Disney's first animated feature in CinemaScope is now available in widescreen presentations on video, and it is definitely good to get the whole picture. One of the studio's most original and charming movies, the 1955 film tells the story of a rakish, street-smart dog named Tramp, who helps an aristocratic pooch named Lady out of some trouble and then commences a romance with her. Sweet, funny ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson, Bill Baucom
Directed By: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wilfred Jackson

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Burl Ives, Beulah Bondi, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Harry Carey
Directed By: Hamilton Luske, Harold D. Schuster

Manufacturer: Delta Visual Entertainment
Directed By: Seymour Kneitel

Thunderbirds Are Go followed the remarkable success of the Thunderbirds television series, bringing the three-dimensional puppet animation adventures of International Rescue to the big screen. Set in the 21st century, there is no attempt to explain the background story: as in the TV show International Rescue is a private family organisation who use hi-tech craft to rescue anyone in ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Peter Dyneley, Sylvia Anderson, Shane Rimmer, Jeremy Wilkin, Matt Zimmerman
Directed By: David Lane

Manufacturer: Firefly Entertainment
Starring: Brian Cant

Manufacturer: Channel 5
Directed By: Ivor Wood

Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
Starring: Paul Bacon, Denise Bryer, Lucie Dolène, Jacques Morel, Agnès Vanier

As far as Disney is concerned, The Sword in the Stone was a portent of things to come, with slapstick upstaging storytelling, and cultural in-jokes substituting for wonder. Based on TH White's beloved novel The Once and Future King, this Disney version chronicles King Arthur's boyish adventures. There's much to enjoy here as coach Merlin the magician shows the young Arthur, nicknamed ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Rickie Sorensen, Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson, Junius Matthews, Ginny Tyler
Directed By: Wolfgang Reitherman

Manufacturer: Leisure Entertainment
Starring: Pal, Paul Kelly, Bruce Cowling, Gary Gray, Art Smith
Directed By: Harold F. Kress

Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy
Directed By: Clyde Geronimi