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Once Upon a Mouse

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Once Upon a Mouse
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 byBuena 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]

Dedication

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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

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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

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The following appeared on archival footage:

Home media

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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

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References

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