From Sam : It is really great short movie,
especially suitable for young kids. And it is funny, though. I used to watch
it when I was a kid and I remember that I was really worried about little
Goliath II during the show, because the tiger Raja was trying to eat him
all the time.
My favourite part was the part when the tiger finally catches poor Goliath
II and Goliath's mother comes to rescue her little son. She grabs the tiger
and throws him into the river where a crocodile is waiting with his mouth
wide opened. The crocodile swallows the tiger for launch before he could
run away. So that Goliath II is saved once again.
But not for long. Later, when the movie goes on, the crocodile is shown again,
lying on his back with his fully belly. But the tiger inside his stomach
is still alive. When the crocodile opens his mouth the tiger Raja suddenly
jumps out of the crocodile's mouth and runs away.
From Fred : I really like this movie. Goliath
II is one of the greatest Disney's short movies so far. And is full of humor,
especially at the parts when the old tiger Raja is trying to catch little
Goliath II. However, he is not successful and later in the movie he is eaten
by a hungry crocodile. With tiger Raja inside crocodile's stomach, Goliath
II's life is much easier, but still not without danger...But in the end the
little Goliath II saves the day and made his father proud of him.
From Baruch Weiss : This short was okay, but not one of my favorites. However, the scenes with that crocodile (who looks similar to the one from "Peter Pan") added some enjoyment. This short is not one of my favorites as the plot is similar to other shorts and movies where a character is rejected by the group for doing something bad but they later on redeem themselves. In this case, Goliath runs off and deserts the heard which was a major offense, but later he saves the elephants from a mouse. I read that elephants are afraid of mice because they are afraid that the mouse will get stuck in their trunk.
From Billy Joe : This short is similar to "Dumbo" in a way. I think this short has a wondeful story and an important lesson.
This is a actually the first Disney short to have Xerography. It was not limited animation, it was a process that a machine inked and painted the celluiods (similiar to today's animation which the celluiods are computer colored). The final look is that the characters are still animated in pencil form. The first feature which fully used the process was "One Hundred and One Dalmatians." The process was developed by Ub Iwerks, who was the first person to draw Mickey Mouse.
From Bryan Hensley : This is the first Disney short I know of to use all-Xerox technology. The first whole movie to use it would 101 Dalmatians the following year. It was briefly used in Sleeping Beauty when Maleficent turned into a dragon. This particular short was an Oscar nominee as well. It seems to have reused animation from different movies at times, such as The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Bambi, Dumbo, and Alice In Wonderland! (And the 1945 short Tiger Trouble besides.) The two scenes in this short where the elphants crash in a pile-up were reused once in The Jungle Book seven years later! It's A Small World of Fun volume 1 and Disney's Animation Collection volume 6 feature this legendary 2-reeler short! Most of the Oscar-winning shorts from 1960 to the 1980's were all Foreign shorts. (MGM's The Dot and The Line from 1965, and Winnie the Pooh and The Blustery Day from 1968 were 2 exceptions!) I hope you folks enjoy this Oscar-nominated pioneer for The Jungle Book about a tiny elephant trying to have his own place in the Indian jungle! I've heard Goliath the first, his father, speak only a few times in this whole short! (Especially about the mouse that scared off the herd!) Never underestimate a small package.
