Orphans Benefit - Mickey Mouse Short - 1934 / 1941 Comparison
- 8 yıl önce
As a special treat, here is a comparison video between the 1934 Mickey Mouse short Orphans Benefit and it 1941, shot-for-shot remake Orphans Benefit.\r
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I synced the two shorts up side-by-side and, despite my best efforts to include both soundtracks, decided to use the 1941 soundtrack for the audio.\r
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(From the Wikipedia article Orphans Benefit, section Remake)\r
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In the summer of 1939, in anticipation of Mickey Mouses 12th anniversary the following year, Walt Disney commissioned a two-reel short film tentatively called MICKEYS REVIVAL PARTY. The plan was for this film to open with the characters arriving at a cinema where they would watch scenes from several old, mostly black and white Mickey Mouse films (among them Orphans Benefit). The story artists envisioned the characters humorously interacting with themselves on the movie screen. This therefore required that the old footage could not be simply added as-is to the new film, it had to be redrawn completely.\r
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It was during this process that Walt Disney decided to completely reproduce several of these old shorts in color. It was also an opportunity to update the character models, since many characters had changed in appearance since the early 1930s.\r
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Orphans Benefit was the first of these films to be redone. The result was an almost exact shot-for-shot version of the original, except for the added color and updated characters. The film was directed by Riley Thomson and used almost the entire original soundtrack, the only change being the final line, from Aw nuts! to Aw phooey! which had become a common catchphrase for Donald by that time. The title of the film also saw a small change making it more grammatically correct, although this was not reflected in some promotional material such as the film poster. Orphans Benefit was released to theaters on August 12, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures.\r
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The next film scheduled for reproduction was Mickeys Man Friday (1935), but it was never completed. The original concept for MICKEYS REVIVAL PARTY was shelved and Orphans Benefit became the only Disney film to be recreated scene for scene. It is unknown what led to the cancellation, although animation historian David Gerstein speculated that World War II or the Disney animators strike of 1941 may have played a role, or that Walt Disney simply preferred to work on all-new films rather than extensively revisit the past.
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I synced the two shorts up side-by-side and, despite my best efforts to include both soundtracks, decided to use the 1941 soundtrack for the audio.\r
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*******************\r
BACKGROUND\r
*******************\r
(From the Wikipedia article Orphans Benefit, section Remake)\r
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In the summer of 1939, in anticipation of Mickey Mouses 12th anniversary the following year, Walt Disney commissioned a two-reel short film tentatively called MICKEYS REVIVAL PARTY. The plan was for this film to open with the characters arriving at a cinema where they would watch scenes from several old, mostly black and white Mickey Mouse films (among them Orphans Benefit). The story artists envisioned the characters humorously interacting with themselves on the movie screen. This therefore required that the old footage could not be simply added as-is to the new film, it had to be redrawn completely.\r
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It was during this process that Walt Disney decided to completely reproduce several of these old shorts in color. It was also an opportunity to update the character models, since many characters had changed in appearance since the early 1930s.\r
\r
Orphans Benefit was the first of these films to be redone. The result was an almost exact shot-for-shot version of the original, except for the added color and updated characters. The film was directed by Riley Thomson and used almost the entire original soundtrack, the only change being the final line, from Aw nuts! to Aw phooey! which had become a common catchphrase for Donald by that time. The title of the film also saw a small change making it more grammatically correct, although this was not reflected in some promotional material such as the film poster. Orphans Benefit was released to theaters on August 12, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures.\r
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The next film scheduled for reproduction was Mickeys Man Friday (1935), but it was never completed. The original concept for MICKEYS REVIVAL PARTY was shelved and Orphans Benefit became the only Disney film to be recreated scene for scene. It is unknown what led to the cancellation, although animation historian David Gerstein speculated that World War II or the Disney animators strike of 1941 may have played a role, or that Walt Disney simply preferred to work on all-new films rather than extensively revisit the past.