Sing, dance, and play along with Mickey and the gang in fun-filled musical adventures! It’s easy as you read the on-screen lyrics to favorite kid songs! In CAMPOUT AT WALT DISNEY WORLD, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, and the Sing-Along Kids pitch their tents and explore Discovery Island, River Country, and even participate in a Talent Show! It’s the most fun you’ll have on a campout!

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In a beautiful palace garden, under a shining sapphire sky, the most delightful celebration in all the land is about to begin. It’s an enchanted royal tea party, and your little princess is the guest of honor! On the wings of music and magic, your child will discover a lovely kingdom of happiness, harmony, and dreams come true. There, she can sing along with all her favorite Disney Princesses as they perform their best-loved songs from Disney’s award-winning classics. Plus, she’ll be the belle of the ball as she learns wonderful dance moves and sings karaoke-style too! So give your little girl the crown jewels of Disney’s musical library, and let the enchantment reign forever and a day.

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These five classic, time-honored stories, carefully chosen from the Disney vault, are sure to delight and entertain your child for years to come. You’ll laugh as Mickey plays both roles in “The Prince And The Pauper,” and similarly enjoy the two Academy Award(R)-winning shorts “Three Little Pigs” and “The Tortoise And The Hare” (Best Short Subject, Cartoon, 1932-33 and 1934). With beautiful animation, unforgettable music, and ageless themes about liking yourself for who you are and the value of preparing for the future, this collection of Timeless Tales is a must-own for every family.

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Some of the most endearing stories the world has ever known are contained here in Walt Disney’s TIMELESS TALES VOLUME TWO. You’ll fall in love with the title characters in the two Academy Award(R)-winning shorts “Ugly Duckling” and “The Country Cousin” (Best Short Subject, Cartoons, 1939 and 1936) and revel in the hilarious antics of Mr. Toad in “The Wind In The Willows.” With dazzling animation, unforgettable music, and time-honored themes about facing responsibilities and liking yourself for who you are, this collection of four stories is a must-have for every child’s video collection.

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Long before Animal Planet existed, Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures awakened viewers to the wonders of the natural world. Disney began the series in 1946 with Seal Island, and the six features and seven featurettes won eight Academy Awards. Listen to our interviewwith director emeritusRoy E. Disney. One winner was Bear Country (1953), which is included in Creatures of the Wild, along with The African Lion (1955), Jungle Cat (1959) and The Olympic Elk (1952). Each film traces the course of one year in the life of its subject. Lionesses hunt to feed their cubs (and their glorious but idle mates) on Serengeti Plains. A pair of jaguars in the Amazon and a mother bear in Yellowstone Park raise their cubs, teaching them to find food and avoid predators. Magnificent bull elk fight for mates in the high meadows of the Olympic Mountains. Except for the narration occasionally seeming a little forced or obvious, these documentaries wear their age lightly. The prints hav (more…)

The legendary tale of “The Prince And The Pauper” gets a magical Disney makeover in tis adventure-filled DISNEY ANIMATION COLLECTION DVD, part of a series of beloved classic short films! In a faraway kingdom, two boys who look exactly alike meet by chance and decide to switch places: a pauper named Mickey, who dreams about a life of luxury, and the Crown Prince, who wishes he could be as free as his subjects. Each boy faces extraordinary challenges in his new role, and together they must figure out how to save the kingdom from an evil Captain who wants the throne for himself!

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Disney Rarities lives up to its title: It’s been impossible to see many of these shorts for decades. Walt Disney bankrupted his fledgling Laugh-O-Gram studio making “Alice’s Wonderland,” but the short earned Disney his first national distribution contract. Films featuring animated characters in live-action settings were common during the silent era; Disney reversed the situation, placing a live actress (Virginia Davis) in a cartoon world. The “Alice” series ran from 1923-1926, and several girls played the title role. These silent films have been handsomely restored and given upbeat musical tracks by Alex Rannie. The Oscar-winners “Ferdinand the Bull” (1938) and “Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom” (1953) rank as genuine classics, and have been unavailable for far too long. The wartime cautionary tale “Chicken Little” (1943) displays more imagination than the 2005 feature adaptation of the same story. “The Truth About Mother Goose” (1957) reflects the influence of Sleeping Beaut (more…)

Loosely based on Alexander Key’s novel Escape to Witch Mountain, Race to Witch Mountain is not so much a remake of the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain as an entirely new film based on some key plot points from the former film. When two innocent-looking teens appear in Jack Bruno’s (Dwayne Johnson) cab and tell him that “we must travel in that direction,” Jack thinks it’s a bit strange, but shrugs it off and starts driving. Soon they’re being followed and chased off the road, but is it Jack’s past catching up with him or something much larger? Sara (AnnaSophia Robb) and Seth (Alexander Ludwig) reluctantly confess that they are aliens from another planet, but Jack refuses to accept their statement until Sara starts moving things with her mind and Seth slips through the body of the car and deflects the SUV that’s pursuing them. Sara and Seth tell Jack that they must recover their crashed spaceship in order to save earth from being taken over by aliens, so Jack takes them (more…)

World War II transformed the Disney Studio. Although nearly one-third of the artists had been drafted, production quintupled, up to 95% of it for military and government uses. Some of the films included in On the Front Lines have not been seen since their initial release; others were never shown to the general public. Anticipating the importance of animated training films, Disney produced the studio’s first educational film, “Four Methods of Flush Riveting” (1941), using limited animation to train riveters at Lockheed. Decades later, “Four Methods” and the excerpts from military training films remain models of how to present information clearly and concisely. Many of the wartime entertainment shorts are largely propaganda. Donald’s nightmare of working on a Nazi assembly line in “Der Fuehrer’s Face” is still hilarious slapstick. The grimmer “Education for Death” and “Chicken Little” have aged less gracefully. Disney’s oddest wartime project was Victory Through Air P (more…)

Now, only on Disney DVD … sing, dance, and learn along with your favorite Disney songs! Join Disney’s most beloved characters in their most memorable musical moments for a learning experience, developed in cooperation with educational experts, that is tons of fun for the entire family. Enjoy your favorite musical selections from the 100 Acre Wood. With brand-new songs from PIGLET’S BIG MOVIE and the option to sing along in three different languages, SING A SONG WITH POOH BEAR AND PIGLET TOO promises to keep your heart light with the happiest songs around!

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