Walt Disney's Standard Parade (1939)

This 1939 short film was made to advertise both Walt Disney's Studios and his new animated feature, Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs. It was made at the request of Walt's distributor RKO Radio Pictures and features some footage from an earlier industrial short film never intended for the public called A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios. The animation sequence was adapted from an earlier cartoon created for the Academy Awards and reused animation like the Disney studios would later do in some similar parades in WWII cartoons and 1950's TV episodes. This would have been screened before a feature length film in a movie theater during the evening program that would have included a short cartoon, news real, comedy short like Laurel & Hardy, and other additions to a night's entertainment at the movie's. We're fortunate that this time capsule of Walt's studio was made and still exists today.

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