Once Upon a Mouse
| Once Upon a Mouse | |
|---|---|
| Directed by |
Jerry Kramer Gary Rocklen |
| Produced by |
Jerry Kramer Gary Rocklen Howard E. Green Cardon Walker |
| Written by |
Robert Resnikoff Jack Weinstein |
| Starring |
Walt Disney Clarence Nash Hans Conried Aurora Miranda |
| Cinematography |
Richard Cohen Dion Hatch |
| Edited by | Jack Weinstein |
Production company |
Kramer-Rocklen Studios Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Distribution |
Release dates |
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Running time | 27 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Once Upon a Mouse is a 1981 American theatrical featurette directed by Jerry Kramer and Gary Rocklen, produced in association with Walt Disney Productions by Kramer-Rocklen Studios. It was released on July 10, 1981 on a double bill with The Fox and the Hound.[1]
Synopsis
A documentary featurette produced in celebration of the studio's 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.
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 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Lady and the Tramp, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, The Aristocats, The Sword in the Stone and Robin Hood.[2]
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.
Cast
- Walt Disney as Himself / Mickey Mouse (archive footage)
- Clarence Nash as Donald Duck (archive footage)
- Hans Conried as Slave in the Magic Mirror (archive footage)
- Aurora Miranda as Herself
Home video
The featurette has never been released on any physical format in the United States by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.
On August 25, 1986, it was released in Japan on VHS and LaserDisc as part of a compilation of classic Disney shorts called Once Upon a Mouse and Other Mousetime Stories. This compilation features the following shorts: The Flying Mouse, Three Blind Mouseketeers, Brave Little Tailor, Ben and Me and Once Upon a Mouse.[3]