The Walt Disney Co. announced that it will include Walt Disney Feature Animation productions in its expanded offering of content for Apple’s iTunes. In addition to programming from such Disney-owned networks as ESPN, ABC, Touchstone Television and Disney Channel, iPod owners will be able to download classic animated shorts at the iTunes Music Store (www.itunes.com).
The Walt Disney Co. chairman Dick Cook says iTunes gives the company another distribution avenue for its vast library of classic animated shorts, which have been selling well in a number of DVD compilations. “Our animated product has always been the touchstone of The Walt Disney Co.,” he states. ‘It is certainly gratifying to know that consumers of all ages will get to experience first hand the remarkable and award-winning works from some of the most gifted animators in history.”
Among the toons bound for iTunes are entries from the upcoming Buena Vista Home Entertainment release, Disney at the Academy Awards, which includes the Academy Award-winning shorts The Three Little Pigs (1933) and The Tortoise and the Hare (1935). Other mouse House animated fare coming to the mobile platform include Disney Channel’s Kim Possible and The Proud Family.
Priced at $1.99 per episode, the new downloadable content offerings will join such Disney ABC Television Group programs as Commander in Chief, Desperate Housewives, Lost, That’s So Raven and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, which are currently available for purchase on the iTunes Music Store.
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