Unnoticed by most guests and even unnoticed by the cast members responsible to prepare the hand-outs with the weekly entertainment program “Cinema Mickey” at the Videopolis has been replaced! Unfortunately the replacement is not a new live stage show but still a screening of animated shorts. So what has changed?
First of all the name. The movie presentation is now called “CinéDisney” instead of “Cinema Mickey”. However, as already said the new name is not yet reflected in the entertainment program even so the change must have occured several weeks ago. With the new name also a new logo has been created which is based on the original logo that was tweaked a bit. The new name and logo is featured on updated signs outside the Videopolis building, which also detail the other big change: the selection of shorts has been expanded.
No longer is the screening limited to the classic shorts featuring Mickey and his friends. Now also “contemporary” shorts have been added to the program. During a recent visits those turned out to be a selection of the popular shorts by PIXAR which play before every full length animated Disney Pixar feature.
During said visit the following Pixar shorts were screened:
“FOR THE BIRDS” (2001)- “MIKE’S NEW CAR” (2002)
- “BOUNDIN’” (2003)
- “MATER AND THE GHOSTLIGHT” (2006)
- “PRESTO” (2008)
All but the last short (“PRESTO”) are featured on the DVD “Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1″. However, there might be even more Pixar shorts included as the new shorts are not screened in one block but mixed in between the classic shorts that have remained unchanged from the “original” programming of “Cinema Mickey”.
In between the shorts, about every half hour, the new “CinéDisney” logo is featured on the screens in a short animation before the regular programming continues. Speaking of the programming: despite differing information regularly included in the entertainment program (anyway still including the old title “Cinema Mickey”) “CinéDisney” does run continuously throughout the day and not only at selected times. The posters on the facade of the Videopolis do include an according information as well.
Thanks for the information about Cinema Mickey becoming Cine Disney, but it is about time they introduced a new live show. It is such a waste of a good theatre, and badly needed, especially as there was no show in the Chapparal Theatre either this summer.
We have video of the full length Beauty and the Beast show, in Videopolis, from the early days, and this was a super show. My sons never minded the fact that it was in French.
They also liked the Tarzan and Pocahontas shows in Frontierland.