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Lately I've been reminscing about all the old Disney cartoons from the 30's-50's that my sister and I used to watch, literally daily, when we were kids. Before we knew how to read we knew how to work the VCR, and we had tapes and tapes of nothing but classic Disney cartoons, illegally dubbed by enterprising-yet-immoral parents from video-store rentals. Only a few of these old tapes remain in our posession.

But look! This collection of DVDs, this Walt Disney Treasures series, seems to have quite a lot of them! Particularly the Silly Symphonies, which I am drooling over. Sure, I'm a dork, but this was such a huge childhood deal for me. I need to have all the cartoon-short-related DVDs.

Did you know that when Emporer Hirohito of Japan first saw the 1952 short Lambert, the Sheepish Lion, he was so taken by it that Roy Disney presented him with the last remaining print as a gift? (Did you care? I thought it was nifty.)

Oh my god, The Cookie Carnival. I think this was my favourite one.

And I think of this cartoon every time I hear Aimee Mann's song The Moth.

I'm in a nostalgiac mood and without my tapes. I need Silly Symphonies. I miss Donald Duck Presents on The Disney Channel.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 3:32 PM | shower me with attention