Once Upon a Studio - DisneyCember

Let's wrap up Disneycember with the one bit of media everyone can finally agree was good from Disney this year. Doug takes a look at Once Upon a Studio.

Once Upon a Studio is a 2023 American live-action/animated fantasy comedy short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios in celebration of the Walt Disney Company's centennial. Written and directed by Dan Abraham and Trent Correy, it was released by Walt Disney Pictures on October 16, 2023. In the film, Disney characters come to life from pictures hanging on the walls of the Roy E. Disney Animation Building following the end of a usual work day. The short's art style combines computer graphics, traditional animation and live-action, and features characters from all of the studio's works made up to that point, including all 61 feature films, numerous short films, and some live-action Disney films featuring animation produced by the studio such as The Reluctant Dragon (1941), Mary Poppins (1964), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), and Pete's Dragon (1977). The film was dedicated in memory of Burny Mattinson, the company's longest-serving employee, who appeared in the short and died eight months before its release

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[ChannelAwesome]

Happy New Years everyone! Thanks for another great year!
What did you think of Once Upon a Studio?

[ConnorNotyerbidness]

The old man at the start is Burney Mattison, the last animator alive to work directly with walt. He passed away shortly before this released.
It is dedicated to his memory

And when mickey is staring at walts photo, the music playing is Feed the Birds, walts personal favorite track from the company
Hed have his composer, when they hung out together, play it on occasion while they reminised
That composer is Richard Sherman and is nearly 100 years old and came back to personally play the song for this production, to play it for Walt one last time.
Richard Sherman always believed that to Walt Feed the Birds to really mean "spread love and kindness

[DanGamingFan]

A perfect way to end Disneycember. I love all these characters from movies good or bad coming together, really makes it feel like a proper celebration. Also, Mickey talking to the potrait of Walt, his creator/father, and thanking him for everything was such a heartfelt moment and shows such reverence for walt and everything Disney purely as a movie studio represents. Easily the highlight of the short.

[poweroffriendship.]

_Once Upon A Studio_ is the closest thing we ever get to a revival of the _House of Mouse._ Mickey Mouse and every Disney characters, 2D and 3D, comes together to celebrate the legacy of Walt Disney brings more magic to the table than _Wish_ would ever be.

[Dino_Boy.]

This was definitely the better 100 year anniversary for Disney then wish. The best part was that only DISNEY characters were involved rather then just properties that they own.

[charliehorse]

Seeing Atlantis and treasure planet even be included made my heart heal just the tiniest bit.

[spencercarroll]

One thing I liked about this short is how they even included characters from Disney movies that aren’t as well liked as others such as Chicken Little or Home on the Range. It shows that even though these movies aren’t liked that much by many, they still have some fans out there.

On a different note, Happy New Year everyone! 2023 may have had some hardships that we all had to deal with but we should be glad that we made it through the year. Also, thanks to Channel Awesome for once again giving us another solid year of highly entertaining content. Despite having to deal with the studio being fixed for months and the fact that Doug has been dealing with shingles/fatigue throughout the last few months of this year, they still managed to get through it all and still give us great content. With all of this said, let's hope 2024 is a better year for us and the Channel Awesome crew as well!

[francisfatta]

I’m glad this short exists, because this is honestly the true celebration of 100 years of Disney. Great Disneycember as always!

[AnvilPictures]

The fact that Jim Hawkins from Treasure Planet got some time to shine was very nice.

[AshParth]

Fun fact: Zelda Williams gave them permission to use some recordings of her father that weren't used in Aladdin for this short.
I was actually afraid if they used AI but thankfully I was relieved when I've read about Zelda giving them permission.

[welcometothemetaverse]

I liked how a lot of the characters were together.
You'd think Snow White, the first Disney Princess would be standing next to the other classic princesses like Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, but instead she's holding hands with Mulan of the Disney Renaissance era and the most recent Disney princess, Asha, showing three different eras of princesses joining together.

[paradisecityable]

This was a more fitting tribute to 100 years of Disney than anything else

[Marvelfanatic]

The respect for Oswald in the short made me so happy.

[RealKyndleNance]

I’ll never understand why they didn’t put this in the theaters before Wish. This short is the best thing Disney has put out all year long. It really felt like seeing old friends again interacting with new ones.

[tinkywinky]

This is definitely one of the more better modern projects that Disney has ever made.

[BugsyFoga]

No better way to end Disneycember than with definitely the best thing Disney released this year.

[cjrebirth]

Absolutely loved this short. And I almost teared up once I heard the original audio of Cliff Edward's Jiminy Cricket singing "When You Wish upon a Star"

[thabigben]

The sad part about this short was that this may be the first, and only, appearance of animator Burny Mattinson. He passed away in February during the making of this short leaving us the words "if only the walls could talk." Also, as a nitpick, the animal stars of both 'Song of the South' and 'So Dear to my Heart' did not appear in this short at all.

[alansepicvideos]

Once Upon A Studio is the best short ever! This made smile and feel emotion seeing every Disney character together talking and taking a picture together! Beautiful tribute to the studio's 100 years

[joshslater]

Nice to see that they included as many characters as possible. Seeing even the under-appreciated things like Chicken Little.

Also I found it hilarious to see Stromboli assaulting a vending machine. It’s so in character.