Tonight starting at 8 pm EST Turner Classic Movies will air its first installment of “Treasures from the Disney Vault” which was announced in November. This EIGHT-hour block of Disney shorts, movies, and specials is an amazing “throwback to The Wonderful World of Disney.” The evening’s events will be hosted by Leonard Malton and Ben Mankiewicz .
The night will start with three Disney Animated shorts Santa’s Workshop, On Ice, and Chip An’ Dale. Next up will be “The Disneyland Story” which was part of the ABC program “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color: The Disneyland Story” which Walt used to introduce Disneyland to viewers. Next in the line up will be “The Reluctant Dragon” which gave viewers a tour of the Walt Disney Studios. The viewers will need to grab their coon skin hats and join Fess Parker as Davy in “Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier.” The nature documentary “The Vanishing Prairie” which is about the American Prairie and its vast herds of bison and elk will air at 12:45 am est. The final two shows of the night, which will probably be DVR-ed by the majority of our East Coast Main Streeters, will be “Third Man on the Mountain” which is about a boy trying to climb the Citadel and “Perilous Assignment” which showed the locations Disney film crews had traveled to created the amazing Disney films and specials that had Disney had released prior to 1959. For more information or to find out if you provider carries Turner Classic Movies visit their website at www.tcm.com.
Tonight’s “Treasures from the Disney Vault” full schedule is as follows:
8:00 PM Santa’s Workshop (1932)
On Ice (1935)
Chip An’ Dale (1947)
8:30 PM The Disneyland Story (1954)
9:30 PM The Reluctant Dragon (1941)
11:00 PM Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
12:45 AM The Vanishing Prairie (1954)
2:00 AM Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
4:00 AM Perilous Assignment (1959)
Pictures courtesy of Turner Classic Movies and IMDB. Video courtesy of TCM’s YouTube Channel.
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