Mickey Mouse – Playful Pluto (1934) – original United Artists titles

This is the complete original United Artits titles to Playful Pluto (1934), scanned from a 16mm print of unknown origin (no markings on the film strip). It’s sort of sad – given this short’s importance in animation history – that its original titles have never been properly restored. The titles seen in the recent version on Disney+ have been recreated using those faux-30s titles that were created for a small number of black and white Mickey shorts re-released theatrically in 1974 (Playful Pluto was not one of them).

[clem]

Really glad that the titles to one of the most important cartoons ever made can be seen to anyone who wants to see them! Good to have confirmation that if nothing else the audio is always accurate.

[LuciusVulpes]

As always thank you for preserving these.

[fanimationreturns]

A previous upload, but now from a better looking print than the previous.

[ThomasfanSQBProductions]

Great to finally have a better print of Playful Pluto’s original titles! The titles are also properly cropped so that we can see everything (which is what I love about your newer videos). Quick question though: have you thought of sending your rare prints to the Disney Archives?

[diazbrothersyoutube]

I'm honestly glad the short was restored at all on Disney+. However, there is one glaring issue that is honestly worse than any reissue titles could ever dream of doing.

Around the 1990's, Disney created MIDI instrumental versions of their cartoons whenever they needed to be dubbed in foreign languages. The Disney Treasures release keeps the original audio track but with added compression. The Disney+ release makes an audio upgrade fidelity-wise, but, for some strange reason, any lines spoken in English were filtered (poorly, by the way) from their original background tracks and were replaced with the MIDI M/E track. This is, as far as I know, the only Disney+ release of a Golden Age cartoon to do this other than Ye Olden Days, the difference being the Treasures release with the original audio is lower quality.

I'd love to hear any logical reasons for why Disney did this.

[matthewweatherford]

Do you by chance have any prints of Saludos Amigos or any feature films like Song of the South or So Dear to my Heart? People have been recreating the RKO Radio Pictures logos for those movies but no one seems to agree which one was the real original opening. Also, do you have any foreign prints of Snow White from 1938? The RKO Radio Pictures opening and ending has been found for some of those foreign versions but there are still some yet to be found. For example, a website sorting out the different versions of those credits showed that the German and Swedish translations of the words THE END were in those versions of the movie since their original releases in 1938, implying that the RKO logo never appeared at the end of the German or Swedish versions but I have a hard time believing that.

[hbggil]

I remember many months ago when an original b&w print of Donald and Pluto was on ebay. Maybe you bought it?

[MiiGameplaysHD]

great print, and great video! I have a question though, do you own any prints that aren't Disney?

[DanielCraft]

In the previous upload I didn't have Mickey's weird face

[CrispyA]

Ah Joseph M Schenck he’s co Founded Alongside Daryl F Zanuck 20th Century Fox Now 20th Century Studios Which Disney now owns

[CDCB]

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