Once Upon a Mouse

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Once Upon a Mouse
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Title card for Once Upon a Mouse
Directed by
  • Jerry Kramer
  • Gary Rocklen
Written by
  • Jack Weinstein
  • Robert Resnikoff
Produced by
  • Jerry Kramer
  • Gary Rocklen
  • Howard E. Green (Disney)
  • Cardon Walker (Disney)
Starring
CinematographyRichard Cohen
Dion Hatch
Edited byJack Weinstein
Production
companies
Distributed by Buena Vista Distribution
Release date
  • July 10, 1981 (1981-07-10)
Running time
27 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Once Upon a Mouse is a 1981 American theatrical featurette directed by Jerry Kramer and Gary Rocklen of Kramer/Rocklen Studios, produced in association with Walt Disney Productions. It was released on July 10, 1981 on a double bill with The Fox and the Hound . [1]

Contents

Dedication

In celebration of our twentieth animated feature, we invite you to relive with us the story telling magic, the wit, the wisdom, the humor, the understanding of a very special person who gave the world a timeless and universal art form. This is the legacy of Walt Disney...

— Opening titles of Once Upon a Mouse

Plot

A documentary featurette produced in celebration of the studio's 20th (soon to be 24th) feature-length animated film The Fox and the Hound which highlights sixty years of Walt Disney's legacy beginning with Steamboat Willie in 1928 followed by a kaleidoscopic magic carpet ride through the world of Disney animation, including segments from hundreds of films shown through the use of montages, collages, computerized optical effects, behind-the-scenes footage, and special tributes to Disney and Mickey Mouse. [2]

The featured clips include Mickey Mouse shorts, The Jungle Book , Bambi , Fantasia , The Rescuers , Song of the South , One Hundred and One Dalmatians , Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad , Alice in Wonderland , Lady and the Tramp , Pinocchio , Dumbo , Peter Pan , Sleeping Beauty , The Aristocats , The Sword in the Stone and Robin Hood . [3]

Once Upon a Mouse began airing on The Disney Channel in the mid-1980s and would be shown again in reruns, the last time being in 2002 as part of the Vault Disney block of programming. [4]

Cast

The following appeared on archival footage:

Home media

The short was released in Japan on August 25, 1986 on VHS and LaserDisc as part of a compilation of Disney shorts called Once Upon a Mouse and Other Mousetime Stories. This compilation also features The Flying Mouse (1934), Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936), Brave Little Tailor (1938) and Ben and Me (1953). [5]

See also

References

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