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Walt Disney Animation Collection: Volume 7 - Mickey's Christmas Carol (2009)

Rating: 4 Stars (out of 4)

Cartoons of Christmas

By Jeffrey M. Anderson

Buy Walt Disney Animation Collection: Volume 7 - Mickey's Christmas Carol on DVD

I love all four of these cuddly Christmas cartoons, and all of them are available elsewhere, but this is the first time they've been assembled into such a nice, compact collection. First we get Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983), with Scrooge McDuck perfectly fitting the bill as Ebenezer. Then there's Don Bluth's bittersweet The Small One (1978), about a boy forced to sell his beloved misfit donkey at the market. The short, Pluto's Christmas Tree (1952) has Pluto chasing Chip 'n' Dale around the title tree, using some delightfully colorful backgrounds. Finally, we get the gorgeous "Silly Symphony" cartoon Santa's Workshop (1932). Disney is releasing this in September, probably to get a long jump on the holiday season, but I'll be watching it again in December.

With: (voices) Alan Young, Clarence Nash, Wayne Allwine, Hal Smith, Will Ryan, Eddy Carroll, Patricia Parris, Dick Billingsley, Sean Marshall, William Woodson, Olan Soule, Hal Smith, Joe Higgins, Gordon Jump, Pinto Colvig, James MacDonald, Dessie Flynn
Written by: Burny Mattinson, Pete Young, Vance Gerry, Bill Berg, Milt Schaffer
Directed by: Burny Mattinson, Don Bluth, Jack Hannah
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 64 minutes
Date: September 29, 2009