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High Quality Cards, Great Price
I was really excited to see this box of Disney postcards, as official Disney postcards are often expensive and hard to find. Anyone who has purchased either volume of the 100 Pixar card sets will be immediately familiar with this box of cards, as the product is similar in quality and shape. There are three lines for the address on the right of the card and a predefined space for the stamp. The top left corner tells the movie the art is from, the type of art it is (concept art, story sketch, and cleanup animation drawing, for example) and the person who drew it, as well as the medium (ink, colored pencil, etc). The bottom of each card has a thin graduated blue band with white stars running the full length of the card, with the Disney logo above it.
Please note that the subject matter of this set is the ART of Disney. That means that while there are some recognizable scenes from the movies, most of the cards are the art that went into the finished movies themselves--sketches, paintings, line drawings, etc. Although there are some colorful cards, many of the colors were much more muted than I expected. (It doesn't detract from the cards, they're just not quite as vibrant as I had imagined they would be.) Many of what I call line drawings (not super detailed sketches, a clean look) that I would have expected to be black and white also have red and blue lines as part of the drawing. The collection spans the movies from 1937 to 1961. Most of the cards (91) are from major movies, and the rest (9) are from minor films. They are already arranged chronologically for you in the box, with the exception of the minor films, which are grouped to themselves chronologically at the end.
Here's what you get:
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: 8 total (3 color, 1 black and white sketch, 4 line drawings)
- Pinocchio: 8 total (5 color, 1 black and white sketch, 2 line drawings)
- Fantasia: 9 total (7 color, 2 black and white sketches)
- Dumbo: 9 total (3 color, 2 black and white sketches, 4 line drawings)
- Bambi: 9 total (3 color, 5 black and white sketches, 1 line drawing)
- Cinderella: 9 total (8 color, 1 black and white sketch)
- Alice in Wonderland: 10 total (10 color)
- Peter Pan: 10 total (6 color, 3 black and white sketches, 1 line drawing)
- Sleeping Beauty: 9 total (7 color, 2 line drawings)
- 101 Dalmatians: 10 total (5 color, 4 black and white sketches, 1 line drawing)
Minor Movies
- The Band Concert (1935) : 1 color sketch
- Hawaiian Holiday (1937) : 1 color sketch
- Boat Builders (1938) : 1 color sketch
- Art of Skiing (1941) : 1 color line drawing
- Donald's Camera (1941) : 1 color sketch
- Nifty Nineties (1941) : 1 b&w sketch with pops of red
- Three Caballeros (1944) : 1 color line drawing
- Canine Casanova (1945) : 1 color sketch
- Cat Nap Pluto (1948) : 1 color sketch
In short, any fan of Disney can't go wrong at this price. It would also make a lovely relatively inexpensive gift for a Disney fan.
October 2014 · Office Products · verified purchase