Donald in Mathmagic Land / Walt Disney presents ; [produced by Walt Disney ; written by Milt Banta, Bill Berg, Heinz Haber ; directed by Hamilton S. Luske].
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 102605 | DisneySeries: Disney DVDPublisher: [Burbank, Calif.] : Disney DVD : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2009Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 27 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 0788899600
- 9780788899607
- 9786312968177
- 6312968170
- Mathmagic Land
- Math magic Land
- Title appears as: Disney Donald in Mathmagic Land
- Director of photography, Edward Colman ; music, Buddy Baker ; editor, Lloyd L. Richardson.
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Children's DVD | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's DVD | 510 D675 | Available | 33111009931110 | ||||
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Children's DVD | Northport Library | Children's DVD | 510 D675 | Available | 33111009932530 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This Oscar-nominated featurette is a typically felicitous Disney combination of music and live action. In search of big game, hunter Donald Duck stumbles into a strange and wonderous land dominated by numbers: numbers on the ground, numbers in the trees, numbers in the river, even numbered footprints left behind by a walking pencil. The offscreen voice of The Spirit of Adventure informs Donald that he is in Mathmagic Land, immediately dispelling the duck's dismissive attitude that mathematics is "egghead stuff" by immediately highlighting the correlation between math and music. We then travel back in time to Pythagoras, who uses mathematical equations to produce the most beautiful of music. He also disovers the "mathmagic" in the pentagram and the golden rectangle, which can mathematically reproduce itself indefinitely, and is also the foundation of all architecture and scupture. Much to Donald's fascination, he learns that mathematics can even apply to the shapes of nature, from a starfish to a tree, and to such common everyday game as chess, baseball, football, basketball and billiards. Finally, there's the most exciting "game" of all: the shape of things that are discovered and formulated in the human mind. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; NTSC region 1; Dolby Digital.
English language soundtrack; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Voices: Paul Frees, Clarence Nash.
Director of photography, Edward Colman ; music, Buddy Baker ; editor, Lloyd L. Richardson.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1959.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Mathmagic Land is a wondrous land of discovery where trees have square roots and rivers are brimming with numbers. During his lively journey, Donald discovers that you can have mirth with math, fun with fractions, and laughs with logic.