An Adventure in Color/Mathmagic Land

Episode aired Sep 24, 1961
Not Rated
1h

IMDb RATING

8.3/10

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An Adventure in Color/Mathmagic Land (1961)

Adventure Drama Family

Professor Ludwig Von Drake provides an interesting lowdown on color.Professor Ludwig Von Drake provides an interesting lowdown on color.Professor Ludwig Von Drake provides an interesting lowdown on color.

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IMDb RATING

8.3/10

YOUR RATING

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Walt Disney

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Paul Frees

Ludwig Von Drake
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Clarence Nash

Donald Duck
(archive footage)
(voice)

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Trivia
This was the first episode broadcast on NBC. As a tribute, Ludwig encounters an animated NBC peacock logo.

Quotes
[Walt sees three paint lab girls in black and white, despite the fact that the show is in color]
Walt Disney: Girls, just a moment! Haven't you got the word? We're in full color. Oh, well, a bit of color magic will fix it. Bibbidi-bobbidi-blue!
[the first girl turns red, the second green and the third blue]
Walt Disney: Whoops. I must've said the wrong words. Let's see. Ah, I know. NBC! Color TV!
[the girls all turned into their colored forms]
Walt Disney: Well, that's more like it.

Connections
Edited into Lifestyles of the Rich and Animated (1991)

Soundtracks
The Wonderful World of Color
Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman

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7/10

Double Dutch by the Numbers, and in Color!

Walt Disney moved to NBC and renamed the show. In this, the first episode in color, Ludwig von Drake -- Paul Frees doing a double Dutch voice -- never quite explains how anything works, which is his job. He's very funny doing it. After doing that -- or, depending on your viewpoint, not doing it, Uncle Walt returns to introduce Donald Duck in the sort of semi-educational short cartoon the company did after the market for new Disney short cartoons disappeared with RKO in the previous decade.

The Disneyland show, in one from or another, lasted almost four decades on a variety networks. It was wonderful advertising for the products of the Walt Disney Company, often imitated, never equalled, probably because no one else managed to be so consistently entertaining.