Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection on Blu-ray on 8/18; Digital HD & Disney Movies Anywhere 8/11

Together For the First Time! 12 Animated Short Films

WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS

SHORTS COLLECTION

Available Early on Digital HD/Disney Movies Anywhere (DMA) on August 11, 2015

Bring It Home on Blu-ray™ on August 18, 2015

Fans Can Now Enjoy The In-Home Debuts of the Beloved Animated Shorts “Frozen Fever,”  “Lorenzo,” 

and “Tick Tock Tale.” Also includes Academy Award®-Winning Animated Shorts “Feast” (2014)

and “Paperman” (2012), Special Filmmaker Introductions and More!

About:                                         From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes an extraordinary new collection of award-winning and beloved short films featuring Disney's Frozen Fever, starring Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Sven and Kristoff, and the Oscar®-nominated Lorenzo (Best Animated Short, 2004).  The Short Films Collection includes contemporary shorts starring classic characters, such as the groundbreaking 2013 Mickey Mouse cartoon, Get A Horse! And the holiday treat Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa, as well as celebrated Oscar winners Paperman (2012) and Feast (2014). Enjoy them together for the first time in this must-own collection with all-new extras including an inside look at the Disney Animation shorts, featuring introductions and interviews with the acclaimed filmmakers themselves.

Shorts (and filmmakers appearing in each Shorts Introduction):

Frozen Fever (2015) – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho, Aimee Scribner

Feast (2014) – Academy Award® Winner, Patrick Osborne, Kristina Reed

Get A Horse! (2013) - Academy Award® Nominated, Dorothy McKim, Eric Goldberg, Adam Green

Paperman (2012) – Academy Award® Winner, Kristina Reed, John Kahr

Tangled Ever After (2012) – Nathan Greno, Aimee Scribner, Mark Kennedy

The Ballad of Nessie (2011) – Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers-Skelton, Dorothy McKim

Tick Tock Tale (2010) – Dean Wellins

Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa (2010) – Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers-Skelton, Dorothy McKim

How to Hook Up Your Home Theater (2007) – Kevin Deters, Stevie Wermers-Skelton, Ian Gooding

The Little Matchgirl (2006) – Academy Award® Nominated, Dave Bossert, Tom MacDougall

Lorenzo (2004) – Academy Award® Nominated, Mike Gabriel

John Henry (2000) – Mark Henn

Bonus Features:                   FILMMAKER INTROS - The filmmakers behind the shorts share their journeys and introduce their films.

                                                    @DISNEYANIMATION: A SHORT STORY ON SHORTS - Continuing a legacy started in the earliest days of the Studio by Walt Disney, the Shorts Program is thriving today at the Animation Studios that bears his name, producing award-winning shorts that tell new stories and experiment with artistic and technical innovations. This latest chapter in the @DisneyAnimation series gives us an inside look at the process of developing and producing a short. Hosted by actor/comedian T.J. Miller (voice of “Fred,” Big Hero 6), we will meet a few of the artists and filmmakers who make the shorts, and learn why they are such an important part of the fabric of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Round Table Panelists include Lauren MacMullan (Get A Horse!), Mike Gabriel (Lorenzo), Kristina Reed (Feast, Paperman), Stevie Wermers-Skelton and Kevin Deters (the team behind The Ballad of Nessie, Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa, How to Hook Up Your Home Theater).

                                                    RUNAWAY BRAIN (1995)  - DMA DEBUT – Short film originally released in 2004 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures Collection: Mickey Mouse in Living Color, Vol. 2 DVD set. This short was nominated for an Academy Award® and screened during 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Animated Short Review: Get A Horse

"Get A Horse" is the animated short playing in front of Frozen and believe me that not only is it a must see but it deserves its own review!

Under the guise of a "recently" discovered Mickey Mouse cartoon from the late 1920s/early 1930s is in fact a short created this past year. But love and care were used to recreate the look and feel of a long-lost animation treasure!

The animators went as far as to take Mickey Mouse dialogue out of various shorts to piece together the dialogue for this. As many of you know Walt himself was the original voice for Mickey. They even went to Imagineering to use the same instruments used to create the original sound effects for the first Mickey Mouse animated shorts. They even figured out how to create an aged look to the cells.

As you watch this loving tribute to Walt and the original Mickey Mouse animated shorts, you won't be prepared for the next level of amazingness to this short!

***SPOILERS***

The bad guy Pete is swinging Mickey and Horace around and they bounce into the screen. He does it again and then they break through the screen!

All of a sudden Mickey is through the looking glass and is a CGI colorized version of his original black and white self!

Then there is a lot of play between our world and the black and white world and some fun 3D effects! Such a brilliant animated short that has to be seen in 3D!

Thanks to this team for all of their hard work to create such a classic animated short!

See "Get A Horse" in front of Frozen and see it in 3D!

Check out two animation cels from the never-before-seen Mickey Mouse short "Get A Horse!" from Walt Disney Animation Studios

MUSIC IS IN THE AIR – An animation cel showcases Mickey Mouse as he invites his favorite gal pal Minnie to join him on a musical haywagon ride in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ never-before-seen short “Get A Horse!” Featuring Walt Disney himself as the voice of Mickey, “Get A Horse!” is a black-and-white, hand-drawn theatrical short that makes its North American debut in 9 days.

HERE COMES TROUBLE – Peg-Leg Pete interrupts Mickey Mouse and his favorite gal pal Minnie in this animation cel as they delight in a musical haywagon ride in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ never-before-seen short “Get A Horse!” Featuring Walt Disney himself as the voice of Mickey, “Get A Horse!” is a black-and-white, hand-drawn theatrical short that makes its North American debut in 9 days.

GET A HORSE! / Annecy Animation Film Festival Images

On Tuesday, June 11, Walt Disney Animation Studios filmmakers Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim, Adam Green and Disney legendary animator Eric Goldberg presented the world debut of Mickey Mouse in "Get A Horse!" at the Annecy Animation Festival in France. Walt Disney Animation Studios presents a never-before-seen short starring the one and only Mickey Mouse in “Get A Horse!” Featuring Walt Disney himself as the voice of Mickey Mouse, this black-and-white, hand-drawn short follows Mickey, his favorite gal pal Minnie Mouse and their friends Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow as they delight in a musical wagon ride—until Peg-Leg Pete shows up and tries to run them off the road.

Mickey Mouse "Get A Horse!" Poster Debut!

Making its world debut Tuesday, June 11, 2013, at the Annecy Animation Festival in Annecy, France, is Walt Disney Animation Studios’ never-before-seen short “Get A Horse!” Starring the one and only Mickey Mouse and featuring Walt Disney himself as the voice of the iconic character, this black-and-white, hand-drawn short follows Mickey, his favorite gal pal Minnie Mouse and their friends Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow as they delight in a musical wagon ride—until Peg-Leg Pete shows up and tries to run them off the road.