Decades later...the five year old in me hears this, and starts to tear. I loved everything about babes and toyland circa 1961. Disney at it's greatest.
Oh dude same! Hearing and seeing the toys in Disneyland marching around I'm like "don't tear up, don't tear up!" Seriously, literally every time I see them, and I go a lot!
I love this movie, Can you imagine all the hours in stop motion it took. True pioneers with a lot of these old movies, Who says computer animation is better..not me.
This was the best part of the movie for me. This and the battle that followed. When I was a little kid, watching our recording of this movie on VHS, this part just drove me insane. I loved it so much I was begging my parents to tell Santa I wanted the toy boat with the cannon on it, the one that you pulled the sailor's head and it fired. Even now, over twenty years later, I still love this scene to death. It's just...so awesome.
Personally it gives me tremendous excitement to see these scenes, mainly because my grandfather (already deceased) was a military man and also a musician (he even directed the Valdivia War Band in southern Chile). For the same reason, I dedicate to him with much affection (I write this post with tears in my eyes).
When i was a kid i just had to have a horse like that. I wouldn't believe my dad when he said there was none available. He tried to have one made out of a broom for the head and a steel drum for the torso, but it wasn't the same. He put me on it and turned on this musical piece and it was Toyland after all. Magical moments. Thanks for the post i hope this never is removed from CZcams. The best scene of my childhood, ever.
The look and feel of it --- even to those who weren't around then -- let's everyone know that it's from THAT ERA where imagination was key in the enjoyment of toys... that amazing time of Lionel trains, Flexible Flyer, Lincoln Logs, Hula Hoops etc...CGI may produce it quicker and more efficiently but when you look at it you pause and say, " Oh....this is CGI...." Knowing that it was done with such care,time and meticulousness is part of the charm!!
@@dannybuck5911 Yeppers, growing up in the early to mid 50s was a wonderful time to be a kid. And real rubber tired Tonka toys too.. And the Great Northern Railroad which ran in front of our house was still running large articulated steam locomotives.
Well done fellows!! Decades later...the five year old in me hears this, and starts to tear. I loved everything about babes and toyland circa 1961. Disney at it's greatest.
I was seven years old, living in Garden Grove California when this film was released to the theaters. I had no idea that the villain Barnaby Hires was Ray Bolger, who played the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. I recognized Henry Calvin, and Gene Sheldon from the Zoro TV series. Annette Funicello was the only name I actually recognized, besides Moochie. (Kevin Cocoran). My Mom worked at Disneyland, consequently, it was to me like my own back yard. Disneyland was like a part of life as I never knew life without it.
Wonderful things like the above video are so missed in today's world of 3D animation and other "wonders of the age" to a certain generation. No matter how hard today's animators try to impress 21st century audiences, to this writer, while some efforts are good, the overall scope pales in comparison to what I saw years ago. Those memories will last forever.
+Luke Garner I've watched this movie growing up, one of my childhood memories. Disney is my life. LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE!❤️💛💚💙💜 Did you know this was the very first Disney musical? 🎶At least, that's what it said on the back of the video box when I had this on VHS, I could be wrong.
The toy soldiers also made an appearance in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (1964) in the nursery sequence and are favorite features of holiday parades in Disney Parks to this day. Disney animator Bill Justice made sure the Park soldiers were identical to the movie counterparts. The stop-motion wooden soldier segment took more than 6 months to film.
If Disney continued to do live action reimaginings, then they should make a sequel out of this! I mean they've got a lot of Oscar potential in the tech categories! Best costume design, production design, visuals, the possibilities are endless!
I can't tell what it was with you all... This movie changed everything at home. My parents loved it and so did my sister and I. My father taught me all there was about savings and economics with it. He taught me to save my money and go down to a toy store where the soldiers were on sale and I bought quite a number of them. I can still remember what t was to open the box and take out the flashy guy with that smooth brand-new odor. I remember all my toys... but these in particular made history. It was definitely the most beautiful toy-prone-time ever. And we'd have to be thankful about that. We appreciated our toys and they were good real toys for real. Not goofy soldiers, stupid costumes, boring fun-less games, wrestling hodge podge, dumb monsters and vampires and ugly-idea trash in plastic you find today. Nothing against wrestling... just such a sad way to market the thing... Boy those were the days...
A different time and era. The time when you got ice skates or wooden roller skates. Dolls, train sets, mechano sets , blocks, crayons, colouring books.
@RGN07 A great story. CZcams appear to have withdrawn their "thumbs" system from comments (why can't they leave well alone? In a few weeks they will ruin everyone's homepages as well) - so consider this a GREEN thumb!
This was worked on by Roy Seawright who was at one point head of animation at Hal Roach Studios and who grew up working at that studio lot in Culver City. Very talented man.
I played either Gonzorgo or Roderigo (I can't recall which) in our Babes in Toyland school play 60+ years ago. For the performances that my understudy played my role, I played a toy soldier. This brings back happy (and somewhat tearful) memories.
I want to thank KUSC in Los Angeles for reminding me of this long-ago memory. This was my favorite way back then, and it still is!! Support classical music. Please.
1:49-2:20 We’re marching upon the NODDY Shop! Right to the end We’re saving our friends! Together we’re gonna make ‘em stop! There’s more of us and less of you! We’re comin’ on through! We’ll never surrender NODDY Shop! We’ll stay to see Our victory! So onto the rescue Guess who? Brave toys of the NODDY Shop are we!
Tommy Sands on his wooden horse with the wobbling spring neck... this is as primitive genius as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer from 1964. Sure wish Disney would put the horsey out as a toy.
The Wonderful World Of Disney (aka Disney's Wonderful World Of Color) ran this in two parts in late December/Early January on NBC at 7 PM Sundays. Some years, following the second part of 'Babes' finishing up, they would show a segment voiced over by the 'Wonderful World' announcer. In it, he would thank the viewers for being with the show all year and ask them to stay in the New Year. As he spoke, a still animated image of a large group of animated characters would pan by, starting with an engine - Dumbo's Casey Jr. - piloted by Donald. Apparently, this image became the basis for a kids-room wall decoration made by a company named Dolly. I have never been able to find video of that sequence. The only other clue I can offer is that it sometimes also played after 'From All Of Us To All Of You', depending on the calendar that year. This is a wonderful sequence, but my heart always goes out to the primitive, cheesy effects of the Laurel + Hardy version.
this is the Babes in Toyland that i grew up watching, thanks to the comments i know it's the 1961 version, thank you everyone, i'm gonna find this somehow.
0:36 So Disney did do Stop Motion Animation some years earlier. Before Dragonslayer, My Science Project “Rod Puppet mostly”, Honey I Shrunk the kids, The Nightmare Before Christmas & James & The Giant Peach came. Did I miss any other Disney Feature with Stop Motion Animated Sequences & Rod Puppet Counterparts?
I remember flipping through the channels back in the early 2000s, then stopped. On one channel was CNN footage of Soldiers marching in Iraq and Afghanistan, the other was this scene on TCM. I thought the juxtaposition was poetic.
The one thing I'm upset about about the soundtrack for the film that is available is that this version of "March of the Toys" isn't the one on the album.
Decades later...the five year old in me hears this, and starts to tear. I loved everything about babes and toyland circa 1961. Disney at it's greatest.
What's most hilarious about this is now that I'm older you'd find that Disney funded a film called _"Babes in Toyland"_
I love the toy maker
U got company. Me too. This def brings me rt bk to my childhood, and with All of it's precious Memories that tear me up..
Oh dude same! Hearing and seeing the toys in Disneyland marching around I'm like "don't tear up, don't tear up!" Seriously, literally every time I see them, and I go a lot!
Lousy title but pretty fun film.
I love this movie, Can you imagine all the hours in stop motion it took. True pioneers with a lot of these old movies, Who says computer animation is better..not me.
No!
@@danielraviv9397 you love that movie
i remember growing up a kid in the 80s, my grandparents always played this for us when we went over for christmas , loved this scene!
this section was probabley the funniest out of the whole thing.
I remember having this on VHS in the early/mid 90s. A Fun movie for sure!
This song has a Popeye-spinach-like effect on me. It gets me PUMPED AND READY TO FUCKIN ROCK
Just watched this movie again....at 63 years old! This scene is brilliant and extremely imaginative. Stop motion photography at it’s best.
The blend of live action and animation (stop action or drawings) was a Disney specialty for many years. This is a fine example.
This was before CGI.
Stop motion not stop action
@@angusng816 This is all CGI angist
This was the best part of the movie for me. This and the battle that followed. When I was a little kid, watching our recording of this movie on VHS, this part just drove me insane. I loved it so much I was begging my parents to tell Santa I wanted the toy boat with the cannon on it, the one that you pulled the sailor's head and it fired. Even now, over twenty years later, I still love this scene to death. It's just...so awesome.
And then as you do today you realize mary could've just squashed the crooked man under her perfect heel and all would be won
Personally it gives me tremendous excitement to see these scenes, mainly because my grandfather (already deceased) was a military man and also a musician (he even directed the Valdivia War Band in southern Chile). For the same reason, I dedicate to him with much affection (I write this post with tears in my eyes).
How very touching.
When i was a kid i just had to have a horse like that. I wouldn't believe my dad when he said there was none available. He tried to have one made out of a broom for the head and a steel drum for the torso, but it wasn't the same. He put me on it and turned on this musical piece and it was Toyland after all. Magical moments. Thanks for the post i hope this never is removed from CZcams. The best scene of my childhood, ever.
This still gives me a thrill today, remembering how I loved this movie as a 7 year old.
The special effects in this holds up better than some films made today
Stop animation is so versatile.
You joking right
I concur Jerimiah.. it shows imagination, not the dimness of a pudgy computer geek doing CGI. Who's only manual skill, is being able to operator a 🐀..
The look and feel of it --- even to those who weren't around then -- let's everyone know that it's from THAT ERA where imagination was key in the enjoyment of toys... that amazing time of Lionel trains, Flexible Flyer, Lincoln Logs, Hula Hoops etc...CGI may produce it quicker and more efficiently but when you look at it you pause and say, " Oh....this is CGI...."
Knowing that it was done with such care,time and meticulousness is part of the charm!!
@@dannybuck5911 Yeppers, growing up in the early to mid 50s was a wonderful time to be a kid. And real rubber tired Tonka toys too.. And the Great Northern Railroad which ran in front of our house was still running large articulated steam locomotives.
Oh man, this scene makes me a child all over again. I love it. Thanks for posting.
Well done fellows!!
Decades later...the five year old in me hears this, and starts to tear. I loved everything about babes and toyland circa 1961. Disney at it's greatest.
I saw this movie as a kid in 1961 as well That Darn Cat in 65 at the same movie house . This scene stuck in my head along with Ed Wynn's magic gun.
I love That Darn Cat :) except I don't love Canoe smoking but the cat is awesome :) and Patti LOL
These special effects, mixed with real people/actors, is/was spectacular for that time. Love it even at the age of 73.
I first saw this movie at the theater with my brother and grandparents. I was probably only 6 years old. I still remember that day.
I love this movie and I was born in the 80s. I wish I could have seen it in theaters!
I love this song so much.🎶🎺🎻
I was seven years old, living in Garden Grove California when this film was released to the theaters. I had no idea that the villain Barnaby Hires was Ray Bolger, who played the scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. I recognized Henry Calvin, and Gene Sheldon from the Zoro TV series. Annette Funicello was the only name I actually recognized, besides Moochie. (Kevin Cocoran). My Mom worked at Disneyland, consequently, it was to me like my own back yard. Disneyland was like a part of life as I never knew life without it.
Wonderful things like the above video are so missed in today's world of 3D animation and other "wonders of the age" to a certain generation. No matter how hard today's animators try to impress 21st century audiences, to this writer, while some efforts are good, the overall scope pales in comparison to what I saw years ago. Those memories will last forever.
I walk around the living room and sometimes outside marching to this song.
I love you.
I shall join you in this march *picks up flag*
This is the perfect soundtrack whenever I put up my Nativity sets! Sometimes, I play it as I'm taking them down and putting them away piece by piece.
At 77, I still love to listen and watch this eonderful video for kids. Thanks!
This was always my favorite part of the whole movie, I watch it at least five times.
+Luke Garner you have great taste, this was one of my favs too. Long live Disney!🙌🏻
+Luke Garner I've watched this movie growing up, one of my childhood memories. Disney is my life. LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE!❤️💛💚💙💜
Did you know this was the very first Disney musical? 🎶At least, that's what it said on the back of the video box when I had this on VHS, I could be wrong.
+Luke Garner 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
This is the hardest sound track album to find! I have "The exclusive original version" but the album with the original cast is just out of my reach!
I love this movie. It's my favorite. I got it on DVD a few years ago and watch it at least once a year. 😀
I Have This Movie on VHS from 1983 in Neon Mickey Series.
The toy soldiers also made an appearance in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (1964) in the nursery sequence and are favorite features of holiday parades in Disney Parks to this day. Disney animator Bill Justice made sure the Park soldiers were identical to the movie counterparts.
The stop-motion wooden soldier segment took more than 6 months to film.
If Disney continued to do live action reimaginings, then they should make a sequel out of this! I mean they've got a lot of Oscar potential in the tech categories! Best costume design, production design, visuals, the possibilities are endless!
I just showed this to my baby and she loved it! I did this play in high school so it's nice to be able to share this with my baby :)
Me and my sibling grown up watching this and became one out favorites as a kid
I can't tell what it was with you all... This movie changed everything at home. My parents loved it and so did my sister and I. My father taught me all there was about savings and economics with it. He taught me to save my money and go down to a toy store where the soldiers were on sale and I bought quite a number of them. I can still remember what t was to open the box and take out the flashy guy with that smooth brand-new odor.
I remember all my toys... but these in particular made history. It was definitely the most beautiful toy-prone-time ever. And we'd have to be thankful about that. We appreciated our toys and they were good real toys for real. Not goofy soldiers, stupid costumes, boring fun-less games, wrestling hodge podge, dumb monsters and vampires and ugly-idea trash in plastic you find today. Nothing against wrestling... just such a sad way to market the thing...
Boy those were the days...
A different time and era. The time when you got ice skates or wooden roller skates. Dolls, train sets, mechano sets , blocks, crayons, colouring books.
i remember when I used to watch this on VCR, dude I loved this so much
Loved this movie growing up and it was my favorite part of the movie along with the final confrontation between Tom and Barnaby.
Old and nostalgia moment ever in 1930s
@RGN07 A great story. CZcams appear to have withdrawn their "thumbs" system from comments (why can't they leave well alone? In a few weeks they will ruin everyone's homepages as well) - so consider this a GREEN thumb!
This was worked on by Roy Seawright who was at one point head of animation at Hal Roach Studios and who grew up working at that studio lot in Culver City. Very talented man.
Now this is a movie which took me over a decade to find! :)
I remember watching this with my dad years ago
We did it! We saved the day! GO TEAM VENTURE!!!
Saw it in 77 loved it. Well I watching it again at 51 so it left a wonderful memory.
I played either Gonzorgo or Roderigo (I can't recall which) in our Babes in Toyland school play 60+ years ago. For the performances that my understudy played my role, I played a toy soldier. This brings back happy (and somewhat tearful) memories.
I want to thank KUSC in Los Angeles for reminding me of this long-ago memory. This was my favorite way back then, and it still is!!
Support classical music. Please.
This song is just so silly and epic that even as an adult I can't help but root for these little guys, and laugh at the same time!
What a jog down memory lane!
Great song, I love it.
Omg he gave the right command as well, I'm impressed
Beautiful use of stop motion, the effects here are great for the time period
1:49-2:20
We’re marching upon the NODDY Shop!
Right to the end
We’re saving our friends!
Together we’re gonna make ‘em stop!
There’s more of us and less of you!
We’re comin’ on through!
We’ll never surrender NODDY Shop!
We’ll stay to see
Our victory!
So onto the rescue
Guess who?
Brave toys of the NODDY Shop are we!
@RGN07 - My pleasure. I was so entranced by it, I stayed to watch it round again. My parents almost called the cops out, I got back so late!
I wish I had these toys growing up
this gave me nightmares as a kid
My first ever movie my mom took me to see, 1961, I was 3 years old. I still (barely) remember it. But I do remember these toy soldiers.
Tommy Sands on his wooden horse with the wobbling spring neck... this is as primitive genius as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer from 1964. Sure wish Disney would put the horsey out as a toy.
It certainly holds true for animation. I’ve found so many amazing toons from 1940s & 50s
Me and my bois and comrades, and troops who returned after a victory of a great war:
Cool.
This is the best version in my opinion.
Thank you so much so much, haven't seen this in decades and brings me back 45 years.
I used to watch this as a kid over and over and wow this is nostalgic
Just the Best!
@Teletran35 It's kind of amazing how the animation didn't really make great strides in the 25-30 years between the movies.
Bill Justice did a fantastic job with the stop motion animation just like with Noah's Ark.
The orchestra at my church played this at our Christmas concert last year!
He got good aim..and throw far. Get a spear. 1:33
Those lil native american toys are soo cuteee! I want them lol I want them all!
I remember this scene and thought that it was really awesome
This over The Nutcracker in our household.
I am playing this song in my orchestra
As much as I love the Laurel and Hardy film, I find this sequence much more satisfying.
Like the music and I’d so listen to it everyday and the animation 10/10 loved it
I remember as a kid asking Santa for a wooden horse w/ a spring neck for christmas. I got something but wasnt even close.
The best part of the movie by far. :)
Ha! Iove this movie.
cool, a cool video. Thanks for the love you put into it! Looking forward to seeing more :D :D
It's HILARIOUS in double speed.
Great animation.
The Wonderful World Of Disney (aka Disney's Wonderful World Of Color) ran this in two parts in late December/Early January on NBC at 7 PM Sundays. Some years, following the second part of 'Babes' finishing up, they would show a segment voiced over by the 'Wonderful World' announcer. In it, he would thank the viewers for being with the show all year and ask them to stay in the New Year. As he spoke, a still animated image of a large group of animated characters would pan by, starting with an engine - Dumbo's Casey Jr. - piloted by Donald. Apparently, this image became the basis for a kids-room wall decoration made by a company named Dolly. I have never been able to find video of that sequence. The only other clue I can offer is that it sometimes also played after 'From All Of Us To All Of You', depending on the calendar that year.
This is a wonderful sequence, but my heart always goes out to the primitive, cheesy effects of the Laurel + Hardy version.
This can never compare to Laurel and Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers
this was cutting edge special effects back in my day.
I just remembered this song after I heard it as the tune to the small world clock tower during Christmas...
Watched this as a kid, venture bros reference brought me back in '22
You'll never see this in a modern day Disney film.
I wish you could buy these toys! I've always loved that certain design of wooden/tin toys from a bygone era.
I wish it would've sounded like this on the movie
this is the Babes in Toyland that i grew up watching, thanks to the comments i know it's the 1961 version, thank you everyone, i'm gonna find this somehow.
Yes, I got a Disney soundtrack e.p. of this movie back in the Sixties - and it was filled with COVERS of EVERYTHING. MOST disappointing, it was...
As Seen on Family Classics with Dean Richards
who is watching this in 2016?
not me
2017*
@movielover /hater AHAHAHAAHAA LMAO I JUST WENT ON THIS VID TO CHECK MY COMMENT AND I SAW THIS
These toy soldiers looked just like in the parade every Christmas at the Disney parks
Antique Roadshow took me here😀
0:36 So Disney did do Stop Motion Animation some years earlier. Before Dragonslayer, My Science Project “Rod Puppet mostly”, Honey I Shrunk the kids, The Nightmare Before Christmas & James & The Giant Peach came. Did I miss any other Disney Feature with Stop Motion Animated Sequences & Rod Puppet Counterparts?
in The 1970's of Disney I Like BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS and PETE'S DRAGON.
thank you DVDS got see mine some time fun film to see
This whole sequence was done by Bill Justice, an animator who was basically the creator of Chip 'n Dale.
The 1961 version is the best.
Yes because it had a nice cast.laurel and Harry's pretty amusing as well.
+Leonard Hughes to be honest ray bloggers performance to me sold this film.
+Leonard Hughes i mean ray bolgerm
You misspelled the Laurel and Hardy version.
Dude that prototype of Mickey mouse was CRAP!
This movie was my fucking childhood
In 1961 wasn't 3D, but films was beautiful too.
Not exactly Harryhausen, but the stop motion's still pretty good.
I remember flipping through the channels back in the early 2000s, then stopped. On one channel was CNN footage of Soldiers marching in Iraq and Afghanistan, the other was this scene on TCM. I thought the juxtaposition was poetic.
Back in 1986 DISNEY'S BABES IN TOYLAND was Aired on DISNEY MAGIC on FOX-5. Til 1991.
How did I ended up here
It’s really cool but how did I ended here I think it’s a gift from the universe or something cause wtf it’s really dope
playing this in my band class
The one thing I'm upset about about the soundtrack for the film that is available is that this version of "March of the Toys" isn't the one on the album.