I should also point out that both The Point and Allegro Non Tropo have just been released on DVD, which is great news, I think, for my unborn children, who are going to grow up on a steady diet of Chuck Jones, Bill Melendez, Hayao Miyazaki, and these two movies. Disney will probably end up in there too, especially the classic shorts, although I still have an inexplicable fondness for Sleeping Beauty.

The year's big news in home video, however, is the upcoming DVD release of On the Front Lines, a complete collection of the cartoons that Walt Disney produced during World War II. The titles alone are astonishing: Donald Gets Drafted, The Army Mascot, Private Pluto, Fall Out; Fall In, The Old Army Game, Home Defense, How to be a Sailor, Commando Duck, The Vanishing Private, Sky Trooper, Victory Vehicles, Der Fuehrer's Face, Education for Death, Reason and Emotion, Thrifty Pig, Seven Wise Dwarfs, Donald's Decision, All Together, The New Spirit, The Spirit of '43, Food Will Win the War, Out of the Frying Pan and into the Firing Line, The Grain that Built a Hemisphere, Defense Against Invasion, Cleanliness Brings Health, What is Disease?, Planning for Good Eating, Chicken Little and Winged Scourge.

Der Fuehrer's Face is the most infamous of the bunch; it was originally entitled "Donald Duck in Nutziland," and it needs to be seen to be believed.