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Aug 24, 2005, 5:09 PM
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Disney's The Ham Actor on 8mm
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Can anyone tell me anything about a 8mm original 1937 disney short titled THE HAM ACTOR?
(This post was edited by eminovitz on Aug 24, 2005, 5:13 PM)
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Lead Animator / Contributor
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Aug 25, 2005, 8:52 AM
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8mm cutdowns of shorts invariably got given new titles. This would seem to be an edited version of Donald's sequence from "Orphans' Benefit" from the only description I could find. This doesn't tally with your date, though. If it was '37 then it would be from "Mickey's Amateurs" - but the description I found has him heckled by "orphan mice" which has to be OB: in MA the audience is adult, and it is a 'Gong Show' talent contest, where Donald gets hooked off. This then begs the question: is it the 1934 "Orphans' Benefit" (B&W) or the 1941 colour remake? (Which re-used the same animation drawings.)
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Member
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Aug 25, 2005, 9:10 AM
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The beginning of the film has the mice going into a theater with "Orphan's Benifit" the outside of the building. It is the B&W...
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Research Guru
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Aug 25, 2005, 2:19 PM
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A 2002 article in the Medford (Oregon) Mail-Tribune profiles a local collector of 8mm Disney films, including The Ham Actor!
Former Hanna-Barbera writer Creighton Barnes, an area resident, is quoted as saying that such films are collectible, but not especially valuable:
www.mailtribune.com/archive/2002/march/032202n3.htm
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