mickey's Mechanical Man (1933)
• Playful Pluto (1934)
• Mickey's Steamroller (1934)
• Mickey Plays Papa (1934)
• Mickey's Kangaroo (1935)

From the vault

• Haunted House (1929)
• The Moose Hunt (1931)
• The Delivery Boy (1931)
• The Grocery Boy (1932)
• Mickey in Arabia (1932)
• Mickey's Good Deed (1932)
• Mickey's Mellerdrammer (1933)
• The Steeplechase (1933, wrong opening music, its plays Donald Duck theme)
• Shanghaied (1934)
• Mickey's Man Friday (1935)

Bonus features

• "Background paintings": Backgrounds of the various cartoon shorts on this set
• "Animation drawings": Drawings of the same cartoons, animating and storyboard
• "Mickey's Poster Archive": Posters for many of the shorts shown on this set
• "Mickey Mouse Fully Covered": Various merchandise covers, such as books, magazines and records
• "Mickey's Sunday Funnies": This section shows off the comic strips of the many Mickey adventures, complete with a biography of creator Floyd Gottfredson
  Floyd Gottfredson
  Arthur Floyd Gottfredson was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip. He has probably had the same impact on the Mickey Mouse comics as Carl Barks had on the Donald Duck comics...
  
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The Complete Pluto

This set covers the first half of 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...

's career.

110,000 sets produced.

Disc one

• 1930
  • 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...
    
    

• 1935
  • On Ice

• 1937
  • Pluto's Quin-puplets

• 1939
  • Beach Picnic

• 1940
  • Bone Trouble

• 1941
  • Pluto's Playmate
  • Canine Caddy
  • Lend a Paw

• 1942
  • Pluto, Junior
  • The Army Mascot
  • The Sleepwalker
  • T-Bone For Two
  • Pluto At the Zoo

• Bonus Features
  • The Life and Times of Pluto: An interesting but brief analysis of Pluto as a character. Maltin discusses the dog with current animator Andreas Deja
    Andreas Deja
    Andreas Deja is as an animator most noted for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Deja's creations include the Disney villains Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, Jafar from Aladdin and Scar from The Lion King. He is a recipient of the 2006 Winsor McCay Award.-Early life:Andreas Deja was born...
    
    , long-time animators 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...
    
    , and animation historian John Canemaker
    John Canemaker
    John Cannizzaro Jr. , better known as John Canemaker, is an independent animator, animation historian, author, teacher and lecturer. In 1980, he began teaching and developing the animation program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts', Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Department...
    
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  • Pluto 101: Maltin again meets with Deja, who speaks about the value of studying classic cartoon shorts to aid in his ability to animate successfully. He then takes Leonard to the drawing board, where he shows how to bring Pluto to life from just one circle, the way he did in a sequence for the 1990 featurette The Prince and the Pauper
    The Prince and the Pauper
    The Prince and the Pauper is an English-language novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada before its 1882 publication in the United States. The book represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction...
    
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Disc two

• 1943
  • Pluto and the Armadillo
  • Private Pluto
    Private Pluto
    Private Pluto is a cartoon made by The Walt Disney Company in 1943. In this cartoon Pluto is in the army and he gets antagonized by two chipmunks. This is the cartoon that introduced Chip 'n' Dale, although their names were not mentioned in this cartoon....
    
    

• 1944
  • Springtime For Pluto
  • First Aiders

• 1945
  • Dog Watch
  • Canine Casanova
  • The Legend of Coyote Rock
  • Canine Patrol

• 1946
  • Pluto's Kid Brother
  • In Dutch
  • Squatter's Rights
  • The Purloined Pup

• 1947
  • Pluto's Housewarming

• From the Vault
  • Pantry Pirate (1940)
  • A Gentleman's Gentleman (1941)

• Bonus Features
  • Pluto's Picture Book: This is the second half of the Disneyland episode, A Story of Dogs, which was aired as part of a promotion for Lady and the Tramp
    Lady and the Tramp
    Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on June 22, 1955, by Buena Vista Distribution. The fifteenth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, it was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen...
    
    (the making of which the first half of this episode covers). The second half of this episode talks about Disney's first canine star, using a picture book, from which Pluto leaps and into which Pluto looks while Walt narrates and we get a look at some of the highlights of Pluto's career.
  • Pluto's Pal Fergy: This is a mini-biography about "the man behind the mutt": Norman Ferguson
    Norman Ferguson
    William Norman "Norm" Ferguson was an animator for Walt Disney Studios and a central contributor to the studio's stylistic development in the 1930s. He is most frequently noted for his contribution to the creation of Pluto, one of the studio's best-known and most enduring characters, and is the...
    
    , who helped bring the dog to life. This talks about Ferguson not only creating Pluto, but also some of the other things at Disney he did.
  • Galleries
    • Pluto On Paper: Several Pluto comic strips are shown, as are Pluto book and magazine covers. The comics are designed masterfully so one can actually read along frame by frame.
    • Pluto's Posters: Posters for many of the cartoons presented on this set are depicted.
    • Background Paintings: The backdrops for a small handful of the cartoons presented are shown.
    • Animation Drawings: A host of drawings, storyboard and otherwise, for the same small handful of cartoons as in the "Background Paintings" section.

The Mickey Mouse Club

This set contains the first week of the Mickey Mouse Club program, originally broadcast October 3-7 1955.

130,000 sets produced.

Disc one

• Fun With Music Day (Monday)
• Guest Star Day (Tuesday)
• Anything Can Happen Day (Wednesday)
• Bonus Features
  • The Leader of the Club
  • Galleries
    • Inside the Clubhouse
    • Spreading the Word: Mouseke-Promotion
    • Sketching the Ideas

Disc two

• Circus Day (Thursday)
• Talent Round-Up Day (Friday)
• Bonus Features
  • Mouseke-Memories
  • The Mouseketeers Debut at Disneyland
  • Opening Sequence in Color