Lorenzo

[Cartman]

Has anyone here seen this Disney short? Hopefully it'll be released on a DVD like maybe a second Disney rarities volume.

[Mr. Semaj]

I actually paid $6 to see this when it was released in front of Raising Helen. I left as soon as it ended; cared nothing about the movie. The designs were pretty interesting, and I loved the coloring.

I really wanted this to win the 2005 Oscar for Best Animated Short, because it would soon be the last cartoon written by Joe Grant.

[Mac]

Has anyone here seen this Disney short? Hopefully it'll be released on a DVD like maybe a second Disney rarities volume.

That would be great. Disney has released a whole bunch of shorts in recent years and decades that sound like fun, but seem to disapear into obscurity almost immediately. Most of them seem to get either a very limited theatrical or festival release or show up as extras on DVDs that I (and it seems most other people who'd like to see the cartoons) have no interest in. Things like chepquels, crappy live action films and expensive compilations of shorts (most of which are already on or due to be on Treasures sets).

I don't know if a Treasures release would be quite right since the main focus of that series is stuff that was made when Walt was alive, but something like it would be cool. Shorts I can think of for such a compilation include "Off His Rockers", "John Henry", "One by One", "Lorenzo", "Destino", a cartoon about a little Japanese girl and a star maker or something, "Stand by Me (with Timon and Pumbaa", "Redux Riding Hood", "Three Little Pigs (a 1990's version)" "Oilspot and Lipstick" and "The Little Match Girl". I know very little about a lot of these (I'm not sure if some of them are just rumours and don't even exist) plus there's probably more I forgot or don't know about! Disney has set up a program for making new shorts so maybe, when there's even more out there, they'll think of putting them all on a DVD so people can actually watch them and they can make money from them!

[Studio Toledo]

I actually paid $6 to see this when it was released in front of Raising Helen. I left as soon as it ended; cared nothing about the movie. The designs were pretty interesting, and I loved the coloring.
I should've done that! I just didn't have an extra $6 lying around for when it was out.

I really wanted this to win the 2005 Oscar for Best Animated Short, because it would soon be the last cartoon written by Joe Grant.
Wouldn't mind if they bother sticking it up on iTunes if that was the only way to see it.

[Studio Toledo]

That would be great. Disney has released a whole bunch of shorts in recent years and decades that sound like fun, but seem to disapear into obscurity almost immediately. Most of them seem to get either a very limited theatrical or festival release or show up as extras on DVDs that I (and it seems most other people who'd like to see the cartoons) have no interest in. Things like chepquels, crappy live action films and expensive compilations of shorts (most of which are already on or due to be on Treasures sets).

I don't know if a Treasures release would be quite right since the main focus of that series is stuff that was made when Walt was alive, but something like it would be cool. Shorts I can think of for such a compilation include "Off His Rockers", "John Henry", "One by One", "Lorenzo", "Destino", a cartoon about a little Japanese girl and a star maker or something, "Stand by Me (with Timon and Pumbaa", "Redux Riding Hood", "Three Little Pigs (a 1990's version)" "Oilspot and Lipstick" and "The Little Match Girl". I know very little about a lot of these (I'm not sure if some of them are just rumours and don't even exist) plus there's probably more I forgot or don't know about!
I once found an eBay auction by someone who had a 35mm print of CGI films from an '80's festival compilation of sorts that had Oilspot & Lipstick included. I personally would love to have a DVD set of just these films made over the past 20-25 years or so be included (Tim Burton's "Vincent" would be a good choice as well, aside from it getting released with "The Nightmare Before Christmas").

Disney has set up a program for making new shorts so maybe, when there's even more out there, they'll think of putting them all on a DVD so people can actually watch them and they can make money from them!
Or the iTunes route if it comes to it!

[MF TOON]

I saw the premiere at the Ottawa festival 2-3 years ago... it got a long standing ovation.

A really terrific and beautiful looking film, it definitely deserved to win the oscar.