Leonard Maltin Co-Hosts TCM's Treasures from the Disney Vault

Tonight, Turner Classic Movies is pleased to present a new recurring on-air showcase series of Treasures from the Disney Vault. Several times a year, hosted by Ben Mankiewicz and Leonard Maltin, TCM will introduce a wide array of Disney classics for the entire family to enjoy, including animated shorts, feature films, live-action movies, documentaries, nature films and made-for-television movies.
The opening evening will feature three classic Silly Symphonies shorts Santa's Workshop (1932), On Ice (1935) and Chip An' Dale (1947); followed by the first episode of Walt Disney's long-running weekly TV series introduced by Ben and Disney Imagineer Gary Landrum, The Disneyland Story (1954). The night will also include the wonderful behind-the-scenes film that combined a live-action tour of the Walt Disney Studios facility with animated shorts featuring Robert Benchley, The Reluctant Dragon (1941); a personal favorite of mine, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955); the Oscar-winning True Life Adventure The Vanishing Prairie (1954); another film I like, Third Man on the Mountain (1959) starring Michael Rennie, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, and Herbert Lom; and Perilous Assignment, an hour long behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the movie on location in Switzerland.
The fun begins at 8 pm. There will be more to come in the new year, including live-action Disney features Treasure Island (1950), Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and Pollyanna (1960); animated films The Three Caballeros (1944) and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949); classic nature documentaries The Living Desert (1953) and The African Lion (1955); made-for-television classics the Davy Crockett series; special episodes from Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color; documentaries about the studio, Walt & El Grupo (2009) and Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010); and 1932 Oscar-winning animated short Flowers and Trees.