Halloween

Mickey Mouse Gas Mask

October 31, 2011 — Leave a comment

Now for something truly creepy this Halloween:

The Mickey Mouse gas mask was created in January 1942 by T.W. Smith, Jr., the owner of the Sun Rubber Company, and his designer, Dietrich Rempel, with Walt Disney’s approval. 

This design of the Mickey Mouse Gas Mask for children was presented to Major General William N. Porter, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. The mask was designed so children would carry it and wear it as part of a game. 

After approval of the CWS, Sun Rubber Products Company produced approximately 1,000 masks. They were never used and after the war they were distributed to senior officers as keepsakes.”
– Major Robert Walk

This is Halloween! Sing Along

October 31, 2011 — Leave a comment
Happy Halloween!! Sing Along to our favorite Disney Halloween song!




[SHADOW]
Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn’t you like to see something strange?
[SIAMESE SHADOW]
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween
[PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
[GHOSTS]
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It’s our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween
[CREATURE UNDER THE BED]
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red
[MAN UNDER THE STAIRS]
I am the one hiding under yours stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair
[CORPSE CHORUS]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
[VAMPIRES]
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
[MAYOR]
In this town, don’t we love it now?
Everybody’s waiting for the next surprise
[CORPSE CHORUS]
Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something’s waiting now to pounce, and how you’ll…
[HARLEQUIN DEMON, WEREWOLF & MELTING MAN]
Scream! This is Halloween
Red ‘n’ black, slimy green
[WEREWOLF]
Aren’t you scared?
[WITCHES]
Well, that’s just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night
[HANGING TREE]
Everybody scream, everbody scream
[HANGED MEN]
In our town of Halloween!
[CLOWN]
I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace
[SECOND GHOUL]
I am the “who” when you call, “Who’s there?”
I am the wind blowing through your hair
[OOGIE BOOGIE SHADOW]
I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright
[CORPSE CHORUS]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!
[CHILD CORPSE TRIO]
Tender lumplings everywhere
Life’s no fun without a good scare
[PARENT CORPSES]
That’s our job, but we’re not mean
In our town of Halloween
[CORPSE CHORUS]
In this town
[MAYOR]
Don’t we love it now?
Everybody’s waiting for the next surprise
[CORPSE CHORUS]
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everyone scream
Wont’ ya please make way for a very special guy
Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now!
[EVERYONE]
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
[CORPSE CHILD TRIO]
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
[EVERYONE]
La la la la-la la [Repeat]

Classic Halloween Commercials

October 27, 2011 — Leave a comment
Let’s relive Halloweens-gone-by with some classic commercials. 
Not all Disney related, but fun 🙂
Wonderful World of Disney 1987 – intro to Scary Tales of Halloween
McNuggets Halloween commercial I remember and love from the ’80s
Time to make the (Halloween) Donuts! Miss Fred the Baker!
I remember this one! We still have some of these cars from when my brothers were little.
Toys R Us 1985 – love it!

Disney’s Halloween Treat – 1982

October 24, 2011 — Leave a comment
Disney’s Halloween Treat was a 47-minute Halloween-themed clip show which first aired on The Wonderful World of Disney on October 30,1982 and featured a compilation of Disney animated shorts involving spooky or supernatural themes as well as excerpted segments from Disney feature films.

We used to watch this EVERY Halloween growing up – and I still do, every year!

Donald Duck – Trick Or Treat – 1952

October 19, 2011 — Leave a comment
Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat for Halloween
When ghosts and goblins by the score
Ring the bell on your front door
You’d better not be stingy or
Your nightmares will come true!


I remember this from “Disney’s Halloween Treat” on the Disney Channel we watched when we were kids, after we finished Trick or Treating! So fun!

After Donald plays a cruel Halloween prank on his nephews, the 3 team-up with a witch and her broom to teach him a lesson about ‘tricks and treats.’

Facts:

Trick or Treat was included in the television shows A Disney Halloween and Disney’s Halloween Treat, which aired in the 1980s and 1990s. It was included as a bonus feature with the “Gold Classic Collection” release of The Black Cauldron in 2000. It also makes an appearance in Mickey’s House of Villains, released in 2002.

Mickey Mouse – The Haunted House – 1929

September 23, 2011 — Leave a comment

“The Haunted House” was produced and released around the same time as “Skeleton Dance” in 1929, and does not receive the recognition it deserves. An excellent example of Ub Iwerks’ talents as Walt’s animator and partner, I would like to share it with you here, as part of our Countdown to Halloween.


Mickey seeks shelter from a storm unknowingly in a haunted house. 

Disney & Iwerks – Skeleton Dance – 1929

September 6, 2011 — Leave a comment


No better way to start our Halloween Countdown than with the classic Disney Skeleton Dance.


The Skeleton Dance (1929) was the very first Silly Symphonies animated short cartoon produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. In 1994, it was voted #18 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time.

Original poster for The Skeleton Dance (1929)