Disney and Turner Classic Movies

[Nelson]

I wanted to write this, but I'm sure that movie fans have noticed all of the classic live action Disney features that began popping up on Turner Classic Movies last year.I say this because, I wonder if Disney and TCM made an agreement with each other to broadcasts these films and would it also include the animated Disney Features?I would sure hope so!

BTW:TCM will air every sunday night during primetime this month, 25 Disney features and a special documentary on this history of the Disney live action films this Sunday at 7pm(est) 12/14/08.

[Geezil]

Yes, I've lately noticed it too, and it makes perfect sense considering that neither the Disney Channel nor ABC is willing to make room for these features anymore. Kudos to TCM, then, for leaping into the breach! :D

[janiepooh34]

Do you know if this is going to continue? (I need a good reason to justify getting satellite or cable TV back into my budget.) TCM has always been one of my favorite channels, but if they are going to continue to offer classic live action Disney movies in the mix as well, that is certainly a bonus.

[Snowpeck II]

According to my sources, the Disney live action films will continue to be part of the mix through the first months of the new year at least (Bedknobs and Broomsticks is scheduled to re-air in February for instance).

Greg

[Bugsy-Kun]

I'm glad that a channel like TCM have again sympathies to the old live-action Disney films. Neither Disney Channel neither Family in Canada is care to this features anymore. They reminds so much memories tough. Thanks for this nice information Nelson!

[ohmahaaha]

Do you know if this is going to continue? (I need a good reason to justify getting satellite or cable TV back into my budget.) TCM has always been one of my favorite channels, but if they are going to continue to offer classic live action Disney movies in the mix as well, that is certainly a bonus.
TCM has been airing classic Disney movies for a while now, at least for the last year I think ... it's just in the spotlight this month in that they're showing bunches of them in December.

[Tim Lones]

TCM has been airing classic Disney movies for a while now, at least for the last year I think ... it's just in the spotlight this month in that they're showing bunches of them in December.
It still irritates me..Disney could easily launch a "Classic Disney" channel that could incorporate all the Disney movie and TV properties fromm the 50's to early 80's..Like the early Disney Channel was..Without all the teenybopper/High School stuff..Thoiugh It's good that TCM shows Disney Films now..

[Geezil]

It still irritates me..Disney could easily launch a "Classic Disney" channel that could incorporate all the Disney movie and TV properties fromm the 50's to early 80's..Like the early Disney Channel was..Without all the teenybopper/High School stuff..Thoiugh It's good that TCM shows Disney Films now..

But let's not forget that the early Disney Channel was also on a premium tier in many cable packages (that's where we first found it) ... it was only with the shift to basic cable and advertising load that the downhill rush began (see also AMC).

[Vdubdavid]

The one drawback is that for several of the second-tier features apparently TCM is getting pan-and-scan versions instead of letterbox, the third and fourth Herbie movies for instance. Hopefully sometime soon TCM can wring better copies out of Disney.

[Steve Stanch]

I just finished watching the Disney documentary on live action films.... the Disney re-writing history machine is at it again though- they stated that the new creative team that help revitalize Disney was Frank Wells and Michael Eisner- leaving Jeffrey Katzenburg COMPLETELY out, without as much as a mention! An amazing statement, made by Roy Disney himself! It's distressing such an ommision would be made very obviously purposely rather than paying basic due respect, given how important he was in those years creatively.

Of course, not everyone liked Katzenburg, another issue entirely- but it cannot be denied that he was a major player in helping to get the company back on it's feet.

[Nelson]

Honestly, I waiting that night(more than the Disney features)on TCM for the Silent Sunday Night telecast of the rare Cecil B.DeMille silent, "The Godless Girl" and boy, I wasn't disapointed with that feature.

[JERRY BECK]

I just finished watching the Disney documentary on live action films.... the Disney re-writing history machine is at it again

The TCM documentary ignored THE RELUCTANT DRAGON and SONG OF THE SOUTH, that bothered me... but otherwise I enjoyed seeing what Moochie, Tommy Kirk and Karen Dotrice look like today.

[didi-5]

It's a shame these features get neglected. Especially Song of the South, which hasn't been on TV here in the UK for several years now (happily, I taped it last time). Ditto for The Reluctant Dragon. TCM UK isn't showing any Disney live features so I guess this is country specific.

Much as I love the Disney classic cartoon features I wish their whole output was more easily available. Cinemagic just seems to concentrate on post-1980s stuff all the time.

[Jon Cooke]

Just bumping this old thread to alert everyone that TCM is re-airing The Age of Believing: The Disney Live-Action Classics tonight at 6:30pm. Just in case you missed it the first time (like I did), be sure to set the DVR.

[Bugsy-Kun]

It's a shame these features get neglected. Especially Song of the South, which hasn't been on TV here in the UK for several years now (happily, I taped it last time). Ditto for The Reluctant Dragon. TCM UK isn't showing any Disney live features so I guess this is country specific.

Much as I love the Disney classic cartoon features I wish their whole output was more easily available. Cinemagic just seems to concentrate on post-1980s stuff all the time.

Yeah i browsing on their website a lot of time and the series and movies choices is disappointed even if i living in this times. Luckily, i growing up with the classic Disney shorts while CBC aired after the movies.

[Ray Pointer]

I just finished watching the Disney documentary on live action films.... the Disney re-writing history machine is at it again though- they stated that the new creative team that help revitalize Disney was Frank Wells and Michael Eisner- leaving Jeffrey Katzenburg COMPLETELY out, without as much as a mention! An amazing statement, made by Roy Disney himself! It's distressing such an ommision would be made very obviously purposely rather than paying basic due respect, given how important he was in those years creatively.
Of course, not everyone liked Katzenburg, another issue entirely- but it cannot be denied that he was a major player in helping to get the company back on it's feet.

I seem to recall a detail in this "history" that was omitted. Katzenberg was in a bitter lawsuit with Disney that resulted in his bringing a major capital investment to Dreamworks. During that bitter lawsuit, Eisner himself denied the importance of Katzenberg, regardless of what his contributions were. When you consider the degree of negative publicity that this incident generated, it isn't surprising they would omit him. It
was nearly like having the name of Moses stricken from every monument and pilon by the Pharoh of Egypt. What a coincidence since PRINCE OF EGYPT was Katzenberg's vehicle once he came to DREAMWORKS!