I LOVE A PIANO!

After months of on again/off again retouching and fussing, I am finally ready to share this background with you from the 1959 Disney TV Christmas special "From All Of Us, To All Of You."

The source was a marginally acceptable second generation video transfer. It was the best I could find. And with Mickey staying at the piano, playing, I had to digitally rebuild most of the image in very small sections, catching places where his hands and feet moved away. The less than ideal source material also required a significant amount of retouching, artful use of blurs, etc.

But, I think I've finally arrived at a very nice version of the background. Hope you think so too.

For some unknown reason, the upper edges in this smaller version show some grayish distortion. Please click on the image and take a look at the larger version, in which these anomalies disappear.

Very classy, classic Disney B/G artwork.

Just grand!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

"From All of Us to All of You" was a 1958 Christmas special of the Disneyland TV show.

The show has re-aired infrequently in the US, but in the Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Denmark and Norway) the show has been broadcast every year since 1959, and has become a holiday classic. Ratings has shown as much as 40% of all Swedes watch it on December 24.

I wish we could see it here. But until then, from it... here is a magnificent painting of a Christmas setting as only Disney artists could do it.

Happy Holidays!

From All Of Us, To All Of You

This 1958 production was a Disney gift offered via television. This special yuletide installment of "The Wonderful World of Disney" included new animation segments, as well as theatrical cartoons ("Toy Tinkerers") and non-Holiday segments from Disney classics: Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Lady and the Tramp, Cinderella, Bambi and Snow White.

"From All Of Us, To All Of You" was also the show's memorable theme song.

While the lovely holly and berries serves as the background, the star of this setup is the magical unfolding Christmas card. Perfect artwork to savor this time of year!